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[Mrs Warbouys]

County forum is making interesting reading tonight, all sorts flying around on there!

[hsmith1]

And heres the other one Plymouth,it still gets me angry.
from the BBC.
Two men leading consortiums aiming to buy Plymouth Argyle FC are believed to be meeting the Professional Footballers Association.

Argyle's latest wage deferral runs out on Thursday and players have threatened to strike if they are not paid.

The BBC understands acting chairman Peter Ridsdale and rival James Brent are speaking to the PFA on Monday.

Meanwhile the latest bidder for the club, Paul Buttivant, claims he would make Argyle a success if he took over.

Surrey-based businessman Buttivant told BBC Radio Devon: "Football at the heart of our business plans."

The only bidders to have an offer for the club go before the Football League, Gibraltar-based consortium Bishop International, are still no closer to knowing if their plans will be accepted.

The representative, Kevin Heaney, told BBC South West on Monday that he is "just waiting to find out what's going on" from the club's administrators.

Mr Buttivant claims his deal would be better for the club than that of James Brent.

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It would be terrible to drop into the conference, but the realistic approach is that if that does happen then we want to build the business that can sustain the football club so that it can get promotion back into the Football League at the earliest opportunity
Paul Buttivant
 
Plymouth Argyle bidder
 "We understand football, and at James's own admission, very early on when he threw his hat in the ring, he indicated that he didn't understand the business and didn't really follow football," said Mr Buttivant.

"A football club in any state is a challenge, but we believe that the demographics of Plymouth make it work for our business model," he added.

Mr Buttivant added that making the business work was more important than getting the club promoted straight away.

"Our interest is to take this club forward and build a sustainable business that can play football in the league.

"It would be terrible to drop into the Conference, but the realistic approach is that if that does happen then we want to build the business that can sustain the football club so that it can get promotion back into the Football League at the earliest opportunity," he said.

Argyle are currently bottom of the Football league, having won just one point this season.

[Bath Alty]

""It would be terrible to drop into the Conference, but the realistic approach is that if that does happen then we want to build the business that can sustain the football club so that it can get promotion back into the Football League at the earliest opportunity," he said.

Argyle are currently bottom of the Football league, having won just one point this season."

They'll be lucky - there is no way the conference would take them.  They'd go straight through like Boston did a few years back.

[Narcissist]

Correct me if im wrong but had we won the world cup bid Plymouth would have hosted matches. The world cup being played at non-league grounds would have been brilliant!

[hsmith1]

you are correct Plymouth was going to be one of the world cup grounds.What annoys me is they have been in Admin since about February and the football league let them carry on into this new season

[Butty]

Correct me if im wrong but had we won the world cup bid Plymouth would have hosted matches. The world cup being played at non-league grounds would have been brilliant!

From what I believe, they hedged their bets with the world cup bid- the stadium may have been more financially viable if we won the bid

[York Alty]

Correct me if im wrong but had we won the world cup bid Plymouth would have hosted matches. The world cup being played at non-league grounds would have been brilliant!

IF we'd won the world cup bid the only non-league ground they would have had to at least visit would be West Aucklands Darlington Road ground.  That would have been a sight to see.

[Hamilton]

Tony Evans resigns directorship of Stockport County

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/14929259.stm

[Mick]

No surprises here then..........the 'businessman' would not reveal the identity of his backers.....what did he expect when everyone knew who he was friends with

[Ballers]

It's quite clear what stunt he's tried to pull. Come in playing the saviour, got County to splash some money then turning to the shareholders and saying pay this £200k we've just spent or I'll make you out to be the bad guys. Fair play to them for holding their ground.


Instead of spouting off on twitter and bigging themselves up Chairman/Directors/Money Men etc should be seen and not heard.