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castro brothers.

fidel?

cigars all round then

close, but no.

Agents?


http://www.castrobrothers.com/pt/

Or old men....

http://www.worldpress.org/images/20060803-castro.jpg

i hope its the old men :D  some old fashioned socialism would do us the power of good.

Same old board, on the Fidel again.

Dionisio Castro do you mean?? He organises the Futsal tournaments in Portugal

he has a twin brother Domingos and they were runners

heres the wiki link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domingos_Castro


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dion%C3%ADsio_Castro

I see they have Vagner Love on their books as well as a player with the imaginative nickname true Brazilian stylee of William.

ive sent them an email to see if its true  :soapy tit wank:

well done fatters, don't scare them off  :wink:  :D

I just put on it I hear the Castro Brothers may be involved in a consortium to take over Swindon Town ... can they confirm or deny?

PS Do you have any sisters?

if it is the castros and thats a big if, werent they involved in elviria? a portugese team who couldnt pay their players and they went on strike? it was huge news in portugal...... :o

I think they were supposed to be putting a rescue package together but I'm not sure if they ever got anywhere.  I think they’ve also got some ties to Casinos and the piece de la resistance of tenuous links is that old Google’s sketchy Portuguese translation service does mention them in the same breath as Guima and Ibon the trialists.

The plot thickens.  I'm amazed in this day and age that they;ve lasted so long without any real hint of who they are actually.  Normally someone squeals.

  Sounds about right.

Sounds like another big Fidel at STFC to me.

does anybody know what the views of the Council or the HMRC are regarding STFC asking for an extension of the CVA?

What i want to hear is that either of those two have said fuck off we want our money now.

The longer this carries on the more time Mike D has bleeding our club dry.

Also is there an update anywhere with regard to BP and his support or where he stand with regard to still investing in our club?

As someone wrote elsewhere i think now would be an excellent opportunity to have a nice back page spread stating BP is still here and that everything can be sorted now and not in 9 months time.

Surely as taxpayers we can contact the council and ask them what they are doing about retrieving the money???

The wikipedia site states Domingos Castro's date of birth as Nov 22nd 1963 - which is the same day Kennedy was shot.

This information has absolutely no relevance to the proposed takeover of STFC but, given the current board's self imposed vow of silence, I feel it is my duty as a fan to keep the rumour mill going with Daily Mail-style sensational (and completely irrelevant) statements that will get up Bob Holt's nose and also remind Diamandis that we haven't gone away despite the 'due diligence is going to take 8 weeks, so leave us alone' wheeze.

While that option is not open to those of us who don't live in Swindon, it's an excellent idea for those who do.

so has anyone who pays there council tax to Swindon Council sent an email?

so Castro is a reincarnation of JFK? wow that's incredible.

I did - got an e-mail back saying it would be forwarded to the finance dept and someone would contact me, but have yet to hear back!

Sent the e-mail about 2 weeks ago (a couple of days after the letter was published asking to push the CVA payment date back!).

well hopefully several more people would have done the same.

shame they haven't replied as it would be nice to hear what there plans are.

yeah I did but no reply as yet .. and also no reply from the Castros either

Deals are being made and PS is not happy. Players are being forced into the club as part of the deal. The investors have not got major backing.

Interesting second post... :?

sunday's q&a session with sturrock could be very interesting.

Its very easy in the absence of facts to construct a position whereby Diamond Mike has cobbled together a deal, with some dodgy agents, whereby we are used as a feeder club for players.  It might include a provision  that in return for some initial capital, the agents get a set cut on any transfer dealings.

  I said at the outset that I couldn't see Sturrock lasting the 8 weeks of due diligence, presumably the "investors" would require their own "yes man" in place.....whats Rix doing at the moment?

I dont think you are right Reg

Feeder club implies that the players would come here from a predetermined foreign club, get experience add value to the originating club then move back after a period.

My personal gut feeling is that this is not the case.

If what is posted is correct then these couple of geezers are not affilliated to any club at the moment, purely agents

That my friend is fucking worrying

Beautiful Reg

That was not lost on me mate !

Hearts ????????????

   When I say feeder club, I really mean  "showcase" club, a conduit for foreign players to get aboard the gravy train of English football.

     The likes of T*dd clearly had cosy arrangements with agents, whereby he'd take players.....how else did Kim Heiselberg ever get a contract?

     This deal looks to be taking it a step further.....not sure how it would sit with the football authorities.

Nail            head                    hit

My personal feelings match yours Reg

Classic conflict of interests

Not that that has ever fucking worried SSW and MD

Does everyone still consider SSW as our favourite old uncle

FFS

Sorry......I'm going off on one again

    Its the only construct which matches the bits of evidence we have got.

