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Robot Chicken

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Jul 5, 2003
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Scally says it could be the end for Gills

By Alan Liptrott
Date: 13/11/2005

In an exclusive interview with The League Paper the Gills chairman spells out some harsh financial realities facing the Club. Apart from appeasing the Bank of Scotland he is also attempting to do a deal with the Inland Revenue who have so far snubbed his proposals

Mr Scally said this is going to be a make or break week for Gillingham Football Club. The majority of fans may have forgotten the ITV Digital collapse, but clubs like mine are still feeling the full devastating effects of it.

That is why I will travel up to Scotland later this week to talk with our bankers (Bank of Scotland), about where we go from here and if they will continue to support our fight for survival. He added that the bank has been very good and supportive in the past and was hopeful that they will continue to be so.

But if they don't, I have to be brutally frank. It could be the end of this football club
 




ditchy

a man with a sound track record as a source of qua
Jul 8, 2003
5,263
brighton
Is mr Scally wag not scaremongering !
 


Icy Gull

Back on the rollercoaster
Jul 5, 2003
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Maybe Scally could sell the ground and they could groundshare at Falmer....we could be generous and just charge them for maybe the construction costs of one stand in return for 2 years rent?
 
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Garry Nelson's Left Foot

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Jul 7, 2003
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Icy Gull said:
Maybe Scally could sell the ground and they could groundshare at Falmer....we could be generous and just charge them for maybe the construction costs of one stand in return for 2 years rent?

Oh, wouldn't that be sweet...
 


Martlet

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Jul 15, 2003
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harsh.

I can't see it's right to blame Gillingham for accepting an offer from our board (corrupt or otherwise) which secured them financially for a decade, although I wouldn't shed any tears seeing Scally in personal financial trouble.

Sad to see any local team in difficulty - the fans don't deserve that.
 




bhaexpress

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Jul 7, 2003
27,627
Kent
They could always sell Priestfield to gypsies.
 
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Icy Gull

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Jul 5, 2003
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Martlet said:
harsh.

I can't see it's right to blame Gillingham for accepting an offer from our board (corrupt or otherwise) which secured them financially for a decade, although I wouldn't shed any tears seeing Scally in personal financial trouble.

Sad to see any local team in difficulty - the fans don't deserve that.

Bellotti and Scally were mates I believe, so he knew exactly what was going on and I don't believe we were expected to survive anyway?

Sorry if I sound a bit bitter about our time in Gillingham, anyone who went regularly will understand :angry:

Not their fans fault of course and my suggestion ain't gonna happen anyway :)
 


Seagull's Return

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Nov 7, 2003
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It's important to separate supporters from chairmen (well, it really pisses me off when NIMBYs claim we sold the Goldstone and didn't bother to make plans for the future, etc, etc), and as Martlet says what Scally did was to cheerfully accept the bent offer "we" made to him over the ground share. I'd personally be very glad indeed to see Scally taken down, and certainly don't hold any affection whatsoever for Gillingham - but I can't help feeling sorry for their fans, if this is true.

Big "if", though - Scally is a dodgy little bastard and it all smacks a bit of scaremongering on his part.
 




Easy 10

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Jul 5, 2003
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This is the same Paul Scally who whined like a little BITCH at the (then) D2 and D3 clubs getting the same share of the TV cash as the D1 clubs (this was, of course, when the Gills were in D1). Get this:

BBC site, Nov 2002:
Gillingham chairman Paul Scally has warned that First Division clubs could resign from the Football League. Scally is reportedly unhappy that the £90m television revenue money for the three Football League divisions was distributed equally between all the clubs.

"The problem with the structure at the moment is that Second and Third Division clubs can outvote the First Division clubs," Scally told the Gillingham website. "If the First Division clubs cannot make them see sense, then I think it's highly likely...that the First Division clubs will resign from the Football League. "This would have to be done before Christmas. We have then four months to confirm the resignation." Scally went on to say the support from other Division One clubs was "rock solid".


