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Lita For Congo

Lita For Congo

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1 hour ago, Miah Dennehy said:

I think you may have somewhat over reacted on this one , it's quite funny, nothing more, nothing less :) If anyone was genuinely upset that 'their woman' or child caught a fleeting glimpse of a scantily clad woman then they should seriously consider moving to a remote island with no access to any kind of nastiness from the outside world.(Cue jokes about nasty football clubs)

The club that brought you boob cricket and Mark Watkins nonetheless. 

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Eddie Hitler

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Claims on their board that the club is up for sale on the QT.  Colour me surprised given that at the current rate of cash "burn", £2m a year, so that even allowing an uplift of the ground valuation to £15m there will be no net assets left by the end of this calendar year*

The sale must be that "fiancially viable" option that Wael kept going on about.

Hopefully (as I don't want them to go pop) the buyer will be a local businessman like Dunford who doesn't come in thinking that they are a combination of a "can't lose" property deal and a future Chelsea but instead realises that Division Three clubs lose money and his job is to minimise that loss.

 

* negative £9.9m net assets June 2017, add £12.5m uplift to stated £2.5m valuation of the ground means £2.6m of real net assets at that date or 15 months' of spend at £2m pa from 30 June 2017.  So 30 September 2018 but allow an extra few months for the player sale money.

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Monkeh

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4 minutes ago, Eddie Hitler said:

Claims on their board that the club is up for sale on the QT.  Colour me surprised given that at the current rate of cash "burn", £2m a year, so that even allowing an uplift of the ground valuation to £15m there will be no net assets left by the end of this calendar year*

The sale must be that "fiancially viable" option that Wael kept going on about.

Hopefully (as I don't want them to go pop) the buyer will be a local businessman like Dunford who doesn't come in thinking that they are a combination of a "can't lose" property deal and a future Chelsea but instead realises that Division Three clubs lose money and his job is to minimise that loss.

 

* negative £9.9m net assets June 2017, add £12.5m uplift to stated £2.5m valuation of the ground means £2.6m of real net assets at that date or 15 months' of spend at £2m pa from 30 June 2017.  So 30 September 2018 but allow an extra few months for the player sale money.

they won't find a buyer now because of the charges against the mem, and their level of debt

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Eddie Hitler

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3 minutes ago, Monkeh said:

they won't find a buyer now because of the charges against the mem, and their level of debt

There will always be a buyer for a football club if the price is right:  supporters consortia who will pool their cash to stop it ending as happened at Exeter, starry eyed optimists who are convinced that they can succeed where everybody else has failed (see their current ownership!), or successful local businessmen who accept that it will be loss making but see it as putting something back into their community (our own Lansdown fanily, the Dunfords).

Though the canny ones will let it go into administration first so that they get it on the cheap; as Mike Ashley did with House of Fraser.

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Bristol Rob

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1 minute ago, Eddie Hitler said:

There will always be a buyer for a football club if the price is right:  supporters consortia who will pool their cash to stop it ending as happened at Exeter, starry eyed optimists who are convinced that they can succeed where everybody else has failed (see their current ownership!), or successful local businessmen who accept that it will be loss making but see it as putting something back into their community (our own Lansdown fanily, the Dunfords).

Though the canny ones will let it go into administration first so that they get it on the cheap; as Mike Ashley did with House of Fraser.

Would there be the same supporters who following years of fund raising and subscriptions have managed to buy a whopping 8% of shares at a vastly inflated price?

This doesn't scream dynamic.

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3 minutes ago, Bristol Rob said:

Would there be the same supporters who following years of fund raising and subscriptions have managed to buy a whopping 8% of shares at a vastly inflated price?

This doesn't scream dynamic.

No, but it does whisper stability.

Exeter is a great example.  In the early 2000s they were the showbiz club - directors included Uri Geller and Michael Jackson (yes, that one)* - before inevitably collapsing and being rescued by their supporters to comfortbaly reside in th emiddle upper fourth division for years.

