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What's one of those when they are in employment ?

Isn't Rufus Brevett jamican....so maybe the new owners will be jamaican !!

I wonder if that is the person they was on about with extensive knowledge of football ??!!

I notice they didn't mention his last club in his list of playing credits - some pub side from down the A420

Yes, he's worn the yellow piece of filth and once a Scummer always a Scummer.
Keep the CG a Scum free zone.

When was Brevett at QPR?  Would he have bumped in to Bill P and Mark Devlin while he was there?

91 to 98.  Chris Wright was in charge I think when he left for Fulham.  The more worrying link was West Ham up to 2005.

would this indicate Power being involved in the takeover then?

No

So who would that be?

Sorry, my brain is not in gear at the moment :?

Terence Brown?

that was the gang I was thinking of, the ones behind the Tevez and Masherano balls up, not to mention being generally loathed by their fans (he even sued a supporters group once).

Old mother Brown?

Could think of worse.

He'd get on like a house on fire with Diamond Mick then. It's bound to be him knowing our luck :?

Reading Sturrock's comments it sounds like Brevett is more interested in being involved in football rather than the boardroom.

He says he will be involved in scouting and wants to get his badges.

Isn't it the job of the chief exec to act as the go between, I assume that means that Starnes is either pushed back into his accounts job sitting next to Sandy or he'll be out of a job.

Brevett is getting his coaching badges at Camberley Town, where it was announced he had joined as a coach yesterday.  Unless he's got commitment issues.

hes a scummer. end of.

But Brown/Lowe et al are not foreign.

agree with Mex on the Brevett comment, he's a fucking pox scum reject.  Not happy about him coming here to be honest, sporting director or not.

Well I'm not to happy about fucking Jocks supporting my club but I suppose I'll have to live with it.

It's bad enough having them managing and playing for us :?

Fucking hell, OST's on fire today  :soapy tit wank:

Reading between the lines, I doubt PS is completely enamoured with Brevett's presence - a scout/coach/spy he didn't ask for nosing about the training ground each day

Fingers crossed it'll run smoothly...

but he doesn't the glowing approval that Mike Stowell does

I couldn't give a crap that he has connections with pox. He helped them to the play-offs, and they proceded to fuck it up. Job done!

I feel a rift coming on. :wink:

Will there be an overspend discovered once this rift kicks in?

No chance. Financial engineering cancels out all overspends, debts and rifts!  :|

"Party on, dudes, and be excellent to each other."

We havent even paid are old debts off yet.

Fair enough he's a scummer, but he's been put in place by the new consortium so let's wait and see what happens.

On the Radio on the way to work Sturrock said "Brevett is part of thier consortium"

Cowabunga Dudes !

It was Bill & Ted, Fred, not those ninja turtle fellas :)

Most excellent !

Like, totally bogus dude  8)

Sturrock was quite clear on the Beeb that it’s not a director of football post in any way and was even a little tetchy when Ed asked him what it would be like working with someone in that sort of post.  He replied that Brevett will be ‘Sporting Director’ which is essentially just a liaison with the new investors and he will be filling in with some scouting.

One interesting piece in the interview was that Sturrock mentioned the reason for Brevett’s arrival was due to the investors having a lot of businesses on the go and wouldn’t always be on hand.

Interesting Dazzza

Power to People raised a really salient point in that historically that has always been the CEO's role.

Why call him a Sporting Director ?

I would be really really interested when this all washes out what his remit is

i would imagine its because he will also be involved in scouting etc where a ceo probably would not.Fwiw i think he is here to keep a eye on diamindis etc

My thoughts exactly.....

 :shock:  Realistically, in what way could a newly retired footballer be expected to be clued up enough about business to be able to keep an eye on someone like Mike D??

Good shout

Fuck me....I think I've missed something here,

   Can someone confirm we've appointed Rufus Brevitt, into some dodgy management position....whatever you want to call it?

  If so  Sturrrock will be gone within 8 weeks.....I've now got a real concern  for the future of our club.

