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Post by Dave on Feb 23, 2009 17:19:15 GMT
Well those betting were not fans or fans who do not care about Weymouth Football club, the amount paid out in winnings alone, would have been more than enough to clear all the debts. Maybe its the winners who are now taking the club over.  |
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Post by Dave on Feb 23, 2009 21:56:32 GMT
www.dorsetecho.co.uk/sport/4146649.D_day_for_Terras/ reading the story in the Dorset Echo, it seems nine of Weymouth players have now found new clubs, so any rescue plan will still have problems putting out a competitive team. As long as all the players that do play are properly registered, then the league is unable to take any action, if only youth players feature in the games. I see one club has already complained to the league and you can bet others will as well. I wonder if we have signed a player from Weymouth, If we have it should be known tomorrow.
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Post by ohtobeatplainmoor on Feb 23, 2009 22:11:26 GMT
I wouldn't have thought so - I know that Ryan Williams has been linked with Oxford but his agent has been talking to Mansfield, due tohis family being located oop north we probably never stood a chance.
A natural winger who can take his man-on and deliver decent balls is someone who we are crying out for.
The only player that realistically we could capture would be Chris "Nanny" McPhee - I felt sorry for him during his time at the club, but I would see his signing as a step backwards. A Jack of all trades (master of none!) isn't what we should be looking for even if we were able to sign any more players.
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Post by Dave on Feb 23, 2009 22:19:43 GMT
otobe. Ryan Williams would have the one player who would have made our play-offs hopes more of a realty, but as you say he won't be coming here and so its back to getting our own team doing the business and that means we must win tomorrow as the oxford game is going to be a hard one to get anything from.
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Post by Rob on Feb 24, 2009 14:29:16 GMT
www.bluesqfootball.com/story/0,20970,13040_4967169,00.html Colin Lee enters the debate about Weymouth. Zero points for everyone against Weymouth being suggested.
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Post by timp1 on Feb 26, 2009 14:16:16 GMT
I see that today York fans have offered to pay for Weymouth's travelling expenses to York on Saturday. I bet they have! They need the points.
Good article by David Thomas on the subject in today's HE. He clears up the travel controversy from our postponed game too. Apparently the coach company were happy to undertake the trip.
Whilst I feel very sorry for the Terras' plight-how close were we recently?- the BSP must sort the situation out promptly-ie, before the weekend. I notice too that Blue Square has suspended all betting on their BSP Premier league this weekend.
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Post by merse on Feb 26, 2009 14:56:43 GMT
 It's a mini bus for the fans they have offered to pay for, not the team and I wonder if a mini bus will be too big? Sling these idiots out of OUR league NOW! 
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Post by timp1 on Feb 26, 2009 15:52:27 GMT
Thanks for the correction, Merse-I really must learn to read!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2009 22:34:39 GMT
For those who haven't seen today's NLP, Weymouth's latest suitor is "Dorset businessman" Stephen Beer who has made a £300,000 offer for the club. Due diligence, etc taking place at the moment. We'll see....
Alan Lewer is staying for another four weeks in the first instance; Chris McPhee has gone to Kidderminster (he played yesterday) and will train with Exeter; Knowles to Woking; Williams to Mansfield; Santos Gaia to Crawley; Sandwith to Oxford (on as sub last night). Doe to Dagenham and Coutts to Rushden are possibilities with the NLP saying Lee Phillips has turned down Wimbledon.
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Post by chelstongull on Mar 3, 2009 15:25:25 GMT
Is there anyone left at Weymouth worth having on non-contract terms during our injury/DSane suspended crisis?
