New beginnings - 25% Truth, 80% Bollocks

[horlock07]

Clears the decks for standing to come back out of the shadows

Looking at it, unless Barry is still funding him, he seems rather lacking in the pot to piss in department?

I've completely lost track, is there still a Standing vs. Power case re Power selling the club that Standing owned 50% of, if so that's got feck all to do with the club so leave Power and Standing to wave their cocks at each other and we move on (unless Standing has some link to Morfuni, its got very hard to differentiate rumour from fact in recent times).

[RobertT]

Looking at it, unless Barry is still funding him, he seems rather lacking in the pot to piss in department?

I've completely lost track, is there still a Standing vs. Power case re Power selling the club that Standing owned 50% of, if so that's got feck all to do with the club so leave Power and Standing to wave their cocks at each other and we move on (unless Standing has some link to Morfuni, its got very hard to differentiate rumour from fact in recent times).

The never answered question, in relation to the case you refer to, is why Standing would continue to pursue Power over a claim he held 50% of the club, but also gave the green light for Clem to purchase the club (as Standing had successfully sued for an injunction against Power preventing him from selling without his consent).  Given the people who remained at the club post sale, and the fact Austin was put in hospital but never pressed any charges, the "theory" has always been that it was simply a process to remove Power and Curran, with everyone else carrying on after some deck chair shuffling.

That doesn't seem implausible given the nature of our operation since - Standing's old company continues to be held within the family & friends circle and continued to be engaged in transfers with us, then Nicholls came on the scene and carried on the same vein with signings/sales and had purchased the previous agency while having a background with the same group.  It all just felt/feels like a way for those who were funding the club or had their mits in the till, to continue with the original deal, just putting Clem in the Power position.  It helps that Clem was onboard already, part the gang and, as we have see since, is not adverse to trading in less than ethical ways (still being chased by creditors around the world).

[theakston2k]

So when do we think Standing will suddenly appear as the real owner or ‘person of significant control’ at the club then?

[4D]

A Scooby Doo style revelation?

[RobertT]

So when do we think Standing will suddenly appear as the real owner or ‘person of significant control’ at the club then?

Not sure he ever would do, or need to.  If he has just retained a semblance of the original deal, he may even have made his money back by now?  Imagine an agent getting 10-20% of the wages saved (by other clubs) on the players we assumed contractual control over in January for example.

If I am in Standing's shoes, I feel aggrieved by what Power did, get the nod someone else can takeover and pay him back.  I pursue Power for what it is worth but get my exposure sorted in the meantime.

I have no inside knowledge, but you can imagine him staying the background in such a scenario given the finger burning that happened a few years back and the lack of progress the club has made in the meantime, reducing the potential for those bigger payoffs.  Long gone are the Louongo days.

[Ƭ̵̬̊: The Artist Formerly Known as CWIG]

So when do we think Standing will suddenly appear as the real owner or ‘person of significant control’ at the club then?

The initial admin error or the legit reveal?

[Oaksey Moonraker]

I read through the Arbritation panel docs and it seems Power's KC argued on technicalities of rules vs regulations i.e. the FA didn't specifically state these were rules and for Standing on the timing of Intermediary rules came in after 2013.

The interesting point there was clear evidence of the funding from MS but also suggested a settlement in principle had been agreed between LP and MS.

If only such a light touch slap on the wrists had existed in 1990.....

[Robinz]

OS..

So in your opinion do you think the matter with the EFL/FA is now closed and the club can get on with the "normal" things it should be doing like playing football and entertaining the fans ?   

[dogs]

OS..

So in your opinion do you think the matter with the EFL/FA is now closed and the club can get on with the "normal" things it should be doing like playing football and entertaining the fans ?   

Yes, that is the matter resolved regarding the club and FA charges. A very welcome result.

[Power to people]

In the arbitration document it seems to allude to the court case between Power  / Standing has been settled out of court or that's how I read it, was in one of the notes

[Frigby Daser]

Agreement "in principle" to settle.

"We shall not draw any such inferences in the present case. The relevant witnesses –
particularly, MS, GB and LP - may have any number of reasons, good bad or indifferent,
for not giving evidence. For example, they may consider or be advised that the case
against them is so weak that they have no ‘case to answer’. Or they may consider giving
evidence an unpleasant as well as unnecessary exercise and that they have better things
to do with their time - though that is the least persuasive explanation. Or they could be
concerned about any implications for the HC litigation which is not yet resolved."

Footnote: We were told that an agreement had been reached ‘in principle’ which would settle the litigation, but we know no more than that.

[tans]

New kit has been released

https://x.com/official_stfc/status/1809225723774906475?s=46&t=sUQ-fFgelrF5oqTmo-D8tA

[iParadise]

Home pretty standard but that away kit.. OOOFFF👌👌

[4D]

Don't like the v collar

[Audrey]

Agreement "in principle" to settle.

"We shall not draw any such inferences in the present case. The relevant witnesses –
particularly, MS, GB and LP - may have any number of reasons, good bad or indifferent,
for not giving evidence. For example, they may consider or be advised that the case
against them is so weak that they have no ‘case to answer’. Or they may consider giving
evidence an unpleasant as well as unnecessary exercise and that they have better things
to do with their time - though that is the least persuasive explanation. Or they could be
concerned about any implications for the HC litigation which is not yet resolved."

Footnote: We were told that an agreement had been reached ‘in principle’ which would settle the litigation, but we know no more than that.

That sounds so much like the famous Peter Cook as a judge in the Norman Scott/Jeremy Thorpe sketch in The Secret Policeman’s Ball.