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I know plenty about him as I did my own due diligence when he was interested in buying the club previously. I'm also close friends with someone who knows him personally. If you went purely on what fans say you'd come to the conclusion Mike Bateson was a charlatan when in fact he was the last person...

A Notice of Intention to put the club into administration was served on 22nd February and a further NOI for another period of 10 business days was lodged on 7th March. It's all gone very quiet. That means the extension expires on Thursday. I believe that means either the club has to say it's found ...

wbw wrote: ↑16 Mar 2024, 22:43 Who on earth told you that?

Just as workers who made redundant are entitled to redundancy pay when their firm goes into administration.

What then will they reduce the squad size to bare bones? Start selling assets like Boots and Laces? Anyone know what to expect? An administrator can't just get rid of players unless he honoured their contracts so he might as well keep them on because he has to pay them anyway. Boots & Laces is ...

We probably need 9 points for survival with 9 games to play so a draw would not be a bad result especially given our away form. Last season if we had adopted game management late on in several games where we were drawing instead of going for a late win and getting hit on the counter we would have av...

Nine games to play. Next 3 games - Tonbridge (a), H&R (h), Yeovil (a) can't see us getting anything from those games. The following 3 - WSM (h), Welling (a), Truro (a) theoretically winnable and make no mistake we've got to win them. It's going to be squeaky bum time. We probably need 9 points t...

If Smurthwaite and Masters are the answer to the question, then Torquay United is deep in the s**t. I doubt Smurthwaite is involved, he's never owned a football club that didn't own it's ground. Masters is far more preferable than Osborne and he actually saved Truro City along with his business par...

North Curry House wrote: ↑13 Mar 2024, 13:31

TG, I will accept your apology on this forum once the above is proved to be correct.

Bell-end

And don't forget the season ticket deal, that was her idea so her responsibility, nobody else's, end of!! Was it her idea though? The club was already in hock to GI and she suggests cut price season tickets , then if I remember correctly she was sacked as Kevin Nicholson had to go and persuade seas...

:goodpost: Added to that the office staff needs pruning to match our level......ie We have volunteers, NOT paid people. Match day hosts should not be full-time, filling in with nondescript activities to justify their wages. How we have a media manager and people below him defies belief, we are NOT ...

North Curry House wrote: ↑06 Mar 2024, 13:25 We will give them £25 then. They are not well supported.

Considering the goodwill shown to us by other football fans since Osborne pulled the plug that is a really classy comment.

Talking weird things as friendly as Weymouth were, and I would thank then for their kind gesture, that confiscating the tops of drinks bottles was truelly strange. Was told by the steward that it stopped people using full bottles of drink as weapons??? That was common practice at Plainmoor and othe...

gullsgullsgulls wrote: ↑03 Mar 2024, 08:49 I presume the club going bust would reflect badly on the Clarke Osborne brand - makes his bullsh*t tale even less believable for the next venture.

To be honest I doubt he gives a toss. His trail of destruction already includes Reading and Swindon speedway and numerous greyhound stadia.

Gone to Wealdstone.

Like I said, in Nicholsons days of driving the bus it was 1800. But we had him, the Groundsman and maybe one office worker, plus the bare bones of playing staff It would be great news if the debt had been written off, but wouldn't Osbourne have made a big deal of doing that? All he's said is he's g...