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Delighted to be back in at last ……..generally fed up being charged 4 or 5 quid for a pint anywhere..but I certainly wouldn’t pay that at the ground for a pint of shyte.
Boozing at the match has never been my scene to be fair (I’d never be away from the bogs for starters) ……that said I did try one a few seasons back when they started a ‘real ale’ initiative at a couple of ‘pop up’ stands on the concourse ….but they did not work well and disappeared in short order.Generally have eaten before a match but I had cause to purchase a meat and prater pie about 5 seasons ago and it was absolutely dire…never again !
Lenagan is panicking about the Warriors not having a ground to call home, because his long term tenancy will be null & void, or re-negotiable, under new ownership.
No it won’t …they are protected by their lease ….any new owner cannot simply tear it up, or arbitrarily change the terms, even rent review points will be pre-specified.
We are also tenants and are similarly protected (assuming we continue to exist!)
Egg ….I note with trepidation your less than confident view on the French/US groups interest ….and would welcome your further thoughts on that (to the extent that you can of course)
However what do WASC hope to do with £500k ?
It isn’t enough to buy the club and would last no more than a couple of weeks in terms of running costs …what’s the plan ?…..if it is to buy a seat on the board then that presumes there is going to be a board (i.e a club with an owner) to sit on ?!
The administrators brief isn’t to save us ….it’s to realise as much as possible for the creditors …that’s what they are ‘for’
I still think there is a chance we will be bought….the French/US group apparently bid only £5M last week, which was a stupidly low offer for the whole shooting match…and whether that was a cheeky first go or whether it represents their final offer….the Admins were never going to accept it.
So the sale of the ground, Euxton, and possibly the chippy, Realising maybe £6/7m …..may now mean that a further £5m is acceptable (for the football club and Christopher Park only)
There is also the possibility of another potential bidder who may be hanging back waiting for this to play out before they make a late bid
All clutching at straws I accept, but I still think the odd ‘straw’ is still hanging about.
Looks like we may finally be in business !
The French bloke as the front man for two wealthy Americans who have an interest in Tampa Bay Rays baseball team.
A bloke called Frankel (what a miler) who used to be a big cheese at Goldman Sachs and his mate Michael Kalt ….both of em well fixed apparently.
According to Nixon that looks to be progressing
Nothings done until papers are signed and cheques written of course but some grounds for optimism at last ?
Aah yes indeed Egg…..but their owner hasn’t “pulled the plug” so they remain a bastion of all that is fair and honourable ….if he did pull the plug however they would be perfectly happy to instantly regard themselves as “cheats”
Wouldn’t they ?
In DWs defence, all was going well until this second sale. Money spent on the squad, money spent on the stadium, money spent on the academy.
The second “sale” wasn’t a sale at all though was it? ….it was just some ‘paper construction’ …a deliberate ruse engineered just to facilitate this travesty.
Not that I blame Whelan in the slightest, Choi played his part at first and surely did sink money in, but when he realised this ‘getting to the Premiership lark’ and the untold riches awaiting there is a sight more difficult and way more expensive than he imagined….and that our drain on his resources was adversely affecting IEC valuation he decided to drop us like a hot brick.
I’m pretty sure that sell on fees only relate to any future profit ….otherwise why would any buying club agree to them ?
In any event as Egg says all payments due (up to now) have been made.
Barnsley have been in the bottom three virtually all season, continuously since September, I think….still in bottom three at the end of 46 games ….as such they deserve nothing other than relegation.
Their absurd claim that they are the only ‘clean living club’ in existence exposes their puerile thinking. Virtually every club would be in our position if the individual or company that owned them immediately and arbitrarily stopped injecting any funds ….and if the owners pulled such a vile trick (as ours did) then they would instantly become “cheats” according to certain South Yorkshire simpletons.
Douglas fields’