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The Takeover Thread - Duchatelet Finally Sells (Jan 2020)

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  • This is an utter shambles of a situation.

    If the Aussies don’t complete it within the next week the next season is a wash out.

    So angry with it.
  • The thing about not being allowed to turn lights on for meetings, that’s not actually true, is it?
  • I think everyone is going to be surprised by how few people actually come back and buy season tickets.

    Yep. Outside of those that still contribute on social media who add that opinion, I’m convinced there are not thousands waiting with their cheque books at the ready.

    It’s a massive rebuild job. It can be done, and I’m sure it will, but it will take time.
    I can remember when we signed Allan Simonsen. Mark Hulyer thought the rush for tickets was going to pay for his wages. If memory serves me correctly, we only sold a few hundred
  • Dave2l said:

    My inside source tells me the deal will likely be announced just after the Norwich game. Didn't even know we was playing Norwich

    Hooray, Roly Rollmops dace are numbered!
  • se9addick said:

    The thing about not being allowed to turn lights on for meetings, that’s not actually true, is it?

    @LouisMend is certain it’s true.



  • se9addick said:

    The thing about not being allowed to turn lights on for meetings, that’s not actually true, is it?

    I’d like to know the truth behind this headline too. Most businesses from time to time have a push to drive costs down and encourage staff to be mindful of energy wastage, paper wastage etc. We are currently a failing business after all so doing nothing on costs is not a strategy. What exactly have they been asked to do?

    Likewise the loss of nutritional breakfasts. Again have we ditched platters of fresh fruit and individual diet plans or just stopped providing porridge when they want it?

    Messages like this make sensational headlines like the Man Utd Kit is now nearly £200 but in reality the shirt was still c£60.

    The truth would be good in order to interpret the actual impact. Maybe it’s all true but I don’t want to rely on the headline.

    And maybe all irrelevant if the takeover happens anyway.
  • edited July 2018

    I’ll add, if 9 months ago it was announced Roland had sold I’dhave been pretty sure I would have been in a packed pub that evening celebrating like we’d won a Millwall game.

    It it was announced today, it will probably generate no more than an ‘at last’ muttering.

    I’m still not convinced whether a takeover or a win vs Millwall will come first.

    They might end up with similar waits...

    I agree. I think it's gone on for so long and there have been too many false dawns. IF the takeover happens this side of September I wonder how many people will wait to see how the new owners are doing before returning. Can I stand getting back that feeling I used to have for my club incase it's taken away again?
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  • I’ll add, if 9 months ago it was announced Roland had sold I’dhave been pretty sure I would have been in a packed pub that evening celebrating like we’d won a Millwall game.

    It it was announced today, it will probably generate no more than an ‘at last’ muttering.

    I’m still not convinced whether a takeover or a win vs Millwall will come first.

    They might end up with similar waits...

    You're such an old misery ;-)
  • Rothko said:

    JamesSeed said:

    I’ll add, if 9 months ago it was announced Roland had sold I’dhave been pretty sure I would have been in a packed pub that evening celebrating like we’d won a Millwall game.

    It it was announced today, it will probably generate no more than an ‘at last’ muttering.

    I’m still not convinced whether a takeover or a win vs Millwall will come first.

    They might end up with similar waits...

    You're such an old misery ;-)
    But we keep being told it’s close, it seems no closer today then it did on May 17th.

    They’ll be relief when it’s done, but the celebratory mood of May has long gone
    Totally agree.
    Some even claimed it was a done deal in February.
    Can't blame people being fed up with the whole affair.
  • Rothko said:

    JamesSeed said:

    I’ll add, if 9 months ago it was announced Roland had sold I’dhave been pretty sure I would have been in a packed pub that evening celebrating like we’d won a Millwall game.

    It it was announced today, it will probably generate no more than an ‘at last’ muttering.

    I’m still not convinced whether a takeover or a win vs Millwall will come first.

    They might end up with similar waits...

    You're such an old misery ;-)
    But we keep being told it’s close, it seems no closer today then it did on May 17th.

    They’ll be relief when it’s done, but the celebratory mood of May has long gone
    Totally agree.
    Some even claimed it was a done deal in February.
    Can't blame people being fed up with the whole affair.
    We need to take a step back and look at the bigger picture. The club’s trajectory has been downwards for four years, probably a lot longer. It was never going to be as simple as pressing a button and ‘lift off!’.
    I think we might be about to halt The Long Decline (obscure band reference there), and at least head the club slowly, oil tanker-like, back in the right direction.
    This isn’t an instant gratification scenario, unfortunately.

    *steps back, ducks for cover under the parapet*
  • se9addick said:

    The thing about not being allowed to turn lights on for meetings, that’s not actually true, is it?

    Yes it is as is not being allowed to eat at their desks to save cleaners wages and no paper hand towels in toilets.
    Have they supplied cloth towels then? Is someone tasked to take home to wash daily?

