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Discussion in 'Tottenham Hotspur' started by The RDBD, Jun 30, 2017.

  1. humanbeingincroydon

    humanbeingincroydon Well-Known Member

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  2. PleaseNotPoll

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    What a nutty stat for a 5'8" winger.
     
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  3. SpursDisciple

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    Depends how they define aerial success though. Most of those guys will be attacking headers in different areas of the pitch.
     
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  4. The RDBD

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    Indeed.
    For a goal scoring threat, given his height Moura has excellent
    header positioning/timing/technique.
     
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  5. humanbeingincroydon

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    I mean van Dijk isn't particularly brilliant defending crosses...
     
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    He reminds me of Les Ferdinand. Wins headers that he's got absolutely no right to against much taller players.
    Actually useful when defending our own box, too. This is why Son and Ndombele should be nowhere near it.
     
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  7. Dier Hard

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    Not sure why they and news outlets have stated “they’ve now had to ask questions in public”, everyone was pretty much aware of most of these questions that wanted answering anyway. But nonetheless, the THST are yet again trying to get the club to speak out.

     
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  8. "Thanks for that Brian"

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    As DH said, THST have published the strategic questions they think need to be answered by the Executive Board, despite the club refusing to meet with them recently.

    https://www.thstofficial.com/thst-news/strategic-questions-for-the-thfc-board

    Whether you support ENIC and/or Levy, or not, this stuff isn't going to go away and a continuing failure to engage with these questions will only serve to increase the dissatisfaction amongst a growing proportion of the fan base. These issues need to be addressed, if the club's going to continue to charge the highest prices in football. Failure to do so, will only be damaging to the club]s long term interests, although they may well suit ENIC's?

    Coincidentally it was another Joe Louis (Lewis) who once said "He can run but, he can't hide"...

    We shall see...
     
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  9. PleaseNotPoll

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    They're kinda stupid questions, though.
    They don't seem designed to elicit any sort of honest answer or constructive conversation.
    I can see why the club aren't interested.
     
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  10. "Thanks for that Brian"

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    Me too...we may well be seeing something different, though.

    The early ones are a bit lacking in specifics and whilst they probably need to ask them, they're easily sidestepped by a bit of well practised flannel. No's 6-12 (excluding no.7) are where the real grist lies. That's what needs clarifying, especially trying to separate out where THFC/ENIC/Tavistock and their respective interests begin and end and why?

    Currently, it looks as though THFC is acting as ENIC and vice versa.
     
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    Isn't 6 already public knowledge? They count as club revenue, don't they?
    7, as you say, is silly. They won't go into specifics in public, nor should they.
    10 (Super League) will just get fobbed off with an empty assurance without specifics.
     
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  12. "Thanks for that Brian"

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    They do...but it bleeds into no's 8 and 9. The wording needs to be worked on (it's not what THST do best) to try to get some understanding on what the club's up to.

    There have been transactions in property in Tottenham between various parts of the Tavistock/ENIC/THFC cabal and why some properties have been moved out of club ownership and others haven't is a mystery to interested and concerned outsiders. If our owners want to act as developers, they can do so in another name and buy out the club's ownership in the housing projects, as a start, because right now, we could do with some funds that are tied up in the long term, to suit ENIC.
     
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  13. The RDBD

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    As I said a while ago, there needs to be a parent entity, and sub-companies :

    1. THFC
    2. new WHL ltd
    3. X properties ltd

    THFC should be majority shareholders in #2 (nobody can take
    ownership of the stadium as an independent entity in a manner
    that conflicts with the needs of THFC) .

    THFC pays stadium rental fees to #2, agreed as appropriate
    (lessened by revenues accrued from all other non-THFC events
    held at the stadium etc) .

    #3 must be completely decoupled from 1 and 2.
    Which means acting exactly as Brian stated (Uncle Joe uses his
    own money to buy out the THFC holding, or invites other people
    in the property game to buy in) .
     
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  14. PleaseNotPoll

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    Is this the case now? I'm sure I read something about it a while back, but the specifics escape me.
     
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  15. The RDBD

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    No idea, but nothing commercially sensitive therein that could
    not be packaged into an "executive summary" slide pack
    to inform the layman about the hows and whys of any corporate
    structuring.
     
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  16. humanbeingincroydon

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    Here's an important question for the THST

    As recently as the summer of 2019, the Lunatic Fringe kept yelling you were puppets of Levy and ENIC and should be ignored. How does this fit in with your current attempts at portraying yourself as La Resistance through the sort of stunts that Joe Lycett would think were a bit much?
     
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  17. humanbeingincroydon

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    Oh no, admin's doing memes again...
     
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  18. PleaseNotPoll

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    Not exactly the club, but it does affect us:
     
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  19. humanbeingincroydon

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    So which manager who moans about wanting more subs still only used a maximum of three?
     
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  20. humanbeingincroydon

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    I'm sure it's a coincidence this hasn't been mentioned...
     
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