RD wants to save face i.e. avoid the possibility of new owners immediately getting the club promoted (something he wasn't able to do). So delays the sale until it is very hard for the new owners to muster a campaign that gets us promoted. That way he can say in his warped little world - " See they couldn't find success either"
Buried in this theory is a skerrick of optimism...optimism that sale is imminent.
Why would you buy it as soon as the transfer window shuts, might as well tell him to stick it and come back in november/December and save yourself £3/4m in running cost?
Would you buy a holiday property in September if you knew you could by it for the same price just before next summers peak season?
RD wants to save face i.e. avoid the possibility of new owners immediately getting the club promoted (something he wasn't able to do). So delays the sale until it is very hard for the new owners to muster a campaign that gets us promoted. That way he can say in his warped little world - " See they couldn't find success either"
Why would you buy it as soon as the transfer window shuts, might as well tell him to stick it and come back in november/December and save yourself £3/4m in running cost?
Would you buy a holiday property in September if you knew you could by it for the same price just before next summers peak season?
If it was in desperate need of redecorating, the plumbing and electricity needed to be sorted out and the roof was leaking, why would you leave it until the start of the holiday season, when it would be worse, instead of starting remedial work as soon as possible?
RD wants to save face i.e. avoid the possibility of new owners immediately getting the club promoted (something he wasn't able to do). So delays the sale until it is very hard for the new owners to muster a campaign that gets us promoted. That way he can say in his warped little world - " See they couldn't find success either"
Buried in this theory is a skerrick of optimism...optimism that sale is imminent.
Like the word skerrick, never heard it before, but sounds just right (especially in antipodean accents).
skerrick noun AUSTRALIAN/NZ informal the smallest bit.
Why would you buy it as soon as the transfer window shuts, might as well tell him to stick it and come back in november/December and save yourself £3/4m in running cost?
Would you buy a holiday property in September if you knew you could by it for the same price just before next summers peak season?
Because you have a long term plan and can start implementing other things that could help - changes on the scouting or medical side for example.
Why would you buy it as soon as the transfer window shuts, might as well tell him to stick it and come back in november/December and save yourself £3/4m in running cost?
Would you buy a holiday property in September if you knew you could by it for the same price just before next summers peak season?
Because you have a long term plan and can start implementing other things that could help - changes on the scouting or medical side for example.
RD wants to save face i.e. avoid the possibility of new owners immediately getting the club promoted (something he wasn't able to do). So delays the sale until it is very hard for the new owners to muster a campaign that gets us promoted. That way he can say in his warped little world - " See they couldn't find success either"
I don’t think so, I genuinely don’t believe Roland thinks about us enough to particularly care which division we’re in after he owns us.
RD wants to save face i.e. avoid the possibility of new owners immediately getting the club promoted (something he wasn't able to do). So delays the sale until it is very hard for the new owners to muster a campaign that gets us promoted. That way he can say in his warped little world - " See they couldn't find success either"
I don’t think so, I genuinely don’t believe Roland thinks about us enough to particularly care which division we’re in after he owns us.
I agree. Nobody can read the mind of this strange individual, many Belgian journalists and others have tried, but my best guess is that his goal is to show a select group of other rich Benelux businessmen that he can make money from football, when others failed. Him, not the business that owns the club, not Staprix. He made a profit on his ownership at Standard, (partly b taking a "dividend' which emptied the bank account) and now seeks to do it here by extracting an absurd sale price. What happens to the clubs on the pitch is of no concern to him.
Thought I read somewhere @PragueAddick that ROT had posted something through the door of his (RDs) flat. Assuming if wasn't a turd, was it ROT canvassing material? any ideas?
Why would you buy it as soon as the transfer window shuts, might as well tell him to stick it and come back in november/December and save yourself £3/4m in running cost?
Would you buy a holiday property in September if you knew you could by it for the same price just before next summers peak season?
Because you have a long term plan and can start implementing other things that could help - changes on the scouting or medical side for example.
But if money was a little tight it would certainly help if they bought the club in say mid November to save themselves a couple of million
Unless there was an article I've missed, there were no "quotes by Harris" in the SLP. Indeed no evidence to connect him with the Auzzie bid, merely unnamed investors.
Thought I read somewhere @PragueAddick that ROT had posted something through the door of his (RDs) flat. Assuming if wasn't a turd, was it ROT canvassing material? any ideas?
Thought I read somewhere @PragueAddick that ROT had posted something through the door of his (RDs) flat. Assuming if wasn't a turd, was it ROT canvassing material? any ideas?
The situation is ongoing. Price is agreed, the deal has stalled as there is a hole in the funds the aussies need to fund the club going forwards. The deal hasn't collapsed but won't complete until this hole has been filled by new investors.
Thought I read somewhere @PragueAddick that ROT had posted something through the door of his (RDs) flat. Assuming if wasn't a turd, was it ROT canvassing material? any ideas?
Can’t believe he lives in a flat. With all the money he’s stolen from our club, you think he would have upgraded to a semi!
