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A season ticket is for 9 months. That’s it. Hardly long term.

We’re PROPOSING, or planning, to build a new stand. Just a stand, with a few infrastructure payments. Spurs were changing a whole area by building a new stadium on a plot next door. That was huge compared to one stand where the only obstacles were and are 6 houses and some infrastructure payments. It’s more likely that it’s a question of do the shareholders want to start the job to finish it or are hoping they’re bought out before everyone really questions them and/or there’s new safety issues and certificate problems with a stand built in 1924.

The next delay will be getting another manager in and will he be ok, not whether we’ve got our recruitment or funding sorted out. If we’re always going to wait to see if the next manager is ok in this day and age then that stand will never get built unless we’re bought out, which is how I see this going, eventually.

COYP

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The point was that, whilst we are customers, it is not quite the same as being a customer, of, say Tesco. It is more emotive to us.
It may only be 6 houses but they will, I suspect,be negotiating hard and have to have somewhere else to go. (Although I am not aware if they are private or local authority properties, so this would make a massive difference - so I could be talking cobblers there, to be fair.)

I agree that it’s a question of what the shareholder objective is here, which is why I suggested it would be nice to be kept abreast of the position. However, they’ll never tell us that so, a bit like Westfield in Croydon, I’ll believe it when I see boots on the ground!

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We had money set aside from the US investment , earmarked for the stadium

No sign that’s been spent

A private equity investor expects to make big gains through deploying the capital

If we really don’t deploy it they won’t be happy

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Seems more like negativity than objectivity.

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does anyone know if we resolved the land issue with Sainsbury's.

The new stand encroaches by a few metres onto the car park land owned by Sainsbury's.

I believe when planning was approved we had no agreement with Sainsbury's regarding this strip of land.

I've heard nothing since to indicate it's been resolved.

Clearly we can't start work until this land has been purchased (but we you can apply for planning permission as we did)

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Parish has overseen us start the season many times without necessary players. No striker how many times? Mad changes in playing style without the players or funds to do it or any proper or any due diligence at all on the new manager. There’s also poorly handled things like the HF and 400 in E block. Sure we could have worse chairmen, but these kind of repeated problems seem to be met with a locked office door or a no answer on the phone in ‘Smoke and Mirrors Ltd’ in Soho with Steve praying or not looking at the problem and hoping it’ll be okay in the end or the manager will work a huge miracle again.

I do understand and pretty much agree with how we’re dealing with the football finances right now because if we didn’t we’d be relying on funds that we don’t earn and be guaranteeing a return to the championship within the same timeframe between of the signing of Benteke and/or Sakho and now, and that really is where we’ve lost control of finances because the infrastructure and lack of doing anything about it was so poor at this or championship level.

Parish is the chairman until they’re all bought out I would’ve thought but that doesn’t mean he’s immune from criticism.

COYP