Ten Bobsworth wrote:Thanks Sluffy. You are right, Eddie’s another ‘living the dream’.
I’ve reached no conclusions on what FV’s motives were or are except that I do believe Sharon fancied owning a footie club and that Michael James didn’t like the idea of BWFC going to the wall. There is, of course, the small matter of the c. £12 million of Tom Morris’s money PBP committed to keep BWFC afloat in 2016.
They haven’t taken any remuneration yet but they would be about as popular as Owen Oyston in Blackpool if they were to walk away awash with moolah having wangled a few million from the taxpayer on questionable pretexts.
Thanks Bob but I'm unsure what you refer to about me, Eddie and the dream?
I don't believe I've mentioned such recently but he does seemed to have put a considerable amount of his personal money into his passion of BWFC without much if any of a concern of ever getting it back.
I never understood his plans for the development around the club at the time as I thought the land could not be used for residential development, indeed iirc Eddie's plans never included such?
Clearly he had something in mind as again iirc, the Directors of Burnden Leisure at the time and apart from Gartside were all appointed to bring about this idea of a development.
Presumably he had the notion that the development in someway would be financially beneficial to BWFC.
I find it hard to believe Sharon wanted to be the owner of BWFC just because she fancied owning any old club, in that she could have done so elsewhere for considerably cheaper, far far easier and nearer to home for her and one not embroiled in constant debt management, inheriting points penalty, transfer embargo's and having no experience in football as to bring in Kenyon and Phoenix!
It simply doesn't stack up for me - so the only reasonable explanation I can find is that there was an ulterior financial motive why she fought so hard and paid vastly too much for BWFC.
I'm not saying she didn't fancy being a footy club owner, she's shown herself to be very capable in that respect, merely she could have proved herself far more easily and financially cheaper to her purse elsewhere.
As I've said already I believe the key to understand why Luckock is here and the recent dusting off of the development plans and the inclusion of significant residential properties to the proposal is the clincher as to why, for me.
Going back to Wanderlust for just a moment, he's several times posted about things 'smelling fishy', 'making negative insinuations about FV' and numerous other references to you and I putting forward that something very dodgy is going on - but the fact is we simply aren't and never have been.
I don't know where he gets those ideas from - then again I don't believe him to be rational in general.
I've no idea of PBP's position in all this. I guess if they were really unhappy they could call in the loan and/or put the car parks up for sale. The fact that they haven't suggest to me that either they have plenty of money and £12m sitting idle is nothing of a concern to them or they see a benefit from holding the cards that are already in their hand.
I also don't see FV walking away anytime soon as if they had that intention why are they putting the time and effort in with the proposed land developments?
As always time will tell us how things eventually unfolded.
An as for the innovation loan - how innovative would it be for the owners of a football club to change themselves into a property developer providing major employment and delivering significant new housing to the region?
That sounds very innovative to me!