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Post by countygroundhotel on Mar 26, 2016 11:02:28 GMT
I was surprised he was wandering around the stadium site unaccompanied by a steward. You must be surprised about many things in life then.
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Post by countygroundhotel on Mar 24, 2016 13:10:51 GMT
What is the deal with Under 11's again? If I buy a season ticket in say the Family Enclosure and get my lads to join the YP's and Under 11's (I wont enroll them in the GYS or GHS just yet) do they get a free season ticket for or just some games free? Thanks UTG If the first time you have signed them up you will have to phone up before each game (by Thursday?) & collect on the day but they can go to as many games as they want.
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Post by countygroundhotel on Mar 24, 2016 9:09:46 GMT
Leicester have a club shop in Bangkok Airport. I cant see any reason why Rovers couldn't open one in Amman Airport. Can you imagine? Urmmmm as hard as I try ..... No And the people of Thailand get to see Leicester playing on TV every week. What is the coverage of League 2 like in Jordan?
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Post by countygroundhotel on Mar 22, 2016 12:10:28 GMT
Hope our new owners had nothing to do with appointing that twat. Still it's the end of the emergency loan window so he has a chance to do some wheeling & dealing.
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Post by countygroundhotel on Mar 18, 2016 21:13:50 GMT
Why worry the police will want everyone in the same place
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Post by countygroundhotel on Mar 18, 2016 7:51:38 GMT
Don't see what the problem is. The old owners told us UWE would be built but wouldn't explain the funding or new income streams. The new owners have said UWE will be built but haven't explained how it will be funded or what new income streams there will be . All change, nothing changes
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Post by countygroundhotel on Mar 17, 2016 17:29:20 GMT
How many people have £40m to pull out of their back pockets? Most wealth that is discussed is on bits of paper and balance sheets. Even Steve Lansdown had to go to the stock exchange and advise them that he wanted to sell some of his bits of paper to fund the building of his new football stadium. What we have now are people that large lenders will be willing to loan money to as they have the assets to secure the funding unlike the previous owners who couldn't raise the cash outside of using The Mem either to sell for enabling or secure loans against. This would make sense to me if they didnt have such a large share in a bank. If they need to borrow against assets held then why not just get the finance from their own bank? Its probably gone over my head but cant help feeling that all is not as it seems. Why not say that they are currently in the process of releasing funds for the first stages of the project rather that talking to financiers. Didnt they say that they were looking for financiers a week or so ago? Unfortunately lulworth people were so desperate to get rid of the last lot (with good reason) they've chosen not to really listen to the new owners. I haven't heard them say at any point they will be 'gifting' us a new stadium just that it will be built & will require funding. I suspect the football club will ultimately pay for the building of the stadium so we have to have our fingers crossed that the new owners can generate enough income for the football club to be able to pay the bills. In short I suspect people will at some stage be disappointed to find out that the club will now be run as a business and not as some sort of elaborate donation scheme. Still the old lot our gone & hopefully thee new guys our more commercially aware.
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Post by countygroundhotel on Mar 17, 2016 12:42:13 GMT
Just watched TW video, isn't it time to give up, and while we're at it get rid of the clubs lawyers... They gotta go. Didn't he say it would be up to the new owners legal team which strongly suggest to me we have new legal advisors. And personally I'm very glad if we no longer use Burges Salmon as that removes a massive potential conflict of interest.
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Post by countygroundhotel on Mar 16, 2016 12:25:36 GMT
Yes. But most shareholders abstained Cheers for confirming the outcome
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Post by countygroundhotel on Mar 16, 2016 10:38:24 GMT
With regard to 31 Filton Avenue, yet another ' poorly drafted ' item. TW said that the option of £125,000 was a ransom sum demanded by the lady owner of the property or she would sell to someone else and not let the club have it to complete a potential deal with Sainsbury's. This sounds rather dodgy to me. How difficult would it have been to have drafted it in a similar fashion to this paragraph, but without using the 'ransom' word? With regard to the £520,000 price tag, this would only be payable by Sainsburys if they had to buy the property, and not by the club. This is also nonsense, because that price would come from the overall figure Sainsburys would have to pay to complete the contract if enforced, in other words it would reduce what was left from the £28m or whatever the settlement deal was. This is yet more gobbledegook from our former finance director. On top of the naughty typist who mistyped the shareholdings of our directors, to the ' only in the relegation zone for 20 minutes' , I just hope his tenure is coming to a rather swift end. Professional people like our new owners must not be hamstrung by people like him. Was the resolution passed or not?
