Re: Wakefield 's New backer : Sun Sep 19, 2010 7:05 pm  

It's hardly moderate for a business with little in the way of assets, no guaranteed imediate futureaftwr next season, no or little control over the ground situation (brink is optimistic, despite your and others hard work, even you must think brink is a bit talking it up!)
I know I'm being devils advocate, but anecdotes state, ted has a track record for saying he wants to sell and then doing what he can to put people off.
To me it's a lot for not a lot if it goes T*** up at the end of this season, at the start of thus franchise fare enough or at the begining of a succesful application this time around, but in the current surcumstances I think it's another of the anacdotes.

Re: Wakefield 's New backer : Sun Sep 19, 2010 7:14 pm  

kinleycat wrote:

It's hardly moderate for a business with little in the way of assets, no guaranteed imediate futureaftwr next season, no or little control over the ground situation (brink is optimistic, despite your and others hard work, even you must think brink is a bit talking it up!)
I know I'm being devils advocate, but anecdotes state, ted has a track record for saying he wants to sell and then doing what he can to put people off.
To me it's a lot for not a lot if it goes T*** up at the end of this season, at the start of thus franchise fare enough or at the begining of a succesful application this time around, but in the current surcumstances I think it's another of the anacdotes.

I didn't say that the amounts would all go to Ted himself - rather it's the amount required to finance the running of the club. If it were a couple of Coke ring-pulls and a Mars Bar - I'd be in there, but sadly it isn't!

Re: Wakefield 's New backer : Sun Sep 19, 2010 7:29 pm  

No I know you didn't, and I know it will be x amount for ted and x amount as a going concern to keep the business running.
But for a business that makes nada, I would hope that teds bit is not going to be too off putting to anyone with a genuine interest in taking the club forward, should there be anyone of course.

Re: Wakefield 's New backer : Sun Sep 19, 2010 8:19 pm  

TRB wrote:

There are 2 levels of investment which benefit the club to differing degrees. The first would be a low six figure sum - which would add to what we have and could result in a strengthening of the existing board with a view to handing over long term. The second would be a mid to high six figure sum, which would be sufficient to accomadate the existing arrangements with the banks and other ongoing commitments - such that a new BoD could take full control - if they wished to do so.

There maybe potential investors who would actually prefer to have Ted around, for a while at least, due to his knowledge and experience of running the club, but there may also be many who would prefer Ted to retire to the terraces. Whether any of them have sufficient, either singularly or together, to achieve either of the above is very much open to question at this time.

FWIW I consider the numbers involved to be extremely moderate for a top-division sporting organisation on the brink of moving to a new state-of-the-art home - but we are still challenged with finding someone who has even that amount of money. They have to exist in Wakey - have to!

oh give it a rest for god sake you are the clubs spokesman. get a grip

Re: Wakefield 's New backer : Sun Sep 19, 2010 8:49 pm  

Well at least we have one then!

Re: Wakefield 's New backer : Sun Sep 19, 2010 9:04 pm  

kinleycat wrote:

Well at least we have one then!

Re: Wakefield 's New backer : Sun Sep 19, 2010 9:37 pm  

MOPSEY LIVES ON wrote:

oh give it a rest for god sake you are the clubs spokesman. get a grip

Not gonna happen - not anytime soon anyway.

There's nothing controversial in what I have said, so why do you have a problem with it? If Ted's in charge, then I guess he's the beneficiary of my efforts, if someone else is in charge, then it will be them - it's the club I'm mainly interested in.

That doesn't mean I can't have a lot of respect for what Ted has done / is doing, even now, when everything seems to be going against him - in fact his resilliance very much mirrors one of the better qualities that our club is known for!

Re: Wakefield 's New backer : Mon Sep 20, 2010 11:07 am  

I respect your loyalty, but anyone in the know can see how poorly our club is run. Its incestuous and if it were not for the loyal band of volunteers the club would collapse.

TRB wrote:

Not gonna happen - not anytime soon anyway.

There's nothing controversial in what I have said, so why do you have a problem with it? If Ted's in charge, then I guess he's the beneficiary of my efforts, if someone else is in charge, then it will be them - it's the club I'm mainly interested in.

That doesn't mean I can't have a lot of respect for what Ted has done / is doing, even now, when everything seems to be going against him - in fact his resilliance very much mirrors one of the better qualities that our club is known for!

Re: Wakefield 's New backer : Mon Sep 20, 2010 11:45 am  

not again wrote:

I respect your loyalty, but anyone in the know can see how poorly our club is run. Its incestuous and if it were not for the loyal band of volunteers the club would collapse.

To be fair, the same could be said for every Rugby League club

Re: Wakefield 's New backer : Mon Sep 20, 2010 3:09 pm  

i agree, but from a top 5 finish to 11th and unable to attract any real quality. The club has gone back years from where we were last year.

charlie wrote:

To be fair, the same could be said for every Rugby League club