Reg Smeeton
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« Reply #15 on: Monday, September 25, 2006, 16:45:26 » |
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I wish you would all give over......
do people really want the board to just pull out and walk away.....anyone who does is obviously not a swindon fan after all!!
If they walk we die.....end of!!
I for one appreciate the fact they have gone tot he effort of keeping us informed of the situation and secondly whether people believe it as propogander or truth, i for one appreciate the job MD has done for us over the years.....
From the real Swindon Town supporters - thank you MD.
If its £750,000 we need a year, why doesnt someone stop slagging off the board and find a way of helping raise the monies?!?!
Any ideas anyone? I'd consider myself to be a Swindon fan and think its now time for this Board and its advisor to step aside, they need to announce a realistic sum, they'd be happy to take as a way of some compensation for their previous efforts.....then we can see who might be interested in taking over. The club connot survive anyway being run in this shambolic fashion....SSW may legally own the club, but morally it belongs to the fans , and I'd suggest a sizeable number would welcome a change of ownership and direction. |
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« Reply #16 on: Monday, September 25, 2006, 16:56:35 » |
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I wish you would all give over......
do people really want the board to just pull out and walk away.....anyone who does is obviously not a swindon fan after all!!
If they walk we die.....end of!!
I for one appreciate the fact they have gone tot he effort of keeping us informed of the situation and secondly whether people believe it as propogander or truth, i for one appreciate the job MD has done for us over the years.....
From the real Swindon Town supporters - thank you MD.
If its £750,000 we need a year, why doesnt someone stop slagging off the board and find a way of helping raise the monies?!?!
Any ideas anyone? I'd consider myself to be a Swindon fan and think its now time for this Board and its advisor to step aside, they need to announce a realistic sum, they'd be happy to take as a way of some compensation for their previous efforts.....then we can see who might be interested in taking over. The club connot survive anyway being run in this shambolic fashion....SSW may legally own the club, but morally it belongs to the fans , and I'd suggest a sizeable number would welcome a change of ownership and direction. i totally agree Reg. can't see the board stepping aside unless another Bill Power figure enters the fray again though |
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« Reply #17 on: Monday, September 25, 2006, 17:07:27 » |
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I reckon the board should start a poll to see what the fans want and then they will know what the fans will really want.
Simple a poll they should do is who wants us to stay and who wants us to sell up and go.
I think 90% of swindon fans would vote that they want them out.
The board should listen to what the fans really want and then they should say right we want £3m for the club if someone offers that amount we will all go.
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« Reply #18 on: Monday, September 25, 2006, 17:14:46 » |
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i totally agree Reg. can't see the board stepping aside unless another Bill Power figure enters the fray again though
Who says Bill Power wouldnt be interested in comming back? If hes going to have to fight Dunwoody tooth and nail for his money back, probably through the courts so why not put it into a deal instead? Hes the first man here for a long time to be interested in the football move than property. And cockrobin, theres no way the fans will be consulted at all. The only way the fans will get a say is if they impliment direct action, in numbers. £3 million is not a realistic sum. The club has zero assets. Its all a question of what the new owner would have to pay back to SSW, over what timescale. About a million would be realistic. |
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« Reply #19 on: Monday, September 25, 2006, 17:15:32 » |
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I think 90% of swindon fans would vote that they want them out.
Are you basing that assumption on the 30 people who sang on Saturday? |
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« Reply #20 on: Monday, September 25, 2006, 17:16:01 » |
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I reckon the board should start a poll to see what the fans want and then they will know what the fans will really want.
Simple a poll they should do is who wants us to stay and who wants us to sell up and go.
I think 90% of swindon fans would vote that they want them out.
The board should listen to what the fans really want and then they should say right we want £3m for the club if someone offers that amount we will all go. they have said today in that statement that if somebody has the enough money they will say. they probably want more than 3 mil though i imagine. the fans can't buy the club and i don't see anyone else buying it. so we are stuck with this board for a while longer im afraid |
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« Reply #21 on: Monday, September 25, 2006, 17:33:36 » |
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I reckon the board should start a poll to see what the fans want and then they will know what the fans will really want.
Simple a poll they should do is who wants us to stay and who wants us to sell up and go.
I think 90% of swindon fans would vote that they want them out.
