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Can anyone shed any light on whats going on with him.

Surely it would be a great time for him to step forward and basically say to the creditors  bollocks we can pay the cva take the cunts to court and issue the wing up order

Agreed.  It would be great to know Bill's current thinking.

An interview would be spot on with an update on the court case (just to remind everyone it's still there) and to state he’s still waiting in the wings and that he hopes he could work with the new investors.

Personally, as suggested on the UMDFC he should nip round the creditors houses and offer to pay them off if they issue the order!   :mrgreen:

The silence of bill is strange, he needs to come out and say something!!

Or we could all forget BP and move on?

i don't think that'll work, considering he's either got a large stake in the holding company OR he's owed £1.2million.

plus he appears to have only had the best of intentions for the club.

I agree to a certain extent but on the other hand we have been promised watch this space, the shit will hit the fan etc and nothing seems to have happened . i hope he comes out and at leat lets us know what is going on

Even if it's a case of 'we're still mounting a legal challenge'.

No as my first post said si now would be a great time to say to the creditors" go for it and try winding them up we are here and will pay off what you are owed". Fuck it get as nasty as he wants and start playing dirty ffs

*Devil's advocate*

But BP wouldn't necessarily be able to rival the other investment, if that's a better deal the administrator would accept that maybe?

I dunno, I just think it's more of a grey area than it's ever been.

Mate to be fair this does not bother me and if this sounds bad im sorry but i have no loyalty to bill power whatsoever if the foreign investors do have more money(which i believe they do) then the cva will be paid so there is no problem is their.

What im trying to say is that i just think it would be half decent of the bloke to let a few people who supported him over the last 9 or so months know what he intends to do

It doesn't bother me either Macca, but I'm just saying if you'd spent the best part of a year trying to take over a football club you're not really likely to want to screw it up at the last.

I can see both sides of the coin. The stalemate is frustrating as hell and all we're supposed to do is 'wait and see'. Personally I think  BP has lost any Power he may have had at this stage and can only possibly regain it by legal challenge rather than counter-spin.

some things to remember about bill power:

1) he's a football man who's shown his commitment to this club, long before these current desperate times.

2) he has publicly stated that profits from any redevelopment will go back in to the club.

3) part of his fan's consortium manifesto is for fan representation in the board room.

i don't know any of the above are true about the new consortium, and given who is involved, i wouldn't hold my breath either.

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that last sentence though. you say "given who is involved". but we don't know who is involved do we? what if these investors have money than BP?

we know that part of the new consortium is mike diamandes and james wills.

a couple of years ago firoz kassam was well inside the top 100 rich men involved in football, and look where oxford are now. money doesn't mean a thing if it's not being invested correctly (or at all, in that case).

Do we? How's that then?

Your point about Kassam is a good one though. I bloody hope he isn't part of things! And of course money can be invested poorly. I will reserve judgement on this new consortium until i know who is involved, how much they are willing to invest and what their plans are for the club. Until then i will not jump to any conclusions about them points.

not for certain, it's more a case of interpretation as much as anything.

whatever happens in the short term, simply forgetting about bill power isn't a possibility as bennett correctly says. he owes us nothing, we owe him nothing, the board might owe him £1.2m.

it was on the bbc news article about the takeover.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/6264980.stm

although, yes, that could be down to interpretation.

can i just say at this point that the new official site is a total cunt to navigate?

cheers.

How do you work out its James and not Sir Seaton or both from that article:

The club said the consortium included long-time owner the Wills family, their advisor and club general manager Mike Diamandis, and a new investor.

It's "Seton" you dozy twat! At least learn to spell the man's name. :-))(

It's all just specualtion and that article was written a while back so i wouldn't read to much into it

Thank you for the correction tart. 8)

If you want to be really pedantic, Wills seniors' christian name is spelt DAVID.

David Seton Wills.

Dave Wills.... sounds like a right fucking chav  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick: