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- 30 Oct 2018, 11:22
- Forum: All things Plainmoor
- Topic: CO is confusing me!
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2390
CO is confusing me!
Dean Edwards was acting in an act of his own income preservation and conned a group of well-meaning supporters into 'saving' something the 'blessed Bristow' had tired of... At least half of them bailed out on receiving the due diligence report and half of the remaining rump soon quit having fallen ...
- 30 Oct 2018, 08:34
- Forum: All things Plainmoor
- Topic: Ian Twitchin
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2601
Ian Twitchin
It's not a joke; it's a revenue stream...
No-one's asking you to call it anything; it's what the club accrue from it that is important.
No-one's asking you to call it anything; it's what the club accrue from it that is important.
- 30 Oct 2018, 07:48
- Forum: All things Plainmoor
- Topic: Elections May 2019
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3992
Elections May 2019
Spot on there on all counts MellowYellow... Even when I was at the Club back in the mid-seventies and early eighties, the brief was to make the business sustainable to take it away from benevolence. With the very limited facilities (far less than what is there now) a thriving lottery, car boot sale...
- 30 Oct 2018, 07:35
- Forum: All things Plainmoor
- Topic: CO is confusing me!
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2390
CO is confusing me!
That would still be a capital venture though wouldn't it... Venture capital funds are invested in early-stage companies in exchange for equity, this is exactly what Osborne did when he acquired the Club. Venture capitalists take on the risk of financing risky start-ups in the hopes that some of the...
- 29 Oct 2018, 22:30
- Forum: Matchday Topics
- Topic: Weston Super Mare v Torquay United 30/10/2018 ko 7.45
- Replies: 148
- Views: 18240
- 29 Oct 2018, 22:27
- Forum: All things Plainmoor
- Topic: CO is confusing me!
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2390
CO is confusing me!
When CO took control of TUFC, he openly admitted that he knew nothing about football and so we all knew his motive for buying the club was not football related. Yes he acquired Torquay United; no he did not and didn't have to buy it! He didn't have to; it was surrendered to him because those who ha...
- 29 Oct 2018, 20:34
- Forum: All things Plainmoor
- Topic: Harrop Has Left The Building
- Replies: 32
- Views: 3846
Harrop Has Left The Building
I think truth be told; his role had evolved to not only exclude anything to do with the playing side of the game but also to take on the extra admin made necessary through the departure of the Club secretary and he has procured something else in that field that he wishes to work in.
- 29 Oct 2018, 20:01
- Forum: All things Plainmoor
- Topic: Elections May 2019
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3992
Elections May 2019
I agree with the sentiment that the need to leave Plainmoor isn't massive at the moment. That being said, I do also think it is wrong to instantly shoot down any stadium plan - I think it has been well documented within the Torquay fanbase of CO's inability to deliver on promises before and is some...
- 29 Oct 2018, 19:06
- Forum: All things Plainmoor
- Topic: CO is confusing me!
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2390
CO is confusing me!
oldcommsboy is right; Osborne needs to make the club viable as he can then offload it as a capital venture attractive enough for anyone willing to take it off his hands if he does not realise the development project he envisages.
- 29 Oct 2018, 18:55
- Forum: All things Plainmoor
- Topic: Harrop Has Left The Building
- Replies: 32
- Views: 3846
Harrop Has Left The Building
I'm not questioning anybody elses opinion here, merely stating that the Geoff I knew was a lovely, sensitive and hard working guy who was extremely well regarded in youth football at his previous clubs (Yeovil and Peterborough), and who did several young TUFC players justice by finding them moves t...
- 28 Oct 2018, 22:29
- Forum: Matchday Topics
- Topic: Wealdstone V Torquay United
- Replies: 53
- Views: 11877
Wealdstone V Torquay United
What they're saying about us... http://www.wealdstonefc.co.uk/forum/index.php?sid=cab5cf5b3b7db743ac1f1b8bee6048a7 "we never looked like hurting Torquay who, to my mind, are the best-ever NLS side we've seen at the Vale: Big, strong, well organised and ruthless. They also had three, even four ...
- 26 Oct 2018, 20:23
- Forum: All things Plainmoor
- Topic: Ian Twitchin
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2601
Ian Twitchin
It's ten months since the passing of a United legend what have the Club done about it? The news today of the naming of the new grandstand at Exeter City after Adam Stansfield prompts me to ask ~ 'what's happening to the general desire to name a Plainmoor stand after Ian Twitchin? Don't fob him off ...
- 24 Oct 2018, 17:46
- Forum: All things Plainmoor
- Topic: FA Cup
- Replies: 81
- Views: 10767
FA Cup
Meh!!!!
- 24 Oct 2018, 17:41
- Forum: Matchday Topics
- Topic: Wealdstone V Torquay United
- Replies: 53
- Views: 11877
Wealdstone V Torquay United
Gordon's no idiot; he's a nice little guy who had a struggle through life due to his hormone growth deficiency and (as he says) owed a great debt to Great Ormond Street Hospital and had a chance to repay that debt as he saw it. I'd heard it all got too much for him and had been told he had gone out ...
- 24 Oct 2018, 12:33
- Forum: All things Plainmoor
- Topic: FA Cup
- Replies: 81
- Views: 10767
FA Cup
re: Ms Chamberlain's post. What does 'meh' mean? (I am 76). I'm 66 and I used to hear that sound emananating from Newton Abbot livestock market when I was a kid... Just a fading C list celeb click baiting; ommitting to admit that she got her stardom from being a female, flashing her arse and posing...