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stf4ever said:
The more frustrated I get the more I realise that most North End fans just want a club to support on a Saturday. They couldn't give a fuck about the direction or the division, simply existing is enough.

That's how they get away with it.
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60 years of no top flight football with very few highs will have that effect on any fanbase. Our expectations are that we will be disappointed. Year on, year out.

Sure, we all may dream each summer that it'll be different, but rarely do those hopes get to live past the month of September.

Stockley, Ginnelly, Ripley, Bayliss, Rafferty in 2019. Olosunde, Thomas, Izzy, Wickham, Murphy in 2021. Every single one of them playing lower league football or not playing at all now.

Yet, the guy who negotiated those deals and contracts is still here. Admittedly mostly active on Facebook spending the transfer window mouthing off to fans.

Most fans don't care cos as you say they have no interest in how badly things are run. Have no belief we will get promoted. We have a collective lower league mentality and you see it in the tin pot nature of the ownership and many fans alike.
 
Liberation said:
That's reasonable.............. Wanna bet that's not what we are asking?
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Can probably quadruple that figure.

But it's cool, they can keep putting in minimal effort and count their monthly losses while paying Ridsdale a nice sum.

For me, putting a £15m price tag on it and washing your hands of a business you can't be bothered with sounds like a no brainer.
 
SF said:
Can probably quadruple that figure.

But it's cool, they can keep putting in minimal effort and count their monthly losses while paying Ridsdale a nice sum.

For me, putting a £15m price tag on it and washing your hands of a business you can't be bothered with sounds like a no brainer.
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Unless this club is being used as a fancy accounting " lost leader " in the Hemmings Empire that is way beyond my knowledge or abilities............... I've believed this for years but buggered if I know how because I'm not a dodgy accountant. Nothing else makes any sense. Even if we went into administration the wedge Trev put in will never be repaid so there must be something more to it imho...
 
Liberation said:
Unless this club is being used as a fancy accounting " lost leader " in the Hemmings Empire that is way beyond my knowledge or abilities............... I've believed this for years but buggered if I know how because I'm not a dodgy accountant. Nothing else makes any sense. Even if we went into administration the wedge Trev put in will never be repaid so there must be something more to it imho...
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I agree there will be some fancy tax relief or something going on
 
65on said:
And like I said ,find one. I will be in full support of that .As long it is not like the American twat
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Instead of him finding one, why don't you prove there are no buyers for football clubs out there.
There have apparently been 96 clubs changed hands over the last 6 years.
Ridsdale himself has found buyers for a few clubs in the past.
 
65on said:
OK,Find one.I am not saying on its down to us mere mortals but you can't force people into buying what they don't want.
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If the asking price for the club is set too high then no one will buy it. The club needs to test the market at a lower price (or series of lower prices) until they find a buyer.

Mr Costelloe on here has suggested that the funding from the Trust will run out at the end of the 2023/24 season, and that, if the club has not been sold by that point, it will be put into administration. They had better start dropping the asking price now as the further we get into 2023/24 the greater the likelihood that any potential buyer would just wait for administration.
 
Liberation said:
Unless this club is being used as a fancy accounting " lost leader " in the Hemmings Empire that is way beyond my knowledge or abilities............... I've believed this for years but buggered if I know how because I'm not a dodgy accountant. Nothing else makes any sense. Even if we went into administration the wedge Trev put in will never be repaid so there must be something more to it imho...
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I've always thought the same, nothing else makes sense
 
Rodney Bewes said:
Something like that would be a more reasonable valuation of our club
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Their stadium is worth miles more than ours though, especially when you consider rental income from the Hilton and the casino.

Plus they have an academy, with an indoor training complex.

PNE are worth less than Coventry City.
 
SF said:
Their stadium is worth miles more than ours though, especially when you consider rental income from the Hilton and the casino.

Plus they have an academy, with an indoor training complex.

PNE are worth less than Coventry City.
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Aye I just meant it'd be more reasonable than what the rumour is our owners are asking for
 
Rodney Bewes said:
Aye I just meant it'd be more reasonable than what the rumour is our owners are asking for
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Yep, but still think it's too much. I'd say £15m maximum based on other football club sales.

Especially once they've stripped the playing squad of assets. I doubt Whiteman or Riis will be here in 12 months time, the rest aren't worth a piss bar Woodman.
 
SF said:
Yep, but still think it's too much. I'd say £15m maximum based on other football club sales.

Especially once they've stripped the playing squad of assets. I doubt Whiteman or Riis will be here in 12 months time, the rest aren't worth a piss bar Woodman.
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Aye by the time they're gone, we'd be worth £10m maximum
 
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