Well I’m still sticking by what I heard from two colleagues who were in the next box to the Dell boys when they were over and they said to my coworkers that they were buying the club. For me FPP were interested in the club. What went wrong with the deal we don’t know after that. If all they were interested in was SD (after that **** performance on the radio) then we’re better off without them as their judgement is **** ;-)
FWIW I think people take him too literally .. he clearly isn't trained in managing a high profile organisation , where all utterances are forensically taken apart and taken as sacrosanct .. i still think he is a genuine guy wanting to get involved in higher level football ,but is taking a beating from the vocal side of our support for the last 10 years of ****e .. To turn this **** around needs far more time than he is being given .
Have got to the stage with SD that "Fool me once, shame on you! Fool me twice, shame on me!". As someone said elsethread - "watch what he does not what he says". I will await developments (and Smug getting back online)
Pretty sure you were telling us that he wasn't being truthful about his handling of parachute payments and paying Ellis Short
Yeah that's the way I took it (although he didn't say he spent all ouf it) but he certainly contradicted himself
He's a football fan gawd knows what we will end up with we he gets rid. Without him sorting out the financial and structural side of the club we would be in administration.
Main thing is that all this sh1te needs to stay on here and not spill into the stadium tomorrow. We have a very important match and the supporters need to support unequivocally (and vocally!)
I said pretty simply that Donald had (imo) made decisions that were poor and had led to an awful lot of money leaving the club at the most critical juncture. I also said that I felt the initial setup was potentially designed to obfuscate the sequences of events about who was getting what. It made it hard to know what was being done, but there were many times where his words were completely in line with what happened. I was simply trying to raise awareness, particularly about the April 2019 loan and the massive outstanding debt between Madrox and SAFC, that people were denying existed as late on as October.
I may be totally gullible, but everything he said and the way he put it across sounded fine by me. He will never give in depth details to everything, and he doesn't have to. I've always been one that if he did sell for a profit then so be it. He has done the work on the club by getting rid of the ****e left behind. Donald was too open via social media and it was always going to end in tears as there is always someone wanting to shoot you down at every opportunity. If the results on the pitch were a little bit better none of this may have happened.
It always does but then you think about it carefully and a lot doesn't add up. Then you look at what he actually does and that doesn't always fit his narrative
I think it's more down to the way he is. He is a fan, and you can tell he gets too excited with things and gets carried away. In the early days he had Methven reeling him in before he went too far. I think Nick Barnes hit the nail on the head the other day when he said that Donald wants to be liked, he's said that many things to different people that he's forgot what he's said and to who.
