Andrew Black wanted out last summer, but a proposed sale fell through, so I imagine that he said, right you have 6 months to find a new owner or I'm off. One of the reasons that Wray was sidelined and Patey brought in was that he wasn't doing THAT job to AB's satisfaction.
I'm with the others that say he (Black) deserves some slack, because without his money we wouldn't have PDC, we wouldn't have a chance of championship football, we would probably be playing Salisbury or Supermarine.
The two biggest concerns for me are,
The fact that we are still losing £1m a year, the debt to the holding company went up by £4m in 4 years (£400K on agents fees won't have helped).
Have the new consortium got the funds to keep us going, let alone to kick on and progress.
Andrew Black should have a bronze bust at SN1 next to Flemming!
Moving on, you have to think like a businessman, sorry, person, for all our PC friends in the Lib & Lab parties.
If, no not if, your due dilligence is rigourous enough (you'd expect it to be with our chequered history) you'll see what the club has been wracking up debt wise for the, say, last 10 years? Then look at the income over the same period. Won't take a Carol Vorderman long to work out there is a massive gap to plug each season. Sooooooooooo how you gonna do it?
In retrospect we have pretty much as it would appear had the slate wiped clean. What about the natives, that's you and me? How long are we going to hang around spending our money if we don't see any improvement on the pitch and around the stadium. In a nutshell these "investor/consotium" bods better have deep pockets and big balls, because if I don't feel comfy with the outcome of this take over, PDC won't be the only fecker not appearing on a Saturday afternoon at SN1 next season which is a hard thing to say and swallow after supporting the town since circa '73.
Think about this, I reckon we pull £100-120k per home game on a 9k crowd taking into account ST sales and concessions etc for only 9 months of the year excluding cup runs and kiosk sales and sponsorship etc. The wage bill is reportedly in excess of £250k per month...every month. Sobering stats eh.
