GrangeParkCobbler
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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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guest3355
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Let's march on the Guildhall.
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Manwork04
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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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Rule Britannia
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everbrite
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Evers thinks that the Oxford City thread should be closed...as we have moved on! So, moving on... No I never false prophet
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EB Claret
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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?
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guest3086
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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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Melbourne Cobbler
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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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guest3086
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Has it started yet?
It started 5 years ago.
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JollyCobbler
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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.
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Zen Master
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Shame Ryan Reynolds didn’t fancy the Teyn when looking to buy a football club. Goes and buys Rectum
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I think someone should just take this city of Peterborough and just... just flush it down the f***in' toilet
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GrangeParkCobbler
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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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CobblerForever
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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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Melbourne Cobbler
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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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Manwork04
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More like the land deal that is hanging by a thread, that and Thomas’s massive EGO.
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guest3264
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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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Melbourne Cobbler
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To be fair, i think those are things which have dragged on longer than this season. True, but the goalposts have moved this season Jolly, yet the demands haven’t been revised accordingly?
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Not a real supporter but unelected chair of the Northampton Town Honorary Supporters Club. (Please note: any opinions given may not necessarily be shared by proper supporters. In incidents of conflict the views of real supporters shall take precedence).
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Manwork04
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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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BackOfTheNet
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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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