Newcastle Player Struck By Coin

[Sheebo]

My old mate Sheebo it's true a lot think they are ridiculous but it's also true a lot think they have a point with their protests .
What can't be debated is the atmosphere they have bought to the premier league and our ground (it beats the Amex hands down for noise)
Make sure you tell them your thoughts on the group...from your keyboard

I agree with some of their points - but to slag off sky sports when you're reaping the rewards financially is a tad hypocritical. Yep, they've brought 'noise to the premier league' of course that's not an overhyped red n blue specs comment

There's about 50 of them and they have co-ordinated dancing and clapping - if that's something you're proud of fine but I'll take an English atmosphere like the generally good one at the best ground in the football league any day ta. As for the noise - amazing how you could barely hear the hooded kids on the bt sport game Saturday - oh yes, that's because they place their microphones in different areas and do the sound differently to sky / bbc who plonk one right by those kids to make out 50 of them is actually the whole ground singing. And yes that's the truth of it trust me.... As for telling them from my keyboard.. Erm I'm not telling them anything ta and would happily tell them to their face if the chance arose - but keep talking them up like some sort of hard hooligans if it keeps you happy - is the one who cried for his daddy in the courtroom still the top boy?

 

[Easy 10]

Going to sidetracking…

Good to see old Mellotron wielding his hypocritical stick. He’s not been on the BBS for a few years. Not surprised after all his predictions, Palace were on the way down and Brighton were hot stepping it to Premier League and eventual European competition. Although his departure was fairly gracious, probably still seething.

Some facts for Mellotron about Palace and our admin – he’s been told before. Several times… but that bitterness can’t get past the facts.

Fact: We owed £30m, £25m of it to Jordan, as he funded us (bit like you owe £120m+ to Bloom)
Fact: We owed £3.5m to Agilo a hedge fund, who had secured their debt. Jordan borrowed this money for 12 months, for intended repayment in full.
Fact: The remaining amount as of that time was for running costs, and was not forward looking for players /contracts etc.
Fact: Agilo got ridiculously agitated and decided to call in the debt, which was secured as part of the terms. We couldn’t settle it.
Fact: Agilo called in the Administrators. Stopping Agilo a multi-billion hedge fund, run by a maniac, and anyone getting their money owed. It was taken out of our hands – and through the appointed administrators.

CPFC2010 stepped in because nobody else wanted to – we were an hour or two from closure. We were a loss making company, (bit like every championship club) but the club hadn’t been invested in for six + years and hadn’t paid for a player in the two years prior to that. (you’ll see from our stadium it’s been longer than that), our only asset was our players contracts as we didn’t own the ground, staff, and the club name. We didn’t even own our training pitch. The staff was skeleton due to the redundancies . Season ticket money had been called in advance with 5 & 10 year deals (and 100 or so 25 year deals too). Revenue had already been received and offset against debt. So anyone that came in had to honour 3,500 long term season tickets. Crowds over the six years from the Prem were dropping an average of 1,000 a year, community relationships were halted. Averages got to a lowest of 14,900. The only thing that had been invested was thankfully our academy, which is the life blood of any professional club. A big job for anyone – especially for four local fans who had zero industry experience. They didn’t really want to take it on, the problems ran very deep.

So debt free? That’s what happens, they pay the creditors get few pence in the pound and the debts are written off as bad debt. Quite a few of their local businesses remain with us, I hear – and are getting a lot of work their way. Jordan got about £2m of his £25m back. (A painful lesson) Agilo got some if not all of it back, can’t remember the terms. Are you really upset that Jordan lost a bomb? No. Under scrutiny your moral high ground is a little fake. Because when you have clubs like Leeds & Leicester (whose fans were also not complicit) but whose owners were very sneaky in ensuring maximum expenditure before calling in the administrators themselves to stop them having to settle the debt you will see that you couldn’t care less about them. Let’s hope Brighton never have to suffer the indignation of going to administration – forget the on the pitch. Long standing servants of the club getting wheeled in on the Monday morning, people who have devoted their lives to their club (no matter which club) getting told to pack their desks and leave. All employees are at risk – no redundancy package or notice period. Fans having to whip round and sponsor the teams shirts, organise fund raising nights for the sacked staff, paying the St Johns Ambulance debt. It really is one huge party! Having “(in administration)” after your club name is no badge of honour. It’s a horrific time, and been some of the darkest times of supporting the club. Your ignorance on the subject is appalling – one would hope you would never have to suffer it. Because I wouldn’t wish it on any club or community.. You’ll be asset stripped by the vultures inside 6 weeks.

The first ever club to receive a winding up order was Brighton & Hove Albion – thanks to your old mate. Or was that your fans fault going by the hypocrisy on here? Let’s hope you never have to receive another. It will be a sad day if you do.

Might have to question one or two of your facts there. Palace debts can be seen here http://195.171.95.190/portal/ice/finalReports/10620101156531.pdf when they were written off. Quite a lengthy document, but about 3/4 of the way down is the full list of creditors and a summary. £41m (not £30m), of which £7.6m was owed to Jordan (not £25m) and £5.1 to Agilo.

Then scroll down a bit to see theres 5 pages of unsecured creditors, mostly small businesses, who were stiffed out of their money, including many other football clubs home and abroad. But hey, it all kept you lording it in the top 2 divisions eh, so jobs a goodun.

 

[Sheebo]

Well done to the Palace fans for resisting the urge to lob coins at Daniel Sturridge, Adam Lallana and their Liverpool team mates today.

Both scored at the Holmesdale End today (as did Newcastle midweek) and, as with the Newcastle players, wheeled away in front of the Holmesdale Massive towards the away fans housed alongside the pitch.

There did seem to be general angry gesticulations from the black-clad ninjas behind the goal, but no monetary instruments seem to be have been thrown.

You spoke too soon.... From the bbc:

An object was also thrown from the crowd during Saturday's 2-1 home defeat by Liverpool in the FA Cup fifth round.