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Title: Bertie Black Post by: michael on Monday, March 1, 2010, 18:39:49 I see Andrew has been busy on his blog again lately, one comment concerned me though:
"The biggest problem I have at the moment is cash. Everything needs financing and I don’t have anything coming in - I’ve got some great shareholdings in all sorts of private companies but the markets are still bad and I can’t get any money out. Swindon has been great but it’s also been expensive - the economics of football really aren’t there unless you are a player or an agent. A lot of the companies I’m involved with have come back for more as they can’t get money anywhere else. I’ve loaned money to mates who are in trouble. It’s been one way traffic for a long time now." Could he be about to pull out? http://www.bertsblog.co.uk/horse-racing/hard-earned.html On another note I did enjoy seeing pictures of Robbie eating from the dinner table. Title: Re: Bertie Black Post by: pauld on Monday, March 1, 2010, 18:41:46 Let's hope he's not about to pull out - it's not just his cash, as I understand it, his advice/expertise has been invaluable. He'd be a massive loss
Title: Re: Bertie Black Post by: Iffy's Onion Bhaji on Monday, March 1, 2010, 18:44:26 I doubt he'll pull out. I think he's just saying he's been hit hard by the economic downturn (who hasn't?). After all he does says "Swindon has been great".
Title: Re: Bertie Black Post by: Reg Smeeton on Monday, March 1, 2010, 18:44:43 Sounds like he's enjoyed it, but is quitting....the flare incident on Saturday probably the straw that broke the camel's back.
Title: Re: Bertie Black Post by: pauld on Monday, March 1, 2010, 19:08:25 Sounds like he's enjoyed it, but is quitting....the flare incident on Saturday probably the straw that broke the camel's back. WUM. Worse than SONNTitle: Re: Bertie Black Post by: Peter Venkman on Monday, March 1, 2010, 19:11:33 Title: Re: Bertie Black Post by: pride_of_wilts on Monday, March 1, 2010, 19:21:17 Sounds like he's saying it's been great at Swindon but now it's time to move onto other things.
Title: Re: Bertie Black Post by: leefer on Monday, March 1, 2010, 20:04:00 Dont sound like hes saying anything to me...just that hes a bit pissed off.
Title: Re: Bertie Black Post by: BANGKOK RED on Monday, March 1, 2010, 20:07:05 I doubt he'll pull out. I think he's just saying he's been hit hard by the economic downturn (who hasn't?). After all he does says "Swindon has been great". 'Has been' great. Past tense as opposed to 'Is great' Sounds as though he might not be about for much longer Title: Re: Bertie Black Post by: Batch on Monday, March 1, 2010, 20:17:32 Not reading much into it either way.
Title: Re: Bertie Black Post by: iffy on Monday, March 1, 2010, 20:26:44 Interesting blog. Betfair is still VC owned, so it's all paper money. You've got to assume they would
have floated if the markets hadn't been so shocking. Got to be frustrating to be worth tens/hundreds of millions and you can't spend any of it. Title: Re: Bertie Black Post by: pauld on Monday, March 1, 2010, 22:04:44 Got to be frustrating to be worth tens/hundreds of millions and you can't spend any of it. Yeah, I hate it when that happens :)Title: Re: Bertie Black Post by: reeves4england on Tuesday, March 2, 2010, 00:38:27 I think people are reading too much into this. Was just a bit of a throwaway comment about the way football is. When he put his money in he'll have known it was a long term project.
Title: Re: Bertie Black Post by: Nemo on Tuesday, March 2, 2010, 00:57:44 "Only four of those games being under 2.5 goals"
When you describe a game as having under or over 2.5 goals, you know you're seriously into betting. |