* http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/2088831.stm
 

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Michael Jackson has been made an honorary director of Exeter City football club, his friend and co-director Uri Geller said on Wednesday.

The singer visited the third division club during a trip to south west England last month, hosted by psychic celebrity Geller.

"When I asked him what does he know about football he said 'absolutely nothing but I love Exeter City,'" said Geller.

Michael Jackson visited Exeter FC in June but did not sing

"We did this out of respect. He put Exeter City on the international map."

Jackson is now entitled to play a full part in the club's boardroom, including voting on key decisions about players.

He will also enjoy free admission to any games he may want to attend and will be able to travel to away matches with the players on the club coach.

 

 

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17 minutes ago, Eddie Hitler said:

There will always be a buyer for a football club if the price is right:  supporters consortia who will pool their cash to stop it ending as happened at Exeter, starry eyed optimists who are convinced that they can succeed where everybody else has failed (see their current ownership!), or successful local businessmen who accept that it will be loss making but see it as putting something back into their community (our own Lansdown fanily, the Dunfords).

Though the canny ones will let it go into administration first so that they get it on the cheap; as Mike Ashley did with House of Fraser.

did exeter have a 10 million quid charge against its only viable asset (their ground) , were they losing near 3 million a season?,

The only way i can see supporters getting the club (rovers) is if they are liquidated or declared bankrupt 

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3 minutes ago, Monkeh said:

did exeter have a 10 million quid charge against its only viable asset (their ground) , were they losing near 3 million a season?,

The only way i can see supporters getting the club (rovers) is if they are liquidated or declared bankrupt 

It's £2m and a lot of that is money spent on either trying to get a property transaction to work or (as recently suggested) sell the club which means a London office and lots of consultants and suits.  Scrap all that and the loss instantly drops below £1m; it used to be about £600k a year IIRC so they should be able to get it down to that.

The club isn't worth very much at all given the annual loss and the lack of assets but they do still have their own the ground, albeit mortgaged to the hilt, so take that on and pay the interest on the loan that they take on and it won't be seized and sold.

I don't think it's beyond saving at the moment or for the next couple of years; but the position is steadily getting worse and is going to consequently take much longer to recover.

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2 minutes ago, Eddie Hitler said:

It's £2m and a lot of that is money spent on either trying to get a property transaction to work or (as recently suggested) sell the club which means a London office and lots of consultants and suits.  Scrap all that and the loss instantly drops below £1m; it used to be about £600k a year IIRC so they should be able to get it down to that.

The club isn't worth very much at all given the annual loss and the lack of assets but they do still have their own the ground, albeit mortgaged to the hilt, so take that on and pay the interest on the loan that they take on and it won't be seized and sold.

I don't think it's beyond saving at the moment or for the next couple of years; but the position is steadily getting worse and is going to consequently take much longer to recover.

not according to their accounts it isn't

Loss for financial year 2017 (3,046,563)

Loss for financial year 2016 (2,942,381) 

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12 minutes ago, Monkeh said:

not according to their accounts it isn't

Loss for financial year 2017 (3,046,563)

Loss for financial year 2016 (2,942,381) 

I can't find my previous post on it but whilst these were the headline losses for those years they both contained big write-offs of previously capitalised costs relating to the stadium sale and UWE; so money that had been spent prior to their ownership but which had been (at the time) reasonably capitalised.  When it was clear that it wasn't going to happen then these costs were correctly written off but they aren't going to be an ongoing loss.

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Not so sure about all the outrage, I reckon if there was an adults only bar at AG screening such things, it would be rammed every match day.......  I can remember some trips to Wycombe and the pub there that had Saturday lunchtime strippers, was hardly boycotted by horrified City fans ?

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8 minutes ago, Maesknoll Red said:

Not so sure about all the outrage, I reckon if there was an adults only bar at AG screening such things, it would be rammed every match day.......  I can remember some trips to Wycombe and the pub there that had Saturday lunchtime strippers, was hardly boycotted by horrified City fans ?

The White Horse...

 

 

So I'm told...

