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Tonight's Orient Hour :Questions Please

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Steve Tongue hosts tonight's show alongside Trevor Singfield and Lee Boyce
Journo Tom Davies and fan Adam Francis join the panel, but our main guest discussing the financing of the club is CEO Danny Macklin
We are live 7pm on Phoenix 98fm or online
Any questions for Mr Macklin or the panel please leave below. Thanks.
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LOFT v OTF

Let's fackin' 'ave it!
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Danny, it was reported that at the meet the chairman night it was said that the club need £7m a year to break even. What costs bring us to that figure?
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Hi Danny.

Have the club set a target date to become self financing?

What % of our income is spent on players wages?

Do you see the proposed development of the score centre into a housing development as an opportunity to increase income?

Thanks.
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Lee Boyce on again? Come on find someone new and different!!!
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Danny is it true that when Chuck Norris needs help, he turns to you?
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Danny, how much do Orient use analytics to determine tactics and make decisions on and off the football pitch? For example using statistics from past seasons to determine percentage odds and then opting for high percentage strategies/decisions or decisions that have the most impact.

Should we use analytics more?
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Are any of the panel still in contact with Alan Bowers?
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Hi Danny
Has our early cup exit affected east stand redevelopment or other projects. Thanks.
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Danny. At the meet the chairman, Martin Ling, when asked what had happened to Danny Webb, said, words to the effect, that it would all come out in the wash in a few days time.
That was over a week ago, and we havent heard anything.
Why is the club keeping silent on this...where is this we will include the fans rhetoric?, and what's happened to mean, Webby left the club?
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Does he agree that Paddington 2 is the best filem ever made?
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To put and end to this dreary discussion and ill informed guesswork over the missing £7m is it possible to publish full accounts?

If not, what exactly are you trying to hide?
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How much money did the club save by sacking Gilson?
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Prestige Worldwide wrote: Thu Feb 06, 2020 1:45 pm How much money did the club save by sacking Gilson?
I believe I can answer this one.

In monetary terms they saved nothing as Gilso did it for free. Makes you wonder why he was given the heave ho if he was free.

In terms of avoiding embarrasment to the club the saving was incalculable. Literally nobody enjoyed his TTM persona.
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Danny, how do you decide which jobs at the club are worthless and should be done for free?
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Danny, in his programme notes a couple of weeks back, Kent said he'd be taking a more "hands on" approach. What has this meant over the last weeks, what exactly has Kent been getting involved in?
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BoniO wrote: Thu Feb 06, 2020 2:50 pm Danny, in his programme notes a couple of weeks back, Kent said he'd be taking a more "hands on" approach. What has this meant over the last weeks, what exactly has Kent been getting involved in?
Let's just pray it isn't anything Salmondesque.
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For Danny Macklin
What percentage of the total income is going to the playing staff. Is the coaches salary included in this budget. How much money is received from the FA for L2
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Have any of the panel heard how loud Gilso sighs when he has to post this thread every week?
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Danny, is the embarrassment of having a Papa Johns moped drive down the touchline tooting its horn every home game worth the money and who's idea was it?
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Danny - Do we have the money to extend the likes of Happe, Ekpiteta and Sotiriou baring in mind the extentions given out last summer to the likes of Jobi, Dayton, Brill and Ling?
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As sure as taxes and death are unavoidable things in life, so is the Orient hour asking any of the good and decent questions posed above this one.
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Thor wrote: Thu Feb 06, 2020 4:27 pm As sure as taxes and death are unavoidable things in life, so is the Orient hour asking any of the good and decent questions posed above this one.
True enough. So let's revert to asking the difficult ones again - What does the panel think about the Bournemouth youngster found guilty of racist abuse and how can football stamp out this behaviour once and for all.
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Max B Gold wrote: Thu Feb 06, 2020 3:28 pm Have any of the panel heard how loud Gilso sighs when he has to post this thread every week?
Many a true word spoken in jest maximillian
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A selection of the above questions were asked. Thankyou for the sensible ones.
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