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Only this week on Twitter

And I paraphrase but it's an accurate picture I paint

Iles. FV need to put up or stand aside

Questioner. Stand aside for who

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That's why I don't like him

That and his absolute failure to ever go after Holdsworth, the trust as a whole and he never ever mentioned Allansons removal, resignation, however it was presented

Oh, and bedroomgate :)

But tbf, we have much bigger issues than Mr Iles

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16 minutes ago, Boby Brno said:

It’s a minority. Not sure why a smaller, anonymous, minority come on here to criticise him. Maybe they have an agenda. 

Journalist are like Marmite. They always have been.

 

I wouldn’t concern yourself too much. Me, you and probably Iles himself have more important things to worry about.

Corsa Lez 😉

 

@gonzowill understand that cryptic comment 

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12 minutes ago, Casino said:

Only this week on Twitter

And I paraphrase but it's an accurate picture I paint

Iles. FV need to put up or stand aside

Questioner. Stand aside for who

No reply

That's why I don't like him

That and his absolute failure to ever go after Holdsworth, the trust as a whole and he never ever mentioned Allansons removal, resignation, however it was presented

Oh, and bedroomgate :)

But tbf, we have much bigger issues than Mr Iles

Everyone has an opinion and I respect yours.  As you say, there are more important issues but for whatever reason, some people, who portray themselves as ‘professional’ people do seem to have an obsessive interest in Mr. Iles. 

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1 hour ago, Boby Brno said:

It’s a minority. Not sure why a smaller, anonymous, minority come on here to criticise him. Maybe they have an agenda. 

Journalist are like Marmite. They always have been.

 

I wouldn’t concern yourself too much. Me, you and probably Iles himself have more important things to worry about.

Your right we have much bigger issues to worry about. Just wondered why people had a downer on him. 

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2 hours ago, Henrick_Pedigol said:

Bassini just rang my brother in law, who is a minor creditor of BWFC. He offered to pay what is owed in full (not the 13%). My brother in law asked for the offer in writing. Bassini got flustered and said “Steve, Take them off the list” then hung up. Fruit cake 

It's been pure time since you graced this forum. 

Spread the word in Canada that Bassini is a baddun

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1 hour ago, Casino said:

Only this week on Twitter

And I paraphrase but it's an accurate picture I paint

Iles. FV need to put up or stand aside

Questioner. Stand aside for who

No reply

That's why I don't like him. 

That's not an accurate picture in the slightest. I think your opinion of him is influencing your interpretation of what he says. 

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4 hours ago, Romiley White said:

No and no for the record, but the court hearing was a pantomime. However, he (Appleton) has since said that their work is now done. The fact that it isn't is, one presumes, down to the hotel. I was on a radio phone-in in January and said of the takeover 'I will believe it when I see it'. This remains the case.

Then why has someone else definitely at the court hearing stated in his twitter account of the mornings session -

"To clarify, Appleton not in court. Has previously insisted as referenced in court that injunction itself would not impact the sale"?

and also -

"Judge considering how much an adjournment would impact sale after Appleton insisted it wouldn't"

He's either recording the facts, in which case I suggest you might have missed the conversation or he's mixing the reporting of the facts with his own opinions/hearsay/gossip and made a nonsense out of what was actually said and what are Jones personal comments on things.

Clearly something was said about it in court - he tweeted and then did a clarification tweet, in respect of some conversation in court that included the judge about the injunction and its impact on the sale.

As a cross reference this is what Iles said about it in his blog of the day -

"There is a dispute about whether the injunction actually prevents the sale of Burnden Leisure Limited",

...so it certainly would make sense that the judge commented on the Administrators view in this respect - and this would be from Appleton's written submission to him.

Perhaps you were in the process of obtaining your seven Tranmere tickets at the time such a discussion was made?

Anyway water under the bridge now.

We move on.

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4 hours ago, Cheese said:

That's not an accurate picture in the slightest. I think your opinion of him is influencing your interpretation of what he says. 

