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Put another way, Woking have to get 2 wins and 2 draws plus any points we get in these last 4 matches to beat us. That will time out very quickly.

MellowYellow wrote: ↑18 Jan 2019, 21:10 I'll buy into that - informative and well balanced piece

+1 as they say on [s]fori[/s] forums.

Chris

United62 wrote: ↑30 Nov 2018, 10:49 Andy, we don't do 'down' when travelling with Torquay.

I tend to default to railway terminology, where in all cases you go Up to London, even from the North. So to go to Tooting or Mitcham today, we go Up to London then , erm, Down to Tooting.

Simple really. =Z

In my opinion all this needs to be looked at from a business angle. Quite clearly GO is trying to stem the haemorrhage of money which he has been funding to date. Either TUFC has to be wound up or serious money pumped in. He has obviously decided on the latter course and must believe that the Club does have a profitable future.

He will have calculated the fallout, should the club go bellyup, from the Council, fans and electorate. I have no reason to doubt that the usual business calculations apply to all this, particularly a risk analysis.

Of course this does not mean that our future is assured, and we must remain vigilant about new stadia and how to secure the Club's long term viability. But for the moment I am willing to applaud his decision and the investment he has made, and am pleased that he is already seeing some return in the form if increased gates and FA Cup matches.

Southampton Gull wrote: ↑23 Oct 2018, 22:16 I love grammar Nazis, just saying

I am sure the Woking FA Cup match will be the happiest for a long time.

There. I feel better now.

Chris

I thought their Nans were playing for Lymington.

Osborne may want the freehold of Plainmoor to do a similar thing as at Eastville - put a supermarket on it. Covenants can be overturned - supermarket chains have big clouts and lots of money. A town near me - Wimborne - has Waitrose on the old Cricket ground. They bought out opposition by providing a public green space running down along a stream beside the store.

Reading the TUST tweets tonight it seems that there was another example of the distasteful alliance between the Mayor and Clarke Osborne this evening. The mayor took the Mic from GO to say " Plainmoor was not on the agenda" - preventing questions on the subject.

It was sickening enough to have the Gordon Oliver Trophy set up with absolutely no connection with the Club ...until now. So what is the connection? Maybe someone who knows how to investigate such things could start digging into what the relationship actually is? After all I doubt the Mayor is doing this just to get his name on a Trophy.

Chris

Through all this nobody in the Club either on the field or off it gives a damn about the money that is taken from fans week in week out. In other areas of business the board would be fired on block by the shareholders and underperforming staff got rid of.

Not here, as long as a player puts his togs on and runs about on the pitch a bit he gets his dosh.

In my view there is a very big issue looming before anyone can think about the squad next year. It's simply how much dosh there will be available to run the club.

It seems we will keep full time players and Owers will stay. But without doubt income will dive, so unless CO is going to fund an even bigger deficit, how will the Club be funded?

Is there really going to be enough money to fund all the existing management of Harrop, Owers and co? The first thing that should happen is for the cost-cutting knife to slice through that lot and if CO is first and foremost a businessman I'll be very surprised if that doesn't happen.

hector wrote: ↑16 Apr 2018, 19:48 I own the domain names to www.rivierastadium.com and www.rivierastadium.co.uk

I know it's petty and rather futile but they were only 99p.

Not wanting to push you Hector, but when are you going to start building? It's just that I know someone who might be interested.

Caldwellanddobson wrote: ↑16 Apr 2018, 08:12 Stadia is the plural of stadium. When one is writing of an individual football ground it should be referred to as a stadium. For two or more football grounds stadia would be the correct term. Sorry, but failure to use the correct term annoys me.

In Osborne's case it is unlikely that the word stadia will ever be required.

No . Woking are not playing on Tuesday (according to the BBC). So it will go on at least till next Saturday. If Barrow win on Tuesday and next Saturday that will be it.

AFC FYLDE wrote: ↑06 Apr 2018, 13:37 The name is

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See you next tuesday

OK Floyd

We can probably understand how West Ham fans feel, although I wouldn't support their actions. At one point they gathered below the Directors` Box chanting `sack the board` and `you destroyed our club`.