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Redevelopment Closer Than Ever?

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« Reply #27600 on: November 12, 2020, 21:34:14 pm »

7 weeks on from the Trust statement supporting the club and "hoping" for an urgent progression of negotiations between Club and Council......
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« Reply #27601 on: November 12, 2020, 21:41:28 pm »

Let's march on the Guildhall.
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« Reply #27602 on: November 13, 2020, 12:01:13 pm »

7 weeks on from the Trust statement supporting the club and "hoping" for an urgent progression of negotiations between Club and Council......
It’s all hot air, smoke, mirrors, bluff, blunder, bullsh1t and most of all EGOs, on both sides.
This could run for another 5 years, just think we could have the best stand in the conference south.
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« Reply #27603 on: November 13, 2020, 12:32:01 pm »

Meanwhile, down at Charlton....

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/54925763

Makes our situation look positively settled?
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« Reply #27604 on: November 13, 2020, 12:53:54 pm »

Evers thinks that the Oxford City thread should be closed...as we have moved on!

So, moving on... Grin

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« Reply #27605 on: November 13, 2020, 15:35:33 pm »

It’s all hot air, smoke, mirrors, bluff, blunder, bullsh1t and most of all EGOs, on both sides.
This could run for another 5 years, just think we could have the best stand in the conference south.

What?  One of your posts? Grin Grin Wink
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« Reply #27606 on: November 13, 2020, 20:12:51 pm »

It is too late now to redevelop the east stand. We need to leave it as a beacon for other clubs. A warning lest they should embrace the false promises of evil men (yep, always men) who seek to feather their nests at the expense of honest men, women and children who still hold dear to the values of trust and honour. We should allow it to decay, to render itself as dust upon the hallowed soil. Let it be a ruin, a shell, a pointless concrete turd that has no purpose. It is written, it shall be taught, those who know only greed shall be hoisted with their own petard. KT is taking the PTS and we are all but pawns in an ocean of deceit.
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« Reply #27607 on: November 13, 2020, 20:35:09 pm »

Leaving to one side what given the choice should happen, what do people think is likely to happen? Personally I am not convinced the stand will be completed or redeveloped, but even if it does I expect KT & Co to move on sooner rather than later? Given the clubs size I think that statistically the most likely scenario is that we will enter a period of instability, including financial turmoil and possibly loss of league status? This is assuming we survive Covid issues? My point is that many strive for change as the catalyst for success? However if you look at our history and the history of many of the clubs of our size and status, change often results in the polar opposite? Club after club seems to be afflicted with owners who possess misguided intentions, dubious ability, limited financial resource or all 3? Yet on and on people go about getting shot of the owners, management team and just about everything else? Take a look around, I believe the chances of this being a positive event for the club is 50/50 at absolute best, and that is being generous in the extreme? What this club and most other clubs need is stability and consistency under pinned with sensible financial planning and strong governance to protect what I believe are national institutions of cultural importance? Try changing a front door to a grade 1 listed building and the authorities go berserk, yet clubs are allowed to be run with Neolithic incompetence often by egomaniacal individuals on a whim, urged on by fans in dreamland? Look at this season and the financial chaos caused by Covid? Fan after fan has demanded bigger budgets and spending on players, getting rid of Curle, finishing the stand, all in the middle of the biggest financial crisis to hit football probably ever, it’s absolute madness. There has been little call for prudence and restraint or concerns for survival? What football needs is a cultural shift and a massive change in governance. But perhaps above all football also needs an acceptance that its sport and sometimes that means failure without a pathetic and juvenile loss of temper and a default position of demanding an owner or anyone else available spend millions putting the very existence of the club at risk? Why is it automatically assumed current owners and fans have the right to possibly deny future generations access to a club like Northampton Town, just so they can jeopardise the very existence of the club by embarking on a journey of self indulgence? I’m afraid in my opinion those with that mindset are no better than those abhorrent individuals down the road in Milton Keynes.
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« Reply #27608 on: November 14, 2020, 14:13:39 pm »

Has it started yet?
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« Reply #27609 on: November 14, 2020, 18:29:26 pm »

Has it started yet?

