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forevertufc wrote:Have I fallen asleep and woken up in some parallel universe, someone please bang me backwards with a pole covered in razor wire just prove I'm still on planet earth. By the way you appear to have successfully answered your own question..

Lets try to help you out here. Yesterday you responded to a post I made in jest suggesting a connection with Norman Smurthwaite and Port Vale, which I wish to take no credit for, just following up on something that had been suggested by a number of other people.

You (mushroom) responded by saying and I quote.

"Well he or any of his people were not involved in our consortium THIS IS FACT
And looking at what a complete mess he has made of Port Vale you would not want that scenario here would you"
THIS IS SARCASM
You (mushroom) responded to a direct question from Mr Merson, I quote.

I have today spoken to Smurthwaite and he advised as follows

He was the money behind a group wishing to buy Club
As the owner of PVFC he personally could not own any shares but consulted The FL of his intentions and putting initially 1M in to fund Club
There were some conditions
All existing Management be severanced off
New Board be appointed
Micky Adams be appointed as Manager
Academy to be retained
The council agree that the Frehold be purchased at same time as Club
Although the Council would consider TUST would not revoke their application to place stadium as a community asset so time scales would be months not weeks which Phillips could not wait to be resolved
When DE bid became a reality Smurthwaite withdrew his interest although he has dialogue with Board mainly about Loan options and advice if needed
He wants to see Club back in LG2 and reinstate its Academy
He had no contact or dealings with Cox until loan was done for Nathan Smith
So to be clear there is no intention by him to be involved in Club sadly now or in the future

I said to today to George are you going to deny being either one of Simon Baker or Bill Phillips, like Mushroom denied Smurthwaite, you (mushroom) then said, I quote.


When did l deny anything about Smurthwaite



I showed you exactly where you denied Smurthwaite, and now you want to know what my point is, haven't got one to be honest. But I wasn't expected you, to lead yourself right up the garden path, you did that all on your own.

lucy6lucy wrote:Well at least show the link

PhilGull wrote: https://x.com/smurfpvfc
Unless the sweetie jar tweet is a cryptic comment I can't see anything there about us...

PhilGull wrote: https://x.com/smurfpvfc
Unless the sweetie jar tweet is a cryptic comment I can't see anything there about us...

mushroom wrote: But no we should bury our head in the sand discussing our relegation chances but in reality we will be luck to get past end of October

George wrote:The budget is already over 600k and weve not even got halfway through the season. I know this to be true and two seprate people have confirmed it. As a minimum attendances are going to have to average 2000 for the club to come close to breaking even. Realistically the only other big cash boost is going to be a player sale for a five figure fee , hardly likely, or a run in the fa cup and getting a televised tie. The basingstoke united game is bigger than most people realise as the club needs financial luck because the board have rejected possible investment already since they took over

westyorkshiregull wrote:You over analysing and stating the obvious. obvious from the very outset that everything was going to be tight , going to be touch and go , going need the little extra boost in revenue if we can get it. Go back climb in your hole