Vs: Vincent Manngard haluaa ideoita juuri SINULTA
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Dear Mr. Vincent Manngard:
This letter is long, but I hope you have patience to read it. It is also emotional, but my aim is not to be too pathetic but to identify some of the thoughts and ideas that I have not only during the last few days, also last few years gone through.
I will not go through my own history as a supporter of Ilves, but it has taken a relatively long time. We both know for sure that great feeling of euphoria when Ilves scores, Hakametsä ice rink Slams and shouts, and the "We are the Kings' goal song begins to play. Similarly, we know that abysmal sense of emptiness when the opponent scores a goal and the irritation that comes when your opponent and the fans celebrate the goal. Previous years have been bad for both of us due the heavy athletic success and to uncertainty Ilves ice hockey's future. Therefore, I believe that because we have a unifying factor, I am able to write to you directly.
Ilves flight at the level of top has lasted over 80 years. Each time has its own challenges, but I hope and I believe that we are living now in darkest age in the history of Ilves. The present cannot be understood without a sense of history. Crises generally come as a surprise to contemporary persons, but when you examine their development over a longer period, they have clear reasons and lines. Ilves causes result of the current crisis, I think, at least the following issues:
- Lack of red line in the decision making: Over the years, Ilves has been launched in a number of strategies, long-term plans and visions, such as "Poika ja Ilves", "Ilves Academy", "Strategy 2010" and the former sport manager Seppo Hiitelä goal was to make Club own juniors a competitive team in 2014. None of these plans is lasted or desired to hold on and they have fallen by a lack of patience or poor execution.
- Faulty personal relationships: the operative management of the Ilves has had many visitors frequently in recent years. Risto Jalo, Juha Hautamaa, Esa Honkalehto, Seppo Hiitelä, Ville Raunio, Hannu Meskanen, Jyrki Lumme, Kari "Epe" Helenius and now most recently resignated club board, director of coaching, GM and the strategic management team. All have left the club in more or less contentious atmosphere. It is hard to believe that all of the above would be a losers, difficult people or incapable of duties. The essential question would be to ask why people in Ilves did not get along with each other. Why is it a bad working atmosphere in the club, and why people do not commit themselves to work in front of goals?
- Poor coach options: the 2000s, Ilves has had under 12 years 10 different coaches (Heikki Mälkiä x 2, Ari-Pekka Selin, Teijo Räsänen, Vaclav Sykora, Curt Lindström, Kari Eloranta, Sakari Pietilä, Juha Pajuoja, Seppo Hiitelä, Raimo Helminen ). Of these, only Heikki Mälkiä’s 1st and Sakari Pietilä’s season have been such that the coach has been coached by the end of the contract term. Is it really so that Ilves has a curse that makes even good coaches to fail, or will the coach be just a scapegoat for the operational management for bad choices?
- Poor housekeeping: the 2000s, Ilves played mediocre seasons, with a financial result was slightly positive or only a bit negative. In summer 2008, Ilves built a team with a calculated risk, which realized. After this, Ilves Hockey has made a total public according to the data 1, 6 million euros in losses. Raise eyebrows is that where the money has gone, as the teams have since been relatively cheap and no big stars except Ville Koistinen has not seen in Ilves.
- Sporty underachievement: Due to a large extent the above-mentioned reason,Ilves is also not possible to obtain from outside the actual good or star players who would be ready to solve the matches in person. This and the other above-mentioned reasons, Ilves has fallen in SM-league category "and others" which means primarily that team plays for glory and is not the prospect of success. This is supported by the fact that the Ilves had to go to the current season league player at the lowest budget. This in turn leads to a vicious circle where the Ilves is not an option to player who wants to go on in his career. Ilves is unable to offer competitive salaries and opportunities for success, and then follow players that could come to their own input to help her succeed. Byproduct of Ilves cannot keep even its own junior in organization, but grows the league players to other teams, mainly for use. Therefore, at the moment our team consists of the other teams leftovers and A-juniors. In game against Tappara our no. 1 center Kai Kantola could barely fit in the Tappara’s assembly.
I emphasize that these are all my own personal views and interpretations. They are based not only on facts but also on the knowledge which has been in the public eye. When the activities of the Ilves looks back in the 2000s, I think it is fair to say it has been lived from crisis to crisis. This crisis has been in sport, economic or personal crisis. Now, in the current moment, the current crisis is a mixture of all of these, or you could say that all crises are on at the same time.
What is the fans of Ilves role in this summary? We Ilves fans over the years, we have been forced to hear a large number of assurances and promises of a better future and sporting success, all of which are later proven to be false. We have believed, trusted, encouraged, remained in support, cried out and bought the losses and frustration. Above all, we have been waiting for. Waiting for the prize from all this suffering which, however, never been there. Over the years, the child's naive belief that success comes when you really long enough to wait it has changed to grim realism that the Ilves cannot succeed because it is Ilves. Why again Ilves cannot succeed, it’s because, I think, a lot of the issues mentioned above. But you cannot leave Ilves because it is Ilves. It is a club, which you have fallen in love with long time ago, with which you have lived and grown and still offers you so much in the good and bad, and that in spite of everything you just love. Since you yourself have said that you are after all only a fan who has lost his heart for Ilves, I believe that this is issue you will understand.