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Post by countygroundhotel on Mar 16, 2016 10:03:10 GMT
I heard they're still kicking up a fuss as they are "higher then they originally thought" Did a tour of Lords recently where they've done the same. Part of the agreement is they have to lower them after the last game and remove them between October and March at a cost of £50000 a year. Atleast glos haven't had to go that far. They must have had to sort£ out all those residents in the new flats at the ground I should imagine. Just can't believe how big those lights are lol,I can see them from miles away. Shame we can't get some blue and white flags on them. Not a £, we all supported it as it gives us more chance of more cricket which is oddly why we all moved here.
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Post by countygroundhotel on Mar 15, 2016 15:28:09 GMT
They look pretty ugly and I have a lovely view of them from my street but purely because it sticks two fingers up at all the nimbys it gives me a little smile every time I see them. Have they been used yet ? What's the light polution like ? Not fully wired up yet, expect we'll get a test light up pretty soon.
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Post by countygroundhotel on Mar 15, 2016 14:02:11 GMT
Plenty of objections but the last one is being completed right now. Looking forward to seeing them in use.
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Post by countygroundhotel on Mar 13, 2016 15:38:26 GMT
Having scored his 40th goal in 2 seasons (impressive at any level) Matty Taylor still gets a lot of stick on the forum. I'm not trying to provoke any arguments it just got me thinking about pre internet days with no Twitter Facebook or forums. I wonder what people would have been writing about people like big Dev or Chris McLean. Would Gerry's mullet have his own Facebook page or maybe twentypences mustash. We often watch players in a different way now often with others opinions not just our own I suppose. Lambert was fat and sh** for a while wasn't he. On another subject how come linsey is one of our own but Ollie Clarke doesn't get the chant ? What a load of old crap to try & start an argument. Why on earth do you think people would be writing about Christian MCLean? No-ones writing about Fallon & they both filled exactly the same role in a squad.
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Post by countygroundhotel on Mar 13, 2016 13:17:35 GMT
Think at present its only the emergency loan system that is due to end You'll know these things more than most but what does that mean? Season long loans still okay but no loans in the season?
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Post by countygroundhotel on Mar 13, 2016 13:08:15 GMT
Doesn't the loan system finish next season?
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Post by countygroundhotel on Mar 13, 2016 11:37:56 GMT
Where would we we be today if we had beaten Mansfield 1-0 in May 2014? And stayed in the Football League? DC would have stayed in charge. He would have had a bigger budget. NH would have faced less criticism. The court cases would have proceeded as they have done anyway. The year-on-year losses would have continued. OTIB would have been gutted. We might not have signed The Beard or Matty T. It would have been a whole different world for the sake of one goal. We would have got relegated the season after, it was a disaster waiting to happen. So if we hadn't have got relegated DC would've turned out to be a crap manager? Some people do talk absolute bollocks
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Post by countygroundhotel on Mar 13, 2016 11:32:29 GMT
Surely FFP rules wouldn't allow that as we could simply have all the none playing staff employed by Dwane Sports leaving BRFC just to employ the players, I can't see anybody who works for the club not being employed by them. I think that you will find that some if not all are already employed on behalf of the Al Qadi family. Hence they are not our full time employees. The word consultant comes to mind. This was something mentioned in a conversation, and I just accepted it. With regard to FFP, not sure who comes under that umbrella, but I'd bet there is someone on here who can give us the lowdown. Even if that was true (I don't know either way) then if we ever got investigated under FFP it would make no difference as you will be judged to have understated your costs by employing people through a different company. Much as advertising deals are judged at market rates not the notional value that the owners pay to their clubs.
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Post by countygroundhotel on Mar 13, 2016 11:27:35 GMT
I'm guessing here, but I imagine Dwane sports now are a company with trading debts of about £3m for the MSP loan, £8m to ex-directors, £2,000 for a new scoreboard and £115.67 for a lick of paint to the bar? Ha, ha the scoreboard cost a bit more than that.
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Post by countygroundhotel on Mar 8, 2016 15:36:14 GMT
It tells us that they have loads of other things to sort out and this is something that works and generates a very good income. They have plenty to fix...... Does that then mean the old board actually did something well then?
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