  I saw someone who looked a lot like Bowden in the Co-Op on Sunday buying fans....I thought at the time, its probably so the contents of the  Boardroom  bog can aimed in our general direction at protests next season.

Buying fans in Co op eh.

That'll accouint for 2000 of the 3000 season tickets sold

Boom Boom :D

I think it is a proposal should proposed the mystery investor become an actual investor.

The way Luggy was talking it seemed a done deal though.

  Cheers Batch....something in my water tells me this is plain wrong.   I have a deep sense of foreboding as to the nature and intent of our mysterious investors..

  Would John Fashanu have any links with Brevitt?   I recall he tried to buy the Cobblers a while back for some dodgy Nigerians,  the aim being to get African footballers into England and make some bucks from selling them on.

  They came mighty close to getting the Cobblers.....I'm now convinced that any mystery investor is going to be dodgy.

I remember that Fashanu/Nigerian fiasco it really was as dodgy as it gets.
It instances such as this that really makes my patience wear thin, without telling us who they are then the conspiracy theories will continue to get thrown about. This secrecy does make me deeply suspicious but I guess thats just my nature when it comes to business...

  I could almost cry...... :cry:

Unfortunately Reg more often than not you tend to right about things such as this .... which isn't a good sign  :cry:

If you were writing a STFC-based soap opera, "you just could not make it any more unbelievable!"

Kinda of on this subject i have to say i enjoy reading the Adver,the sports write ups,the letters from Les Fox and the Lady Di obsessive and the bi-weekly where is Asher in the six-aside team pictures..... but printing a picture of a bloke on the front of the paper in a pox shirt ,thats not on at all  :shake: If it hadn't been for that i probably wouldn't have realised he was ex-pox :x

I remember someone joking about Nigerian foreign investors (re the emails that we all get from some guy in Nigeria with a sob story!)

Maybe it actually IS Nigerian investors - Fash the Bash to take over?

John Fashanu (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xLuaqNoxjro)

I am someone who has been staunchly against these idiots in charge and hope very much that Diamond mike loses his stranglehold on the club.  But I honestly saw the Brevitt appointment as a positive as almost a signal of intent from the new investors to be heavily involved in the club.

At the moment we are all speculating the worst outcomes and past experiences have made us think this way but personally if a new consortium gets a controlling interest in the club then it is hard to see how they could possibly be worse than we currently have.  

As far as loads of African players coming over, I wouldn't object as some of the mose talented young players in the world are coming out of Africa these days.

I very much hope this isn't a false dawn but for us to completely rule it out or to completely say it will have a negative impact is very short sighted until we know the full facts.

WTF?

Rufus Brevett is English, born in Derby.

The new investors are, apparently Eastern European.

Why would we be getting an influx of African players?

JOHN FASHARNOO

Where the fucks this come from?

Wasn't me who suggested that it is mentioned earlier in the thread that it almost happened at a takeover by Fashanu at Northamption.  It was discussed as a negative thing where as I was saying I felt it would be more of a positive thing.

  Although I suppose by nature pessimistic, I think you can take it as a given that there's a certain amount of inevitibility, that the mystery investors will leave the current mob looking wonderful.

  This will be the final act of hubris from Diamond Mike.....get ready to man the lifeboats.

I think Brevett and the grass chewing pensioner Taribo West we’re fairly close at Plymuff but that’s as tenuous a link I can come up with.  I just hope it’s nothing to do with Fash the Bash.  As much as he’s comedy gold you wouldn’t trust him with a box of eggs.

Meanwhile the whole Brevett scenario gets stranger the longer I think about it.  Even if he is just a ‘go between’ with the manager and investors why would you choose a recently retired journeyman like Brevett?  He doesn’t have much in the way of business or backroom experience and if as Sturrock indicated he is part of this new consortium and as the board keep implying they are that well off financially why involve Brevett?  Despite an honest career he can’t exactly be rolling in the millions and brings nothing to the table in experience except perhaps a few contacts from his playing days.

