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bgoefc

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  1. Not always into these comic book films although i did enjoy the last 3 batman movies. However after watching this clip I got hold of and enjoyed all 3 hrs 20 mins of the ultimate cut version that I have just finished watching. As you say some good music and the sexy lingerie type costumes for the lady super hero's worked for me . 8/10 .
  2. oh my. RIP
  3. How? Because the people who turned a blind eye and the councillors who covered it up came through a system where the "R" word trumps every other "ism". And unfortunately its still very much the case.
  4. Odious Nigel? thats a matter of opinion. A massive % of the those who voted last election ( 4 million) did so for him. Many in your game probably did!
  5. Last 15mins all Citeh, Kiev goal brought em back into it but it was a double deflection, real score would have been 8-2 Citeh. When Toure missed that simple can't miss 5 yrd header with 5 mins to go i said to missus he looks angry rather than his normal can't give a shit, he will have a last blast from 25 yards. A game i enjoyed. Two teams who wanted to play and not one bad foul or booking.
  6. Citeh ripping Dynamo Kiev a new arse. Just demonstrates where their arab owners want priorities lie in terms of competitions.
  7. On current form its the best defence in the division against the weakest attack 0-1.
  8. i wonder if they would give a second thought to what that would do to the lucrative sales of their vehicles in the UK market, plus the cost of moving their factories?
  9. Not necessarily. See my post on VC's a few pages back. They will have already have a plan on how to cut losses. If my experience is anything to go by there will be short (90 day) medium 1 year and long term 3 year plans in place. The short ones will be to reduce debt and sell off assets and keep the cash flow going.
  10. I have worked as a management shareholder for three different VC's in my last life as a company Director. The ones I were involved with raised individual tranches of money to invest from many sources but primarily pension and endowment funds. They then invest these in various enterprises, usually by making leveraged purchases of failing businesses whose existing or brought in management have ideas on how to raise its value within 3 to 5 years. The money a VC invests usually only represents around say 25% of the purchase price and the remaining capital is normally raised from mezzanine and bank debt. As I said they normally invest via management teams of which Deano will obviously be the major player, the MD or Chairman in this case. Shares are generally spread 25% management to 75% VC company. Of the 25% the Chairman/MD usually takes 10% to 12%, the FD 6% and the rest is split amongst key management. As we are only talking £7.5 million here, plus the additional £12.5 million the remaining 75% of this will probably come from the "unnamed investors" rather than the banks or mezzanine and this is known as the senior debt. So what do they (the non VC investors) get out of it all? Usually its around 10% to 15% a year interest and their debt has first dibs on any assets if things go tits up. They always get their money back first. The VC and management then get their % share value on the difference between future sale price (to a new owner) minus original senior debt borrowings (from non VC) and sales and legal costs. Tranches of those senior borrowings could be paid off along the way by windfall monies from say unexpected player sales, cup runs or asset sales. Any VC will have a 3 to 5 year exit strategy. They will trim the cost base, sell assets where they can and then hope to put the club on a better financial footing. If they can do that and get Bolton into a position whereby they are living within their means, top half of the championship and looking as good as any other team for possible promotion, they then will be attractive targets for rich foreign owners who could pay say for example £30 to £40 million thus making the VC and management £10 to £20 million profit. Thats quite a simplified explanation of my experience of the way VC's work. They rarely go in unless they get a great price on the struggling asset. The positive for the fans to take from this is that the club will have to be in a much better position for them to make their money in 3 to 5 years time.
  11. bgoefc replied to gonzo's topic in Terrace Talk
    Shot from twenty yards, goalkeeper positioned fairly central, ball hits middle of net. A defender stood in the same position would have probably have side footed it away quite easily.
  12. bgoefc replied to gonzo's topic in Terrace Talk
    Difficult to judge from limited highlights but surely in the 93rd minute, 1-0 up our back 4 should not be scurrying back? Surely they should be tight, in position with a defensive midfielder sat waiting?
  13. Most interesting fact of the day on this topic imo. So why the sea change?
  14. bgoefc replied to gonzo's topic in Terrace Talk
    Lots of white shirts racing back but too few closing in on the man in possession. Routine save, could even have stuck out a leg to that.
  15. bgoefc replied to gonzo's topic in Terrace Talk
    Yep, went to the door to talk to my neighbour come back its happened again!
  16. bgoefc replied to gonzo's topic in Terrace Talk
    Need every match to stay as is and the league table will look better than it has for some time!
  17. Typical left wing retort. Are these good enough for you? Using these it comes to £559 per family. However its based on net contributions. Even the most pro Europe sources point out that calculating the benefits are pretty woolly as most are based on assumptions that we would have had little or no trade with the EU which is stupid. http://businessforbritain.org/2015/07/08/obr-forecasts-for-uks-contributions-to-eu-budget-increase-3bn-in-4-months/ http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/family-demography/families-and-households/2014/families-and-households-in-the-uk--2014.html
  18. So tell me what I and my family get for my £1100?
  19. It may well be that "the best devil you know" will win the day. I would argue the media balance will be skewed in favour of in, especially the BBC. For me I am definitely out. A few years ago some independent body calculated the cost of membership to the average British family was somewhere around £1100 per year. The average Brit gets nothing from this leviathan that has morphed from what was originally an agricultural agreement.
  20. Why would your company get battered? So your Directors believe your product/service would not be of the correct quality or price anymore? One of the biggest fallacies is that European customers of UK goods or services would no longer buy products because we are not in the club. Tell that to those current EU customers of Chinese steel. Do you sell to any other non EU countries at the moment?
  21. rubbing the back of the ticket with a balloon often works.
  22. bgoefc replied to Underpants's topic in Geeks Corner
    One of the last 50 inch Pioneers down in my basement garage bar, professionally tuned with a fuck off Onkyo amp and 7:1 Jamos. Upstairs is Panasonic 42 inch with 32 LCD Sonys in the kitchen and bedroom (LCD's are wank). All now about 10 year old. Awaiting my pension cash in a few years before going shopping again
  23. Fucking hell thats what I typed but not what I got!
  24. Only one candidate for me. Career lasted 40 years from 1949 to 1990. Won a Gold medal and world title much to the chagrin of the snobby aloof AAA who regarded him as a "guttersnipe". Worked 40 hours per week as a welder and used to catch the bus to meets where he competed in knackered spikes. His diet was mostly fish & chips and when asked for comments after his numerous wins only said "I ran em all". Alf Tucker, Tough of the Track. We will probably never see his likes again.
  25. We did ours yesterday. Christened the new bed which arrived on Friday and finished off with humongous pan fried sirloins and a few bottles of decent red. No cards flowers or over priced meals out.

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