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The nature of social media. Yesterday riled people and their emotions were taken out on others. There will be some who will now give Gareth stick over this, but it will blow over for some. Gareth hasn’t helped himself by engaging in it secretly without the others in his podcast knowing. They have taken some flak too even though they did nothing, while Becky and Barra were quite vocally against it.

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The list is interesting. Some are obvious why they have interest, in that they are former league clubs, like us, who have fallen on harder times (Hartlepool, York, Torquay), but why were Hampton & Richmond on there? Seems a bit off field for it to be some random pick of clubs to include them if it was done to make it seem more legit.

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I remember when boardroom splits were ‘rumours’ from those who chatted shit.

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Dragoniron wrote:

who’s this Gareth muppet?

The vlogger who also laid out the red carpet for dodgy Dave in their softball interview 2 years ago.

Imagine being a podcast that made a song and dance about how Bru are Swann lovers only to be more accommodating to a spiv and then have the lead guy jump for a gimmick that would rip the soul out of the club.

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The pitch was naivety. This was premediated stupidity that anyone with a brain could see through. Yet it was entertained for months and got to a stage where a deal was in place. Amazing.

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Probably thought the fanbase would except anything they brought along there’s being very little throwback on what they’ve introduced up to now.

Easy to see why when so many swallowed Hilton’s guff.

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Poor Ian Sharp. He thought he could run the club so much better on his own whim, but all that planning and sly hints leads to it going belly up in a day.

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https://x.com/MurrayEngSys/status/1903906523681873983

The sponsors are getting worried.

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Swann was many things, but he didn’t raid company’s money and put it in his own bank account like some spiv. There was some money at the club in Jan 23 so far as I am aware.

He did put the Club’s stadium in his back pocket, though.

I am not denying that or saying Swann was a good owner.

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Swann was many things, but he didn’t raid company’s money and put it in his own bank account like some spiv. There was some money at the club in Jan 23 so far as I am aware.

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I believe your suggesting the club get their income from attendances Siderite!

If that is what your suggesting it just doesn’t ring true, Hilton was only in charge a week with one home games revenue (obviously minus season ticket holders money that Swanny received) by the time the tax bill wad paid before the 30th jan that led to the transfer embargo to be lifted.

Must have been one hell of a bank account in the black that Swanny left him lol. How benevolent of him, makes you wonder why he would why he would leave all that money when the taxman would have got it anyway when the club was wound up it just doesn’t make sense.

Who’s told you all this guff?

The money at the club available wasn’t from one game’s attendance. It didn’t start from £0.00.

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Some of it was. More of it was then acquired, hence the CCJs. It shouldn’t be too hard to work out where the money came from given where it gets its income and that the club wasn’t bone dry of cash in Jan 23. It wasn’t from the generosity of Dave’s pockets though, even though he loved to claim it.

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Not with his own money he didn’t.

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I guess £3 counts as some money, but you’re right in that he still has some way to go to match Hilton’s depravity.

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From hero to zero. Sharp is up there with Swann and Hilton now among some.

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I suspect this is not so Sharp and the biker CEO. I don’t think Roj or Michelle would have entertained this, but with not so Sharp, the CEO and maybe George Aitkenhead, they are outvoted. All my opinion.

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https://www.fc100000.com/takeover-plan/ – Really fills me with confidence when this website looks like a failed GCSE project.

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Mr Free Speech Musk is also banning Turkish government opposition accounts from twitter.

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I get the impression that some (e.g. CEO) doesn’t seem to prioritise maintaining strong relations with others when making his decisions.

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They sometimes don’t help themselves either, like when Gareth had a ramble on twitter when Michelle Harness agreed to do a Bru podcast.

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I don’t get why they couldn’t have had The Smoking Goat as the outdoor burger outlet among the pizza, Greek food and churros. That way it would be promoting them and bringing in something extra for the day.

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The MAGA totalitarian state is shaping up well. You’re Latino? Well, you can be sent off to where you come from with no legal challenge, even if you’re unsafe. And we’ll claim you’re a gangster on spuriuous reasoning.

https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1902700514556424488

Amazing to see MAGA not care about the rotten Maduro regime in Venezuela either. That was the leftist darling and conservatives used to (rightfully) point out its horrors. Now it’s a fine country for anyone to just go back to.

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I hope Rene gets the bookies’ odds out for iron414 to make a post over the next 48 hours after a few months of silence.

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There are many in the upper echelons of religious institutions who have covered up and decided, quite immorally, that they’d rather try and protect the reputation of the church by hushing it and hoping everyone stays quiet. This is not unique to religion, but has been a common trait of all sex abuse scandals. There is a hypocrisy here from these religious people who preach morality, but I don’t see how it’s relevant to bpg’s post. Bpg has always stated a dislike of the C o E and Catholic church, for one, so would say that he agrees that these institutions are misguided, lukewarm or not true Christians.

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The child sex abuse in various churches is and was a horrendous affair and one which the culprits used the power gained through their religious position to manipulate trust and browbeat any concerns with how’ moral’ they are. However, it isn’t the only source for child abuse, as seen with football clubs for example. I find BPG to be very wrongheaded, but it’s unfair to use this against him or others here. I don’t think it’s that relevant and just seems an excuse to attack him and others for their faith.

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All crimes are there ‘for our own good’. If it’s a scary totalitarian state to have laws at all we’d have chaos under anarchy. No murder, fraud, theft, rape or other crimes could be punished because laws ‘for our own good’ is apparently totalitarianism.

This doesn’t mean that this law is good, but arguing against enacting laws because laws that consider how others are treated are evil communism is a daft argument. I am also not inclined to take anyone seriously about totalitarian states coming when they are support the ever growing authoritarian rhetoric and rulings coming from the USA.

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Underestimating the opponent worked well with Warrington Ryelands and Guiseley after all.

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Aye, thanks for the reminder. So, the idea was even more stupid than attendance issues.

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Makes you wonder how many would have dropped off if we’d made the ‘sensible idea’ of sharing with Gainsborough. Sure, we’re a bigger club and it’s nearer, but there would have been a decrease.

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At least we have a pitch, as bad as it is, and if there were issues, maybe the Farsley owner could have done some desk studies and research into likely hazards with the site before going for it without much thought? You know, like how any reputable company would when doing something like that? And if he did, he obviously didn’t do that good a job. Also, nowhere did I claim he was fleecing, but it’s easy to make straw men.

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