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44 minutes ago, samgoafc said:

Don't think Morecambe have offered anyone a new deal - in financial strife seemingly, was due to be taken over by a 20-year-old drinks tycoon who has not completed the takeover as of yet since the turn of the year

 

That made me laugh! Didn't a teenage 'businessman' take over Aldershot in the early 1990s, only for the whole thing to unravel soon afterwards with the club ending up in liquidation?

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19 minutes ago, Summerdeep said:

 

That made me laugh! Didn't a teenage 'businessman' take over Aldershot in the early 1990s, only for the whole thing to unravel soon afterwards with the club ending up in liquidation?

Spencer Trethewy. Fantasist

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10 hours ago, samgoafc said:

Don't think Morecambe have offered anyone a new deal - in financial strife seemingly, was due to be taken over by a 20-year-old drinks tycoon who has not completed the takeover as of yet since the turn of the year

oh dear.

lve actually lost track of clubs in crisis bc theres jus so many now. probably didnt help that we spent about six years in an omnicrisis, l almost became stockholmed to it!

 

 

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12 hours ago, Monty Burns said:

oh dear.

lve actually lost track of clubs in crisis bc theres jus so many now. probably didnt help that we spent about six years in an omnicrisis, l almost became stockholmed to it!

 

 

Yeah think their current owners own a rugby club that has gone into liquidation and they were presuming I guess that this lad would be the saviour for their fortunes - EFL want more answers as of March and it's still not done despite him supposedly providing cash to help pay the wages etc - all a bit of a mess, got them dropping down to NL written all over it

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4 hours ago, LaticMark said:

Sounds like it's 'wild' speculation by a journalist. Still, he hasn't his pledged undying loyalty to Barrow. I reckon he'd be off like a shot. I know I would.

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1 hour ago, GlossopLatic said:

Marwan Koukash

 

Very much in the and that brackets but Marwan Koukash has been declared bankrupt. I think with hindsight it's fair to say we dodged a bullet here.

 

 

 

It could just be that some extravagant spending caught up with him but he was in businesses that would have been knocked for six by Covif

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23 minutes ago, Dave_Og said:

 

It could just be that some extravagant spending caught up with him but he was in businesses that would have been knocked for six by Covif

 

Maybe so but from half a billion to zero is quite spectacular.

 

We could quite possibly have crashed and burned harder under him than the Lemsagams.

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1 hour ago, GlossopLatic said:

 

Maybe so but from half a billion to zero is quite spectacular.

 

We could quite possibly have crashed and burned harder under him than the Lemsagams.

True but he handed the rugby over to the supporters in a much better position than he inherited it, not disagreeing with the point you are making but we don't know what would have happened. Lemsagams would take some beating as they literally took us to the brink.

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1 hour ago, GlossopLatic said:

 

Maybe so but from half a billion to zero is quite spectacular.

 

We could quite possibly have crashed and burned harder under him than the Lemsagams.

I guess the thing he could have done to make things even worse than they turned out would be to have spent big and left us with lots of unsustainable commitments, a la Chris Moore

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18 minutes ago, Dave_Og said:

I guess the thing he could have done to make things even worse than they turned out would be to have spent big and left us with lots of unsustainable commitments, a la Chris Moore

He was way too flamboyant to be a success here and your Chris Moore analogy could be spot on.

He sometimes had 4 or 5 horses running in the same race which doesn't exactly display the shrewd businessman persona some would suggest he had. 

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55 minutes ago, Bobledgersheart said:

He was way too flamboyant to be a success here and your Chris Moore analogy could be spot on.

He sometimes had 4 or 5 horses running in the same race which doesn't exactly display the shrewd businessman persona some would suggest he had. 

 

The shrewdest people in racing, the Coolmore gang, often have multiple runners - wouldn't read anything into that.  They do that in big races because if one of them wins then the rewards can far outweigh the drawbacks of having others that don't.  Koukash often did it in particular races that he really wanted to win, usually at Chester

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21 minutes ago, Dave_Og said:

 

The shrewdest people in racing, the Coolmore gang, often have multiple runners - wouldn't read anything into that.  They do that in big races because if one of them wins then the rewards can far outweigh the drawbacks of having others that don't.  Koukash often did it in particular races that he really wanted to win, usually at Chester

One of his ex horses is running in the Chester cup tomorrow. Might be worth a bet. 

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57 minutes ago, Dave_Og said:

 

The shrewdest people in racing, the Coolmore gang, often have multiple runners - wouldn't read anything into that.  They do that in big races because if one of them wins then the rewards can far outweigh the drawbacks of having others that don't.  Koukash often did it in particular races that he really wanted to win, usually at Chester

Bit different having multiple entries in handicaps as opposed to pattern races.

With the kind of class that Coolmore etc.. own they have to have several engaged as there are few alternatives.

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4 minutes ago, Bobledgersheart said:

Bit different having multiple entries in handicaps as opposed to pattern races.

With the kind of class that Coolmore etc.. own they have to have several engaged as there are few alternatives.

They run them in those as the stallion rights for the winner are so lucrative.  There are very few people if any who make money out of racing prize money, certainly in the UK.  Koukash used to run multiple just because he targeted certain races and wanted to win them for his own reasons so he threw plenty of darts

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23 minutes ago, Dave_Og said:

They run them in those as the stallion rights for the winner are so lucrative.  There are very few people if any who make money out of racing prize money, certainly in the UK.  Koukash used to run multiple just because he targeted certain races and wanted to win them for his own reasons so he threw plenty of darts

Correct.

Apparently he's run out of darts now.

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