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[Snowflake Royal]

Hold on, this is turning from good humoured ribbing towards bullying.

Someone like that tedious racist kar**** clearly deserves everything they get, but has Millsy really done anything that wrong? (Genuine question - I don't tend to remember what any particular user is like over time).

And people sometimes wonder why there are so few adults left on here...

Well he was a where's the money gone Madejski is rubbish headbanger in the early 00s, and his humour is like a salty needle to the eye, and his attitudes towards the middle east are extreme, but other than that he's a decent fellow.

[WestYorksRoyal]

Remember the SJM "where's all the money gone" days? I remember a game back in the Championship at the start of the 08/09 season after we'd sold Kitson, Sonko and Shorey and parts of the crowd were chanting it. I like to think they'd know better now, but probably in 20 years this era will be forgotten and we'll have new numpty fans.

[Uke]

Do loans to overseas banks secured on UK assets appear on the charges register at the land registry?

Earnshaw reckons Couhig was aware of this at outset and new prospective owner also is....

Earnshaw’s Tweet doesn’t say at the outset and the article says “Couhig was not informed until late in the process about Yongge’s debt to Haitong, which is secured against the club’s stadium” which

Couhig found out the true extent towards the end of the process.

Dai probably had no intention of telling the prospective new owners either, but they know now don’t they as “someone who knows about it” will have leaked it to the press.

Still reckon I there’s a good chance it’s to be Couhig as owner early next year after this one collapses too.

[Brogue]

1 year anniversary of this thread

[Snowflake Royal]

Remember the SJM "where's all the money gone" days? I remember a game back in the Championship at the start of the 08/09 season after we'd sold Kitson, Sonko and Shorey and parts of the crowd were chanting it. I like to think they'd know better now, but probably in 20 years this era will be forgotten and we'll have new numpty fans.

You think the ones doing it then learnt anything, most of them would be straight back at it.

[Snowflake Royal]

Can you imagine how unbearable this last year would have been under another Ince or Gomes in the Championship with a load of shit over the hill journeymen like Hendrick stinking the place out with losses week after week, instead of a decent side full of exciting young talent doing ok in L1?

The few left in the stadium of a game would be throwing themselves down the steps to meet their end in mini droves.

[ILoveMoonPig]

Can you imagine how unbearable this last year would have been under another Ince or Gomes in the Championship with a load of shit over the hill journeymen like Hendrick stinking the place out with losses week after week, instead of a decent side full of exciting young talent doing ok in L1?

The few left in the stadium of a game would be throwing themselves down the steps to meet their end in mini droves.

Following on from this, I am so glad we never built the stadium extension. Can you imagine how embarrasing that would be now?

[Elm Park Kid]

Discuss: Overall, we'd have been better off building an 18k seater stadium in the town centre?

[karbota]

Can you imagine how unbearable this last year would have been under another Ince or Gomes in the Championship with a load of shit over the hill journeymen like Hendrick stinking the place out with losses week after week, instead of a decent side full of exciting young talent doing ok in L1?

The few left in the stadium of a game would be throwing themselves down the steps to meet their end in mini droves.

Hendrick shit you are joking, right?

[WestYorksRoyal]

Discuss: Overall, we'd have been better off building an 18k seater stadium in the town centre?

Yes, definitely. But how would it ever have been viable? Elm Park couldn't have been expanded to that size. What other prime real estate site in the town centre was available? And from a funding point, surely it would have cost substantially more?

[karbota]

Discuss: Overall, we'd have been better off building an 18k seater stadium in the town centre?

Correct, we should never have left Elm Park.

[Stranded]

Discuss: Overall, we'd have been better off building an 18k seater stadium in the town centre?

Correct, we should never have left Elm Park.

If we had stayed at Elm Park, we would very likely be in a similar league position to Torquay United now - we may end up even lower than that by the time the process is finished but at Elm Park we would likely to be bouncing in out of non-league by now.

[Forbury Lion]

Discuss: Overall, we'd have been better off building an 18k seater stadium in the town centre?

Didcot town centre?

[karbota]

Discuss: Overall, we'd have been better off building an 18k seater stadium in the town centre?

Correct, we should never have left Elm Park.

If we had stayed at Elm Park, we would very likely be in a similar league position to Torquay United now - we may end up even lower than that by the time the process is finished but at Elm Park we would likely to be bouncing in out of non-league by now.

Or even Wrexham!

[Forbury Lion]

I'm no lawyer and Couhig is, so what I'm suggesting presumably isn't a goer but I'll type it out anyway.

Football company signs a binding 1,000 year 365 days a year lease on the stadium from Stadium company for the price of £1 a year (less hassle than finding peppercorns), They make this fully water tight and can not be broken.

Chinese bank company seizes the shares or deeds to the property from Stadium Company, They are now the landlords/owners but have an existing 1,000 year lease to honour, Their asset is effectively going to return them £1,000 over a 1,000 year period. Due to inflation, this will effectively be worth less than £1,000 when repaid in full. Additionally, their asset will need maintaining and guess what, the contract says the landlord is liable for this,.... so instead of seizing an asset to make money from, they've seized something which is going to cost them alot of money. They may therefore jump at the chance to cut their losses and sell it for £1m (or even £1) to the Football company, which by now owned by the next new owners.
Could do the same trick with the Training Ground.

[Crusader Royal]

Discuss: Overall, we'd have been better off building an 18k seater stadium in the town centre?

If you can come up with a viable site and a traffic plan then maybe. Although we’ve had crowds in excess of 18k often enough to suggest we can support a bigger ground.

[Snowflake Royal]

Discuss: Overall, we'd have been better off building an 18k seater stadium in the town centre?

No.

[Hound]

Discuss: Overall, we'd have been better off building an 18k seater stadium in the town centre?

Where though? Town centre is rammed

Possibly could have got a bit nearer on the A33, maybe kennet island area or built up those flood planes but guessing both would have been prohibitively expensive

[Sutekh]

Chronicle summary of it all

[katweslowski]

Issue with town centre is it is so heavy penned in. If you look at the IDR, it basically creates a wall/border around a densely populated area. Even just outside this and you are met with residential/office areas or road networks which can't be moved.