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The B-Ark / Re: A great old photo
« on: June 06, 2011, 10:53:09 PM »
A few of his relatives can be found regularly around the ground on a matchday.

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The B-Ark / Re: Kev Austin
« on: May 12, 2011, 06:55:24 PM »
Agree. He had a great game

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The B-Ark / Re: Can you believe it?
« on: January 26, 2010, 07:03:49 PM »
I have another question, just how many games have you been to? You can't have been to many else you would know we already have a strong midfielder in Church, and if you don't think he is you know even less about football than I thought.

I have been to three away games, and probably 80% of home games. Probably that doesn't make me a real supporter, but as I have a busy job, and three kids 5 and under, one 6 weeks old, perhaps I have greater priorities in my life than football.

Perhaps my frustrations openly aired on the back of poor performances have been negative, but if you trawl through my many posts over the past 5 years there has been plenty positive postings in difficult times.

If people are going to choose to keep selectively posting past comments. Then perhaps best I give up on this forum and use my precious spare time on something else

 

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The B-Ark / Re: Can you believe it?
« on: January 25, 2010, 09:58:08 PM »
Says something about people doesn't it. My rose-tinted glasses are working great at the mo, I think all those that took them off after the Lowestoft/Retford games that said our season was over (what a total over-reaction that was) are the ones you need to

Can I ask woad, are you female? I ask as you seem to have an inability to either move on!

Let's be clear here we have not been consistant, in fact if we had been more consistant against lower opposition our position would be stronger.

Nothing yet says we are promotion assured, we convincingly beat a poor side. Let's see what Kendal brings, any kind of point against them then yes wr can perhaps feel confident

there is still alot of games to be played, the one thing I said we needed against Retford was a strong midfielder, we seem to have got one, so perhaps I was not talking such rubbish

also let's not forget two games against quorn which I went too both and we where dire!


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The B-Ark / Re: WARNING - Plymouth in Financial Trouble
« on: January 13, 2010, 09:59:23 PM »
Who knows one day reality might set in, and everyone realises that kicking a bag of wind around, doesn't justify earning £25k per week plus.

There has to be a tipping point, but that is still along way off yet I fear

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The B-Ark / Re: Structures?
« on: January 10, 2010, 08:26:20 PM »
Often thought about the benefits of this, trouble is hypothetically,. if 1000 took the deal at £1k per ticket, you have a Million pounds in the bank, however that has to last you 10 years,
I think the club needs regular sustainable income streams rather than one big lump

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The B-Ark / Re: Structures?
« on: January 10, 2010, 03:31:53 PM »
This talks of structuring the club, not structuring any debts/costs involved in a stadium development.

Lots of good will there will help gain planning permission, but financing a new stadium is more than a good social club, or people through a turnstile.

Dont mean to sound negative, but if the club needs to move in 9 years, (less than that now), then there needs to be some other plan in Davids mind to generate the upfront finance needed, just prelim costs of land and planning etc could be over a couple of million

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The B-Ark / Re: Structures?
« on: January 10, 2010, 09:54:51 AM »
Simple plans never equal simple execution!

How many pints of bateman do we need to sell to build a new stadium.

The club will be heavily debt ridden in any new stadium development.

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The B-Ark / Re: Structures?
« on: January 08, 2010, 04:01:53 PM »
Possibly much cheaper. The issue is where do we get £X million from?

For me the solution is.

1.Buy the ground
2.work up an out of town stadium, with a mixed use development
3.sell existing ground with permission for housing or supermarket/retail
4. Sell the ground at a premium with planning consent and vacant possession

you recoup the purchase price, and hopefully fund the new stadium through this sale, and income from mixed use.

There would be debt, but by having a 7 day a week facility thatcould be covered

simples!

Only downside is all the upfront outlay, and quite a but of risk on returns

mind you I was told today steel is running at £450 a tonne, very cheap, now is the time to buy some new stands!!

Dave.

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The B-Ark / Re: Salary holiday!
« on: January 07, 2010, 06:44:00 PM »
I think you values are a bit out of kilter. How can being in the league, and sending the club to the verge of extinction, ever be deemed as acceptable? I would rather we stayed in conference and be a legitimate club that could sustain a proper promotional push, like accrington, burton and many others who didn't lie and break the law to succeed

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The B-Ark / Re: Kendal
« on: January 06, 2010, 09:08:50 PM »
Thommo bought in Adam Boyd, evans got rid of him, what a master stroke, oh and evans got rid of jermaine Easter, I wouldn't say evans had any great ability to spot talent, he had noble on the bench too often. His tactic was more that if a trawler, he worked through dozens of players, by good fortune he would find some decent ones. Didn't he refer to noble as a performing seal? Always the motivator.

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The B-Ark / Re: Salary holiday!
« on: January 06, 2010, 05:59:12 PM »
Perhaps 'mr honest' can use some of that 50% salary cut he took when coming back to united to help pay off the fine to the fa, oh no maybe not as he is convicted cheat, and a proven fraudster, it's acceptable for him to lie and decieve.
He really is a first class wan*er,

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The B-Ark / Re: pitch inspection
« on: January 02, 2010, 11:32:10 AM »
Agree chris, all bar one bsp games where off I think.

Remember being in Scarborough a few years back and the game getting called off at 2.45!!!  So better plenty of advanced notice

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The B-Ark / Re: Structures?
« on: January 02, 2010, 11:29:19 AM »
Many factors affect costs. Morecambe are just starting to build a new stadium, having sold christie park, and now it has planning for a supermarket.

Ultimately our biggest issue is lack of assets. Southend, morecambe, tottenham, Bristol city, all in various stages of redevelopment or relocation, and all are linked to a supermarket deal, there are other clubs working withsupermarkets to relocate, in a way it's scary that it's the march of supermarkets funding development. Look at Chesterfield, Coventry, everton (failed)

we have nothing to trade with, apart from some old stands, therefore it will have to be self financing, either done in conjunction with another development, ie retail, or housing. I think a standalone stadium would be a financial challenge.
I would add Dave Newton know more about this than any of us!!

Anyway costs, perhaps on the cheap at £7 million, there has to be sufficent facilities to keep revenue flowing all week every week,

In terms of structure, we are adding a floor. So to install a mezz we have to raise the existing building, it's a real challenge in terms of structural design, and minimising the amount if support columns. I am extending an existing supermarket into an adjoining former homebase, which increases  the sales area from 37k sq ft to 100k sq ft. Really exciting stuff, it's the biggest extension we have ever done.

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The B-Ark / Re: pitch inspection
« on: December 31, 2009, 10:15:02 PM »
Good, and more bad weather to come, it will hopefully get worse for them

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