Power outage
Hmm, well I don't think anyone saw the resignation of Lee Power coming.
Reading the messageboard, opinions seem to be polarised between those who believe this to be a disaster and those that think he didn’t really do anything anyway and is therefore no great loss. As ever I suspect the answer is somewhere in between.
By all accounts Lee was not at the club on a day to day basis, and living in Oxfordshire cannot have had a huge effect on the running of the place. He also admitted in an interview with Radio Cambs recently that he wasn’t in the picture with regards to the finances, so on the basis of that you would have to say he was not exactly a vital cog in the, ahem, well oiled machine that is Cambridge United. It's also fairly widely known that he didn't have much of his own cash tied up in the club by way of shares.
On the plus side he always seemed to be heavily involved in footballing matters, and with his background in the game certainly brought skills and contacts to the table that the remaining directors probably don’t have. And of course, he picked Jimmy to be our manager and, possibly more by luck than judgement, stuck with him during the bad times last January. I don’t think anyone thought that was a good idea at the time, but if he hadn’t who knows whether we would be in the position we are in now.
Above all, for the last 18 months we’ve had stability in the board room, and have seen the club rise from rock bottom to a place where returning to the football league looks like a distinct possibility. While I don’t know how much of this is directly down to Lee Power, it would be unfair to not give him any credit at all, and having to make more changes to the structure of the club is unlikely to be a good thing.
I suppose time will tell whether his resignation was justified, or whether he’s thrown his toys out of the pram because he's cocked up/heard something he didn’t like, but I do hope we get some clarification of the situation from the club, and don’t have to suffer weeks of innuendo and speculation. That certainly wouldn’t do our promotion push any favours.
By all accounts Lee was not at the club on a day to day basis, and living in Oxfordshire cannot have had a huge effect on the running of the place. He also admitted in an interview with Radio Cambs recently that he wasn’t in the picture with regards to the finances, so on the basis of that you would have to say he was not exactly a vital cog in the, ahem, well oiled machine that is Cambridge United. It's also fairly widely known that he didn't have much of his own cash tied up in the club by way of shares.
On the plus side he always seemed to be heavily involved in footballing matters, and with his background in the game certainly brought skills and contacts to the table that the remaining directors probably don’t have. And of course, he picked Jimmy to be our manager and, possibly more by luck than judgement, stuck with him during the bad times last January. I don’t think anyone thought that was a good idea at the time, but if he hadn’t who knows whether we would be in the position we are in now.
Above all, for the last 18 months we’ve had stability in the board room, and have seen the club rise from rock bottom to a place where returning to the football league looks like a distinct possibility. While I don’t know how much of this is directly down to Lee Power, it would be unfair to not give him any credit at all, and having to make more changes to the structure of the club is unlikely to be a good thing.
I suppose time will tell whether his resignation was justified, or whether he’s thrown his toys out of the pram because he's cocked up/heard something he didn’t like, but I do hope we get some clarification of the situation from the club, and don’t have to suffer weeks of innuendo and speculation. That certainly wouldn’t do our promotion push any favours.
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