Does John Mitchell still have a Job?

 

'Thou shall not talk about the Owners Liquidity and late payments....ever!

 

That sort of talk is chum for the media sharks and a frenzy is about to follow. re the Sunday Star Times front page.

 

 

 

 

 

John Mitchell wouldn't have a clue whether my club was having liquidity issues... He shouldn't be commenting on things like that; he's out of line," Serepisos said. "The reality is the club loses $1 million a year. I believe in what I've done and I believe in giving something back to the community. I've done it for the right reasons, which is to give something back to New Zealand."

 

 

 

 

 

How much money does he have?

 

 

"Confirmation of the Phoenix�s projected loss couldn�t have come at a worse time. The football club could be facing the chop in 2012 after the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) demanded they be axed from the A-League."

 

A bad time for this kind of cr*p to be floating around. The more Terry and Tony can keep on top of it, and do something to actively counter it, the better chance they have to squash it.

 

And the team can do its bit by winning more games and making the playoffs. The club needs  good publicity and that's one way to get it. Fast. 

 

John Mitchell said "There is a liquidity issue"

Pignata refuted that when he said ""If we had `liquidity issues' that would mean players aren't being paid for a month." (which isn't the case)

Serepisos also refuted the comment "John Mitchell wouldn't have a clue whether my club was having liquidity issues... He shouldn't be commenting on things like that; he's out of line,"

 

Maybe he's a terrific bloke... Maybe he has been doing really well in his roll. In this case though, he seems to have taken the wrong line. Now, the article makes it looks like Mitchell has come out and told the media these things. What I would guess has happened is that there were rumours of late payments (as mentioned in Sunday News article), then the Sunday Star Times has approached him. He probably has to comment on it in some way, but seems pretty bad if he is saying things that Pignata / Serepisos have to clarify / correct him on. To be fair, it's possible that it's not his fault, and it's a lack of communication from the others to him...

 

Edit: The most worrying thing though is us losing $1million a year. Hardly sustainable...

 

Whatever the facts (and I don't know, I wasn't there) are the point is that it doesn't present the club, or Terry, in a positive light.

 

Blaming people is pointless... unless the facts reported are incorrect (clearly they aren't). It's out there now and the fat lady is well into the second verse... it'll die down in a day or two as it really isn't "news" anyway.

 

Let it go away and it most likely will.

 

I may have been overboard calling him an idiot - I don't know F all about the guy. Quite possibly just a pretty bad error. I agree with Serepisos though that in this case he is "out of line". He shouldn't be telling the media there is a liquidity issue, when it seems clear the CE and owner don't want everyone to have the impression that there is a liquidity issue. They did refute the fact that there is a liquidity issue. Ok, it's a wording thing to an extent, but that's important when talking about a large club / business. You don't see communications people in most businesses coming out talking about their liquidity issues when there maybe isn't one. What the heck are other players going to think if they are thinking about coming here and read that? I'd be surprised if Mitchell himself doesn't realise the wording he used was an error.

 

Yea, it is old news about us and others losing money. I didn't realise we were still losing so much actually (I might have missed that previously). It's not new news, but it's still a worry. Can't keep running a club forever losing that much money.

 

Edit: I think the story is legitimate enough for a newspaper to run - it's a shame it's come out at the moment - there's never much other news around this time of year, so things like this get blown out bigger than they are. Terry being 'the apprentice' obviously makes this into a bigger grab for the media than it would otherwise.

 

Imagine what you would think if you were paid late - even if it was just a couple / few days.

 

P.S. I really hope Terry's cash flow challenges are shorter term - recruiting will be severely impacted if the club is perceived to be a late payer / wobbly.

 

But are they. You are assuming this is true. Whether it is or is not, I do not know. But when a rag like the Sunday news gets involved, I tend to take it with a grain of salt.

 

Yes, i know of terry's reputation for paying the bills as late as possible, what rich type person doesn't? he wouldn't be the first and certainly not the last nor the only one.

 

Who cares? Only those directly affected and they haven't said anything.

 

Left the football be played and enjoyed .

So what is all this hype about it now? Sure, Mitchell could have chosen not to comment, but in the end he didn't lie, did he?

I just wonder whether it pleases someone (maybe in OZ/Asia) that the Nix are losing money/ aren't assured of a future in the league?

 

Fact is that WP has been losing money soon after day 1. Great that Terry has dug deep to keep it going since then. For crowds to return and pay to watch, WP MUST play an entertaining football and wow the spectators. Are the missing 6,000 people coming back next year? Unlikely!! Future of WP is indeed quite bleak.