Whistleblower

Manorlounger said:
Oh dear, I think I've just wet myself.
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Manor are you struggling with the water works old chap? Or is it just the daft, childish, pathetic, stupid, silly little trolls in @Yellow bird or @Robie causing you to wet yourself? Just a pair of wankers who are looking at L2 on their way to the Nationals with their upcoming points deduction.
 
Foley said:
I would imagine that they would think that it is bollox.
The club have a licence with Kassam. There is no way that I can see Force Majure being a reason for any party getting out of the contract.
Why would Kassam kick the club out (he is getting a very good rent)?
Why would the club leave at the moment when they are contracted to stay.
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Although I don't want to give any credence to the rumour I can't see why Force Majure couldn't be used by the club seeing as the pandemic had taken away its only significant income stream.
 
Fans might finally be able to step inside Adams Park to watch Championship football, unfortunately for Wycombe it'll be their "noisy neighbours" instead!
 
Okay so I can completely understand the reaction so here is why I chose to put my head over the parapet and provide some corroboration. Clearly I have not been told as much as the original poster nor would I expect to be. I am generally a glass half full person and maybe see the benefits of this more than most. I have previously suggested a groundshare to bridge the gap between our lease with FK and a new stadium and I feel we need to as supporters remain open minded and supportive of those at the club that appear to have the best interests at heart.

I have not been told any more and will not be told any more but this is a sequence of events I am wildly guessing may have happened to justify why this might not be bullshit.

1 - OUFC enter into a crippling lease with the Kassam with an option to renew on the same terms for the same length of time at the end of the lease.
2 - New owner comes in sees the lease is crippling the club, initially tries to negotiate it down and then takes FK to arbitration based on a technicality, fails spectacularly.
3 - Tiger comes in and tries more kindness to get the lease sorted. Meanwhile the lease is running further down.
4 - Tiger plans to build a stadium this will take a bit longer than our current lease but not the 25 years (?) that the automatic renewal will afford.
5 - Tiger and co try to negotiate a shorter lease, FK says no thanks.... 25 years or nothing.... Tigers team say no we can go and play somewhere else and we can do that right away due to something in the lease that allows us to get out of it early / pay less if we aren't playing there / whatever with the last 3 or so years remaining on the lease.
6 - FK says that you have informed us you are terminating our lease so you will be evicted at the end of the season.

I personally would follow my club wherever it needs to go to be free of the ties of Kassam that has been crippling our club for so long. I have faith in the new owners and this is backed up by the club turning a recent profit and success on the pitch.
 
Robie said:
Okay so I can completely understand the reaction so here is why I chose to put my head over the parapet and provide some corroboration. Clearly I have not been told as much as the original poster nor would I expect to be. I am generally a glass half full person and maybe see the benefits of this more than most. I have previously suggested a groundshare to bridge the gap between our lease with FK and a new stadium and I feel we need to as supporters remain open minded and supportive of those at the club that appear to have the best interests at heart.

I have not been told any more and will not be told any more but this is a sequence of events I am wildly guessing may have happened to justify why this might not be bullshit.

1 - OUFC enter into a crippling lease with the Kassam with an option to renew on the same terms for the same length of time at the end of the lease.
2 - New owner comes in sees the lease is crippling the club, initially tries to negotiate it down and then takes FK to arbitration based on a technicality, fails spectacularly.
3 - Tiger comes in and tries more kindness to get the lease sorted. Meanwhile the lease is running further down.
4 - Tiger plans to build a stadium this will take a bit longer than our current lease but not the 25 years (?) that the automatic renewal will afford.
5 - Tiger and co try to negotiate a shorter lease, FK says no thanks.... 25 years or nothing.... Tigers team say no we can go and play somewhere else and we can do that right away due to something in the lease that allows us to get out of it early / pay less if we aren't playing there / whatever with the last 3 or so years remaining on the lease.
6 - FK says that you have informed us you are terminating our lease so you will be evicted at the end of the season.

I personally would follow my club wherever it needs to go to be free of the ties of Kassam that has been crippling our club for so long. I have faith in the new owners and this is backed up by the club turning a recent profit and success on the pitch.
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7. You are incredibly naive and have little understanding of the arrangements between OUFC and Stadco.
 
QR said:
Although I don't want to give any credence to the rumour I can't see why Force Majure couldn't be used by the club seeing as the pandemic had taken away its only significant income stream.
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I am not itk but a business I am very closely involved with is looking at force majeur as a way to get out of a franchise contract, citing the pandemic. Another franchise holder has successfully done this.

I'm not a lawyer either, but it would seem that it may be possible for OUFC to do the same.

Regardless of that, and speaking as a fan, I would have thought that a temporary ground share would be an inevitable step in the process of building our own ground. So I'm not too worried about it, unless of course that new ground doesn't materialise.
 
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