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ferrarilover wrote:That's like demanding to know Tesco's MD's salary because you shop there. It's fu<k all to do with you, or me, or anyone apart from him and his God.

hector wrote: You're right of course; the club is a private business.

But then not many private businesses would have the gall to ask its customers to simply hand over money for nothing in return. The Players Fud would be the equivalent of going to the cinema and paying the entry price and simply saying, 'Hey, have the rest of my wallet contents as well. I don't even want a bag of minstrels in return.'

It is disingenuous at best.

So if the club is a private business whose concerns are nothing to do with us, then let it be. Let us see how far it gets without the keyboard w@nkers and terrace fodder and Alpine's troublemakers of TUST. Let's see how much 'their' private business is worth without the very people it depends on.

TUFC would fold tomorrow if the fans walked away. It is just a name after all. Once the parasites consume the body there is nothing left of what was there before they came. Once GI and Masters finish their feeding frenzy, TUFC will be gone and whilst it is lumbers on, dying before our very eyes, perhaps we, as fans, should take some control ourselves by pulling the plug and starting again so it really is OUR club.

Plainmoor78 is correct, in a different thread, when he suggests TUST should focus on buying the ground. GI wouldn't be interested in TUFC if there was no ground to try and buy and profit from. GI giving TUFC that loan was akin to drug pushers giving kids free heroin, in the hope they get hooked and the club went shuffling like some addict, rolling their sleeve up ready for the big hit and now they are screwed.

hector wrote:Merse suggests again on BPIR that he has been tipped off this morning that it is a done deal and that GI/Masters consortium will take over with Tully as manager. This is the second time he has stated this and I wouldn't bet against it being true.

It's obvious anyway that Masters/GI are behind a lot of stuff and it is the worst possible outcome in my view. I just hope Torbay Council refuse to sell them the ground but watch the charm offensive that the Herald will no doubt fall for when the campaign for the ground to be sold mounts up.

Protecting a senior football team in Torquay for the long-term depends on the ground not falling into the clutches of Masters/GI. We might be vulnerable now - but watch how desperate it becomes once the sharks get their teeth into our club.

ferrarilover wrote:He also reckons that Manse's return is a done deal.

A Venn diagram of Things Merse Actually Knows and Things Merse Claims To Know would be two circles about 8,000,000 miles apart.

Matt.

Dazza wrote:
I don't really comprehend the seeming dislike in every forum of Masters, senior or junior. The Truro ground clearly sits in an area of Truro that will see development in the coming years. I can't see he can yet be accused of selling that club short by looking to do a deal with the site.. Truro are probably as high up the pyramid as they can achieve given their geographical position and as I see it he is still looking to secure a future for it. I'm not sure he can yet really be acused of asset stripping at the clubs expense. Yes he clearly is a developer by profession and probably instinct but he certainly seems to me more of a football man than GI.