   Let it out Fred.....nothing worse than bottled emotion.

What a tangled web we weave  :?

I'm trying to console myself with the fact we're better off than Leeds. Its not working. Looks like red wine might be tonights salvation...

have i missed something?  :?

On bottled Fullers ESB ................................nothing beats that mate

In all honesty, I can feel the fucking rage building up inside me again, and I for one was quietly optimistic for a period there !

read "iworkattheclub" two posts Rich

Could be anyone Fred i wouldn't worry. Unless you know more than the rest of us  :|

I've heard several people who know employees that suggest all is not well.

 I know as much as you at this present time Rich

Just heard snippets hear and there and using a judgement call to draw my own conclusions mate

I reckon they're filthy rich and we'll be fine.

Reg is spot on....showcase club indeed.

If we're gonna be a 'showcase' club, that would surely imply that the players we'll be 'showcasing' would be quality, not donkeys.

No club would have a whole team of players like that, if all this speculation turns out to be true, it would probably be no more than a few players anyway.

Trying to put a positive spin on things, if we are 'used' to showcase foreign talent, what's the problem?

   The way it works is you hope to find one gem amongst the dross which then makes it worthwhile.....Barry Fry used to operate in a similar way buy a dozen players and you might get a Stan Colleymore.  

  In some senses its only the sort of policy we now pursue,  for example run a youth policy, most  go nowhere, but a Looky Jooky gives you a bit of a profit.

  The problem is, of course, the role of manager becomes redundant.

I'm sorry, but I just don't think that is the case here.

Apart from our obvious shortage of attacking options, Sturrock has assembled a strong squad.

Imho, it's more likely that these new investors are more interested in the casino idea, rather than the extremely long shot of finding a diamond amongst a load of unknown foreign players.

Whatever the reasons for people investing in the club, they will all want a return on their money, even Power. How they get that return, as long as it isn't detrimental to the future of the football club, doesn't really concern or interest me.

The silence from the club is causing even more speculation than normal, all of it unproved.

Stop being a lot of fucking doom merchants! You'll have enough time for that if it does turn out to be a bad move, why get a head start on misery now?

    The casino idea is definitely a dead duck....our new PM of the presbyterian background, has ordered a rethink on the existing policy suggestion.

Not true Reg.

The idea for smaller casinos is still a goer.

I heard the new investors are Biker Mice from Mars.

   I still maintain GB has ordered a review of the govs policiies on gambling, it may be after this review nothing changes, but we've not been allocated a licence anyway.....

I suspect it’s nothing more than a conspiracy to import dodgy Brazilian’s with Portuguese ancestry and a resulting right to an EU passport, straight into the English game where the money is.  

It’s a fairly dodgy game and there were all sorts of shenanigans going on in Italy with dodgy passports and even there was even a sniff at the Arse’s Brazilians, something I’ve been striving towards for 6 years (all in the back muscles).  Why bring them into the spotlight of the PremierShit when you can slide them slowly into League one, get them 12 months experience, which most Brazilians usually require to adapt to the English game then milk that big money move baby.  

That sort of nonsense aside I would suspect it’s odds on tits up now.  If it is agents I’m sure there will be rules and regulations that state down with this sort of thing and that my friends is another tenuous link to Brevett’s appearance.  I would propose that old Rufus is the ex-player of an English or English based FA registered agent that would either A be quickly recognised or B end up castrated by the FA for involvement with a football club and the conflict of interests that arise.

not really, it implies we will showcase who we are told showcase....no matter how good or bad.

co-incidence we've got lots of portugese trailists all of a sudden

   Exactaedmundo

    Personally I prefer to  sniff front bottom rather than Arse Brazilians...just don't have the back muscles.

What's the point in showcasing shit players in division 3?

Why am I even arguing? Some bloke has come up with yet another story of what's going on at the club. No proof, tenuously linking A and B and coming up with yet another worse case scenario...........

well, the point is we dont know if they are shit.....thats why we take them on and play them....if they are any good we'll sell them on for some £££

If they turn out shit, we get rid and get the next portugese players in.

Arsene Wengers company (the one he had a stake in) practically killed off a club in Belgium IIRC by using it to showcase African players, sending on the best ones to Arsenal or others and making the company profit.  The downside is, the club makes nothing, loses it's identity and when the talent passes on struggles to be anything as it's whole set-up has changed.

It is a little odd that the trialists all seem to be foreign.  It doesn't have to be bad thing, but if it's something to rejoice over then why not make it public?

There is another aspect of course, is showcasing talent what we want our club to be?

