Noooo, bring it back!!!

It’s beautiful, an impudent Pinot noir with hints of liquorice and black cherry.

I love reading all the guessing games.

I guessed you would.

I could flip the question around , why do you think Nigel has bought 25%? Let me tell you it’s not because he’s a keen Spurs fan and has alway wanted a football club.
It’s to increase the value of the land / club, with a nice juicy ROI using his high net worth clients.
His funds under management is very impressive, do you also think it’s a coincidence in the timing of his arrival is literally weeks after the land deal was signed.

Much like the others, the way I see it the value of the land is the value of the land, and that has been tested to death, similarly the development opportunity remains the same. If it's going down the distribution route, if all he brings to the table is using his high end clients to deliver a juicy ROI, then just bring in Prologis or similar and cut out the middleman. There are plenty of expert developers to engage whatever the end use without giving up 25% and maximising your own return. Sorry, but your assumption just seems like gobbledygook to me. Genuine question, has he actually brought 25% of the entity that owns the land anyway?

I still think one of the motivations is the potential revolution in football governance. There is perhaps a real opportunity coming for someone who can tailor and structure a club to conform rapidly within the complexity of the impending  legislation, particularly where a club is not massively over extended to begin with, unlike Peterborough. Seems to me its may be right up this chaps street, but that is genuinely a guess.

In any event, credit where its due, if they'd waited a week to announce this, they would have avoided a potential uncomfortable interrogation at the fans forum. If it's not a coincidence, and there is yet another tedious suggestion of a subversive plot, their timing is shít.

Because KT has played an absolute blinder again. Its Chinese money 2.0. This guy has bought 25% of the club, but when he cant get the money out of Jersey and fails to schedule the Deliveroo for Clarence's Pizza / Chicken give away he will default on the contract and they get all the shares back. FOR FREE!

Thanks for confirming.

The new Nigel has been brought in to fatten up the club ready for sale, and a nice little profit.

As a matter of interest, in your opinion what would that fattening up entail. Additionally wouldn't it be a bit counter productive to get someone in to fatten something up whilst committing to giving 25% away at the same time. That is of course unless you are going to fatten it up by considerably more than 25%, which would be impressive.

Whilst I'm sure this is not the case in this example, I read and hear a lot of what are on face value nonsensical demands, assumptions and statements around the clubs financial plans generally. So given the usual standard of hysterical bòllocks, I'm just a bit intrigued on your thoughts on how this may play out?

Awww bless they’re using our attack dog phrase we used for them.
What an absolute compliment….

Get down Shep.

Do you remember your dad referring to the blinkers (not working) on his car, or was that just a brummie thing?
Maybe, perhaps he doesn't read this forum sufficiently and misses it's more cosmopolitan side.

Didn’t they come out near the roof on a Morris Minor?

Looking through his eyes I can see that.

What, through those blinkers?

Just given out on Sky, the teams in the EFL who've scored the most goals in the 90+ minutes of games:
Southampton - 12
Northampton - 10
5 teams on 8

Is Bradytime the new Fergietime?

Talking of immigration there’s a disgraceful stat, in the 2021 census there were more people identifying as English in Melbourne than Australian. Send the buggers back!

Can he stop us being asset stripped would be a better way to put it..
25% of this  Ventures thing  sounds like he's here for the short term big profit..but only if he gets this crap deal over the line....

An unexpected bonus of the legislation will be your demands will be going straight down the toilet. What will you do with yourself Captain?

Are they trying to kill football in the lower leagues off?

Depends on your perspective. The current train of thought is that the current collective of owners and insufficient governance are doing just that right now. I would suggest the arrival of our new shareholder is in part in anticipation of this legislation being passed. There is a ton of preparation required to be compliant.

It's a big "if".

Nevertheless, ignore it at your peril. The more the clubs bury their head in the sand the greater the risk. The alternative is to ignore it, increase the budget and then potentially have to slash it further later on. That will in the main mean getting rid of some of your highest earners. Bear in mind the bottom will have fell out of the market for such players.

Isn’t everyone forgetting something, the Football Governance Bill was introduced into parliament on the 18th March. If this gets through we will have to apply for an operating licence and our budget will have to be cut not added to. The good news is that a number of league 1 clubs are in a far worse position than us and are probably going to have to take some fairly drastic measures to reduce their budget.

This is right on top of us and it seems to me most supporters are oblivious to what this actually means. Just a little taste from the Morgan Lewis website.

“The financial resources threshold will be met if a club’s financial resources are appropriate in relation to activities the club carries on. In considering whether a club meets this threshold, the IFR may consider the corporate structure of a club, its latest financial plan, its strategic business plan, and competitions that a club’s relevant team participates in, among other considerations.”

“If a club consistently fails to take reasonable steps to meet these thresholds, the IFR will have the power to revoke a club’s full operating licence or decide not to grant a full operating licence at the end of the club’s provisional operating licence period”.

“Financial plans condition: Requires clubs to submit a financial plan specifying (1) information about how the club is or is to be funded and the sources of funding, (2) information about expected revenues and expenses, and (3) financial risk assessments and plans for managing financial risk“

“Once this legislation is passed into law, clubs will likely face a period of transition as they navigate, adopt, and apply the new regulations and safeguards. Similarly, the IFR will need time to establish itself and deliver on its wide-ranging powers and duties, which will also need to harmonise with the existing regulatory regimes and bodies in English football (e.g., the Football Association Premier League)”

That is just for starters, there is an extraordinary amount of work involved to be compliant in all areas of the bill.

Thomas failed my test 8 years ago on shifty body language and claiming we 'dont need a Stadmk' while failing to say what exactly he thinks we should have other than mumbling 'finished stand finished stand ' once every year since.
Which we all know was code for f... nothing at all!

If 25% stake in 'ventures' whatever that is, gives him a right to speak of his hopes and aspirations for our club,  we will understand more.

Extraordinary, apart from the Stadmk bit KT sounds exactly like you. Perhaps you’re a lot closer than you think?

That's the spirit Melly. I am sure most prominent posters have bitten at something at some point but that is probably more to do with the day they were having.

Marvo is easy to read. He is comfortably retired, with nice holidays, golf, Sky Sports, man cave and spreadsheets. The only downside is the lower league football team he’s followed for life, otherwise he is ‘living the dream’.  This means he is left with prodding the people who care about the team more than he does these days. I don't think that he actually believes some of the stuff he writes, although he'd never admit that.

I personally like his persona and input, I'm a fan. He provokes discussion, alternative views and is the oracle of statistics. Granted he also antagonises people but it’s best to make light of it, have a giggle, scroll past or have a row if that floats your boat. That approach should apply to any posters. They are just anonymous words on a small forum. It’s certainly not serious enough to take anything personally.

What do people do for fun in Melbourne? 

This week they have mainly been going on THE, and staying up till 2am watching Fleetwood kick the shít out of us. Oh, and for that extra bit of drama took the kids to see Marvel Universe Live at the Rod Laver Arena. Non stop Mardi Gras basically.

Was the question "how do we avoid war and achieve world peace?".

If it was, then perhaps the UN might put a cheeky bid in and gazump us.

I remember Miss Venezuela having that as an ambition in the Miss World competition circa 1978, Im guessing it didn't go as well as shed hoped?

Personally I never get involved in any unpleasantness, I’m looking for fun, friendship and possibly more.

I will ask these for you, word for word as written.

The problem is, they’re not really questions. However, I will.

😂 Really? What a waste of oxygen, you’d get more coherent rational questioning from a budgerigar.

Q4. Who’s a pretty boy?