Colin Sexstone

Iggy wrote:

X Isle wrote:

Part timers are killing this club, if he's just another one then really what's the point.

He's done a full tour in the military and has his fingers in all manner of other directorship pies. This is a retirement post, he ain't gonna be the man to grip Argyle by the bollox and squeeze hard until things get better.

My only hope is he's here to source the new full time CEO and new manager.

I am feeling a bit crook this week Smiffy, however if you want to help me please don't grip me by the bollox and squeeze hard, I am sure it will make me feel worse.

On an individual level that analogy doesn't work, you're right, outside certain specialist interest gentlemens establishments of course.

As applied to Argyle on a corporate level though it will cause a 'concentration of the mind' so thay the f**king about presently displayed by the various failing departments will cease as the bollox squeezer has their full attention and co-operation.

Czarcasm wrote:

A pre-cursor to being appointed Chairman maybe's. If Brent likes what he see's.

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I believe you have been proved right

I know what you mean, your phraseology cracks me up though.

Well they are all starting to talk the talk, can they walk the walk?

Looking at his track record he helped make Gloucestershire a stronger force in first class cricket and helped build up Bristol City so he has the tools its whether he can replicate them here for Brent to implement.

In a lot of ways barely worth reading. Usual signing aboard the good ship Argyle platitudes. But here it is anyway.

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The bit about Fletcher being work in progress jumped out at me. Not a 100% approval like we get from Brent. Maybe things will start to change for the better

Dougie wrote:

In a lot of ways barely worth reading. Usual signing aboard the good ship Argyle platitudes. But here it is anyway.

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Another uninspired signing. It just gets worse.

And Brent is still trying to flog 20% of nothing to the limping trust for £400k ?

He's taking the pi$$.

And Fletcher is not a work in progress, he's as dim as a Toc-h lamp.

PAVFC..............now being run by dimwits for dimwits. Shut up and be a praaaaaaaper faaaaaaan or pi$$ off !

I would hardly call it a limping Trust, Tring.

GOB wrote:

I would hardly call it a limping Trust, Tring.

It's how I view it at this point in time GOB.

Brent is only interested in it for a personal cash boost, or he and his 'advisors' would have engaged with it and encouraged all supporters to support it. The deepthroating actions and negative pronouncements of the self promoting in crowd, must have been sanctioned from the top ?

What are the membership figures ?

For a club like ours with historically, at least double the potential support of City, a thriving Trust would boast several thousand members.

Anyone care to tell me how many members the City Trust has and how many ours has ?

lawnmowerman wrote:

The bit about Fletcher being work in progress jumped out at me. Not a 100% approval like we get from Brent. Maybe things will start to change for the better

My thoughts too when i read the article..

He could be in a good position to recommend to Brent to sack Fletcher and replace him with an experienced chap at the helm,if the poor form continues the way it is ?.

VillageGreen wrote:

lawnmowerman wrote:

The bit about Fletcher being work in progress jumped out at me. Not a 100% approval like we get from Brent. Maybe things will start to change for the better

My thoughts too when i read the article..

He could be in a good position to recommend to Brent to sack Fletcher and replace him with an experienced chap at the helm,if the poor form continues the way it is ?.

I think so or persuade Brent to re hire Deehan for the rest of the season if Fletcher is to stay come what may.

Tringreen wrote:

GOB wrote:

I would hardly call it a limping Trust, Tring.

It's how I view it at this point in time GOB.

Brent is only interested in it for a personal cash boost, or he and his 'advisors' would have engaged with it and encouraged all supporters to support it. The deepthroating actions and negative pronouncements of the self promoting in crowd, must have been sanctioned from the top ?

What are the membership figures ?

For a club like ours with historically, at least double the potential support of City, a thriving Trust would boast several thousand members.

Anyone care to tell me how many members the City Trust has and how many ours has ?

Just looked. City have about 4k trust members, so if our trust was backed by the owner as the logical community led fall back custodian of the club, should he wish to get out and concentrate on his real interests,it should be able to grow in numbers to far exceed that of City ?
He probably will end up handing over ownership before long as he has put his trust in self promoting bullies and fools. The worry is, he will hand it over to them, just to be rid.
Meanwhile the ridiculous offer to the trust for 20% of nothing for £400k remains on the table ?

I'd much rather a trust run club than one run by Brent and/ or his jamboys.
Tha latter eventuality, really would be the bitter end.

Of course, there is always the danger that self promoting control freaks would try to dominate the trust but they would have less chance of success within an elected trust using its own website and forum, whose officers have been voted in for their intelligence, vision and above all else, integrity.