Which bits not accurate

When you've finished I'll paste it on here and class can decide

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One of Marc Iles problems is that fans want to know what is happening and they want to know the second it happens, but he's not found a way of managing relationships with the club and the other influencers to get the inside stories i.e. he's not a successful investigative journalist - and with other bits of information and red herrings appearing all over the internet fans are ahead of him a lot of the time. He has long periods of silence too so it seems he doesn't know what's happening - which were accentuated when he fell out with Anderson and his access became even more limited. The other turn off is that he tends to lose objectivity and paint the picture with a bit of a tinge of bitterness which is often interpreted as a reflection on his personal experience with the people involved. Overall I don't think he is currently in a position to be the best person to report on the club.

The BN really needs a reporter who has a working relationship with people in and around the club and the kind of access that comes with it - but is able to present objective reporting without getting barred. The club reporter needs to stick to the facts and let readers make of that what they will, but modern reporting increasingly demands that reporters express opinions and that is at the root of the problem. Reporting other people's opinions is fine as long as there's balance.

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5 hours ago, Hoppy510 said:

One of Marc Iles problems is that fans want to know what is happening and they want to know the second it happens, but he's not found a way of managing relationships with the club and the other influencers to get the inside stories i.e. he's not a successful investigative journalist - and with other bits of information and red herrings appearing all over the internet fans are ahead of him a lot of the time. He has long periods of silence too so it seems he doesn't know what's happening - which were accentuated when he fell out with Anderson and his access became even more limited. The other turn off is that he tends to lose objectivity and paint the picture with a bit of a tinge of bitterness which is often interpreted as a reflection on his personal experience with the people involved. Overall I don't think he is currently in a position to be the best person to report on the club.

The BN really needs a reporter who has a working relationship with people in and around the club and the kind of access that comes with it - but is able to present objective reporting without getting barred. The club reporter needs to stick to the facts and let readers make of that what they will, but modern reporting increasingly demands that reporters express opinions and that is at the root of the problem. Reporting other people's opinions is fine as long as there's balance.

Your best comment by a  country mile, Hoppy. Its a sad reality though that senior management of BWFC could not trust the Beeno to report objectively or intelligently well before Marc Iles arrived on the scene but his personality and prejudices have undoubtedly made matters a great deal worse.

I have no agenda btw and absolutely nothing to gain but I do have a mission to debunk the half-truths and falsehoods that have plagued the club I have supported for 67 years. But I am also realistic enough to know that it is a losing battle and that there are  many supporters on WW and elsewhere who prefer virtual ignorance and foolish prejudice and always will.

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34 minutes ago, hughmungus said:

So the administrator decided not to add to the team which put the Tranmere game at threat, says it all about their intentions really.

Joke admin process, looking like joke owners, if they can ever find a pen. 

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From Henry Winter's Twitter Account

''We need to look at that (Owners' and Directors' Test) process to make something more stringent," Debbie Jevans EFL on controversial owners''

A nice sentiment, of course it is, but what about the practicalities? Would Dean Holdsworth have passed the FPP test and Ken Anderson not? In which case BWFC would have gone into administration in March 2016.

Or would neither of them have passed the test and we would have gone into administration in March 2016.

Would that have been better? Not if you were an unsecured creditor or member of BWFC's non-playing staff in March 2016

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4 minutes ago, Ros Coe said:

I am absolutely gobsmacked that after 995 pages some people still do not understand the process that we are going through 😤

If aimed at me, I’m reasonably sure I know what process we’re going through,  I know it’s unlikely FV will complete until hotel is sorted, however that’s bad news for the football side which is the only side I care about. 

