Ernest
Stupid IDIOT
Beach Hut said:If yours is then mine is as well
Got a letter last week saying my pension contributions are going up to cover the shortfall
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Boardroom Coup!
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Got a letter last week saying my pension contributions are going up to cover the shortfall
East Preston Gull
New member
Fair bet!!
Ray bloom wants mcghee out.Dick knight wants him to stay.Ray blooms son(the big investor) who runs betfair will pile in the cash as soon as mcghee and a few others go.Bloom wants more control so i guess that means dick stepping aside....
Betfair stadium here we come.
Ray bloom wants mcghee out.Dick knight wants him to stay.Ray blooms son(the big investor) who runs betfair will pile in the cash as soon as mcghee and a few others go.Bloom wants more control so i guess that means dick stepping aside....
Betfair stadium here we come.
Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
Re: Fair bet!!
Oh dear, this has Ocean Finance written all over it
East Preston Gull said:
Oh dear, this has Ocean Finance written all over it
ROSM
Well-known member
Not necessarily - they would have to pay Knight off for his shares which would be at least £1.4m.
Alternatively, they may just decide to all work together to drive the club forward. In which case DK would likely stay as Chairman with more funding on the board.
And as for Harty's post earlier. From the moment Knight took over there has always been shareholders who if they worked together had more than DK. Initially DK had 34.5%, Pinnock had 15%, Perry 1% and Archer 49.5%. Since then, Bloom, Chapman and FBS have all come in so Knight has never had a majority. That would be the same now so hardly a newsflash.
It might just be that the McGhee thing has divided the board like it has divided fans. Therefore I suspect once that is resolved then the board carries on together ,united on other matters.
Alternatively, they may just decide to all work together to drive the club forward. In which case DK would likely stay as Chairman with more funding on the board.
And as for Harty's post earlier. From the moment Knight took over there has always been shareholders who if they worked together had more than DK. Initially DK had 34.5%, Pinnock had 15%, Perry 1% and Archer 49.5%. Since then, Bloom, Chapman and FBS have all come in so Knight has never had a majority. That would be the same now so hardly a newsflash.
It might just be that the McGhee thing has divided the board like it has divided fans. Therefore I suspect once that is resolved then the board carries on together ,united on other matters.
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East Preston Gull
New member
bring on the Betfair stadium!!!!!!!!!!!!
BLOOMing marvellous!!!
Ray Bloom's blue and white army
BLOOMing marvellous!!!
Ray Bloom's blue and white army
Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
I can't see any major change till Falmer signed off and building started.
Things will definitely change then, could be very exciting as well.
Things will definitely change then, could be very exciting as well.
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1066gull
Guest
Random question, but if you won the lottery like that huge Euromillions draw of £125million would you, and how much would you invest in the club? Would you want to have control even if you invested more than Dick Knight?
East Preston Gull
New member
Boardroom coup,Harty leaving scr...all a bit fishy to me.Harty is the new big investor ...
Ian hart funeral services stadium here we come.
Ian hart funeral services stadium here we come.
Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
East Preston Gull said:
Wonder if we will play for the Ashes
East Preston Gull
New member
if not we are dead and buried
Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
Perhaps the new club song when the players come out will be "Ashes to Ashes"
Theatre of Trees
Well-known member
East Preston Gull said:
Thought we played in a morgue already.
London Irish
Well-known member
Harty said:
I thought you supported McGhee remaining as manager?
You'll forget about that if there's a chance of getting rid of Dick Knight then?
London Irish
Well-known member
Re: Fair bet!!
Betfair? Are you sure? That is a huge company but does Tony "the Lizard" Bloom have anything to do with them other than punting with them?
He runs a gambling outfit called Premierbet, which specialises in football. They were acquired by another company IHG for a £1 million not so long ago, but that's not exactly big money is it, the cost of two houses at Withdean?
"Pile in the cash" eh? Yeah, right........
For me, this is getting murkier and murkier by the hour. Who out there is trying to take our club away from us?
East Preston Gull said:
Betfair? Are you sure? That is a huge company but does Tony "the Lizard" Bloom have anything to do with them other than punting with them?He runs a gambling outfit called Premierbet, which specialises in football. They were acquired by another company IHG for a £1 million not so long ago, but that's not exactly big money is it, the cost of two houses at Withdean?
"Pile in the cash" eh? Yeah, right........
For me, this is getting murkier and murkier by the hour. Who out there is trying to take our club away from us?
West Hoathly Seagull
Honorary Ruffian
dougdeep said:Greg Dyke is involved?
No, I think he supports the club run by the Glaziers (sp?)
Lord Bracknell
On fire
Re: Re: Fair bet!!
The issue is:- Who will be investing in the Club and why?
If someone thinks that their cash injection is all about buying the right to decide whether McGhee should stay or go, then they are missing the point.
Any investment that diverts the Club away from the objective of getting Falmer is bound to be bad news in the long run, regardless of how much short-term cash is made available for the squad.
Spot on, LI.London Irish said:For me, this is getting murkier and murkier by the hour. Who out there is trying to take our club away from us?
The issue is:- Who will be investing in the Club and why?
If someone thinks that their cash injection is all about buying the right to decide whether McGhee should stay or go, then they are missing the point.
Any investment that diverts the Club away from the objective of getting Falmer is bound to be bad news in the long run, regardless of how much short-term cash is made available for the squad.
London Irish
Well-known member
Re: Re: Re: Fair bet!!
I think this issue is getting much bigger than McGhee now.
I am very concerned that there might be people cynically using the depression surrounding the relegation and Knight's understandable loyalty to McGhee to weaken the chairman's position.
Why is it the opportunists always strike when the club is at a low ebb? Why weren't they willing to invest when we really needed the money to strengthen when we were getting promoted two years ago? Or when we successfully defended our Championship status a year ago?
Is strengthening the playing side really their agenda? Or might it be causing enough chaos and internal dissension so that control of the club can be picked up on the cheap?
I'd love to know whether they would even be able to put in the amount of cash it would take to pay off McGhee's contract? And that would leave us so much better off to get players, how?Lord Bracknell said:
I think this issue is getting much bigger than McGhee now.
I am very concerned that there might be people cynically using the depression surrounding the relegation and Knight's understandable loyalty to McGhee to weaken the chairman's position.
Why is it the opportunists always strike when the club is at a low ebb? Why weren't they willing to invest when we really needed the money to strengthen when we were getting promoted two years ago? Or when we successfully defended our Championship status a year ago?
Is strengthening the playing side really their agenda? Or might it be causing enough chaos and internal dissension so that control of the club can be picked up on the cheap?
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