That's a valid point Tring.....the Trust buy into this bullshit and purchase a slice of this junk shop only for Jimmy to hand the club to our present dormant Internet nutters.

I can see why Webb was/is so keen for the Trust to buy in, it's his and their ticket to ownership without parting with a penny of their own hard earned. At least they learnt something from Stapes!

Greenskin wrote:

Didn't he used to be the singer in the Zombies?

Yes, I thought that one too GS ... great name.

Actually, a very good long time friend of mine and fellow erstwhile Argyle fan has been the tour manager for Colin Bluntstone and Rod Argent, AKA the Zombies, for several years now. Poor old Colin has lost his voice and the current USA tour has had to be halted. Oh well, at least he can come home now and catch up with the doom and gloom that is PAFC these days.

Penzance wrote:

Greenskin wrote:

Didn't he used to be the singer in the Zombies?

Yes, I thought that one too GS ... great name.

Actually, a very good long time friend of mine and fellow erstwhile Argyle fan has been the tour manager for Colin Bluntstone and Rod Argent, AKA the Zombies, for several years now. Poor old Colin has lost his voice and the current USA tour has had to be halted. Oh well, at least he can come home now and catch up with the doom and gloom that is PAFC these days.

Saw Argent in the guildhall circa 1975,Hold your head up and all that.First rock concert i ever went to,jeez my ears were ringing afterwards.That was probably one of the last concerts in the guildhall,as i remember someone threw an object through a stained glass window shortly after and that was the end of that.Shame.

I saw Rod Argent performing with Jon Hiseman and Barbara Thompson in a very good jazz performance once. Nice.

Greenskin wrote:

[Saw Argent in the guildhall circa 1975,Hold your head up and all that.First rock concert i ever went to,jeez my ears were ringing afterwards.

For acoustic reasons the Guildhall was very loud, and may even have stopped it's concerts due to decibels.
You weren't the only one GS ....Juicy lucy did my ears in at Devonport, and something about your words rang a bell, so I dug out some word play one of my brothers mused about those musical times in Plymouth ....

Rock and roll heroes now
Iconic binary zeroes wow
The frantic axeman cometh home
madman drummers crashing
cymbals of a creative zeitgeist past

Images and names conjuring magical flames
That still burn in the memory, opening Doors to perceptions
Of reality's personal conceptions

Alvin's lips solving, blurred fingers revolving
As I woke up this morning to ringing ears, a deafening warning
Bizarre Broughton brothers shouting and outing
Demonic ....... almost symphonic

Free form frenzy creeping, Kosoff's loss of life sleeping
Gillan's Purple dreaming, or was it Tangerine screaming
that crossed the Rubycon to heaven's lunar Moon
Who's next for a tune
Or a Floydian slip over the Waters of discontent

Juicy Lucy, quality, Who do you love?

Iggy wrote:

Juicy Lucy, quality, Who do you love?

I walked 45 miles of barbed wire, got a cobra snake for a necktie !

I was lead singer in the college band and this was one of our covers................ can you imagine ??????

The 20% offer is really interesting actually, I haven't paid that much attention to it so far as I always thought Brent had taken an unrealistic figure for them to raise so that it is not an issue anyway.
The question is, what would you get for a 20% share in the club? Would you be able to influence any decision without the backing of Brent?
If for instance Brent wanted to sell all the marketing opportunities in HP to BIL could you do anything to influence that decision with a 20% share?

Iggy wrote:

The 20% offer is really interesting actually, I haven't paid that much attention to it so far as I always thought Brent had taken an unrealistic figure for them to raise so that it is not an issue anyway.
The question is, what would you get for a 20% share in the club? Would you be able to influence any decision without the backing of Brent?
If for instance Brent wanted to sell all the marketing opportunities in HP to BIL could you do anything to influence that decision with a 20% share?

The 20% offer is as worthless as the PASB.

£400k is hardly worthless is it? Nice bit of business Brenty. Trust turns it down, they will be ungrateful, unwilling to engage ect, ect., if they take it up, it will be useless.
Maybe I am being a little bit negative about this?

No, £400,000 is most definitely not worthless.

What is worthless is what the Trust gets for it's £400,000.

Actually Iggy, as I recall Brent said that 400K offer did not include a place on the Board... that says it all regarding decision making. Very strange that considering places on the board have been given to people putting far less in , or virtually nothing at all... just what is there to hide from a Fans' trust ?
I find the offer quite bizzare, and is like something out of some lunatic right wing think tank. How quickly the advertised and welcomed combined rescue of Council and "local boy" Brent has turned to something rather dubious.