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| Matt | 2nd May 2008 - 12:55 PM Post #31 |
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| KenDoddsDadsDogsDead | 2nd May 2008 - 12:56 PM Post #32 |
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Have you ever shoed a Horse?
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He will put the freshness back. |
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| The Axe | 2nd May 2008 - 01:26 PM Post #33 |
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Yes and without Bates we would not have had the 15 point penalty to start the season. He did the best he could to climb out of a hole he dug If he relegated us to Div 2 many would praise him the following season for getting us out of it and so on... |
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| Matt | 2nd May 2008 - 01:30 PM Post #34 |
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FFS Which would you prefer? Being promoted from League 2 or being promoted from League 1? Are you honestly saying Bates should have accepted the original punishment?? |
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| cuppy | 2nd May 2008 - 01:38 PM Post #35 |
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Without Bates we would have NO club to have had 15 points deducted or not!!! I repeat, we still HAVE a club, we ARE in the play offs and that would not be the case without Bates!! |
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| The Axe | 2nd May 2008 - 01:43 PM Post #36 |
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How do we know this? Because Bates says so? There is no point arguing this. We never will know what happened when the club was sold. I believe there were other interested parties at the time. Fuck knows how or why Bates got in there first, but he did. Fact is he guided us to the lowest position in the clubs history. His "irregular" attempts to put us in admin resulted in us being docked 15 points. He threatened to put the club under. He does not have the teams best interests at heart |
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| Rich | 2nd May 2008 - 01:44 PM Post #37 |
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Technically backward twat.
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Football is riddled with crooks but some are more crooked/clever than others. |
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| strachans shinpad | 2nd May 2008 - 01:44 PM Post #38 |
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Bates was the only person to step in with hard cash when the only assets the club had was the remains of a team and the fans. For that reason he retains my support. |
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| The Axe | 2nd May 2008 - 01:46 PM Post #39 |
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I am not saying he should have taken the original punishment but my point is that there would be no discussion of -15 points if it wasnt for the old oops rude words dodgy ways |
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| Matt | 2nd May 2008 - 01:46 PM Post #40 |
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Oh dear god!! Have you read the arbitration ruling? |
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| Matt | 2nd May 2008 - 01:48 PM Post #41 |
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Prove it. The only hard evidence is that Bates bought the club and was the only one to stump up the cash. You prove to me someone else could do that THEN and ONLY then can you argue that it's down to Bates that we went into admin, despite him not taking the club into admin for 18 months AFTER he bought the club!!! |
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| cuppy | 2nd May 2008 - 01:49 PM Post #42 |
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What counts in business is the one who actually puts up the money! There was a lot of talk but thats all it was. Bates got the club cos he put his money where his mouth is! Our decline started LONG before Bates arrived, and we all know this. Takes a long time to turn a decrepit broken oil tanker around, the decline was NEVER going to stop over night, and anyone who believed that is a fool. Once again, we are in the Play Offs with a chance of promotion, if you credit bates with taking us to our lowest position in history, then you have to credit him for us reaching the promotion stages whilst starting the season of minus 15 points. Works both ways |
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| Rich | 2nd May 2008 - 01:50 PM Post #43 |
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Technically backward twat.
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Yes mate, there were several interested people or consortia before we went into admin but where were they after? If any of them, be it Revie Jnr, Simon Morris et al, were serious about buying the club where were they after? why didn't they go to press saying "Ah well, we tried and failed but at least we tried"? They were nowhere because I believe they didn't genuinely try. |
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| The Axe | 2nd May 2008 - 01:51 PM Post #44 |
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Dear God enough of the dramatics Yes I read it and it shows Bates dodgy dealings in respect to the buy back of the club after admin should have resulted in us being in league 2. An agreement was made to be docked 15 and keep us in this division A long story short if Bates was above board with the admin and buy back process we would not have the 15 docked |
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| The Axe | 2nd May 2008 - 01:52 PM Post #45 |
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You cant disprove it anymore than I can prove it. All Bates actions are non transparent |
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| Matt | 2nd May 2008 - 01:54 PM Post #46 |
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please answer the question of why did Bates not take Leeds into admin when he first could have then? If Bates is so dodgy why did he attempt to reduce the debt for 18 months before admin was entered? |
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| Matt | 2nd May 2008 - 01:55 PM Post #47 |
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I can prove Bates put the cash up. I can also prove he also put up the most cash up after admin too. |
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| Matt | 2nd May 2008 - 01:56 PM Post #48 |
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p.s. just because i can't disprove that no-one else bid for the club doesn't make your argument any stronger either. |
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| The Axe | 2nd May 2008 - 02:41 PM Post #49 |
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Think we will have to just agree to disagree on the merit of Kenneth Bates for Leeds United |
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| Stubbsy | 2nd May 2008 - 03:22 PM Post #50 |
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| cuppy | 2nd May 2008 - 03:40 PM Post #51 |
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| Fitz | 4th May 2008 - 07:40 PM Post #52 |
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Redbus said they would fund the club, with the proviso that they would get it, lock sock and barrell. Were they not in effect saying the same thing: If Redbus don't get the club, there will be no money to run it in Admin, and it will fold? And lets not even start with Morris. Yes, KB tried the smart route used before, and will be used agains hortly in a couple of cases it seems. Hard to see how he was supposed to service a debt like we have when we were losing £120/140K a week at one stage. |
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| Stubbsy | 5th May 2008 - 12:19 AM Post #53 |
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Perhaps an all expenses paid mid-season trip to Cyprus could be questioned then on such debts... |
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| Fitz | 5th May 2008 - 12:35 AM Post #54 |
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Sponsored by an outside company if memory serves....... |
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| Stubbsy | 5th May 2008 - 11:56 AM Post #55 |
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We'll agree to disagree, unfortunately it would seem the current regime had the same 'team building' and 'team strengthening' exercises as we did in the O'Leary/Ridsdale era. |
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