Quote vastman="vastman"No problem..,
1: I've attended a fair few AGM and am yet to see a serious challenge/bid materialise in 15 years.
2: Ted is the majority shareholder but does not hold the majority of share. There are a number of shares available, both held by others and available from the club as unsold. Certainly enough for a determined bidder to mount a challenge if they really wanted to - they never have.
3: Ted did relinquish control of the club once to a populist choice. His name was John Pearman - can't recall how that worked out.
Remember this, Ted hasn't always been on his uppers or the villian. He got us into SL, put up a million quid to guarantee the club post Pearman and managed to find a plan B with Yorkcourt after the Council mugged us. Clearly it's all gone wrong now and the blame appears to lay with Ted but folk have short memories and tend to forget that it's not been all bad.
Finally I happen to know that the only other real bid was a guy from Hull who was connected to Steve Ferres who was interested some years back. I think Ted did put him off at the time, probably wrongly. However Ted was within his rights and was not obliged to give the club away. I think this is the case many refer to as the one that got away. Yet as I've said there was always the chance available to anyone wishing to gain control of the club if they had really wanted to and were willing to put their hands in their pockets. The fact is most of them wanted it given to them and that was never going to happen. If I'd have been Ted at the time I wouldn't, why should I and how do we know if they would have been any better?'"
ok il give the other side.
he messed the ground up at denby dale.
he messed the ground up at ossett
he didnt check pearman out properly
thornes park balls up
I.VA. C.V.A
benidorm flats
selling our best players
running the club as a family business
the way hes left us in a mess
these are a few off the top of my head
finally vasty hes ruined the good name of our once great club. a name that stood for something, a name that years ago was one of the biggest names in the world.
yes hes ruined our good name and that is un forgivable.
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