Quote wire-quin="wire-quin"You need to check what your missus is up to whilst you're spending endless hours on here spouting crap
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Out working to keep me in the manner to which I am accustomed
Quote wire-quin="wire-quin"Is the kiddie ginger with doc martins on or does it have a slight maori look!'"
Alas, the hair is a mix between mothers blonde and fathers greying ginger...so strawberry blonde at present. DM's don't come that small just yet, but as soon as his feet are there, the boots will be on!
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Indeed.
78 Year old Michael D Gooley who owns Trailfinders, donated £1,500,000 to the Tory Party in the last 12 months and he is borderline UKIP he's that far right!. He is very forthright, with a military background (SAS) underlining his refusal to suffer fools lightly and his Jesuit boarding school education making him someone not to be messed with, which will raise the question how gentle giant St David of Swinton and this guy will get on, given St Dave's track record with the toff element at Quins.
I believe that the sports ground is owned by a charitable trust that Gooley set up and since 1997 they've spent millions on the place, so there may be a "buffer" in place between these two independently wealthy men.
As for the "development" of the sports grounds, in respect of the main pitch, I have scoured the planning rights section of Ealing Council and looking at the conditions enforced on the new cricket pavilion ([urlhttp://gis.ealing.gov.uk/webreports/planning/planning_weekly_Detail_results.asp?txtPlanRefNo=PP/2013/0825[/url) any new stand will have to blend in with the local environment. They had to fight hard with the residents in 2010 to get the floodlights up and their licence application in 2008 was met with objections from residents of Vallis way.
That said, I now believe that having looked at the site from google earth, there is certainly a case for a bigger stand across from the current offering.
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