Quote Originally Posted by Father Dougal View Post
It was only slightly tongue in cheek.

They wouldn't listen to the fans of course but the neglect in the day to day running of the club has been so severe in recent years it slipping their minds (that they hadn't actually appointed a manager) wouldn't surprise me

Or maybe I'm being unfair and they still thought those super agents or whoever they were were finding us someone....... (does anyone believe they actually existed? If so and we ended up with riza is actually quite tragically funny)
The fact is Tan had summoned Riza to Malaysia a couple of weeks earlier for face-to-face meetings and Riza was banging on in the press about his and the squad's 'uncertainty' at every opportunity. He's said all along that he speaks to Tan regularly. No way in the world had Tan and his cronies forgotten about Riza's situation, and no way in the world did they appoint him because a small number of fans wrote an open letter.

I'd say it's possible that they were sounding out other people, hence the delay, but they didn't suddenly decide to act because of that letter.