Good,move us forward. We are all ageing, would be great to get to the championship. And would be lovely for our younger fans who have only experienced boring football and lack of goals.

I think CC may survive some while but if the deal goes through I think that it is odds on for JJ to be given a short period to prove himself then be pushed out for a higher profile manager (which we would have a chance of attracting if we have a decent budget/can pay a realistic salary)

💥 NickD this is the new reality.

These will buy the club eventually. This is the inevitable outcome. We can talk about protections of 50.1 and the stadium etc etc but money will talk at the end of the day. But it's either this or extinction, so pick your poison.

I hope the investment isn’t going to be spaffed away as rewards for current players.

It’s a survival season either way.

Well they made it clear that they felt JJ and Cope had done a great job and would want to see what they could do with a proper budget

After the last two games it makes you wonder if it has already happened

Changing Man, thats a good point, but could it work the other way to spur them on to try and impress the new guard? Potential more salary amd rewards for players

There is.a danger here that the current squad and staff mentally knock off going forward as the writing appears to be on the wall that they ain't the future

I think it's clear that Bertrand will be the hirer and firer regarding football personnel. Can't see Copey and JJ being around much longer.

Agreed Hash. I would rather vote for something because I believe in the something rather than I fear the anything else.

It feels like a no brainer at the moment but maybe wait a bit just in case it emerges this Omar Mir bloke is about to get married to Pete Winkelman or something

s2k it's not 'assets', it's commercial value which is different as the trust still owns the ground, rights to name, badge etc.

They would run the footballing element of the club? If so that would mean the hiring and firing of personel.

On this 90% thing. Is this basically decoupling % ownership of clubs assets vs % voting rights? So, after 5yrs, they will own 90% of the club, but we will have at least 50.01% voting rights on direction of club?

Football staff/recruitment will be under new investor control but not all club staff. So the days of hanging on to managers 6 months too long may be over.

Thank you both

Gonna wait and see the pack. Would vote for it right now if it were that or financial death (or even worse continue as we are with the current DTB and PLCB running things) but the lack of trust in the DTB to get anything right makes me want to wait and see before I vote.

Everything tonight sounded very positive but we need to make sure everything and every possibility has been thought through carefully and scrutinised. What I'm still unclear on is what it means for them to head up football operations. For example, who ultimately hires and fires managers and makes the final call on transfers (incoming and outgoing) etc?

(sorry for typos…)

They mentioned about adding couple of thousand seats to existing temp stands and then spending more time on a proper development of the ground- where Hugh is an expert

Mark they said they want capacity not hotels, enabling development etc don't think they went into specifics but said training ground was first priority then stadium after that

Hash - thanks, I scrolled and found that, it was clarified that SSC is a vehicle, nd the it’s the people whose records matter (their prior/current successes…). I’m not sure if that helps… The deal looks good on the face of it, but is it too good to be true/safe (is anything safe - our current predicament doesn’t seem to be…).

Hash - did they say any plans regarding the stadium ? Eg which stands, timescale? Etc