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Ground share with a rugby club or renewed offer to the Hockey stadium would be the smart move imo
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Cool post.Still wrong wrote: ↑Sat May 29, 2021 11:40 amReally?Ronnie Hotdogs wrote: ↑Sat May 29, 2021 11:23 amYep, Championship then sell is my take as well. Why no one will say so though is baffling - I’d much rather that than fabricated tales of their soccer, sorry I mean football experiences at Chicago Wolf Cubs or Queens of Park Rangers or whatever.BiggsyMalone wrote: ↑Sat May 29, 2021 11:02 am
This is the plan, I’m convinced of it. I think Eagle/Nigel will keep 25% control in the club after the sale and remain on the board as a safeguard as and when that happens.
Maybe even one of these investors will be the one to buy it.
Nigel is obviously excluded from that. The Money Guys are always gonna do their thing, but with Nigel - and just as importantly, his son - so heavily involved, we’ll be fine. I don’t see Nigel selling either, looks like his son is ready to take it on when the time comes.
I didn’t notice a similar interest in Wycombe and Rotherham when they got promoted to the Championship.
To survive and prosper in the Championship will take over a 100 million in donations.
Can’t see anybody rushing to take that off their hands.
All seems too good to be true, and we all know what that means.
Wycombe have a American owner who has run the club very sensibly and has not chased the dream.
Loses of just over a million before the pandemic. Now sees that running at over 2 million, which he now admits is not substainable.
You keep on running with that, how no one is ever going to pump money into Orient, despite a stream of people who keep on turning up from nowhere and pumping money into Orient.
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which rugby club? The hockey stadium has crossed my mind, and I'm sure Nigel's as well. It would be ironic if we ended up there after all that time.
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Apologies for trying to have a sensible chat with an idiot. My bad.Ronnie Hotdogs wrote: ↑Sat May 29, 2021 11:18 amI didn’t. Try reading properly. Sad.Dohnut wrote: ↑Sat May 29, 2021 11:16 amHow did you get £2.7m combined? I’ve Not watch it all yet. But was that just the new investors and is that the total sum of their commitment over time. I’ve read £8.7m has been raised.Ronnie Hotdogs wrote: ↑Sat May 29, 2021 11:03 am Is that all they’ve put in, £2.7m combined?
In which case, I look forward to welcoming the new new investors in May 2022.
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Toxic social Media ?
Damn we need to Thicken those skins up a bit .
Toxic is watching your club get dumped out of Division 2 & Then Division 3
Losing to Enfield Town in the 1st round of the F.A cup over 3 games .
Or Humiliation losing to Maldon & Tiptree
Growing up supporting the unpopular club while surrounded
by the arrogance of Spam Spud & Goon .
The Italian Circus & everything that came with it !
Toxicity , Nah this is just letting off a bit of steam &
Winding up of the Leftie Rightie brigades .
This place is like Captain Sobel from Band of Brothers .
We may Hate it at times .
But it Was The First easily accesible internet space
To discuss or read anything Leyton Orient F.C other than
a once weekly local Gazette/Recorder/Guardian type paper
Or at most 2 lines in 1 of the daily nationals ( if we were lucky )
But above all it provides us a place to deal with decades of
dissapointment & shattered dreams .
Maybe the future is looking up .
Damn we need to Thicken those skins up a bit .
Toxic is watching your club get dumped out of Division 2 & Then Division 3
Losing to Enfield Town in the 1st round of the F.A cup over 3 games .
Or Humiliation losing to Maldon & Tiptree
Growing up supporting the unpopular club while surrounded
by the arrogance of Spam Spud & Goon .
The Italian Circus & everything that came with it !
Toxicity , Nah this is just letting off a bit of steam &
Winding up of the Leftie Rightie brigades .
This place is like Captain Sobel from Band of Brothers .
We may Hate it at times .
But it Was The First easily accesible internet space
To discuss or read anything Leyton Orient F.C other than
a once weekly local Gazette/Recorder/Guardian type paper
Or at most 2 lines in 1 of the daily nationals ( if we were lucky )
But above all it provides us a place to deal with decades of
dissapointment & shattered dreams .
Maybe the future is looking up .
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Ill split the answer into 2
Still wrong eh .Still wrong wrote: ↑Sat May 29, 2021 12:45 am Danny M stated that 90% of people in Waltham Forest have never set foot in the ground.
No great surprise, it has always been like that.
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That is Just not TRUE . I have spent probably 50 of my 55 years of Life
In LBWF & during the 70s, 80s & 90s anybody i knew or met who i may have talked Football with
Had at some point been to Brisbane Road to see the Mighty O's
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Unless you give tickets away for a fiver, people won’t turn up.
They are not going to spend £25 a ticket,It doesn’t matter how much you push the hard sell.
A mate of mine watched a game with his son in law and grandson. Cost him a £11 for all 3.
No way would he consider £50+ and has not been over there since.
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My 1st game back for 3 years or so , against Salford
I sat in the main stand ( TJS was sold out )
I sat in the front row & next to me at 2.55 there were 7 empty seats .
Soon taken up by a bunch of lads who got in late 3.01 pm
All mid 20s knowledgeable about Football
I chatted a little to the guy next to me but not a great deal as
My lituanian wasnt great . There is still a large untapped community of
Easterj European settlers in Leyton who would have replaced the Irish
Builder types who used to come to the O's regularly .
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‘My bad’? Sad.Dohnut wrote: ↑Sat May 29, 2021 12:54 pmApologies for trying to have a sensible chat with an idiot. My bad.
