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« Reply #7620 on: Monday, November 6, 2023, 16:04:54 » |
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Power may have been a rogue but wasn’t one to shy away from the fans and done his fair share of interviews letting us know what was going on even if it was bullshit.
Power had more front than Blackpool. It was sad that Hodgetts just let him speak drivel unchallenged. |
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The Artist Formerly Known as Audrey
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« Reply #7621 on: Monday, November 6, 2023, 16:06:04 » |
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And how much of that happened. Events?
Being generous and say we averaged 9000 every game during that 10 year period would mean just over 2 million people through the turnstiles. Every one of those would have to spend £5 every game and that still wouldn’t cover the £11.3m they paid - let alone make a profit.
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« Reply #7622 on: Monday, November 6, 2023, 16:06:04 » |
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The catering deal dispute is in the AB minutes month 1. So yes, a calculated move, though they may have thought it null and void at the time. |
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« Reply #7623 on: Monday, November 6, 2023, 16:06:54 » |
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Power had more front than Blackpool. It was sad that Hodgetts just let him speak drivel unchallenged.
At this moment it would be nice to hear Clem talk a load of drivel rather read what his PA wrote for him😁 |
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« Reply #7625 on: Monday, November 6, 2023, 16:07:53 » |
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At this moment it would be nice to hear Clem talk a load of drivel rather read what his PA wrote for him😁
We had his drivel with Vic not long ago. The sweary one. He was less slick that Our Man in Switzerland. |
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« Reply #7626 on: Monday, November 6, 2023, 16:08:48 » |
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We had his drivel with Vic not long ago. The sweary one. He was less slick that Our Man in Switzerland.
Was that before the latest revelations🤣 |
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« Reply #7627 on: Monday, November 6, 2023, 16:10:30 » |
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Do we presume Clem reads the TEF?
Maybe, when he’s not pouring pints in the county ground or driving around in a van! |
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« Reply #7628 on: Monday, November 6, 2023, 16:10:45 » |
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And how much of that happened. Events?
Being generous and say we averaged 9000 every game during that 10 year period would mean just over 2 million people through the turnstiles. Every one of those would have to spend £5 every game and that still wouldn’t cover the £11.3m they paid - let alone make a profit.
Here is the joint PR https://www.swindontownfc.co.uk/news/2013/june/lindley-catering-deal/It reads like that was the vlaue of the contract, not how much each party stood to gain in Net terms. There are separate clippings available from the club at the time, pushing this in Sponsor updates, that it was worth about 4m to the club over 10 years. It would have ran out in May 2023 if left to run it's course. From the AB minutes and the fact we trumpeted the catering coming in house when Clem took over, we must owe them a few years worth of whatever we agreed. Either thats money we owe them directly, or money they claim they were cut off from. |
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« Reply #7629 on: Monday, November 6, 2023, 16:13:21 » |
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Sounds like big bucks for the club. Is that sort of money normal for a club of our size or do most clubs keep it in-house.
I suppose money up front for Power to squirrel away was always tempting.
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« Reply #7630 on: Monday, November 6, 2023, 16:17:56 » |
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It was Jed wasn't it?
Around the same time people were being mocked for saying he was asset stripping and leased Mercedes were perfectly normal.
Probably the same ones now in Switzerland.
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« Reply #7631 on: Monday, November 6, 2023, 16:21:59 » |
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It was Fitton - the original deal was a smaller one, being a provider of services. Jed and Co extended it a year early and expanded it.
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« Reply #7632 on: Monday, November 6, 2023, 16:27:41 » |
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Ultimately, the point is - it was a known contract. Clem took action knowing of it's existence - he may have believed he had a way out, that he could probably lump it on Power breaking the contract during Covid, or at least gamble it all worked out.
At the end of the day, it was all known about - it's not the direct cause of running out of money in November 2023. It's just a good one to lay blame at, along with the office lease that just appeared in the AB minutes and the car lease with Mercedes, neither of which will be millions of pounds, and neither of which we were bloody paying anyway, as we were disputing them all. If they all forced our hands to pay-up in October, then we've had it coming the entire two year period.
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« Reply #7633 on: Monday, November 6, 2023, 17:49:23 » |
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I made the mistake of looking at page 1 of this thread (I started the wretched thing!!) which was posted to celebrate getting Power out and Clem in. It hasn't gone brilliantly has it?
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we've been to Aberdeen, we hate the Hibs, they make us spew up, so make some noise,
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« Reply #7634 on: Monday, November 6, 2023, 17:54:01 » |
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Rob Angus and Greg Norman going were pretty clear harbingers...
That the Clem Cultists can't see any of this terrifies me. The Facebook group... wow. The "Great statement from Clem" brigade.
I'm understand people who say "I've seen it all, don't care, what will be will be, I just enjoy it" but the proper Clem nutters are scary.
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