Cos Rufus is black innit.  And blackies come from Africa (and West India but dey play cricket), u fick or summink?

My guess is that Brevitt was not chosen for his ability or experience more the fact that he was someone they could trust.

John Fashanu (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xLuaqNoxjro)

Not to mention that he was a Jamaican international thus making that statement a little more odder.

Reg and Glos were discussing whether there was a Fashanu link I merely pointed out that I wouldn't be gutted if we had an influx of African players which was suggested when Fashanu was strongly linked to taking over Northampton.

Dazzza wrote:

   

    Exactly my thoughts eloquently expressed......sorry its just wrong....almost as soft as appointing Teflon Nicky as Director of Football at Reading.

Can anyone please explain to me as I'm a simple Oxfordshire lad why on earth we would need a Sporting Director and Go Between. (Thought that was Julie Christie)

I really don't see what all the fuss is about.

When Sturrock said Brevett was part of the new consortium, I assumed he meant that Brevett was employed due to the new consortium, not that he was putting in money.

It's obvious that Brevett has a link with these new people and as Sturrock has stated, they are overseas businessmen with fingers in a lot of pies and therefore won't be on hand for Sturrock to go to directly; which is where Brevett comes in.

Loads of clubs now have a football/sporting Director.

I'm sure I could be really pessimistic about everything, but I can't be arsed...............

Their definition of a "Sporting Director" differs significantly to what I would regard a man in Brevett's role. Perhaps the title is due to some kind of legal issue? I don't know - here's clearly just a liason who just happens to be doing his badges and will help with scouting.

My initial fear was that Brevett would become the manager!

I predict that Rufio won't be with us for very long.

 Ooohhh I'd have loved a go between Julie Christie, back in the day.

  Probably still would

  http://i.imdb.com/Photos/Events/5169/JulieChris_Pimen_10312245_400.jpg

   Hopefully about as long as Mike Stowell.

Julie Christie wasn't actually the Go between,it was the kid,think his name was Leo  :wink:

FaW did say he was a simple O*frodshire lad,  this obvious mistake proves it.

On the face of it the actual position of a 'go between' seems fairly snuff during what’s an important time on the football front being pre-season and all that.  More so if the club are skint and have to be very careful working around the CVA issue it’s understandable that the new consortium would want to run over any potential transfers and oversee spending.

But Brevett is a bit of a mystery.  I would have thought a money man with some football experience would be the ideal choice but a recently retired fairly low key player just doesn’t sit quite right.  Unless of course that’s the intention, appoint someone left-field like Brevett to throw the twenty five odd busy bodies of the scent of who the investors actually are

Im sure he is here to keep a eye on wills and diamindis to be fair

We're getting into Loose Change : STFC a bit here. Unless we get into crazy conspiracy theories (which with the MickeyD crew in charge I wouldn't completely dismiss), then it seems like he's got a connection with the investors and they are planning to have enough control of the football to make such appointments.

With his job apparently being a go between between Consortium TNG and Sturrock then I see it as a possible (if nothing goes wrong) positive change in upstairs management.

Of course the new boys could be worse than the ones we've already got. But I'm happy to play that roulette table.

There's always room for a bit of loose change style antics on forums.

All will become clear in time I suppose but I think the lack of a tenable link to Brevett and Foreign based business men is yanking at my clacker valve a bit at the moment.

My sauces tell me it's Georgian Badri Patarkatsishvili today.

And the relish is in agreement

I like the sound of Badri Patarkatsishvili.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Badri.jpg/250px-Badri.jpg

 :D

I'm currently doing some more research into Rufus Brevett's history. Chewing the fat with a mate over lunch who happens to be a Peterborough fan, and he reckons there was some dodgy deals going on with Brevett while he was at West Ham. Now there may be nothing at all in this, but it would be prudent of me to follow up a lead to see what can be uncovered.

All I found on the net was reference to some court case where some bird accused him of rape.



If and when I find anything, I'll report back.

I do too. Never gonna happen though