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Post by crispygull on Mar 3, 2009 15:41:23 GMT
Is there anyone left at Weymouth worth having on non-contract terms during our injury crisis? I think the straightforward answer to that is NO! Virtually all their players have found new clubs - the most recent being Phillips to Cambridge Utd and Scott Doe to Dagenham. To be honest, apart from trying to sign Stuart Beavon, I'm not sure that any of their squad were of interest to Paul Buckle. In fact, he was asked the question by Radio Devon (after the FGR game I think) and he gave a very direct answer to a direct question - NO we arent interested in any of them! Personally, with Dsane out suspended for a few weeks and the squad down the bare bones (only 17 as it stands) I wouldnt mind seeing a genuine left winger added to the squad ... but whether there is scope within the budget to stretch to that remains to be seen.... |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2009 21:01:10 GMT
At the Forest Green game last week Jon and myself were searching for an example of another club putting out such a weakened side as Weymouth did against Rushden. The further down the leagues, the more it happens and - most seasons - there are several examples of clubs which implode for whatever reason. I'm not sure if it's because of stricter standards - or just plain luck -but we couldn't find a Football League example of a club struggling in such a way other than Newport County in 1987-88. Along with the truly shambolic Doncaster Rovers team which got relegated ten years later - and they were dragging players in from all over - Newport must have fielded some of the weakest FL teams in living memory (and that's even remembering some of the sides we put out just a few seasons before). Looking at an old Rothmans, it appears Newport used around forty players that season, nearly half of them aged twenty or younger (two of whom were Darren Peacock - who had a decent career in the game - and Richard Thompson, soon to play for us). In a five-match run in April, Newport lost 4-0 to Cardiff, Peterborough and Scarborough; 6-1 at Plainmoor and 6-0 to Bolton. County duly got relegated - they'd been crap all year to be honest (so it was more a case of bad things getting worse) - and folded part-way through the next season. We've never been in that position - to the best of my knowledge anyway - and the closest I can recall in terms of a rapid turnover of players (not quite the same thing of course) is Webby's "restructuring" in the spring of 1984 which paved the way for the departure of the bigger earners. Now who were they? John Turner, John Sims, Keith Curle, David Carr, any others? Soon there was a lorry load of new arrivals - and here I'm looking things up - such as Dawkins, Compton, Squire, Currie, Allen, Wakefield, Fowler and Hall. What an amazingly-mixed bunch. It included several players who were to prove significant figures in the history of the club; one or two who were best-forgotten; an all-time Sheffield United great (the marvellous TC) and Derek Fowler, a Taunton Town legend. The odd thing is that it worked in the short-term and, by the end of 83/84, I really did think Webby was The Man. Was I alone in thinking this? Mind you, I was safely living three hundred miles north of the Kingskerswell Arch at the time (and there was never a better time to be doing so). I turned up one Sunday afternoon at Saltergate - we'd played at Hartlepool on the Saturday - to see virtually a whole new team since my last game. There were a fair number of Sheffield United fans present to see their TC in action (as opposed to the upstart Terry Curran at Wednesday) and here's an extract from the programme:   |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2009 20:40:05 GMT
There's a few points of topical interest in this Tiverton v Weymouth programme from April 2003. Tivvy were doing well in the Southern Prem at the time - no Conference South in those days remember - whilst Weymouth were struggling just above the relegation places. From memory, the 3-0 scoreline to Tivvy didn't fully reflect their superiority. Plenty of names to mull over in both line ups:  For Weymouth there's Steve Tully on a downward spiral after leaving Torquay. No doubt he'll be in the Western League in a few years time at this rate. What about the lad Lee Phillips they got from Argyle? Not even in the team. And there's Lee Russell still going strong, but just a few months away from the injury which finished his career. For Tiverton there's Jason Rees - he was playing for Exeter Civil Service when I last saw him - and Steve Winter, also once of Torquay. Jamie Mudge was there then - as he is now after escaping from Dorchester - and in Steve Ovens, Kevin Nancekivell and the legendary Phil Everett there's the remnants of the Vase winning teams. Richard Pears now manages Cullompton and came on as a sub against us last week. And what about the goalkeeper? Some young lad on loan from Stoke, I believe, who was getting ready for a long non-league career..... |
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Post by merse on Mar 5, 2009 3:52:40 GMT
And what about the goalkeeper? Some young lad on loan from Stoke, I believe, who was getting ready for a long non-league career..... Mind you ben foster looked pretty good when he later played on loan for Wrexham against us up at the Racecourse. |
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Post by Dave on Mar 9, 2009 19:11:00 GMT
A Devon man Stephen Beer has put a £300,000 investment into Weymouth F.C, while it has given him a 48% share of the club, he does not want to be involved with running it.
Does anyone know who he is?
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