samjones":78me59qj said:Giving the grandstand a lick of paint is hardly bringing us into the millennium
edengreen":1uxddu9r said:EMILLE MPENZA !
Biggs":21va15r2 said:samjones":21va15r2 said:Giving the grandstand a lick of paint is hardly bringing us into the millennium
You're right, it isn't.
However, a new roof, reseating everywhere, new offices and club shop, new dressing rooms and press facilities, entirely new hospitality and conferencing facilities, new toilets, a complete gutting and rebuilding of the lower tier, a wholly reconfigured layout of tunnel AND a lick of paint might just do it.
You really do stink this place out sometimes.
Dalton Is God":189qow0k said:PL2 3DQ":189qow0k said:It begs the question - what did we get for £17 million worth of debt? No promotion to the Premier League and no state of the art training facilities or good infrastructure.
A new pitch!
ghost of hughie reed":1idh2by3 said:Shame we never got in the Seaton Barracks site for a training ground.
Nothing doing at Sherford presumably.
Whats happened with Seale Hayne ?
Andy Holland":1j081qux said:PL2 3DQ":1j081qux said:We probably lost up to 10 years due to the administration period and the Stapleton era where the focus was spending money on player wages rather than infrastructure. The last accounts from the previous regime in 2009 showed we paid 87% of our turn over on player wages and 74% the season before that. It didn't leave much money to invest in facilities and infrastructure, if any at all.
It begs the question - what did we get for £17 million worth of debt? No promotion to the Premier League and no state of the art training facilities or good infrastructure.
We are playing catch up now and the responsibility to upgrade our facilities has fallen on the current board.
I've often wondered that myself.
We certainly didn't spend £17m on anything material...where the hell did it all go?
I might be wrong but didn't we only pay a penny in the pound for the pitch? Didn't the firm go to the wall too?Penmaster":281bsnwu said:Andy Holland":281bsnwu said:PL2 3DQ":281bsnwu said:We probably lost up to 10 years due to the administration period and the Stapleton era where the focus was spending money on player wages rather than infrastructure. The last accounts from the previous regime in 2009 showed we paid 87% of our turn over on player wages and 74% the season before that. It didn't leave much money to invest in facilities and infrastructure, if any at all.
It begs the question - what did we get for £17 million worth of debt? No promotion to the Premier League and no state of the art training facilities or good infrastructure.
We are playing catch up now and the responsibility to upgrade our facilities has fallen on the current board.
I've often wondered that myself.
We certainly didn't spend £17m on anything material...where the hell did it all go?
That £17 million debt so if you had on the £6 million or so for Halmosi, Gosling, SEB, Norris and Buzz then we are really looking at £23 million that has disappeared with only a new pitch to show for it which I beleive was half a million.
All unsecured creditors received 0.77p for each £1.with-menace":24y9j7jo said:I might be wrong but didn't we only pay a penny in the pound for the pitch? Didn't the firm go to the wall too?Penmaster":24y9j7jo said:Andy Holland":24y9j7jo said:PL2 3DQ":24y9j7jo said:We probably lost up to 10 years due to the administration period and the Stapleton era where the focus was spending money on player wages rather than infrastructure. The last accounts from the previous regime in 2009 showed we paid 87% of our turn over on player wages and 74% the season before that. It didn't leave much money to invest in facilities and infrastructure, if any at all.
It begs the question - what did we get for £17 million worth of debt? No promotion to the Premier League and no state of the art training facilities or good infrastructure.
We are playing catch up now and the responsibility to upgrade our facilities has fallen on the current board.
I've often wondered that myself.
We certainly didn't spend £17m on anything material...where the hell did it all go?
That £17 million debt so if you had on the £6 million or so for Halmosi, Gosling, SEB, Norris and Buzz then we are really looking at £23 million that has disappeared with only a new pitch to show for it which I beleive was half a million.