As a layman and lacking any knowledge or experience in the above....my feeling is that this "takeover" bid was purposely leaked.....which I feel was the last thing Simon Hallett would have desired. Simon has made it quite clear that he wanted finance brought into the club from a client who would be a minority share holder. This all singing and dancing bid....fronted by Gareth Bale is the opposite of what Simon Hallett was looking for.....and to lose control to such an organisation he would feel would be against everything that as a fan he believes in.
Well, well, well.........Adam Randell moving to Bristol City.....that was rather drawn out....less than a £1million....typical low price.
Well my flabber is totally gasted.....Gareth Bale and his mates have had interest in Cardiff turned down.....interest in Argyle was never on....What the hell is going on.......who came up with this Argyle interest in the first place.
Bale interested in Cardiff makes sense......but Bale interested in Argyle.....always seemed odd. All the major news outlets wrote the story.....no source denied it and.....Argyle said nothing.....and at the same time Randell leaves for peanuts. .
It’s the Great British Press Plym. Give them a whiff of certain things and their brains melt. Private equity is one of them. There’s nothing wrong with private equity, in its place. Football isn’t one of them. Cardiff or not, I don’t think this is private equity. Storm in a tea cup is the phrase that comes to mind. The thing you have to hang onto is that nobody at Argyle said anything about this. Trust the people you trust. It seems they were the same group that were in discussion with Argyle and those talks failed. Now they’ve failed with Cardiff. What do you learn from this? That they have an interest in clubs that have a particularly tribal following. Welsh obviously in the case of Cardiff and Janner and Cornish for Argyle. That says to me they’ve thought it through and well done to them. These finance people aren’t so dumb are they? If there’s one thing I resent about the current ownership BTW is that they ignore the many thousands who come across the Cornish border every Saturday. Janner Song my arse.
And the seagulls. I love seagulls, such beautiful fliers. But no Cornishman would feed them, unlike like the lady across the road.
Are you a little delirious with the heat at the moment notDistant..........can I welcome you to the LONGEST DAY OF THE YEAR.......yes I know it's still 24hrs long.......heading towards winter now....... You could have popped along to Stonehenge or because it's nearer Glastonbury this morning to welcome the summer solstice......forget the seagulls.
No traffic worries if you live at the end of a cul-de-sac like I does....90% of traffic here is just doing an 180 degree turn to get out of the road.....wide enough not to have to do a three point turn....even the dust cart can do it without having to shuffle to and fro.
My mates and I used to go to the Reading festival every year - jammed packed in a Transit van. How we scoffed at Glastonbury then - admission there was free for basically just Hawkwind tribute acts. How times have changed . I can’t go a day without a shower now and then we went 3 days without a flushing toilet. In fact, if rumours spread of a pub with a working toilet within a three mile radius, 50,000 people immediately set off to find it. Then there was the year one of our tents burnt during down. It took us 3 hours to persuade its owner we hadn’t just hidden it despite the obvious evidence of an oblong patch of burnt grass. What could have been going on in that tent that involved setting fire to something? It wasn’t cooking as we still had 3 day old pasties and farm cider with added dead rats in reserve. Next door, their 3-and-a-bit year old kid is up and has just choked on a sweet. What’s a 3-and-a-bit year old doing eating sweets at 7am? If you’re going to do that, shut the window for Chrissake. Shortly, I expect the men working on the roof of the house below us will fire up the angle grinder or whatever they were using yesterday. I hate living in the city no matter how good Stevie Wonder made it sound. How I yearn for the peace and quiet of the outer-edge of the London travel-to-work belt. I’ve stepped on my TV glasses during the night too. I must have knocked them off the bedside cabinet in the dark. Total write off. What am I going to watch the Test Match with now? And a very good morning to you too.
Oh the traffic isn’t outside: apart from the organic milk delivery at No 22 at 3am every day the street itself is quiet. But I can hear it….. And back In Commuterland, we all had our milk delivered but that was a 112 year old man with a proper electric float, not a race-tuned Transit van and a driver rejected by Amazon for driving too fast.
Oh and our postman was a dead-ringer for Father Christmas. He lived in the village and drove an XJ6. Not to deliver the post obviously. I suppose he did it to get paid for his daily exercise.
And we were going to BBQ this evening….. but now it’s raining. What was that Lou Reed song? Perfect Day….?
What I remember of the days of milk deliveries....is being woken up in the middle of the night....by a clumsy hedgehog who used to enjoy knocking over our empty milk bottles....during his nightly trek past our front door.
Talking about the lack of rain around here......one of my next door neighbours has been watering his front and rear gardens every day with sprinkler hoses....both at the same time.....I dread to think what his water meter is reading. The reason he is doing this is last summer he spent £thousands on landscaping front and rear....two lawns , flower beds , shrubs and trees.....and he has the landscapers come along to cut the grass and keep up the borders every fortnight.....I swear blind he doesn't know what a pair of secateurs or a lawnmower are. He has hedged his front garden with a shrub that can grow up to 10ft tall and bush out to over 6ft wide.....they are already restricting my parking in my drive....I have to park well over one side of my drive so that I can open my car door wide enough to get out.....and these shrubs are quite young in their growth after only one year. I have a few the same in my back garden and they cost me £49.99 each....I reckon there must be 50 of them planted.....work that out for youself. He sits in his front room in the winter in his vest because he is too hot....I kid you not.....thermostats are unknown next door. This is the same chap who had his Range Rover stolen and it was found in Essex by the police....who charged him for transferring back to a Kent Police Compound and then he had to spend out again to have it picked up and brought home......plus having to spend £thousands to have the damage put right that the thieves had caused......he generally left his car keys unprotected in the hall....the thieves just zapped them from the road and damaged his vehicle tracking equipment in the boot so it couldn't easily be found.....he now protects his keys in a proof container and also uses an old fashion steering wheel clamp. He sold his vintage Bentley last year (did roughly a 100 miles a year in it) because it was restricting his use of his double length garage. He is retired now and he had a building firm and has property all over the area......he lives obviously on another planet to most of us in our cul-de-sac. Believe it or not I get on quite well with him.....he's a month older than me but worked up till he was 85 ?....and by chance he and his wife have the same christian names as us. May be I should have written this in the "other stuff" pages....but I blame notDistant for using this Summer page. Of course he's got a personal number plate.....a three letter christian name followed by a single number........the thieves got rid of that quite quickly I would have thought. Phew.....I feel a bit better now.
My mistake: it's doing it on the phone: not so clear where you are. I think this is allowable: Gareth Bale is a busy boy... it seems the consortium he's fronting for are still interested in Cardiff City and presumably therefore, not in Argyle. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cd78nyzrjd0o
This pedantic placing of the ball for corners so that the ball only just breaks the white line is getting silly. Been watching the Spain v England U21 match......the keeper now takes goal kicks the same way.....but Spains penalty was placed similarly ......surely that means the kick is being taken within the 12 yards or metric equivalent of the required distance.