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Have they said anything about the ground and where Orient's playing future is?
If I remember correctly Hearn owns the the ground and stadium, with Orient having a 20 year lease (almost half of which has expired by now).
If I remember correctly Hearn owns the the ground and stadium, with Orient having a 20 year lease (almost half of which has expired by now).
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They mentioned possible developments of Brissy road would be looked at first
If anything was to develop . Kind of light conversation points as opposed to an
Active plan .
If anything was to develop . Kind of light conversation points as opposed to an
Active plan .
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Technically not Hearn now, rather his pension fund. The slimiest move of all, transferring it at cost price to weasel out of the profit share with the club (which cost LOFC £6 million as he took the ground at half price based on future profit share).
All of which was going on in the midst of the Beelzebub crisis, slippery as they come.
Showing how poor my rugby knowledge is I realise thanks to Google that most are the other end of London and the one that would fit nicely (dragon badge, history in Leyton) went bust (London Welsh)
Hockey Stadium was always the one we should've put more effort into rather than the Olympic Stadium.
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Showing how poor my rugby knowledge is I realise thanks to Google that most are the other end of London and the one that would fit nicely (dragon badge, history in Leyton) went bust (London Welsh)
Hockey Stadium was always the one we should've put more effort into rather than the Olympic Stadium.
I agree, but then again Johnson et al were never worried about the hockey stadium becoming a white elephant. We were actually playing hard to get over the Olympic Stadium
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We want a hybrid pitch too so could work? Overlapping fixtures a bit more challenging but could still be workable.
Question is having missed the 2012 boat how much rent would it cost to get in elsewhere. Even if we could halve our rent costs and get away from the ground maintenance costs that's a big saving over 5-10 years, plus potential of increased capacity.
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We must never leave Brisbane Road. If we do Hearn wins.gshaw wrote: ↑Sat May 29, 2021 8:53 pmWe want a hybrid pitch too so could work? Overlapping fixtures a bit more challenging but could still be workable.
Question is having missed the 2012 boat how much rent would it cost to get in elsewhere. Even if we could halve our rent costs and get away from the ground maintenance costs that's a big saving over 5-10 years, plus potential of increased capacity.
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He's already won, took the ground for peanuts and even getting the paltry sum he gave us back in rent. Not in it for the money, yeah rightMax B Gold wrote: ↑Sat May 29, 2021 9:33 pmWe must never leave Brisbane Road. If we do Hearn wins.gshaw wrote: ↑Sat May 29, 2021 8:53 pmWe want a hybrid pitch too so could work? Overlapping fixtures a bit more challenging but could still be workable.
Question is having missed the 2012 boat how much rent would it cost to get in elsewhere. Even if we could halve our rent costs and get away from the ground maintenance costs that's a big saving over 5-10 years, plus potential of increased capacity.
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And the loft experts told us there was nothing to worry about, it was just standard tax planning.gshaw wrote: ↑Sat May 29, 2021 6:42 pm
Technically not Hearn now, rather his pension fund. The slimiest move of all, transferring it at cost price to weasel out of the profit share with the club (which cost LOFC £6 million as he took the ground at half price based on future profit share).
All of which was going on in the midst of the Beelzebub crisis, slippery as they come.
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Very impressive and pleasing meeting, At long last we have both a chairman and vice chairman singing from the same hymn sheet. In my book honesty is blazing out of them towards the fans and club. We are indeed very lucky having our club in their capable hands. Pleasing to hear so many people see us as a club in which to invest in some capacity or other. My mind is at rest after so many years of so nearly there, Can we now see the club rise making everybody smile and enjoy the future
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You of all people should know better. Stop winding it up and inject a little insight now and again.Ronnie Hotdogs wrote: ↑Sat May 29, 2021 10:22 pmAnd the loft experts told us there was nothing to worry about, it was just standard tax planning.gshaw wrote: ↑Sat May 29, 2021 6:42 pm
Technically not Hearn now, rather his pension fund. The slimiest move of all, transferring it at cost price to weasel out of the profit share with the club (which cost LOFC £6 million as he took the ground at half price based on future profit share).
All of which was going on in the midst of the Beelzebub crisis, slippery as they come.
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Eh?Max B Gold wrote: ↑Sun May 30, 2021 1:36 amYou of all people should know better. Stop winding it up and inject a little insight now and again.Ronnie Hotdogs wrote: ↑Sat May 29, 2021 10:22 pmAnd the loft experts told us there was nothing to worry about, it was just standard tax planning.gshaw wrote: ↑Sat May 29, 2021 6:42 pm
Technically not Hearn now, rather his pension fund. The slimiest move of all, transferring it at cost price to weasel out of the profit share with the club (which cost LOFC £6 million as he took the ground at half price based on future profit share).
All of which was going on in the midst of the Beelzebub crisis, slippery as they come.
This happened. Hearn disclosed the details to loft. And loft told us all it was fine.
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Irrespective of the pitch, the stadium itself would need to be completely re-developed to make it suitable for a football club with Championship aspirations. Hearn was talking about re-building with a hotel & casino attached, and you may have noticed that Nige brought this up too (in general terms, not Eton Manor specifically)gshaw wrote: ↑Sat May 29, 2021 8:53 pmWe want a hybrid pitch too so could work? Overlapping fixtures a bit more challenging but could still be workable.
Question is having missed the 2012 boat how much rent would it cost to get in elsewhere. Even if we could halve our rent costs and get away from the ground maintenance costs that's a big saving over 5-10 years, plus potential of increased capacity.