Unfortunately, much of the frustration the Ilves fans are currently experiencing the personification right to you, Mr Vincent Manngard. You have been a large part of Ilves in the 2000s in action and really the only unifying factor for all the crises in the 2000s. The situation is exacerbated by the conflicting messages provide to the public and, above all, to supporters on false promises. Examples are that you have promised that the Ilves’s success is not about money, but Ilves’s player budget is one of the lowest in the league year after year. You have also promised that you are ready to give up majority shareholdings, if a suitable buyer can be found, yet the companies fail, there is (are) the purchaser (s) who does not have enough "Ilves-spirit", you are asking overrated prices of the shares or the latest attempt crashed disagreements between you and a board of the Club. When there's excuses to withdraw from the negotiation, begins your promise to seem quite strange. You haven’t also given up, according the trade register, despite promises, Ilves-Hockey Oy's Board work. These and other issues and above all, the happenings the past few days are leading between you and Ilves fans to space which can be descript by a word lack of confidence
Confidence is built over a long period, it is easy to lose but hard to gain back any longer. When many of you and the other person's promises have proved to be false, is confidence in executive management currently very weak. When people in operative management is frequently chanced, but still there are no results, will building of trust and confidence between the management and the fans become each time more difficult. Old Finnish saying goes, that poured water does not stay in the well. This means that the success and confidence cannot be purchased with money. Fans trust is not bought, even though you would pay 10 million Euros to Ilves’s account right away.You won’t “win” fans by your side by saying “thanks for loyalty” when main question in fan’s head is “do we have tomorrow club to support?”. Fan supports because it’s fan mission to support, not for thankfulness for someone. Confidence is built with the clear target, by working together, by showing that the club has a clear action values on which it can rely on, providing the mistakes made fairly and if necessary, the position of responsibility and, above all, by being honest to the fans direction. Only when these things are in order, you can build confidence. Whoever to the new Board of Club is elected at all, I cannot stand this anymore and I cannot believe in this board's promises. During the years, we Ilves fans have heard so much promises and empty talk, so little success and real acts. I have already explained above to you what does Ilves means to me. Previously resigned group had the basic idea that “no one is bigger than Ilves.” I think at the moment Ilves is something that exists only for its owners, and where the owner (s) is bigger than the Club. Club is able to succeed if all of its employees are committed to success and to work for it together. This has been shown in the SM-league by e.g. Kärpät, JYP, Pelicans and KalPa. Such a sense of community and commitment I think is missing in the Ilves. Why?
It is not only the management and the fans of trust between. Poor athletic success and a nasty publicity are the cause that credibility of Ilves in the SM-league is weak. Ilves is openly mocked and openly insulted in the Finnish the ice hockey media, and the drop to directly in grade b is openly suggested in the Urheliulehti. Former captain Hannu Mattila said Friday in Helsingin Sanomat directly that the Pirkanmaa region has no longer anyone so "crazy" that would come along in Ilves leaded by Manngard. Again, this credibility can be cured only when the track of real changes happen, which already abdicated leadership called for.
Mr Vincent Manngard: You've been in since 1993 familiar father figure for Ilves, America’s uncle. The Ilves is doubtful important to you and in its present form you love Ilves-hockey as your own child. The child is not although the parent's own, he/she is only borrowed. The child cannot be prevented from growing and developing. A child doesn’t learn to walk unless he is not allowed out of the range. Doesn’t learn to swim unless he is afraid to go into the water and doesn’t learn bear the responsibility for his actions unless he was given the opportunity to learn how to act and how it effects. The child is not able to become independent if you aren’t willing to let him/her go. Is your elderly love for Ilves become jealous over the years, reflecting the desire of ownership?
I appeal to you Vincent Manngard, to finally let Ilves go! Give for Ilves real possibility to stand on its own feet and to evolve. The current road has come to its end, and in the end it is just waiting a drip from the highest level of top flight, so I dare say. I also appeal to you to get back to the table with the management who had already been abdicated, and try to make a contract. That leadership began a good work in the summer and gave the club a lot of credibility. I think it is too good to stop in this. Remember: this is a matter of Ilves for God’s sake!
We Ilves fans know that you have twice saved the club from bankruptcy and even after this acknowledged the loss of hundreds of thousands of Euros. It is an act which we appreciate very much. If you give up stake in Ilves, this does not diminish the value of your actions in any way. On the contrary, history would like to thank those who have stepped forward in difficult moments, and if we still see the Ilves’s success days, thank you also definitely for you. But if you want to hold on to the Club, do you really want to be remembered as someone who destroyed the legend of Ilves of Tampere?
Making dissolves everything!
