And I'm fairly certain that during one of the Trust meetings he stated as 'absolute fact' that the delay had 'nothing to do with additional land, or developing additional land around the stadium.'
As Monty says, it's a case of needing to know the facts before deciding who's doing (or not doing) what. The Council's comment about 'retail development' sounds ominous, but it could just as likely be a red herring on their part, i.e. not signing land away which the Council itself might look to develop sometime in the future.
Alternatively, the whole Chinese 'partnership' fiasco left a bad taste in the mouth. People purchasing controlling shares in the club, and yet KT never showed willing to acknowledge it as a takeover.
I certainly don't trust NBC, their hands are far from clean in the 'missing ten-millions' saga. Alternatively, they did throw the club a lifeline; although you can make your own mind up as to their reasoning on that one. KT always comes across as a decent and approachable bloke, although you'll never really get too much out of him beyond his 'media savvy patter.' I'm well aware he has the words to appease the masses, but his constant non-speak irks me somewhat. This being said, I'm not opposed to him making some decent money before he vacates the hot seat. But only if the football club's gains are greater.
Anyone's perception of truth is always a variable to someone else's, but the only thing seems clear at this moment: Northampton Town Football Club is once again being used as a pawn in someone else's game; and it appears to be in a dangerous position on the board.
The devil is in the detail. The question should be whether the impasse is regarding further development other than that of the East Stand? He might be right in that it may not be extra land but land controlled by CDNL under terms organised in the Cardoza era.
A few weeks ago I asked the Trust on here whether to their knowledge the East Stand completion via Bower and Thomas is to be finished by ring fenced monies (£4 million) or to be funded or linked to an enabling development of land around Sixfields?
This is the key issue and stuff is only emerging on it now drip fed by the council. I've said before that it is unlikely that finishing that crummy stand would be payoff for the huge swathes of land that CDNL were submitting plans for under Cardoza. They might have got it through the Council but very little chance it'll happen again.
