Heaney

How could he have been any worse then Brent?

Buttivant?

Apparently Brent was the only choice
 

punchdrunk wrote:

Apparently Brent was the only choice
 

he clearly wasnt but he was the only one to offer sweeteners for support

Angry wrote:

punchdrunk wrote:

Apparently Brent was the only choice
 

he clearly wasnt but he was the only one to offer sweeteners for support

Exactly this.

At least Buttivant and Heaney had a background in, and an understanding of, football.

"He never had the money"

I'm beginning to wonder if Brent has either.

Brent has pots of loot - he's just not going to risk pissing it away on a dodgy provincial football club.

Why does he need to use a pension fund then?

Heaney or Buttivant would have been FAR better options than this tw@t

He doesn't need to use a pension fund. That isn't funding the purchase, by owning it via a pension fund it gives Mr and Mrs Brent certain tax breaks that could otherwise go to such stuff as hospitals.

Nool and the gang bullied the pair away

Todd's gang gave up early on, "it's a closed shop", or words to that effect.

Was money ever needed?.  Brent's first job as owner was to collect the season ticket money and £1.6m from PCC (which roughly equates the £4m Ridsdale would've collected had Heaney got his way).

iI would take just about anyone with money taking the club on, we will always be shit with brents half hearted ownership.

A worthwhile Trust led by respected and well known supporters like JBE, John Lloyd etc could've nailed the takeover and then invited a 'Brent' type figure to sort out the development side. Easy for me to say with hindsight I suppose.

Pokesdown wrote:

He doesn't need to use a pension fund. That isn't funding the purchase, by owning it via a pension fund it gives Mr and Mrs Brent certain tax breaks that could otherwise go to such stuff as hospitals.

Its a loop hole these millionaires exploit and it needs to be stopped. Like donations to causes designed to offload some funds to avoid triggering a higher taxcode like so many playboys do.

Freathy wrote:

Heaney or Buttivant would have been FAR better options than this tw@t

Really? The now bankrupt Heaney, who couldn't even support Truro FC?

People have very short memories. I'm no fan of Brent, but Heaney didn't have the money - hence the extended administration that left us with even more debt than was necessary.

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If there is one set of supporters that is probably breathing a sigh of relief this morning, then it’s probably those of Plymouth Argyle. Heaney had been the preferred bidder to buy their club when it had been in serious financial difficulty last year, but failed to come up with the money required to complete the take-over of the club, which was subsequently taken over by another businessman, James Brent. Plymouth continue to exist in a slightly emaciated – but now at least stable – state, but one of the great “what if” questions that their supporters may be asking this morning could be that of what might have happened to their club had Heaney managed to secure the take-over of Argyle and subsequently found himself bankrupt. As things stand, however, they can look on at the situation at Truro and think “there but for the grace of God go I.”

I'm sorry but this thread is the biggest lot of b8ll8cks I've read in a long time.
At worst with Heaney we would have been liquidated.

At best we would have gone into admin again and got relegated again, and Brent would have just stepped in at a later date to do what he is doing now. The difference from now is that Brent would have picked us up even cheaper, and would probably have been able to convince the Avivas that we should be grateful to remain a conference club for the forseeable future, rather than a L2.

IN short Heaney would have been a f^cking disaster.

Heaney was obviously a waste of space (the Truro stuff proves that). However I would of liked to have seen that Buttivant chap in action

Oh the joys of hindsight

Coxside_Green wrote:

Todd's gang gave up early on, "it's a closed shop", or words to that effect.

Was money ever needed?.  Brent's first job as owner was to collect the season ticket money and £1.6m from PCC (which roughly equates the £4m Ridsdale would've collected had Heaney got his way).

This is how I see it too. Mr Brent seems good at collecting the £200 for passing go but he seems to be able to collect it in advance to pay for his petrol money  

There's been no evidence of any work starting at Home Park, The Pavilions or the civic centre and yet he's been accumulating the hand-outs for some time now.

Flat_Track_Bully wrote:

I'm sorry but this thread is the biggest lot of b8ll8cks I've read in a long time.
At worst with Heaney we would have been liquidated.