 

 

 

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9 minutes ago, Maesknoll Red said:

Not so sure about all the outrage, I reckon if there was an adults only bar at AG screening such things, it would be rammed every match day.......  I can remember some trips to Wycombe and the pub there that had Saturday lunchtime strippers, was hardly boycotted by horrified City fans ?

I have no idea which pub in Wycombe you are talking about and I have never been in it. Honest..!

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3 minutes ago, Miah Dennehy said:

Will they be showing the League Cup 2nd Round draw on that big screen :)

Don’t you League One sides have to worry about Round One yet alone Round Two  before you join Championship and Premiership teams in Round Three. Forgotten about Chesham and Barrow ? 

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2 minutes ago, redapple said:

Don’t you League One sides have to worry about Round One yet alone Round Two  before you join Championship and Premiership teams in Round Three. Forgotten about Chesham and Barrow ? 

Chesham and Barrow were water off a ducks back TBH. Hayes, Kettering & Hitchin saw to that! 

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Steve Hamer, chairman of Bristol Rovers, said an investigation was under way and the action was "not acceptable".

He said: "We have had a major refit in the clubhouse and our bars this summer and we've got 14-15 new TVs all in place and I suspect there was an area of vulnerability there and somebody has hacked into it.

 

I bet it was those gert Ted's! 

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22 minutes ago, chucky said:

Steve Hamer, chairman of Bristol Rovers, said an investigation was under way and the action was "not acceptable".

He said: "We have had a major refit in the clubhouse and our bars this summer and we've got 14-15 new TVs all in place and I suspect there was an area of vulnerability there and somebody has hacked into it.

 

I bet it was those gert Ted's! 

A bit of an error there, I believe he meant to say, 'we've got 14" and 15" televisions'.

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34 minutes ago, myol'man said:

If 6,500 is the answer, what is the question? :gasmask:

That’s how many will be locked out at Wycombe on Saturday? 

They love a celebration there don’t they ?

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2 minutes ago, BCFC11 said:

That’s how many will be locked out at Wycombe on Saturday? 

They love a celebration there don’t they ?

I'll bet Wycombe are anticipating 'Blue Monday' which is similar to 'Black Friday' except that instead of getting a great discount on a clock radio from Amazon, they get letters from a West Country legal team threatening all sorts.

This year, Sky Bet are offering a price boost on the following potential claims.

1/ Wycombe made us look like proper 'Nanas when we made a Brexit statement the day after the referendum, and we need compensation.

2/ It has been a really warm summer. Possibly too warm. This isn't right, and so far, Wycombe haven't denied responsibility. We have had to shell out for extra factor 50 for our fair-skinned players, causing a detrimental impact on our summer recruitment strategy. Again, we need compensation.

3/ Babestation. There is that pub in Wycombe, and, well... I think you'll find things speak for themselves... Compo. Needed.

Sky have BOOSTED this so that it is now just 1/4 increased from their previous offering of 1/8

Sky know it's gonna happen, do you?

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BS4 on Tour...

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3 hours ago, redapple said:

Don’t you League One sides have to worry about Round One yet alone Round Two  before you join Championship and Premiership teams in Round Three. Forgotten about Chesham and Barrow ? 

You may be thinking about the FA Cup chief, the post to which you replied was about the league cup....and we crashed out in the first round last night...

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59 minutes ago, cheshire_red said:

They are so envious of the Cockney Rhyming Slang for us they just had to do it.

It's a little-known fact that Bristol Rovers are cockney ornithological slang for Ring-tailed Plovers.

Rarely seen and critically endangered.

 

 

The birds are unusual too....

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2 hours ago, myol'man said:

If 6,500 is the answer, what is the question? :gasmask:

 

2 hours ago, basshead said:

The amont of days they were last above us??

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If 2,720,968 is the answer, what is the question? :gasmask:

Darrell's budget for new players? The cost of Wally's new watch? Rover's away following when there are no cycle races on in a 100 mile radius? ... or maybe just the number of times they have given us reason to laugh at them? ... and now Babestation!! You couldn't make it up

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