Ogier resigns
Thursday 18th September 2008, 2:30PM BST.
STEVE OGIER has resigned as island manager to become head coach of Guernsey United.
In an email sent to Mark Le Tissier, the chairman of the Guernsey Football Association, which was copied to the Guernsey Press, Ogier (pictured) informed the GFA that he was stepping down.
‘It is with great sadness I tender my resignation as senior island manager to the GFA with immediate effect,’ said Ogier. ‘I would like to thank the board members both past and present, also Garry [Cortez] and Neil [Laine] for their help and support over the last five seasons. Wishing you all the very best for the future.’
The Guernsey United plan has created a furore in local football. It would see from next season the newly formed club enter a UK semi-professional league, most likely the Kent League, which is several levels above local football. Were that the case they would automaticaly enter the FA Cup from 2010.
The people behind the scheme include former GFA chairman Dave Nussbaumer, ex-GFA board members Jeff and Mark Vidamour and Guernsey Press sports editor Rob Batiste.
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This whole Guernsey United thing is an unethical sham. Basically the GFA Board who forced most of the Islands football clubs to agree to adopt the FA County plan then stepped down at the AGM seem now destined to totally blow Guernsey football apart with this selfish and shortsighted idea.
The point about Guernsey United putting local footballers in front of scouts etc is total rubbish. I would accept this point and even support this venture if they were intending to set up a club to play in a county league for 12 to 16 year olds. This would certainly put more of our youngsters in the shop window and improve their techniques, their understanding of the game and would eventually improve the standard of senior local football. The current Island first eleven are now too old – if they were going to make it in the professional game they would have been snapped up by now. I sincerely hope that this all ends in tears for this breakaway group, this will result in a drop in standards for representative football and for me it devalues and undermines the current GFA who picked up the pieces after this bunch stepped down and must be wondering what they have done to deserve this kind of underhand treatment. (How James Blower can sleep at night is beyond me) I call upon all Guernsey footballers to support their Clubs and their Island – forget this selfish, underhand group and their idea which will hopefully end in the same tears that they are forcing on the Clubs, the GFA and real Guernsey football supporters right now.
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ditto to geralds comments,this will destroy local football and i think the F.A.will be interested in the true motives.semi- pro league,will uniteds players be paid? last weekend i attended a 1st round fa cup tiein the u.k.a league or two above kent.players on between £200-300wk.guernsey would not survive at this level. we should be beating Jersey on a regular basis, before thinking of rediculas moves like this. Guernsey will lose many of the hard working people who keep the game alive.wake up,and fight this,or local football will die.
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