Interestingly, Mr Broderick tells the world that he is part of one consortium, despite having to have signed a confidentiality clause.
According to the local fish and chip holder, Mel Hayman leads another!!!! And tells us that there is a third.
Confidentiality my a**e.
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- 03 Apr 2024, 13:37
- Forum: All things Plainmoor
- Topic: Potential Buyers
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- 03 Apr 2024, 13:30
- Forum: All things Plainmoor
- Topic: Taunton Town.
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Taunton Town.
It's artificial grass and would not pass the EFL test. Great for additional income, but no use for Football League application.
- 30 Mar 2024, 18:15
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It's not a mystery to the rest of us lolThe Great Muta! wrote: ↑30 Mar 2024, 11:22 No doubt about it, how on earth got his mitts on the club in the first place is a mystery to me.
- 30 Mar 2024, 17:46
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What absolute drivel!! Not a single fact in the whole post. And if you don't know how CO obtained ownership of the club, then I'm not sure you should be contributing to this discussionThe Great Muta! wrote: ↑30 Mar 2024, 11:22 Great post Samuel, on point and fact laden.No doubt about it, how on earth got his mitts on the club in the first place is a mystery to me.
- 29 Mar 2024, 20:53
- Forum: All things Plainmoor
- Topic: Potential Buyers
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- 22 Mar 2024, 16:48
- Forum: All things Plainmoor
- Topic: Neil Warnock great bloke
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Neil Warnock great bloke
May be involved with one of the consortiums
- 22 Mar 2024, 11:01
- Forum: All things Plainmoor
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That rules Smurthwaite out then.standupsitdown wrote: ↑22 Mar 2024, 10:22 What is best - a bad owner as we've just had or starting again as a phoenix club?
Depends how bad the owner but if any only want the ground I'd rather start again.
- 21 Mar 2024, 19:36
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Running sustainably at this level doesn't involve full time football.
- 18 Mar 2024, 18:49
- Forum: Matchday Topics
- Topic: Torquay United v Hampton & Richmond Borough Sat23rd (Devon Day)
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- 18 Mar 2024, 11:24
- Forum: Matchday Topics
- Topic: Torquay United v Hampton & Richmond Borough Sat23rd (Devon Day)
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Torquay United v Hamptom & Richmond Borough Sat23rd (Devon Day)
I'd love to hear suggestions as to who is covering the wages if it isn't the owner?
- 17 Mar 2024, 23:02
- Forum: All things Plainmoor
- Topic: Staying Up - Relegation Battle
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Staying Up - Relegation Battle
If appointed, the Administrator has a period of 14 days in which to make employees redundant, after that they automatically take on board their contracts. Some players may well have a clause in their contract that entitles them to leave for nothing.TommyGunn wrote: ↑17 Mar 2024, 20:08 If you read Daves link. As I understand it players are top of the chain when it comes to getting paid.
The manager and Players become preferential creditors and receive a pay out in advance to that for unsecured trade creditors. This is the opposite to what normally happens.
At the end of the day, the job of the Administrator, at least initially, is to save money to ensure the club has a future. There is little point to be gained in getting rid of volunteers or employees who have not drawn a wage.
- 16 Mar 2024, 22:43
- Forum: All things Plainmoor
- Topic: Staying Up - Relegation Battle
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Who on earth told you that?CornishGull wrote: ↑16 Mar 2024, 21:02 An administrator can't just get rid of players unless he honoured their contracts so he might as well keep them on because he has to pay them anyway.
- 14 Mar 2024, 15:11
- Forum: All things Plainmoor
- Topic: Points deduction
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Points deduction
2000 oracles were all saying the same thing. It was hardly a rocket science decision.
- 14 Mar 2024, 14:41
- Forum: All things Plainmoor
- Topic: Points deduction
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Points deduction
Top post! With the full time budgets given to Johnson, any manager with an ounce of ability would have assembled a squad that wouldn't have fallen this far. Should have gone at the start of the January 2023 window.exilegull wrote: ↑14 Mar 2024, 11:51 This is where I fundamentally disagree with you Dave. Regardless of Clarke Osborne’s motives, he provided additional cash than Torquay United itself generated, or can likely hope to generate in the near term, for the playing side. The playing budget was better off due to Clarke Osborne’s actions regardless of motive. Without those injections Torquay United would have much more likely have tumbled down the pyramid and probably into administration/insolvency some time ago. As it was there was promotion back to the National League and a whisker away from a return to the league -had the club returned to the league it is possible it could stand on its own two feet, given the additional money from the EFL.
I have sympathy for those who say maybe it would be better for this to happen pre-Osborne took over, but personally I wouldn’t have wanted to miss out on that epic season and play off final even if it ultimately wasn’t successful.
I’m not suggesting any gratitude, or sympathy for Osborne by the above - it was a business gamble that didn’t pay off. But I don’t see how that relates to onfield performance.
It’s not Clarke Osborne’s fault the club is now languishing in mid table (pre points deduction) in National League South - that is Gary Johnson’s fault, both for relegation last year and worse the performance this year when he was given a full time playing budget - sure I could accept being behind Yeovil and having a tough competition with top part time sides, but the reality is the season has been utter dross. Regardless of what you think about Clarke Osborne, I don’t possibly see how Gary Johnson can be absolved in any way whatsoever and the fact that club languishes in national league south makes it an even harder proposition to sell and it’s even more of a money pit.
Absolutely blame Clarke Osborne for not sacking Johnson in Jan-23, that I can fully get behind.
- 13 Mar 2024, 22:36
- Forum: All things Plainmoor
- Topic: Potential Buyers
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Never has there been a truer post.JimNichol'sdog wrote: ↑13 Mar 2024, 19:55 If Smurthwaite and Masters are the answer to the question, then Torquay United is deep in the s**t.