That's the one Rob, the whole side is made up entirely of Ivorian players, which the Arse ship in to Belgium due to their relaxed immigration laws.

Can’t see a similar situation here though as the UK work permit system is fairly brutal when it comes to footballers by comparison of other nations.  There’s always the old colonies who are still entitled to British residency but I can’t really see there being a roaring trade in Easter Island players.  To busy buggering their sisters.

It's possible that the 'scouts' are completely unconnected. I'm not saying they are, or it's more than likely, just that it could be the case.

If and as Si said it's still a big if the investors are agents of the foreign players we have on trial then then FA rules came into place last year that they have to be registered with FIFA and the FA to act for players at English clubs.

There are 309 names to pluck out of arses available here…

http://www.fifa.com/aboutfifa/federation/administration/playersagents/association=eng.html

No Castros mind.  
 :(

There's also this on the Camberley Town forum (it's been a slow day)...

Wish they'd fucking hurry up and invest or just piss off. To be honest, how much are they going to learn from due diligence anyway? There's no way Diamond Mike will show them the actual books.

I expect they'll want to see all the legal stuff too

It could be that this waiting period is the investors trying to sort out the current lot's efforts at accounts. I reckon that could take a few weeks. Not the ideal time of course, but I'm trying to stay positive.

i too had been told that rufus will continue to play for camberley town, which i found a bit odd considering a scout would surely be watching future opponents on saturday's and mid-week?!

I cant see this deal going through.

Football agents (mega greed) + Mike Diamandis (mega greed) = no deal.

Camberley Town play just a couple of miles up the road from here.  I might head over there and ask Rufus a few questions myself.

If the 'showcase club' rumours do turn out to be true, I'm really not that sure I'm going to maintain much of an interest.  For me, STFC exists for its own sake.  I support the club because I want STFC to be a successful club in its own right - and for no other reason.

If such a deal goes through, the primary aim of STFC will be to blood these players in the English league and to make money for football agents.  Why would I want to support that?  Success on the pitch would become a secondary consideration...an afterthought, almost.  It would kill things for me.

Same as Ardiles, but we are getting several steps ahead of ourselves for the minute.

I totally agree ardiles! If the showcase rumours are true then i could no longer support STFC as i could not support what would be happening at the club and i will no longer be interested, it would be the end of STFC!

Surely there would be alot of protests if this was to happen?

Ar.

Dunno, if people decided they couldn't support the team they'd probably just do something else on a Saturday, rather than protest.

I know I won't be wasting my time protesting anymore.

I'd imagine Supermarine could see a rise in attendances, maybe even a small club set-up in protest at a push.

I would be one of them Rob

Short bus trip for me to Hunts Copse

Drinking beer during the game


Sort of appeals really !

Yup.

I'll buy you a beer Fred.

I kinda get the feeling that Puffett was looking for this all along...

Scheming bastard.

Agreed mate !

I have made a committment to my wife that I will not be at home any single Saturday this season, so the away games that I cannot make I will be spending at SS.

She's chuffed to fuck !

Whilst it may not have got the quick fix some seem to have expected we should bear in mind that the board are still in the same postion if not worse. Standing up for your views are never a waste of time even if you are in a minority.

Oddly enough perhaps this the very time that protests would be more effective.

I agree sort of, maybe. The orange revolution made the papers and whilst it was at it's peak, any pictures of the crowed would show off a fair few orange hats. That worked.

The 50ish people standing outside the Arkells shouting stuff made fuck all difference. Unless something happens which can drag in a parade of protesters, we're easily ignored.

Depending how the next few weeks pan out I could see us getting enough people for a proper protest. I'm getting new investors pulling out after seeing the accounts vibes at the moment.

I'm not sure I buy into the using the club to bring in foreign players rumours. I don't see why you'd do that in England. As I think it's been stated elsewhere, lot's of European clubs have less strict work permit rules, if you were doing that you'd go for the classic Belgium effort.

I personally feel that legal action from BP or the creditors in the CVA or takeover action from who it may be will be more effective.

I'm not going to waste the beer time.

 :soapy tit wank:

Yes these would be more effective if even one option was likely to happen?

Dont know how you can say that andy.I would rather sit on the shitter and listen to the radio and see how we were getting on than watch supermarine in fact fuck it i would rather watch the deers leap

South Marston FC. No thank you.

I hate Brissle Sh!tty, probably more so than the Pox, but still can't be bothered going.
I have never felt so pessimistic at the start of any season about the club.

I have to admit I'm having a bit of a 'can't be arsed' moment with tonight as well ...

But I'm not pessamistic about the season. Luggy knows what he's doing, even if those in charge do not.

