by MellowYellow » 16 Sep 2020, 12:19
Since he took control of the club (or stole it) in December 2016, - Uncle Clarke has subsequently stated he wants to be involved with our club until at least 2023. With the adage that by that time he hopes a few flush oil magnate's will emerge to take the club further - well that's his hope. All of that will be dependant if the club is in a sustainable state which, of course, it's not.
Key to Uncle Clarke's plan to make Torquay United sustainable means moving away from Plainmoor to a new stadium. On this point I happen to agree with him unless we are all living in dreamland and think we can be totally reliant upon what has happened over the last decade or so where a series of people buy into the club, believe they can do something spectacular with the club and fail because it's not sustainable.
So if his 5 year plan fails to materialise and he cuts his losses we are back to where we started prior to Uncle Clarke's entrance, namely 'days away from administration'.
So we are where we are - a club with Uncle Clarke at the helm who for all intent and purposes rescued us from administration A man who has funded the club continuously and has denied nothing to the club in the process of getting us back into the football league with a new stadium and being sustainable.
We have to be accepting he is a businessman looking for a return on his investment - that's the law of good business. But he not a football fan, you say. Come on give the guy a break - if you spent your whole childhood being forced to watch and support Bristol Rovers wouldn't you hate football too.
I'm beginning to think, any fan would be hard pushed to disclaim that without Uncle Clarke's, involvement, there would be a club at all. But then again I could just be one of the delusional Covid-19 asymptomatic victims.
Since he took control of the club (or stole it) in December 2016, - Uncle Clarke has subsequently stated he wants to be involved with our club until at least 2023. With the adage that by that time he hopes a few flush oil magnate's will emerge to take the club further - well that's his hope. All of that will be dependant if the club is in a sustainable state which, of course, it's not.
Key to Uncle Clarke's plan to make Torquay United sustainable means moving away from Plainmoor to a new stadium. On this point I happen to agree with him unless we are all living in dreamland and think we can be totally reliant upon what has happened over the last decade or so where a series of people buy into the club, believe they can do something spectacular with the club and fail because it's not sustainable.
So if his 5 year plan fails to materialise and he cuts his losses we are back to where we started prior to Uncle Clarke's entrance, namely 'days away from administration'.
So we are where we are - a club with Uncle Clarke at the helm who for all intent and purposes rescued us from administration A man who has funded the club continuously and has denied nothing to the club in the process of getting us back into the football league with a new stadium and being sustainable.
We have to be accepting he is a businessman looking for a return on his investment - that's the law of good business. But he not a football fan, you say. Come on give the guy a break - if you spent your whole childhood being forced to watch and support Bristol Rovers wouldn't you hate football too.
I'm beginning to think, any fan would be hard pushed to disclaim that without Uncle Clarke's, involvement, there would be a club at all. But then again I could just be one of the delusional Covid-19 asymptomatic victims.
