Sunny day everything's a-okay??
Why does it take a week to get a story straight enough to go public with?
To me, the more that comes out 'officially' the more questions I have, because it is what's not being said that is significant.
The media reports that came out on Sunday last week said that Potter would be sacked that night. (Of course this report resulted in the cyclone of sh!t that engulfed the team and almost certainly influenced their performance against the dragons.) I haven't heard or seen any communication from the club directly denying that allegation or explaining where it came from. For some reason the board conducted a hasty meeting that afternoon to discuss the matter and followed up with a nothing statement that Potter is safe till seasons end. If there was nothing to the allegation, why did they have to meet about it? Why didn't they deny it directly within minutes?
There was also the (paraphrased) allegation about privately the board not wanting Potter to make the finals so that they wouldn't be embarrassed. If ever there was a media statement that required a rebuttal that was it. Where did that come from? The journalist must have had a source. What did the club say? Schtumm.
Then there was the Roy Masters piece alleging that the players approached an influential person outside the board with a message. What did the club say?
From my experience; the CEO at my workplace has an executive secretary. Every morning, first thing, the exec sec and an administrative assistant go through the papers looking for articles that might impact on the business. They cut them out and put them in a folder for the CEO to read.
Is it possible that 'the club', for want of a better term, has not directly rebutted these things because they don't want to see the public comeback response from the original journalists? They certainly didn't like the response from Gorden Tallis.
An investigator will tell you that if you ask a suspect a direct question and they look you in the eye and say directly 'I didn't do it', there's a fair chance they didn't. If you ask the same direct question to someone else and they say 'I wasn't even there', they've deflected the question and it's time to ask more questions.