What a complete and utter COCKER. Bet he soon changed his tune once his scabby little club dropped back down to the lower divs. I also noticed THIS

BBC site, Oct 2003:
Scally denies administration claims

Gillingham chairman Paul Scally insists the club will go into administration "over my dead body". Player-manager Andy Hessenthaler revealed at the weekend that the First Division outfit may be forced into administration. But Scally told the club's official website: "It is no secret that the players' salaries are the club's biggest cost and I travelled to Manchester on Friday to outline the position to the Professional Footballers' Association.

"I showed them all our cash-flow projections for the next few months and the union seemed very sympathetic to our situation.
"This is the biggest challenge I have faced in my time at the club, but I'm sure we'll come through it. It's over my dead body that we will go into administration."


Does that mean he might die soon ?
Every cloud eh.
 
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Bwian

Kiss my (_!_)
Jul 14, 2003
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ditchy said:
Is mr Scally wag not scaremongering !

He was complaining about Chelski getting away with murder for poaching one of their youngsters-only got 150,000 for a player they rated at 1 million. Makes me think he isn't scaremongering-especially with average attendances this season of less than 6000. As we very well know-clubs can't survive with attendances that low.
 


ditchy

a man with a sound track record as a source of qua
Jul 8, 2003
5,263
brighton
Bwian said:
He was complaining about Chelski getting away with murder for poaching one of their youngsters-only got 150,000 for a player they rated at 1 million. Makes me think he isn't scaremongering-especially with average attendances this season of less than 6000. As we very well know-clubs can't survive with attendances that low.

Trim wage bill then .. he is in a position to do it or start some type of marketing ploy "kids for a quid " might help...he is all take and no give :censored:
 




Faldo

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Jul 7, 2003
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Downloaded Penguin said:

How not to impress your Bank manager - name drop them in an unprofessional and potentially unflattering manner...

"Mr Scally - we were more than happy to increase your overdraft for the coming year, but then you went to press saying that the big bad bank had the power to close your football club. Due to your conduct, we would prefer it if you took your business elsewhere..."
 










Kent Seagull

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Jul 5, 2003
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Tenterden, Kent
Isn't Scally a Milwall fan?
 


sullyupthewing

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Jul 5, 2003
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I have nothing against Gillingham and good luck to them, but Scally can sod off, I wrote to him whilst he was having talks with that cheating scumbag Bullshitti, Scally wrote back and said that what he was doing was helping to secure Brightons future by allowing us to share the Preistfield no mention of how much he was charging though and he thought that Dick Knight was not the man to take us forward as he did not have what was needed to do it, or words to that effect.
All I can say to Scally then is Err up yours matey, look how far we have come under DK.:clap: :clap:
 


Wardy

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Oct 9, 2003
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Neale_Coopers_Barmy_Army said:
We'll never die, we'll never die
We'll never die, we'll never die
We'll keep the Blue flag flying high
'Cos The mighty Gills will never die


:clap2: :clap2: :clap2: :clap2: :clap2:

For the sake of football I hope you are right.

Think it is funny that he is blameing the collopase of the ITV sport deal for the situation they are in. Yes some clubs made the mistake of spending money they did not have, but the money was not that good and was long ago for them to have got over it by now.
 




Race

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Aug 28, 2004
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Hampshire
BarrelofFun said:
He is a very odd looking chap. Most rich people seem to have an aura about them, as being powerful.

What did he make his money in and how rich is he?

He made his money in office supplies, dunno how rich he is but he aint short of a few bob thats for sure! I've been to his house, I thought we were pulling up outside a country hotel :eek:
 


Bwian

Kiss my (_!_)
Jul 14, 2003
15,898
Race said:
He made his money in office supplies, dunno how rich he is but he aint short of a few bob thats for sure! I've been to his house, I thought we were pulling up outside a country hotel :eek:

Hope you knicked a few towels
 


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