JamesBrown wrote:Truro fan in peace, as you know the situation at our club is on a knife edge us fans believe that our new ground to Silver Bow isn't going to happen
A) I think you're lost, the Truro City FC forum (full of people who care, unlike here, where we don't) is >>> over there.
B) "us fans"? You're the official spokesman for every single TCFC fan on Earth, are you? You've canvassed opinion, done your research, weighed up the evidence and come to a fact-based conclusion? No, though not. What you have here is your own, unsubstantiated, unsupported, pretty much worthless opinion.
JamesBrown wrote: [we/I] believe that some very strange decisions have been made in the last few months that are bewildering in a football club
Well of course, you and 99% of football fans in the world. You know why (of course you don't)? Because what you know about running a football club could be written in large letters on the back of a postage stamp. The decisions will seem bewildering to you, because you're acting on about 2% of the full facts and you don't actually know what you're talking about. Sure, it's easy from the stands, just do this and do that and sign him and sack him and build this and invest in that and on and on and on, but in the real world, absolutely none of that is possible, half of it is illegal, the other half impractical and all of it contradictory.
Our former player/hero Eunan O'Kane's Twitter profile sums up the situation quite neatly: If it was easy, everyone would be at it.
JamesBrown wrote: 1) do we have a future as a football club when masters walks away which he will
Either you've got a crystal ball or you haven't. Either you know Masters will walk away in which case you know what the future is for the club, or you don't know that he'll walk away, in which case your whole premise is shattered. Which is it?
He won't walk away. You're a poor person, I can tell. You know how? Because you've no idea about money and this is what makes the poor, poor. Masters is up to his balls, so far as we are lead to believe, in Truro. The club owes him a shed load of cash (a proper shed, like a summer house, but without a pitched roof, not one of these plastic things from B&Q). He has obligations, both legal and moral. He can't just walk away, he has to sell. Quite aside from anything else, gross impropriety will disbar him from running another club, so it's very much not in his interest to screw over TCFC if he wants to take over at TUFC.
JamesBrown wrote: 2) why sack Steve Tully as manager highest ever position finishing fourth in conference south they way it was done disgusting.
You've been given the answer to this by your own club. Quite why you're asking a bunch of uninterested strangers in a completely different county, Christ only knows.
You want disgusting, try Chelsea. The sacked the manager who won them the Champions League! Man Utd sacked the manager who won them the FA Cup... while he was still on the pitch parading the FA Cup! For measure, we sacked the best manager we've had in a decade because he was ill and we packed off a frail old lady to do it by telephone while a small man in a convertible Renault held a figurative gun to her head. We're in no position to be casting the first stone here, least of all in another man's manor.
JamesBrown wrote: 3)what is the truth behind the ground
Doesn't matter what I say, you won't believe me, just as you clearly don't believe anything you are told. The answer you want is that Pete Masters is screwing you (yes, you, specifically you) over because he's a nasty, nasty man. Feel better? Thought not.
The truth seems to be that some people have objected to the planning application which has been approved to turn some land into a Marks & Spencer Food and a McDonald's, as well as a new stadium for something called the Cornish Pirates. This, very obviously, will have a detrimental effect on the sell-on value of the John Lewis and KFC which will occupy the Treyew Road site once you're in your new home. They are spending a few hundred thousand pounds on QCs to make spurious arguments to tie up the whole thing in red tape and make the M&S crowd feel bad. It's all bluster and bullshit, just like any large scale planning operation. It's an unfortunate and necessary part of the democracy which separates us from the apes.
I wish we were in this position. I wish we owned our ground and it was on ££££ of prime real estate. We could happily sell the whole lot to developers and move down the road to a nice, shiny new ground with lots of extra revenue possibilities. Sadly, we don't and we never will, which means we're stuck where we are unless a rich and highly altruistic uncle comes forward any time soon.
JamesBrown wrote: 3) heard on Saturday that masters has ploughed in already in excess of £100k to Torquay ?? Is this legal
Modern Britain, everybody. Is it legal? Who can I sue? How much compensation might I receive?
Start at the beginning. Is it true? Answer that conclusively, then we'll get into the holiday brochures and speccing up your new BMW.
JamesBrown wrote: 4) continuing not to have any fans forums to let us know what is happening or why it is happening
That is squarely because of people like you.
You won't be satisfied until you get the answer you want. It doesn't matter how many times you're told what's what, you won't stop asking until you're told that everyone is out to get you. Please don't misunderstand me, it's only natural to want to be shown to be correct, but some of us evolved out of it being a need quite a few million years ago.
We have one like it. Bartlett. He'll be at our forum whenever it is. He'll be pissed and he'll ask the same **** question he always asks about why it's so expensive to get in. He'll get the same answer he always gets, that the prices are set by people who know about things like price elasticity of demand and break-even percentages and he'll not accept it. He won't accept it because the answer he wants is that he's a special snowflake and, as a special snowflake, should be provided with cheaper entry into Plainmoor because if it only cost 1/6 in 1967, it needn't cost any more than that now. He'll keep asking until he gets the answer he wants, which he won't, so he'll continue to be angry because he hasn't the mental capacity to know any better. You can't blame him, that's like blaming a puppy for shitting on the carpet.
JamesBrown wrote: I believe masters is waiting for Torquay to go into admin then he will be the saviour or like he would believe.
There are people who believe that flying jets into buildings or blowing up a van outside the Arndale is a way to get their point across. They're idiots too.
JamesBrown wrote: For me been a fan a long time at truro and love the club but for me he is nasty piece of work
Because he stepped in when you were minutes from having the gates locked and there being no more TCFC?
Because he funded a rise from wherever you were to wherever you are (your aforementioned highest ever finishing position)?
Because he's building you a new ground with better facilities in a better location?
Because he took on your club knowing it was some £4.5m in debt and cleared the lot?
I wish our owners has his money.
JamesBrown wrote: it's his way or the highway
It's his bloody club, I should jolly well say so. I think an investment north of £5m pretty much allows him to do what he likes. Christ, if he gave me £5m, I'd let him **** my sister.
JamesBrown wrote: for him to be tweeting about torquays games when he's watching truro makes me sick
Dry your eyes, Princess. He retweeted ONE thing about Torquay at half time during your match and, since it was a random tweet about Blissett scoring against Maidstone, I'd say it was probably a case of fat fingers.
JamesBrown wrote: I know he's very friendly with your chairman Philips all I will say is God help you
I tell you what, I'll swap you our (as near as makes no difference) penniless bookie who actively wants rid of the club and never actually wanted it in the first place, for your multi-multi-multi millionaire local sports fanatic with a proven history of making high investment into the playing budget. See how you get on.
Matt.