Found this comment interesting from the Adver Site.

Wonder what the chances are of this actually being realistic?

Martyn Starnes comments in the matchday programme last night said "we hope to have made an announcement by the time you read this"  :mrgreen:

Starnes still talking crap then I see!

why would you ever tempt fate by releasing such a stupid statement.

PS. By the time you TEF'ers read this I should have received a phonecall to say that I've won the Ugandan lottery and once I have given them my bank account de-tails, they will be able to transfer the monies (17 pound 52 pence).

So, what is new. This board talks nothing but crap from Starnes, Holt, Gray and Mr. Whippy, because they are told to by are 'beloved' General Manager.

I saw our beloved leader in the carpark last night - shorter than I expected, and I had to bite my tongue so I didn't hurl a volley of abuse at the toad faced bloater.

so WHO IS that bloke with the shades on who sat next to Rufus last nite?

Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood morning sir

Thank FUCK someone else watches Phonejacker ... I thought I was the only one!

It's not been well received on the TEF Chris, but I like it.

it was STFCBart

heh Bart's the secret investor!  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

You should have....a lot of others do, and it does make you feel a bit better afterwards letting out all that anger  :soapy tit wank:

Terry Tibbs = masterpiece ...

"Talk to me"

"Good morning sir, I'm calling from Feed Spaghetti Through You Jap's Eye Until Your Ball's Turn Bluetooth Solutions Incorporated.com"

Quality  8)

phonejacker is some of the best comedy i have seen in the last couple of years. The other is the peep show. i work on the phone and any strange voice comes on i always think it could be him!

I have to say Alan Partridge beats those for me....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_f4Id8Z8tU

"Free riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiings"

On thisis there are a couple of people claiming that the takeover is complete and all will be announced imminently, bar the adver piece has anyone else heard any such info or is it just the usual crap on that forum.
They keep referring to it all as its definately a done deal and is a fact but can't reveal their 'sauces' and frankly their doing my head in....

Glos with all the bad stuff that's happened to you recently I'd haev thought the last thing you needed was a trip to thisis!

Give_Us_an_S and me tried to goad Starnes from next to the directors box last night saying it was about time they gave the fans some information.  He just ignored us and looked very nervous, guess they don't like fans to speak there minds and not just grin bear the shit they constantly throw at us  :?

I cant understand it!

Arent you all looking forward to the Wills-Diamandis Stadium opening in Chippenham which the club will pay them to use???  :wink:

 

I need to take my mind off the real world  :wink:

To be honest got nothing better to do, were not allowed to do anything to the house at the moment and have no cars to go anywhere so trawling around the net is about as good as it gets at the moment. It just amazes me the number of people who pretend to know what is going on and the claims they make...

I had a go at quizing Starnes last night too, was a one sided conversation

God help you if Leroy_ or Riddel find out you posted on here :)

Any news on the search for Dagsy?

Dont tell them I'm being a tart.

I now think Dagsy was the result of a collective halluicnation. It was bought on by too many subways.

Anyway, Millie Clode..

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/6914775.stm

So our takeover will be announced sooner rather than later   :wink:

If I was a fan of the club that gets taken over by that site, I'd give up on the club it would be an absolute farce...

Mystery investor is some one called George....that's all.

Foreman?

Perhaps we'd start getting steaks in the food kiosks cooked on his Grills.

 George and Rufus are currently in a meeting with Samdy.

You on one of your wind ups again Reg....

George of the jungle?

 Would I do something like that?

  I only convey what my sauce revealed.

My money's on it being this George:

http://www.oneposter.com/UserData/Poster/Poster_4873.jpg

A consortium with Zippy and Bungle?

Ace.

Sounds about right to me.

George and Lenny

    More likely to be George, Joolian, Dick, Anne and Timmy the Dog.

Is it George Alagiah?

Isn't "George" the Anglicised version of the Hebrew "Jesus"? We've got investment from God.

Is that why we signed Mohammed as well that way were covering both the big religions.  With God(s) on our side how could we possibly fail?

Lenny and Carl, Duffman is our new mascot OH YEAH!

Alan Sugar's got a lot of spare money now he's sold Amstrad, he'd be ace.

"Sandy, you forgot to pay VAT, that's a completely farcical mistake, you're fired."

Nah, bungle is already in charge at the club :roll:

I thought it was the muppets that was in charge, how much has Bungle invested  ? :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Charlie George loves Swindon (1969)

Well said normy  :D

good post there normy!

Edit, bah beat me to it  :x

By far the best post we've had for weeks.

The investors are Bill and Ted.

My sources are most excellent, dudes.