The board should listen to what the fans really want and then they should say right we want £3m for the club if someone offers that amount we will all go. this is nothing to do with the fans they have no interest in what the fans want it is about money; sw's money sw wants his money back and md will obviously get a very nice slice of the pie |
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« Reply #22 on: Monday, September 25, 2006, 17:43:23 » |
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Seton Will's needs to wake up and concede that he wont get any of that money back, he need's to wake up to reality and face the fact that the club's worth nothing, he needs to say right i want £1Million for the club and then if someone offers it then him and his bunch of clowns can walk away, it's about time they did have an interest in what us fans want because sooner or later we are all going to get together and push them all out.
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« Reply #23 on: Monday, September 25, 2006, 17:59:50 » |
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Seton Will's needs to wake up and concede that he wont get any of that money back, he need's to wake up to reality and face the fact that the club's worth nothing, he needs to say right i want £1Million for the club and then if someone offers it then him and his bunch of clowns can walk away, it's about time they did have an interest in what us fans want because sooner or later we are all going to get together and push them all out. How the hell do you even know he wants any of this money back??!?! Again, show me some proof of this alligation! |
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« Reply #24 on: Monday, September 25, 2006, 18:02:45 » |
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i totally agree Reg. can't see the board stepping aside unless another Bill Power figure enters the fray again though
Who says Bill Power wouldnt be interested in comming back? If hes going to have to fight Dunwoody tooth and nail for his money back, probably through the courts so why not put it into a deal instead? Hes the first man here for a long time to be interested in the football move than property. And cockrobin, theres no way the fans will be consulted at all. The only way the fans will get a say is if they impliment direct action, in numbers. £3 million is not a realistic sum. The club has zero assets. Its all a question of what the new owner would have to pay back to SSW, over what timescale. About a million would be realistic. yeah true. i always have hope that whilst he is still invloved you never know. doubt he can come back though if his health is a factor |
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« Reply #25 on: Monday, September 25, 2006, 18:10:12 » |
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Something that has always bugged me is Mark Devlin's comment a few weeks ago saying "Bill Power is only a little behind me in my recovery"
If Devlin is coming back this week then could we have expected Power to come back a few weeks or a month or two later?
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Reg Smeeton
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« Reply #26 on: Monday, September 25, 2006, 18:12:21 » |
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Seton Will's needs to wake up and concede that he wont get any of that money back, he need's to wake up to reality and face the fact that the club's worth nothing, he needs to say right i want £1Million for the club and then if someone offers it then him and his bunch of clowns can walk away, it's about time they did have an interest in what us fans want because sooner or later we are all going to get together and push them all out. How the hell do you even know he wants any of this money back??!?! Again, show me some proof of this alligation! The other Newbury based STFC company, was set up with the sole remit of protecting the investment of the Wills family....this if you like is the property arm....which is intended to try and gain some, I suppose, profit or at least claw back some of the cash that has they've spent over the years. As the prospect of this recedes, it is possible they may realise its floghorse and settle for a smallish sum in deference to their efforts. |
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« Reply #27 on: Monday, September 25, 2006, 21:08:43 » |
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I would suggest a more realistic route would be some cash up front, and retaining a minority shareholding in the "property arm" as Reg puts it (I like that - do we have a military wing as well?) as a way of recouping some more of their investment should a ground redevlopment happen and make a profit. But, as has been extensively argued elsewhere, no-one is going to pay £10 million for a club that's probably "worth" £1, and if that is indeed being touted as a starting price, it's tantamount to refusing to sell.
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« Reply #28 on: Monday, September 25, 2006, 22:56:54 » |
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I would suggest a more realistic route would be some cash up front, and retaining a minority shareholding in the "property arm" as Reg puts it (I like that - do we have a military wing as well?) as a way of recouping some more of their investment should a ground redevlopment happen and make a profit. But, as has been extensively argued elsewhere, no-one is going to pay £10 million for a club that's probably "worth" £1, and if that is indeed being touted as a starting price, it's tantamount to refusing to sell. I sometimes wonder if we have a Ministry of Truth. I should probably read something else. I think my constant 1984 refererences are making it pretty obvious that I've only ever read one book. |
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« Reply #29 on: Tuesday, September 26, 2006, 06:43:12 » |
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Read Animal Farm, it's much shorter
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