Statement From The Chairman

That Light treatment is rubbish, Reg.  Hundreds will be trying it again this evening, sitting under the Plainmoor floodlights for the best part of 2 hours. Yet most of them usually end up miserable as sin, and more unhappy than they were earlier before they turned up for the treatment. 

Last week I used the coffee shop I do every day.
The sofa I always use had been moved from along the wall on the right hand side to the long side.
Did I shout rant, demand the owner came out and tell me why he made this decision,did I stand and chant I want the manager out sacked for this
I think I should have a right as to where the sofa goes because I come here every day.
I'm going to get my friends to form a group and takeover this place?
i should have a say in how's it's run, I want the owner out, because 1 day he will close this place down.We will set up a rival company blah blah blah.
No I simply sat in the sofa in its new position and enjoyed my coffee as it's a nice hobby.
Come on Torquay!

CO is a bullshitter so his words are not to be taken seriously. Anybody who thinks otherwise is most likely deluded.

I was going to comment on this, but have now lost interest. Blocked.

More of the Osbourne interview here from 15 minutes:

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p062zpyw

Unbelievable comment 26 minutes in that he did not know that there was a repayable grant on Bristow's Bench.

Osborne signed off the club's accounts y/e 30/6/17 that clearly referred to this in note 10b)



He says this did not come up in due diligence. Really??? Does anyone believes that for a second? I know DD would have been using 2015 accounts not 2017 accounts, but surely a five minute due diligence would ask what £1.2m of accruals and deferred income represented!

When Dave Phillips used to play dumb and pretend he did not understand very basic financial issues, I sort of believed him. Not Osborne though. He is a chartered accountant. He's not daft - far from it.

Not the only bit of truth bending, but possibly the most blatant.

Rather a silly analogy, but I'll go with it. I like coffee. I like going to coffee shops. I like some coffee shops more than I like others.

But I don't have any strong emotional attachment to one particular coffee shop. I have not invested a disproportionate amount of my time and emotional energy in one particular coffee shop.

If my coffee shop of choice served crap coffee for five and a half years, I wouldn't even know. On the second crap cup of coffee, I would go somewhere else.

If the new owners of the coffee shop were a group of clueless pensioners who did not have enough cash to trade, it would not worry me. I would not try to talk sense into them. If they decided to borrow £100k from a loan shark to limp on losing money, it would be no skin off my nose. I would not bother to try to talk them out of it.

If they then decided to give the premises over to a property developer so it would cease to be a coffee shop, I would not care. I can get a coffee somewhere else.

Torquay United to many people is more akin to a member of family. You can't just go out and replace them when they are gone, so you passionately want to protect them from harm.

Note to Stefano: tldr