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6 hours ago, Hoppy510 said:

One of Marc Iles problems is that fans want to know what is happening and they want to know the second it happens, but he's not found a way of managing relationships with the club and the other influencers to get the inside stories i.e. he's not a successful investigative journalist - and with other bits of information and red herrings appearing all over the internet fans are ahead of him a lot of the time. He has long periods of silence too so it seems he doesn't know what's happening - which were accentuated when he fell out with Anderson and his access became even more limited. The other turn off is that he tends to lose objectivity and paint the picture with a bit of a tinge of bitterness which is often interpreted as a reflection on his personal experience with the people involved. Overall I don't think he is currently in a position to be the best person to report on the club.

The BN really needs a reporter who has a working relationship with people in and around the club and the kind of access that comes with it - but is able to present objective reporting without getting barred. The club reporter needs to stick to the facts and let readers make of that what they will, but modern reporting increasingly demands that reporters express opinions and that is at the root of the problem. Reporting other people's opinions is fine as long as there's balance.

Iles is employed by the Bolton news, that’s his full time job, he has a wife and family, he probably gets gets a decent salary, it’s a job many people would love to do, watching/reporting on the club you support, why would he risk losing his job dishing dirt on players/management of BWFC

If he upset people within the Club his job would be come untenable, he will know players/ management personally and he will know exactly what’s going on, more than anybody on this forum, but he will have to keep his council 

The articles that appear in the BN are 24hours out of date by the time it goes on sale

His Twitter account is more of his thoughts and opinions but it’s obvious he would not be allowed to say what he knows.

The abuse he gets on here, imo, is unwarranted, he’s just another source of reporting that people can use along with Twitter, Forums, hearsay to form an opinion,

I suspect most of anti- Iles brigade on here have had a Twitter spat with said journalist and lost, it’s better to have Iles and the BN than not

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14 minutes ago, Chris Custodiet said:

 A nice sentiment, of course it is, but what about the practicalities? Would Dean Holdsworth have passed the FPP test and Ken Anderson not? In which case BWFC would have gone into administration in March 2016.

Or would neither of them have passed the test and we would have gone into administration in March 2016.

Would that have been better? Not if you were an unsecured creditor or member of BWFC's non-playing staff in March 2016

As opposed to the unsecured creditors of 2018?

What would've been better than either course, would've been if the custodians of the club had taken the difficult decisions to bring costs into line with revenues before they sold it on. That wouldn't have been an easy process, but managing that transition to being a club that lived within its means with a realistic hope of survival would've been a far more fitting legacy than the years of misery that BWFC employees, creditors and fans have undergone. 

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22 minutes ago, Chris Custodiet said:

From Henry Winter's Twitter Account

''We need to look at that (Owners' and Directors' Test) process to make something more stringent," Debbie Jevans EFL on controversial owners''

A nice sentiment, of course it is, but what about the practicalities? Would Dean Holdsworth have passed the FPP test and Ken Anderson not? In which case BWFC would have gone into administration in March 2016.

Or would neither of them have passed the test and we would have gone into administration in March 2016.

Would that have been better? Not if you were an unsecured creditor or member of BWFC's non-playing staff in March 2016

An administration process in 2016, with Eddie Davies still around, would in hindsight have been infinitely preferable, yes.

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2 minutes ago, Lt. Aldo Raine said:

An administration process in 2016, with Eddie Davies still around, would in hindsight have been infinitely preferable, yes.

At the time of the 2016 financial strife, Eddie wasn't in control of his own money and hs family were running his affairs, hence them turning the tap off and leaving a £2m tax bill unpaid.

It was this £2m tax bill that was getting us wound up : the HMRC were the ones taking us to court and you can be pretty sure they weren't going to fund administration.

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37 minutes ago, Ros Coe said:

I am absolutely gobsmacked that after 995 pages some people still do not understand the process that we are going through 😤

And if its aimed at me, i fully understand what’s happening but my frustration is with the admin people who are happy to trouser fees but wont allow 2-3 players in on short term contracts to keep the football bit alive.

As i have suggested previously, the football bit to them is secondary to the sale which we know but you cant let the core part of the club die and cease to exist whilst charging £000’s to keep other money men happy.

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