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Blue tinted optimist⭐
Look, this is not a pro Ron, blue tinted (or should I say blue rinsed with that hair!) statement and I, like many others have been feeling increasingly disillusioned at the off field events of this season.
But one thing is blatantly obvious - we have no idea of actually what is going on behind the scenes!
As I have said before, if Ron is the crook and antichrist so many people think then there are several things that do not make sense here.
1) Ron Martin is a well educated and successful businessman. Therefore he will know that to spend next years season ticket sales in advance without having a plan on how to survive next year is just nonsensical and totally irresponsible financial planning. You cannot run any sort of business, let alone a property company, by employing such tactics. Property developers are probably the most financially astute businessmen around. We should actually be quite grateful we have someone with that level of knowledge and expertise at the helm.
2) There is absolutely no point is raising £2.1m to pay off a debt if we are going to go into administration a few weeks or months later. There is a reasonable school of thought that says he would not be able to outbid the consortium and would lose control but, as I understand it, if the club was owned by someone else he still owns the land and then would be the clubs landlord (of both RH and FF) with no vested interest in keeping the club alive so could milk the club for all it's worth, possibly even sending it into administration again and then buying it back.
3) He was happy we got the stay of execution today. Being a successful businessman isn't always about being open, honest and up front as then, in bad times, you can't get what you want. You have to be brash, sharp, decisive and generally not show your hand too much. It's a bit like a poker match. You never win anything by playing just the good hands and folding the rest. It's all about bluff and making your opponents think you have a stronger hand than you actually have. We would have probably gone under already under the control of many other owners.
4) Whilst the staff are clearly not happy at the wages issue, they still are giving everything for the club. If there was nothing on the horizon they would have given up or jumped ship long ago.
5) Webby isn't an idiot. He would not have come back unless there was something in it for a) him and b) the club.
All in all, there are many pieces of the jigsaw we don't and will never have but the signs are (to me, anyway) is that we are holding the enemy off until the cavalry arrives - and they are on their way.
Now, having said that, they may not arrive in time. But that is a wholly different scenario to there being no cavalry at all, which just doesn't add up for the reasons I have stated above.
So - it's tough, may get tougher BUT I do believe that it will all come good in the end - otherwise none of the actions taken so far make any sense at all.
But one thing is blatantly obvious - we have no idea of actually what is going on behind the scenes!
As I have said before, if Ron is the crook and antichrist so many people think then there are several things that do not make sense here.
1) Ron Martin is a well educated and successful businessman. Therefore he will know that to spend next years season ticket sales in advance without having a plan on how to survive next year is just nonsensical and totally irresponsible financial planning. You cannot run any sort of business, let alone a property company, by employing such tactics. Property developers are probably the most financially astute businessmen around. We should actually be quite grateful we have someone with that level of knowledge and expertise at the helm.
2) There is absolutely no point is raising £2.1m to pay off a debt if we are going to go into administration a few weeks or months later. There is a reasonable school of thought that says he would not be able to outbid the consortium and would lose control but, as I understand it, if the club was owned by someone else he still owns the land and then would be the clubs landlord (of both RH and FF) with no vested interest in keeping the club alive so could milk the club for all it's worth, possibly even sending it into administration again and then buying it back.
3) He was happy we got the stay of execution today. Being a successful businessman isn't always about being open, honest and up front as then, in bad times, you can't get what you want. You have to be brash, sharp, decisive and generally not show your hand too much. It's a bit like a poker match. You never win anything by playing just the good hands and folding the rest. It's all about bluff and making your opponents think you have a stronger hand than you actually have. We would have probably gone under already under the control of many other owners.
4) Whilst the staff are clearly not happy at the wages issue, they still are giving everything for the club. If there was nothing on the horizon they would have given up or jumped ship long ago.
5) Webby isn't an idiot. He would not have come back unless there was something in it for a) him and b) the club.
All in all, there are many pieces of the jigsaw we don't and will never have but the signs are (to me, anyway) is that we are holding the enemy off until the cavalry arrives - and they are on their way.
Now, having said that, they may not arrive in time. But that is a wholly different scenario to there being no cavalry at all, which just doesn't add up for the reasons I have stated above.
So - it's tough, may get tougher BUT I do believe that it will all come good in the end - otherwise none of the actions taken so far make any sense at all.
