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RobinStubbsHero wrote: ↑24 Apr 2024, 10:33 The preferred bidders want to include current and past directors.
Discuss!

That sounds like Mel and Ian Hayman then. Whether it not or it includes Edwards is anyone guess given the radio silence coming out of Plainmoor. But then again is the source for this rumour accurate? The local press have hardly covered themselves in glory in the past.

CornishGull

I hope to God it isn't Chris Dawson. The bare minimum we need going forward is an owner who is at the very least a football fan. Dawson isn't and then you've got to ask yourself why does he want the club, we may have not heard the last about a new stadium.
BTW other on Alan Merson's site he says Dawson was rumoured to have said that if he brought Argyle he would knock it down and build flats.

CornishGull

North Curry House wrote: ↑11 Apr 2024, 09:17 Bath have improved through the season and a manager, who should be our next boss.

I haven't forgotten the last manager we took from Bath.

CornishGull

GULL 67 wrote: ↑10 Apr 2024, 18:45 Call me an old cynic, and admit i don't know much about it all, but won't a Edwards Hayman take over have a shadowy figure in the background. Maybe a person still looking for a building plot???

Actually I don't think so. Torbay Council made it clear that Plainmoor is NOT for sale. Osborne has decided to clear off. Unlike a lot of people on here I don't think Osborne cares one iota about the club so won't be wasting a further second worrying about it.

CornishGull

portugull wrote: ↑05 Apr 2024, 18:44 I none the less wonder if any of them have been Administrators of a Full Time Professional Football Club in the past?

Begbies Traynor's previous projects include

Huddersfield Town FC
Scarborough FC
Wrexham FC
AFC Bournemouth
Southampton FC
Port Vale FC
Crawley Town FC
Wigan Athletic FC

CornishGull

happytorq wrote: ↑05 Apr 2024, 14:14 From what I can tell it's being tainted by association.

You don't know the half of it, she played an essential role in Osborne's capture of the club and was actually sacked by the Philips consortium as a result. Her place on the board is for services rendered to Osborne.

CornishGull

Nick Potkins wrote: ↑04 Apr 2024, 17:00 Tick Tick Tick, 17.00 has past. We await news. . . .

I'm wondering if Monday is actually D-Day. The extension of NOI was for ten working days and that period incorporated Good Friday and Easter Monday.

CornishGull

hector wrote: ↑03 Apr 2024, 17:09
Masters has shown his colours in the past when muddying the waters previously and the mess he left Truro in.

Utter tosh.

CornishGull

desperado wrote: ↑02 Apr 2024, 08:11 A terrible team aren't resulting in low crowds now though ?
Can a part time team be any worse ?

I would argue that crowds are holding up at the moment because it is an. emotional response to the present crisis, fans feeling need to come out and show their support.
If we go part time and become also rans things might be different; savings on player wages will be off set by falling attendances which will lead to less sponsership, lower merchandise sales and other match day income. It could be a false economy.
Somewhere I read that our staffing levels have gone from 54 to 72 in the space of a year and as much as redundancies are an unpleasant occurrence that needs to be looked at.

CornishGull

JimNichol'sdog wrote: ↑01 Apr 2024, 19:32 Slightly off topic, but does Torquay United still employ Peter Johnson who is to recruitment what Michael McIntyre is to comedy?

Yes

CornishGull

culmstockgull wrote: ↑01 Apr 2024, 10:15 I doubt he mixes or has any connections to the real movers and shakers of this country let alone the housebuilders..

Well he seems to get on fine with Taylor-Wimpey who building on the land he acquired in Swindon.

CornishGull

TUST_Official wrote: ↑29 Mar 2024, 08:34 If you look at the Exeter model........ This model has after all, taken them from the National League to league one.

But in order to do that Exeter remained full time. We are one of the best supported teams at our level and other clubs have been full time at this level as well. If we go part time that will probably result in lower gates and less likelihood of being able to climb back.

CornishGull

JimNichol'sdog wrote: ↑21 Mar 2024, 19:00 A choice of Osborne v Smurthwaite is like being asked would you rather live under Hitler or Stalin.

Neither appear to have any redeeming qualities.

Bollocks

CornishGull

Southampton Gull wrote: ↑20 Mar 2024, 13:41 I know plenty about him as I did my own due diligence when he was interested in buying the club previously. I'm also close friends with someone who knows him personally. If you went purely on what fans say you'd come to the conclusion Mike Bateson was a charlatan when in fact he was the last person who had this club running sustainably at a much higher level than we find ourselves now. Angels don't make personal fortunes. People with questionable scruples do in abundance so we're not looking for an Angel, we're looking for someone with an interest in football and enough money to get us back to where we all think we should be. He's just the sort who could do that. He won't be everyone's cup of tea but I hate tea anyway

Totally agree with everything you say. Unfortunately Smurthwaite has walked away from buying a club because of negative comments from some fans (Wigan Athletic in 2020). We certainly don't need inane comments from some individuals sabotaging this club's future.

CornishGull

TommyGunn wrote: ↑19 Mar 2024, 15:25 A Notice of Intention to put the club into administration was served on 22nd February and a further NOI for another period of 10 business days was lodged on 7th March.
It's all gone very quiet.

That means the extension expires on Thursday. I believe that means either the club has to say it's found a buyer or it enters administration.

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