What was Karl Oyston like as a Chairman

BlackpoolJord said:
He gave us some of the best times we have had watching Blackpool, and some of the worst times. Wouldn't have got to the Premier League without him whether people like that fact or not. At least he owned the fact he was disliked and played the Villain very well whilst having to watch his family get abused daily for years. For all his faults I am certain we would be in a much better position if he was chairman for the last 5 years than where we are now.
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Up until the January transfer window of the prem season I thought he did ok. Whether through luck or judgement he made a series of good managerial appointments, and always gave them time to work through a period of bad results. The reluctance to invest or try to push the club onwards was frustrating, but I begrudgingly accepted his stance.
However once the club was handed the opportunity of a life time, he/his Dad completely blew it. They could have set the club up for the next 50 years whilst taking a reasonable cut for themselves and significantly increasing the value of their asset. But they lacked the ambition, foresight, competence and humility to deliver. And when their paying customers dared to object and criticise they showed their true colours.
So on balance some credit deserved for early achievements, but no more than that. And once the wheels fell off he came accross as a particularly spiteful human being, and unnecessarily so.
 
Qblock said:
Up until the January transfer window of the prem season I thought he did ok. Whether through luck or judgement he made a series of good managerial appointments, and always gave them time to work through a period of bad results. The reluctance to invest or try to push the club onwards was frustrating, but I begrudgingly accepted his stance.
However once the club was handed the opportunity of a life time, he/his Dad completely blew it. They could have set the club up for the next 50 years whilst taking a reasonable cut for themselves and significantly increasing the value of their asset. But they lacked the ambition, foresight, competence and humility to deliver. And when their paying customers dared to object and criticise they showed their true colours.
So on balance some credit deserved for early achievements, but no more than that. And once the wheels fell off he came accross as a particularly spiteful human being, and unnecessarily so.
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He had the good sense to listen to Sir Jimmy.
 
He did get the McMahon, Grayson, Parkes and Holloway appointments spot on. Whether it was luck or not, he somehow managed to manufacture the perfect storm. I think his approach financially played a massive role in making sure the club was ultimately only really a prospect for players and cosches with a mentality of wanting to improve and prove something to someone. I don’t believe it was for a second intentional but it deffinitely was a factor. Holloway and his squad were almost entirely freebies, rejects, and loans, sometimes from clubs even divisions below. They came to Blackpool because we offered a last chance saloon to those sort of players to resurrect a career.
 
my mum knew OO in the early 60s when they all used to go out dancing. (they were all impoverished but he never, ever got a round in i might add). she is fond of saying: "trot father, trot foal."
 
Embarrassed BFC so many times with his penny pinching ways you lost count,I think a few football clubs at one stage looked at Karl's methods as a blueprint for themselves but he took it way beyond what he had to. Sitting up in the directors box,laughing and smirking at distressed,paying customers suggested pathological mental health problems on his part.
 
Macseasider said:
I'm surprised it's taken so long for a someone to post a "don't you just miss them Oystons?" thread.

I miss them like someone would miss having cancer. They were a ragtag bunch of utterly despicable bastards.

Those posting positive things about any of them is 100% mushroom. The Oystons had many sycophants kissing their arses and doing their bidding. Probably the same people.
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This sort of thread does flush a few Fungi out of the shadows….
 
I miss toying with him on here with his Harrypotter and various other usernames posting and coming off second best.

Otherwise I don't miss any Oyston involvement in the club at all. Anyone suggesting they do needs to get specialist help.
 
Don't know if this is true, but a late workmate told me that when he set up Oyston estates , he used to read the Gazette to see who had died that week and went knocking on doors and spoke with the relatives of the deceased offering them help if they wanted to sell their houses ,sounds like just the thing that bastard would do anyone on here heard that.
 
PETER SPRUCE 1 said:
Don't know if this is true, but a late workmate told me that when he set up Oyston estates , he used to read the Gazette to see who had died that week and went knocking on doors and spoke with the relatives of the deceased offering them help if they wanted to sell their houses ,sounds like just the thing that bastard would do anyone on here heard that.
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It’s pretty common practice. What is not common is shafting the man that gave him his first real estate opportunity.
 
What’s the blustering buffoon doing these days? Clearly no one will employ him and so does he spend his days in ski masks waving guns around pretending he’s still relevant?
 
Of fuck off o/p, yet another veiled 'look at what a mess Pool are in now' thread when the only problem at our club at the moment is the same formation every ** match.

The Oystons luckily hit the jackpot. Any normal and respectful person would have secured the future of our club there and then; a finished stadium, training facilities that were fit for purpose, investment, etc. They decided not to and fuck knows which of the various fantasy companies the money went to. Pure greed and just a disgrace.

Gary Bowyer had 5 staff. Just 5. A part-timer was doing the pitch which was embarrassing. The stadium started to rust. Sadler will always have credit in my eyes. We now resemble a professional football club.
 
mad-link said:
Of fuck off o/p, yet another veiled 'look at what a mess Pool are in now' thread when the only problem at our club at the moment is the same formation every ** match.

The Oystons luckily hit the jackpot. Any normal and respectful person would have secured the future of our club there and then; a finished stadium, training facilities that were fit for purpose, investment, etc. They decided not to and fuck knows which of the various fantasy companies the money went to. Pure greed and just a disgrace.

Gary Bowyer had 5 staff. Just 5. A part-timer was doing the pitch which was embarrassing. The stadium started to rust. Sadler will always have credit in my eyes. We now resemble a professional football club.
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