It started 5 years ago.
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« Reply #27610 on: November 15, 2020, 20:36:31 pm »

Leaving to one side what given the choice should happen, what do people think is likely to happen? Personally I am not convinced the stand will be completed or redeveloped, but even if it does I expect KT & Co to move on sooner rather than later? Given the clubs size I think that statistically the most likely scenario is that we will enter a period of instability, including financial turmoil and possibly loss of league status? This is assuming we survive Covid issues? My point is that many strive for change as the catalyst for success? However if you look at our history and the history of many of the clubs of our size and status, change often results in the polar opposite? Club after club seems to be afflicted with owners who possess misguided intentions, dubious ability, limited financial resource or all 3? Yet on and on people go about getting shot of the owners, management team and just about everything else? Take a look around, I believe the chances of this being a positive event for the club is 50/50 at absolute best, and that is being generous in the extreme? What this club and most other clubs need is stability and consistency under pinned with sensible financial planning and strong governance to protect what I believe are national institutions of cultural importance? Try changing a front door to a grade 1 listed building and the authorities go berserk, yet clubs are allowed to be run with Neolithic incompetence often by egomaniacal individuals on a whim, urged on by fans in dreamland? Look at this season and the financial chaos caused by Covid? Fan after fan has demanded bigger budgets and spending on players, getting rid of Curle, finishing the stand, all in the middle of the biggest financial crisis to hit football probably ever, it’s absolute madness. There has been little call for prudence and restraint or concerns for survival? What football needs is a cultural shift and a massive change in governance. But perhaps above all football also needs an acceptance that its sport and sometimes that means failure without a pathetic and juvenile loss of temper and a default position of demanding an owner or anyone else available spend millions putting the very existence of the club at risk? Why is it automatically assumed current owners and fans have the right to possibly deny future generations access to a club like Northampton Town, just so they can jeopardise the very existence of the club by embarking on a journey of self indulgence? I’m afraid in my opinion those with that mindset are no better than those abhorrent individuals down the road in Milton Keynes.

To be fair, i think those are things which have dragged on longer than this season. Wink
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« Reply #27611 on: November 16, 2020, 18:13:43 pm »

Shame Ryan Reynolds didn’t fancy the Teyn when looking to buy a football club. Goes and buys Rectum
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« Reply #27612 on: November 16, 2020, 18:24:08 pm »

Shame Ryan Reynolds didn’t fancy the Teyn when looking to buy a football club. Goes and buys Rectum

To think that we've apparently been up for sale for a couple of years and not a serious sniff by a potential buyer......yet the likes of Charlton and Wigan with all their difficulties and Wrexham now, Chesterfield a couple of months ago.....even mighty Spalding United were taken over a couple of months back by a clothing company owner with a personal fortune of over £120m.
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« Reply #27613 on: November 16, 2020, 19:01:46 pm »

To think that we've apparently been up for sale for a couple of years and not a serious sniff by a potential buyer......yet the likes of Charlton and Wigan with all their difficulties and Wrexham now, Chesterfield a couple of months ago.....even mighty Spalding United were taken over a couple of months back by a clothing company owner with a personal fortune of over £120m.

I'm guessing the positive cashflow over the last year or so has enabled the current owners to be more relaxed about waiting for the right offer. The uncertainty about the East Stand and the possible boost from any forthcoming grant or loan from the Premier League being others.
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« Reply #27614 on: November 16, 2020, 19:58:30 pm »

Shame Ryan Reynolds didn’t fancy the Teyn when looking to buy a football club. Goes and buys Rectum
That’s probably another Rushdown & Diemans in the making right there. Was a fan owned club as well?
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« Reply #27615 on: November 16, 2020, 19:58:56 pm »

More like the land deal that is hanging by a thread, that and Thomas’s massive EGO.
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« Reply #27616 on: November 17, 2020, 03:31:35 am »

KT has talked the talk BUT he has had the time to walk the walk.

Action is louder than words, so no more reasons not to do the expansion!
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« Reply #27617 on: November 17, 2020, 06:36:39 am »

To be fair, i think those are things which have dragged on longer than this season. Wink
True, but the goalposts have moved this season Jolly, yet the demands haven’t been revised accordingly?
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« Reply #27618 on: November 17, 2020, 07:07:07 am »

True, but the goalposts have moved this season Jolly, yet the demands haven’t been revised accordingly?
I think the £50m bail out for Leagues 1&2 has put to bed the hypothesis that a host of clubs are going to go bust Melly.
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« Reply #27619 on: November 17, 2020, 07:43:44 am »

Shame Ryan Reynolds didn’t fancy the Teyn when looking to buy a football club. Goes and buys Rectum

I was just watching a feature on BBC news about this. One of the fans was riding around outside the ground on a moped, wafting a Wrexham flag about whilst dressed as Deadpool. Gloriously surreal!
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