Thought I read somewhere @PragueAddick that ROT had posted something through the door of his (RDs) flat. Assuming if wasn't a turd, was it ROT canvassing material? any ideas?
Can’t believe he lives in a flat. With all the money he’s stolen from our club, you think he would have upgraded to a semi!
Have you not heard the story about the dishwasher (which he himself told to a Belgian magazine)? He does not own one, on the basis that washing the after dinner dishes together gives him "quality time" with his wife. The magazine did not ask his wife about the quality time she spends washing the breakfast and lunch dishes while he is out running football clubs into the ground.
Thought I read somewhere @PragueAddick that ROT had posted something through the door of his (RDs) flat. Assuming if wasn't a turd, was it ROT canvassing material? any ideas?
Can’t believe he lives in a flat. With all the money he’s stolen from our club, you think he would have upgraded to a semi!
The situation is ongoing. Price is agreed, the deal has stalled as there is a hole in the funds the aussies need to fund the club going forwards. The deal hasn't collapsed but won't complete until this hole has been filled by new investors.
We can all read this thread thanks
yeah i know but when i say it, its confirmation
That missing apostrophe is going to drive me nuts, although the self deprecation will keep me chuckling all day.
Thought I read somewhere @PragueAddick that ROT had posted something through the door of his (RDs) flat. Assuming if wasn't a turd, was it ROT canvassing material? any ideas?
Can’t believe he lives in a flat. With all the money he’s stolen from our club, you think he would have upgraded to a semi!
Have you not heard the story about the dishwasher (which he himself told to a Belgian magazine)? He does not own one, on the basis that washing the after dinner dishes together gives him "quality time" with his wife. The magazine did not ask his wife about the quality time she spends washing the breakfast and lunch dishes while he is out running football clubs into the ground.
He gave that interview a few years ago in a house owned by Saint Truiden football club and passed it off as his own.
To be fair, I think it is more of a penthouse rather than a council flat. He does wear “gorblimey trousers “ though.
Thought I read somewhere @PragueAddick that ROT had posted something through the door of his (RDs) flat. Assuming if wasn't a turd, was it ROT canvassing material? any ideas?
Can’t believe he lives in a flat. With all the money he’s stolen from our club, you think he would have upgraded to a semi!
Have you not heard the story about the dishwasher (which he himself told to a Belgian magazine)? He does not own one, on the basis that washing the after dinner dishes together gives him "quality time" with his wife. The magazine did not ask his wife about the quality time she spends washing the breakfast and lunch dishes while he is out running football clubs into the ground.
He gave that interview a few years ago in a house owned by Saint Truiden football club and passed it off as his own.
To be fair, I think it is more of a penthouse rather than a council flat. He does wear “gorblimey trousers “ though.
We’re likely to get relegated, and yet we’re back to my source is better then your source.
We are not about to get relegated. Get a grip.
we may well be if our manager decides to play the next 45 games with just the 11 players he picks to start & only changes it when there is an injury, even though he clearly stated just days before that both Pratley & Taylor would probably not feature as they were not fit.
I firmly believe that both would've started on the bench had Magennis not been sold and JFC not been injured. Pratley hasn't had much of a pre-season and Taylor was literally running on empty the last 25 minutes.
Thought I read somewhere @PragueAddick that ROT had posted something through the door of his (RDs) flat. Assuming if wasn't a turd, was it ROT canvassing material? any ideas?
Can’t believe he lives in a flat. With all the money he’s stolen from our club, you think he would have upgraded to a semi!
Have you not heard the story about the dishwasher (which he himself told to a Belgian magazine)? He does not own one, on the basis that washing the after dinner dishes together gives him "quality time" with his wife. The magazine did not ask his wife about the quality time she spends washing the breakfast and lunch dishes while he is out running football clubs into the ground.
He gave that interview a few years ago in a house owned by Saint Truiden football club and passed it off as his own.
To be fair, I think it is more of a penthouse rather than a council flat. He does wear “gorblimey trousers “ though.
Thought I read somewhere @PragueAddick that ROT had posted something through the door of his (RDs) flat. Assuming if wasn't a turd, was it ROT canvassing material? any ideas?
Can’t believe he lives in a flat. With all the money he’s stolen from our club, you think he would have upgraded to a semi!
Have you not heard the story about the dishwasher (which he himself told to a Belgian magazine)? He does not own one, on the basis that washing the after dinner dishes together gives him "quality time" with his wife. The magazine did not ask his wife about the quality time she spends washing the breakfast and lunch dishes while he is out running football clubs into the ground.
He's also been quoted as saying that he enjoys peeling potatoes
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Would you buy a holiday property in September if you knew you could by it for the same price just before next summers peak season?
We’ve moved on to holiday home buying analogies......get in!
skerrick
noun AUSTRALIAN/NZ informal
the smallest bit.
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To be fair, I think it is more of a penthouse rather than a council flat. He does wear “gorblimey trousers “ though.