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« on: October 29, 2010, 23:34:32 pm » |
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I am eternally grateful to the Cardozas for taking over the club when it was in a perilous financial state, but it would be a great shame if the journey ended in a worse state for the club than when it started. I am also entirely sympathetic to the Cardoza's inability to persuade the council to allow the district development, but it seems unfair to burden the club with a massive debt for this failure. The first criteria for any development has to be assured of the planning to make it happen. Ploughing £8 million into any venture without this has to be folly on a extremely grand scale. It is a challenge to any property developer to make sure a development will get planning and this is greatly enhanced when they carry with them the supporters of a league 1 football club. It's the skill and technical knowhow of the developer's team rather than the council than depends on the success. Every major property developer has many anecdotes about the stubbornness of various councils so this is nothing new. It would be reassuring to show the council other developments by the Cardozas that have been successful in order to reassure the council the town centre won't be affected. I appreciate the Cardozas are unwilling to to plough more into a project that seems unlikely to come to fruition, but by the same token if they are attempting to quietly and systematically recoup the money they splashed out on the club when the development was alive we need to nip this in the bud before the club drops out of the league.
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