Quote ="Staffs FC"The only person using the word 'brainwashed' was you - I was simply laughing at it.
In regard to Mcrae and Gentle Pearson, with his low knowledge of the game when he bought the club, had to trust them to recruit players based on their superior knowledge of the player pool. They let him down big time and cost him money and, it seems, pass holders. He twigged it and got rid of them ultimately putting right his own error of appointing them in the first place. Some would have us believe, yourself included, that Radford had persuaded Pearson to do this pointing out how badly the setup was being run (whispering in Pearson's ear or 'brainwashing' him). Since Pearson has been around much bigger sporting clubs many times in his career I would suggest that regardless of the actual sport he knows what is good practice and what isn't for himself. Not a great leap of faith there really, certainly not as big as a 'brainwashing' plot. With a 1 million pound plus investment on top of his purchase fee I would suggest that he was probably keeping a fairly close eye on things. He chose Radford as the successor as part of the 'Club Hull' model. He will get rid of Radford if he believes that he can't do the job. Again - with his significant investment to protect - he won't stick with what's there if he believes that it's turning sour.
Clearly and unequivocally he currently believes that turning the club around is a big job and he has the right man making tough decisions. In terms of Radford Pearson has decided that the right direction for the club to go down is the local players/local team route modelled by other successful clubs. This wasn't Radford's idea - Pearson has made the decision.'"
The things AP is saying now were being said by Radford behind closed doors last season so yes I believe it was Radford that "advised" (there you go is that word less laughable for you?) AP in that regard. In fact I was told before Wembley that Radford was replacing Gentle at the end of that season.
