Come on off it. If someone was seriously contemplating investing in a football club they wouldn't make an approach through a fan's forum run by people that have no official connection to the club.Yeofan wrote: ↑23 Feb 2024, 23:21 Fair enough. I'm extensively involved with startup funding, and have, in my time invested ( succesfully ) in several football clubs. I also have a lot of contacts on the UK BA circuit. If you want to attract a buyer you need to be prepared to answer questions, and also be receptive to potential interest no matter how unlikely the source.
However , as they say on DD, "I'm out". Hope you find someone elsewhere.
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- 24 Feb 2024, 01:15
- Forum: All things Plainmoor
- Topic: Osborne gone!
- Replies: 262
- Views: 38817
Osborne gone!
- 23 Feb 2024, 19:10
- Forum: Matchday Topics
- Topic: Torquay United v Aveley F C Saturday 24 Feb KO 3pm
- Replies: 97
- Views: 22105
Torquay United v Aveley F C Saturday 24 Feb KO 3pm
I'm not going to predict any result but just want to say let's be patient. The players (and all the non-playing staff) have received a terrible shock this week and their families financial well being will be at the fore front of their minds. It is going to take time for Downes to effect any improvement in the way the team play so for this Saturday let's just show appreciation for everyone connected with the football club (with the exception of George Edwards if he is still around).
- 23 Feb 2024, 18:34
- Forum: All things Plainmoor
- Topic: Potential Buyers
- Replies: 626
- Views: 141074
Potential Buyers
Amen to that.Southampton Gull wrote: ↑23 Feb 2024, 12:38 He is nothing like Osborne at all. For a start he's a football man. I'll take that over Osborne every day of the week.
- 23 Feb 2024, 18:28
- Forum: All things Plainmoor
- Topic: Torbay Council
- Replies: 47
- Views: 7648
Torbay Council
I think the idea of playing at Buckland was because some people (may actually have been a single individual) thought we should start a Phoenix club whilst Osborne's Torquay United was still existence at Plainmoor. Daft idea.
- 23 Feb 2024, 10:21
- Forum: All things Plainmoor
- Topic: Potential Buyers
- Replies: 626
- Views: 141074
Potential Buyers
The fact is the man Hector and Southampton refer to actually prevented Truro City going bust and they survive to this day, that is a lot more than Clarke Osborne ever achieved.
This guy is a football person and that is what we need right now and he would genuinely like to own this club, it was his ownership of Truro that prevented him buying the club off Thea Bristow.
From my point of view as things stand currently he is our best hope.
BTW my username in no way relates to said individual
This guy is a football person and that is what we need right now and he would genuinely like to own this club, it was his ownership of Truro that prevented him buying the club off Thea Bristow.
From my point of view as things stand currently he is our best hope.
BTW my username in no way relates to said individual
- 23 Feb 2024, 09:57
- Forum: All things Plainmoor
- Topic: Potential Buyers
- Replies: 626
- Views: 141074
Potential Buyers
So we've just escaped the clutches of a property developer with no personal interest in football and you suggest we should sell out to some property developers with no personal interest in football.
- 22 Feb 2024, 21:36
- Forum: All things Plainmoor
- Topic: George Edwards OUT
- Replies: 20
- Views: 5455
George Edwards OUT
Edwards is Osborne's henchman so will be leaving as soon as the administrator is appointed or upon a new owner coming in before hand. I would be very surprised if Edwards was at Plainmoor on Saturday, it wouldn't be safe for him.
- 22 Feb 2024, 21:31
- Forum: All things Plainmoor
- Topic: liquidators come in
- Replies: 24
- Views: 3733
- 22 Feb 2024, 19:56
- Forum: All things Plainmoor
- Topic: Torbay Council
- Replies: 47
- Views: 7648
Torbay Council
I'd say the council got that one right. If they had sold it then it wouldn't be here now.Colorado Gull wrote: ↑22 Feb 2024, 16:44 Torbay Council will never change. The club has been fighting with the old geezers for decades. Even as a 7-year old, I can still recall our fans chanting "sell the ground" outside the town hall during our promotion parade in 2004. The sad fact is, our local officials don't really care all that much about the club, and the majority of our owners throughout those same years have felt the same.
- 21 Feb 2024, 19:46
- Forum: Matchday Topics
- Topic: Farnborough v Torquay United Tue 20TH
- Replies: 98
- Views: 19696
Farnborough v Torquay United Tue 20TH
More likely he's after Clark Osborne's job. Spencer Day is a property developer whose only previous experience of football management was at Chertsey Town, a club he actually owned. At Farnborough he has loaned the club £1 million.
Spencer Day was once known as Spencer Trethewy, the 19 year old yuppie who joined the board of the original Aldershot FC with a fraudulently obtained £200,000 loan. He eventually did jail time for fraud.
- 20 Feb 2024, 17:28
- Forum: All things Plainmoor
- Topic: Taunton Town.
- Replies: 97
- Views: 38508
Taunton Town.
Wouldn't surprise me if Taunton (and possibly Truro) are expelled from the league and their record expunged, which is fine by us because we have no points to lose.
- 19 Feb 2024, 16:04
- Forum: Matchday Topics
- Topic: Braintree v Torquay Sat 17th Feb 2024
- Replies: 156
- Views: 26496
Braintree v Torquay Sat 17th Feb 2024
The reality is we are at the interface between full-time and part-time professional football where the worst full-time players clash with the best part-time players.Nick Potkins wrote: ↑18 Feb 2024, 19:41 No, I am pointing out that a full time and part time budget differ. We hear, there is the budget, but can it buy us what we require. The answer is, clearly, not at this current time.
If any of our current squad sign on for next season it will be because they couldn't get any thing better. We are the lowest ranked full-time team in the country and its going to take either a lot of money or a genuinely inspired manager to get us out of this. I'm not confident either way.
- 17 Feb 2024, 14:31
- Forum: Matchday Topics
- Topic: Braintree v Torquay Sat 17th Feb 2024
- Replies: 156
- Views: 26496
Braintree v Torquay Sat 17th Feb 2024
Jarvis present at birth of his partner's baby.