    Must be a grim old place to work.
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  • JamesSeed said:

    I’ll add, if 9 months ago it was announced Roland had sold I’dhave been pretty sure I would have been in a packed pub that evening celebrating like we’d won a Millwall game.

    It it was announced today, it will probably generate no more than an ‘at last’ muttering.

    I’m still not convinced whether a takeover or a win vs Millwall will come first.

    They might end up with similar waits...

    You're such an old misery ;-)
    That may be true.

    But you’ve only got another two days before your good vibrations go Surfin USA for the 20th time.

    Wouldn’t it be nice if you were right :-)
    Oh god, I didn’t predict a date did I?!
  • Valley11 said:

    JamesSeed said:

    Rothko said:

    JamesSeed said:

    I’ll add, if 9 months ago it was announced Roland had sold I’dhave been pretty sure I would have been in a packed pub that evening celebrating like we’d won a Millwall game.

    It it was announced today, it will probably generate no more than an ‘at last’ muttering.

    I’m still not convinced whether a takeover or a win vs Millwall will come first.

    They might end up with similar waits...

    You're such an old misery ;-)
    But we keep being told it’s close, it seems no closer today then it did on May 17th.

    They’ll be relief when it’s done, but the celebratory mood of May has long gone
    Totally agree.
    Some even claimed it was a done deal in February.
    Can't blame people being fed up with the whole affair.
    We need to take a step back and look at the bigger picture. The club’s trajectory has been downwards for four years, probably a lot longer. It was never going to be as simple as pressing a button and ‘lift off!’.
    I think we might be about to halt The Long Decline (obscure band reference there), and at least head the club slowly, oil tanker-like, back in the right direction.
    This isn’t an instant gratification scenario, unfortunately.

    *steps back, ducks for cover under the parapet*
    To turn the ‘tanker’ you need to buy the effing club. The Aussies don’t even appear to be in the Port let alone have their hands on the wheel.
    So it’s all the Aussies’ fault that the club was in such a legal mess?

    I’m pretty sure if they’d bought any other club it would have been done and dusted a long time ago.

    Remember the fine words of the great Russell Slade (but leave out the Louis bit).
  • edited July 2018

    In the mid 70's when Michael Gliksten was the owner we played Port Vale at home in the 3rd tier and from memory I thought there was under 4 thousand.
    No social media, just local papers, phones and word of mouth.
    Fans stop going when they see no ambition from owners plus we sold players from 65 to 75 that could have held there own in the top tier if we had a decent owner.
    Bailey, Bonds, Glover, Campbell, Moore, kenning, Flanagan, Hales plus others coming into an established side.

    I can assure younger fans we have been here before, the difference is we've a decent stadium now not a crumbling wreak of a ground.

    IF we can only see the back of this flawed experiment then Adults can make their own minds up whether to invest their time, money and emotions in Cafc.

    I think our lowest valley attendance back then was little more than 3k v Halifax on a Tuesday evening.

    I got Stanleyed as I was close to leaving the top of Marion Wilson park. Don't know who attacked me but they weren't at the match. I guess millwall.

    I never for once thought about not going again even though my artery was very close to being severed. Just shows that Roland is more destructive than a bunch of thugs with knives.

    Apathy is a strong force and we shouldn't underestimate it.
    I think maybe the Halifax game and not Port Vale was the match that I was trying to remember from over 40 years ago !
    I can recall the Spartan isolation of the terracing.
  • the seafaring metaphors are better than the fish puns anyway
  • edited July 2018
    Never mind about withholding money, fans should add to costs.
    Maybe we could start with a campaign of faxing them black paper documents with a tiny white bit so as to use up their printer ink.
    Another campaign is to purchase stuff especially food, then demand money back because it is vile.
    If they are concerned about costs of cleaning stuff well extra dirt might keep cleaners in employment.

    A lot of savings could be made by sacking Cojones and sending his car back.

    Mr Belgian guy this is the trajectory:

    Informal verbal warning.
    Formal verbal warning.
    Written warning.
    Final warning.
    Dismissal.

  • edited July 2018
    Curb_It said:

    se9addick said:

    The thing about not being allowed to turn lights on for meetings, that’s not actually true, is it?

    Yes it is as is not being allowed to eat at their desks to save cleaners wages and no paper hand towels in toilets.
    Have they supplied cloth towels then? Is someone tasked to take home to wash daily?

    Must be a grim old place to work.
    No, electric dryers which I would have thought more expensive but this is penny wise, pound foolish management Duchatelet style.
  • JamesSeed said:

    I’ll add, if 9 months ago it was announced Roland had sold I’dhave been pretty sure I would have been in a packed pub that evening celebrating like we’d won a Millwall game.

    It it was announced today, it will probably generate no more than an ‘at last’ muttering.

    I’m still not convinced whether a takeover or a win vs Millwall will come first.

    They might end up with similar waits...

    You're such an old misery ;-)
    That may be true.

    But you’ve only got another two days before your good vibrations go Surfin USA for the 20th time.

    Wouldn’t it be nice if you were right :-)
    surfin USA, 20th ? Sweet little sixteen surely...
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