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Reply | Nevett and Hayes
at 17:39 11 Jan 2025
Matty Lund (now 34) starts for Salford at the Etihad |
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Reply | Pitch update
at 14:22 11 Jan 2025
My question referred to "how" the pitch refurb will be funded, not by whom
The answer to that is perfectly obvious, so why raise it?
When the Ogdens took over, c.9 million ordinary £1 shares were issued, an amount which was presumably carefully calibrated to provide stability and an initial small boost to team-building alongside other projects
What would be of legitimate interest is whether there's sufficient leeway within that initial stabilising funding of the club to cover the refurb or whether the Ogdens may be obliged to add to that amount
The answer would come in due course, when the next financial accounts are published to shareholders (or further shares are issued). In the meantime, it'd help explain any reticence in funding the team or other initiatives, which is why transparency is often the better option
Hope that clears the January fog for you 
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Reply | Pitch update
at 23:35 10 Jan 2025
That begs the question then: why raise the issue of how work on the pitch will be funded?
My post was in reply to your question; "Who do you think will be covering the cost...?"
You're now suggesting the club shouldn't provide that info, so why even ask? 
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Reply | Pitch update
at 20:19 10 Jan 2025
Wouldn't it just be easier if the club, in the same spirit of open communication, just told us? |
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Reply | Games tomorrow
at 13:26 10 Jan 2025
Why should anyone but a Biffo be worried?
Isn't it to Dale's advantage if they have a fixture pile up (and we're not far off one) |
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Reply | Project 5000
at 14:35 9 Jan 2025
Thanks
It'd be wiser (i think) to call our current 'project' Project 3000
Then take it from there |
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Reply | Project 5000
at 13:58 9 Jan 2025
Whilst on the topic, which season saw the highest average number of home fans, since (the year) 2000? |
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Reply | Coleman new Gills Manager
at 13:03 8 Jan 2025
He's 55 now, after a career spanning nearly four decades during which he's been earning above-average wages for most of that time. There may also be legacy (family) income
There's a view that X-amount of money is required to live a reasonable lifestyle, but if he's mortgage-free and has looked after his money there's no reason to suspect he'll be anything other than 'comfortable' by now
If he really needed to work, i've no doubt he'd be able to find it in some capacity (other than occasional radio work) even if perhaps in a lesser role than he's been used to. It therefore depends on what you mean by "need to work" |
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Reply | Pitch update
at 10:03 7 Jan 2025
Yeah, we know that
It must, however, never be used as an excuse for complacency going forward. In fact, just the opposite
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Reply | No coach to Stockton
at 09:25 7 Jan 2025
I've said it before, but it looks to me as if SG has fed his co-chair with his own line on the fanbase. It'll take something major for us to change that
My earlier comment was, of course, tongue in cheek
I'm not even sure that, having been tasked by his father with stabilising the club and putting a business plan in place to move towards Dale becoming a true community club, CO understands the community. His life from birth has been very different from his father's. That's no criticism whatsoever (how can it be?) but simply a reflection on how a disconnect can occur
The question is: what can be done to change that? I've referenced the way in which the Golden Share issue impacts upon all this. It needs to happen, and whilst the Trust obtained an answer to my question by way of "being written into the articles of association" and "consulting other clubs who've done this" how long does that take? It could - and should - have happened by now. The takeover by the Ogdens took much less time [Post edited 7 Jan 9:27]
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Reply | No coach to Stockton
at 20:00 6 Jan 2025
It's just badly worded, but it reads as if the club are answering a question on behalf of the Trust
Definitely not a Freudian slip |
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Reply | Pitch update
at 17:16 4 Jan 2025
I was probably thinking of an hiatus in fixtures, ending with a 1-1 draw against Hartlepool; may have been the 78/79 gap
The odd thing i remember is that the gate against Hartlepool was around 1900, which everyone thought was a huge success given our average at the time [Post edited 4 Jan 17:18]
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Reply | Pitch update
at 16:35 4 Jan 2025
I'm guessing that'll be a club (mid-season) record?
There was an extended period of severe weather in the late 70s? when we didn't have a home game of any description, between something like New Year and March, but the same applied to a lot of clubs |
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Reply | Pitch update
at 11:19 4 Jan 2025
IMO the Golden Share is being used as leverage for compliance by the Trust - even if not explicitly
Until that issue is sorted, i doubt there will be much pushback on behalf of the fans [Post edited 4 Jan 11:22]
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Reply | Pitch update
at 20:55 3 Jan 2025
It's time the Ogdens asked a few hard, business-like questions of the way the club is being run on a day-to-day basis
If only they knew it, the fanbase would be behind them all the way. I suspect they've been sold a false picture of us, and the way the Trust fails to intelligently challenge at board level will have done nothing to alter that view
Perhaps it does need a minor catastrophic fixture pile-up to change things. The manager and players can't be at all happy about this, having given up the Xmas/NY celebrations to continue training only for incompetence and lack of foresight to waste their efforts. The weather is one thing; a lack of planning and provision for it another |
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