harty spouting about potential new investors and men with money...

[Titanic]

sitting in the North Stand.

Is there any evidence that a single investor has come forward with an offer of cash in the past 5 years, with or without strings attached about membership of the board or some element of 'control', and been turned down ??

Or that a single one of them has offered to go some of the hard yards on the stadium planning application ??

It's all so much hot air... if they exist then they should make their offers and do it in public, rather than sitting on their hands in the North Stand.

After all we are a 'community club' and as a 'community' we should know what is going on.

Then again, perhaps it IS just hot air - and there really is NOTHINg to be told.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

The investors, decent ones and well dodgy ones, will all come crawling out of the woodwork as soon as Falmer finally gets the green light. Would be good if the decent ones were brought on board before the green light, before the club slips down another division.

 

[Titanic]

What sort of 'fan' who could be investing in the club, sits on his hands while we struggle like this ?

Personally, they don't sound like the sort of 'fans' that I would want involved in the running of the club.

It doesn't sound like their motives are the success of the club, both on and off the pitch.

 

[Hatterlovesbrighton]

I occasionally listen to the phone in and every time I do Harty seems to say that he knows of lots of investors waiting to come in, but doesn't want to name them. But none of them ever do.

Does he just make them up to annoy Dick Knight?

Must admit that I'm not a harty fan, but that is probably more because this time last season he said that the Hatters would "sink faster than the Belgrano"

 

[tedebear]

What sort of 'fan' who could be investing in the club, sits on his hands while we struggle like this ?

Personally, they don't sound like the sort of 'fans' that I would want involved in the running of the club.

It doesn't sound like their motives are the success of the club, both on and off the pitch.

Why not? If I were loaded right now would be exactly the time the club needs my financial support...

 

[Titanic]

If I were loaded right now would be exactly the time the club needs my financial support...

That's exactly what I was saying Tede.

If that has happened and they have been turned down, then it would be nice to know why. If not, then as I said, what sort of 'fans' are they ?

 

[tedebear]

That's exactly what I was saying Tede.

If that has happened and they have been turned down, then it would be nice to know why. If not, then as I said, what sort of 'fans' are they ?

Sorry I misunderstood you

 

[BensGrandad]

As Harty said and if you listened to him properly ' he could take anybody into the North Stand and point out - he is worth so much, he is worth so much he is worth so much etc'. There are many very wealthy people who sit and watch BHA as well as some serious wealth on the board/ investing. Any group of tiose, could if they wished, form a consortium to buy the club and give them the money that is needed. This could be what DK is hinting at when he says 'the money is available' but the seller has to agree to sell his shares, and if you were a director of this club, having gone so far and being so near Falmer's YES would you sell your shares?

 

[The Large One]

Everyone is a potential new investor - even if it's only twenty quid.

Of course the money is there. It's the lack of will that's the problem.

 

[Northstander]

If I was an investor, there is no way I would privide finance until Falmer is a definate Yes and the surveyors are on site!

It will come...we just have to bear with it!

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Ronnie Raggio was seen drive from the ground in his convertible, he's got a few bob and is a decent guy

 

[Beach Hut]

Everyone is a potential new investor - even if it's only twenty quid.

Of course the money is there. It's the lack of will that's the problem.

No-one will invest till the new stadium is agreed and being built

 

[The Large One]

Ronnie Raggio was seen drive from the ground in his convertible, he's got a few bob and is a decent guy

It's ROBBIE.

Have you met him?

 

[The Large One]

No-one will invest till the new stadium is agreed and being built

Exactly.

Anyone investing now will not be guaranteed their money back. Dick Knight calls it an 'investment of the heart'. I can see what he means. Unfortunately, in this instance, when people think about money, it's with their head - not their heart.

Still, Dick was gracious enough to take that plunge.

 

[Titanic]

I did 'listen to him properly'. Perhaps if you had read my post properly you would have seen that.

I will ask again:

"Is there any evidence that a single investor has come forward with an offer of cash in the past 5 years, with or without strings attached about membership of the board or some element of 'control', and been turned down ??

Or that a single one of them has offered to go some of the hard yards on the stadium planning application ??

It's all so much hot air... if they exist then they should make their offers and do it in public, rather than sitting on their hands in the North Stand."

 

[Gritt23]

What sort of 'fan' who could be investing in the club, sits on his hands while we struggle like this ?

Personally, they don't sound like the sort of 'fans' that I would want involved in the running of the club.

It doesn't sound like their motives are the success of the club, both on and off the pitch.

Exactly what I thought when Harty was saying it. They are such great fans that their intention to invest is on hold until we have a nice shiny new asset at Falmer, hmmm.

I'm sure Falmer will bring "investors" forward, but I bet they are not people who were sat in the North Stand on Sunday.

 

[Ernest]

Or maybe the present chairman does not want any new investors

 

[BensGrandad]

I hate to say it but it is a lack of YES that is the problem with investors but that is not the reason for poor half hearted displays by the players that we have already.

One would have assumed that having played in The Championship last season that they would have been good enough to survive in this division, if not set it alight, but that doesn't appear to be the case.

 

[Gwylan]

I'm sure Falmer will bring "investors" forward, but I bet they are not people who were sat in the North Stand on Sunday.

Ain't that the truth?

At least DK is Brighton through and through.

 

[Titanic]

I hate to say it but it is a lack of YES that is the problem with investors

Not exactly 'fans' then are they ? More like already wealthy people out to make a quick buck out of the club, and enjoy the prawn sandwiches in a box at Falmer.

Isn't it a pity more of them haven't been committed enough to the club, like Dick Knight, to help us through the painful years ?