At best we would have gone into admin again and got relegated again, and Brent would have just stepped in at a later date to do what he is doing now. The difference from now is that Brent would have picked us up even cheaper, and would probably have been able to convince the Avivas that we should be grateful to remain a conference club for the forseeable future, rather than a L2.

IN short Heaney would have been a f^cking disaster.

There's absolutely no evidence for any of this.

Had Heaney won the gig, he wouldn't have been running the football side of things, that would've been the Riddler's responsibility.  Would the Riddler have been any better than Brent, who knows, he certainly has more clue about football though.

You could point to Brent loaning the club money, Riddler certainly wouldn't have.  Would the Riddler have needed to find extra money though?  He might be a cnut out for himself but he does know what a football club requires. I somehow doubt he would've renewed Fletch's contract (which turned out pretty expensive) for instance.

The only facts here are we'll never know.

Coxside_Green wrote:

Flat_Track_Bully wrote:

I'm sorry but this thread is the biggest lot of b8ll8cks I've read in a long time.
At worst with Heaney we would have been liquidated.

At best we would have gone into admin again and got relegated again, and Brent would have just stepped in at a later date to do what he is doing now. The difference from now is that Brent would have picked us up even cheaper, and would probably have been able to convince the Avivas that we should be grateful to remain a conference club for the forseeable future, rather than a L2.

IN short Heaney would have been a f^cking disaster.

There's absolutely no evidence for any of this.

Had Heaney won the gig, he wouldn't have been running the football side of things, that would've been the Riddler's responsibility.  Would the Riddler have been any better than Brent, who knows, he certainly has more clue about football though.

The only facts here are we'll never know.

Here's a fact. HEANEY IS BANKRUPT! He couldn't even support running Truro. Ridsdale never puts his hand in his pocket, he just spends other people's money. Where under Heaney/Ridsdale would we have got the money to continue paying off the football creditors debt? Where would we have got the money to cover running costs from? The fact that Heaney would have passed the football side to Ridsdale is irrelevant. Once Heaney would have got bankrupt we would have gone straight back into administration.

Greenjock wrote:

Coxside_Green wrote:

Todd's gang gave up early on, "it's a closed shop", or words to that effect.

Was money ever needed?.  Brent's first job as owner was to collect the season ticket money and £1.6m from PCC (which roughly equates the £4m Ridsdale would've collected had Heaney got his way).

This is how I see it too. Mr Brent seems good at collecting the £200 for passing go but he seems to be able to collect it in advance to pay for his petrol money  

There's been no evidence of any work starting at Home Park, The Pavilions or the civic centre and yet he's been accumulating the hand-outs for some time now.

Yep, like the £2m for taking over the Pavillions.

PCC have fecked us over

Flat_Track_Bully wrote:

Coxside_Green wrote:

Flat_Track_Bully wrote:

I'm sorry but this thread is the biggest lot of b8ll8cks I've read in a long time.
At worst with Heaney we would have been liquidated.

At best we would have gone into admin again and got relegated again, and Brent would have just stepped in at a later date to do what he is doing now. The difference from now is that Brent would have picked us up even cheaper, and would probably have been able to convince the Avivas that we should be grateful to remain a conference club for the forseeable future, rather than a L2.

IN short Heaney would have been a f^cking disaster.

There's absolutely no evidence for any of this.

Had Heaney won the gig, he wouldn't have been running the football side of things, that would've been the Riddler's responsibility.  Would the Riddler have been any better than Brent, who knows, he certainly has more clue about football though.

The only facts here are we'll never know.

Here's a fact. HEANEY IS BANKRUPT! He couldn't even support running Truro. Ridsdale never puts his hand in his pocket, he just spends other people's money. Where under Heaney/Ridsdale would we have got the money to continue paying off the football creditors debt? Where would we have got the money to cover running costs from? The fact that Heaney would have passed the football side to Ridsdale is irrelevant. Once Heaney would have got bankrupt we would have gone straight back into administration.

Again, Heaney would not have been running the football club, the fact he's skint is irrelevant here. Could he have delivered a new grandstand and other developments?, he has experience but had no support from PCC.

He will receive a big Tax break on another development