I think its a bit rich to complain about media misrepresentation when for years there has been a void in information from the club, voids get filled, often with rubbish, the clubs new found desire to engage should help in the future to present a truer picture.
I thought his criticism of the media was a touch too far - despite how much pooh they may have spoken.
All we ever hear from Albion is this "structure" rhetoric. It is almost vomitted in every press release about how we work to a structure and that is all well and good. The media largely respected this structure under Dan Ashworth - someone who is competent in running it, took control of several facets and largely had a successful tenure. Since then though the club cannot complain how about the criticism the structure has received. We're effectively trying to run it without the person who created it and made it such a success. It's like we've been trying to drive a car without the wheels.
Whenever Ashworth was here there was constant dialogue about how it worked, the duties of certain people and the on-going communication between himself and the head coach. After his departure we've had the promotion of a solicitor who was hopelessly out of his depth, the appointment of McDonough who joined and then left rather suddenly with the club again hushing his departure out the door quitely - amiss the chaos we found ourselves under and now have we have Terry Burton in control of the football operations with the aforementioned solicitor now back to administration duties.
What the hell exactly has been going on? I mean since Ashworth we've effectively appointed two puppets and even Clarke's tenure fell away after Ashworth's departure. Both Clarke, Mel and Irvine have made contradictory statements which have both mirrored the views that players are brought and sold against their wishes - it seems to me our head coaches don't know the ******* structure let alone the media or fans.
Take Clarke for example, he was against the sale of Shane Long yet the club went through with it anyway until it later fell through (even of our scouts on Twitter have more or less declared their views on the matter too which tend to mirror Clarkes view), we had Clarke speaking out against the board more or less suggesting they should sign players in preparation for the season, Shane Long was then eventually sold and Pepe Mel insisted it was against his wishes too and then we've had the comments from Alan Irvine, firstly about Brown Ideye and secondly suggesting that his say in recruitment was limited until he then produced a u-turn of epic proportions a week later.
We've gone from appointing two puppets and now gone for a more out-spoken, traditional manager. Albion can keep their head coach tag but there is no doubting that Pulis is running the show and thank god for that because ever since the departure of Ashworth we have been a complete and utter joke on the pitch and off the pitch with our signings and managerial appointments.
Before Albion try lecturing everybody else on their structure, maybe they should get to grips with it themselves, and then inform their head coaches too before they divert uncomfortable signals to the local media which reflect unkindly on Peace, Burton and Garlick.