Smurthwaite bloke

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Popularity at Port Vale ?

[Northumbiron]

Another cryptic post.

Stick some meat on the bones Fans!

[SST]

Certainly in the mix

[cassidystash]

Some startling similarities if we can trust Wiki!!!!

[Heath]

It’s a very sad tale as Cass points out on Wikipedia though one regular poster might be impressed with this example of his entrepreneurial ability:

“During this time the club was serving players unsold pies from matchdays in order to save money”.

According to Wikipedia.

At least they had some left!!

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Deereyme66

[SUFC_IRON_ART]

“Avoid at all costs” is about the only thing I can repeat from a respected Port Vale supporter.

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Cliff Byrne's Right Peg

[Siderite]

Out of the frying pan and into the fire.

[Awaywego]

?

[Cliff Byrne’s Right Peg]

You know full well Swann will sell to him out of spite rather than the local consortium.

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Grange Lane Iron

[Awaywego]

Will the smurthwaite bloke pass the fit and proper owner test?

[Anonymous]

Smurthwaite = small meadow (apparently)

[CMC]

No, no,no, no, no, no, no, no… don’t even go there

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Sanfran49

[Deereyme66]

Bullshitter: The Sequel

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CMC

[Grange Lane Iron]

“Favourite” to takeover according to a lot of rumours…..

[Ironfan]

Hope not

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/47686014.amp

[Ferrite]

Sounds like a charming bloke & a great club owner:

Port Vale the Norman Smurthwaite years – 2012 to 2019

[Iron-awe]

Dear me what a terrible owner, come on Simon and Ian keep pushing the prawn.

[RoamingBull]

Why would/is he interesting in the Iron?

[Sanfran49]

Buys in admin, brings out of admin and then sells at a profit . The car parks will have already gone to coolsilk I fear.

[Ironawe]

If he passes fit and proper then we really are in the shit. There is no footballing reason for him buying the club

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Grange Lane Iron, SODIron

[ironfromafar]

from a PV mate here …. STAY AWAY ..HES BAD NEWS .. WILL END UP WORSE THAN Swan ..if thats possible .. zero scrupples .. would sell his grannies false teeth .. he nearly got PV into admin and liquidized.

Im assuming my PV buddy is not a fan 5555 ,

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StainlessIron, Sanfran49, Grange Lane Iron, SODIron

[Ironfan]

Sadly, we’ll have no say as to who Swann sells the club to

[premier iron]

Anyone’s better than Swann

[Awaywego]

Can’t be all that bad if he can get plenty of pies in. “Buys in admin brings out of admin and sells at a profit” that sounds ok to me.

[MK Iron]

getting in pole position to give the next asshole your full support?

[Awaywego]

Of course, we all like pies get the simple things right and everything else will take care of itself. Who ate all the pies?

[MK Iron]

Every time I pass a full length mirror I can’t help thinking it must have been me.

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Awaywego

[WonderGoals]

The more I read about him the more he appears to be a near clone of Swann. I hope to god we don’t go down that route, he’s a con artist from what I can gather.

This guy is a another Swannster type. Promised one manager 400k for him to spend, few months later he voluntarily left Port Vale and they ended up signing a youngster on loan and a player from Leek Town for peanuts, he’s another that talks out of his back end.

[CMC]

RoamingBull wrote:

Why would/is he interesting in the Iron?

Sounds like a rumour planted by a club stooge to buy the current people in charge more time. That’s what most of them are – rumours made up.

Unless the Sharp/Elliott/Maza/Rahman etc. consortium succeeds the club is going to the wall.

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Cliff Byrne's Right Peg

[Cliff Byrne’s Right Peg]

Agreed CMC. People you think we are better off being bought by the likes of Smurfwaite and then sold for a profit in years to come need to get their head out of the clouds.

What would we be saying to Rochdale or Crawley fans if Swann was sniffing around their clubs?

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