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ccfc92

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  • May 23, 2016
  • #141
stupot07 said:
And we will do when he works it out what it means and explains it to us. Otherwise some will go "look it proves they take money out", some will say " look I told you we were paying for court costs" with no actual proof that's what's happened.

What do you think it means?

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Joy, TF and CA had a piss up.
 
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Brylowes

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  • May 23, 2016
  • #142
chiefdave said:
If OSB, who has studied the accounts in great detail, doesn't know how is anyone else going to know?
You could flip your question round and ask why OSB raised it now (not suggesting anything to be clear just saying its not a big deal).
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How do you know it's not a big deal ?
 

fernandopartridge

Well-Known Member
  • May 23, 2016
  • #143
Brylowes said:
Did anyone else notice,
This thread completely lost it's way at 1-47 this afternoon.
The same time OSB58 pointed out an anomaly in the accounts.
Funny that,
Two days of posts about the accounts, and then it's Juggy's a Lemo bootboy.
:angelic:
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Did the anomaly prove Juggy right? I must have missed that bit
 
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Brylowes

Well-Known Member
  • May 23, 2016
  • #144
stupot07 said:
And we will do when he works it out what it means and explains it to us. Otherwise some will go "look it proves they take money out", some will say " look I told you we were paying for court costs" with no actual proof that's what's happened.

What do you think it means?

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I have no idea , there's probably a perfectly rational explanation, just surprised that there was no
comment on it ,before that post all the talk was accounts.
After that post it was Juggy's a bootboy.
 

Grendel

Well-Known Member
  • May 23, 2016
  • #145
Brylowes said:
I have no idea , there's probably a perfectly rational explanation, just surprised that there was no
comment on it ,before that post all the talk was accounts.
After that post it was Juggy's a bootboy.
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That was his username on here. Actually one of several usernames
 

Brylowes

Well-Known Member
  • May 23, 2016
  • #146
fernandopartridge said:
Did the anomaly prove Juggy right? I must have missed that bit
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Well you certainly missed my point.
 

chiefdave

Well-Known Member
  • May 23, 2016
  • #147
Brylowes said:
How do you know it's not a big deal ?
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If OSB isn't worried, I'm not worried. He's been looking at the accounts for years, if millions were disappearing off someone it would have been spotted.
oldskyblue58 said:
I cant explain it no doubt there is a good reason.
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oldskyblue58 said:
No I am not saying anything is wrong only that I do not understand the entries
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fernandopartridge

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  • May 23, 2016
  • #148
Brylowes said:
Well you certainly missed my point.
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No, you didn't really have one.
 

Brylowes

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  • May 23, 2016
  • #149
fernandopartridge said:
No, you didn't really have one.
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I did ,it just doesn't fit your train of thought
 

Brylowes

Well-Known Member
  • May 23, 2016
  • #150
chiefdave said:
If OSB isn't worried, I'm not worried. He's been looking at the accounts for years, if millions were disappearing off someone it would have been spotted.
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Well I'm not worried either,
 

chiefdave

Well-Known Member
  • May 23, 2016
  • #151
Brylowes said:
I have no idea , there's probably a perfectly rational explanation, just surprised that there was no
comment on it ,before that post all the talk was accounts.
After that post it was Juggy's a bootboy.
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What is it you want comment on? Lets look at the points in the article.

He starts off complaining about season ticket prices. They have indeed gone up this year but they were massively discounted last year. If you take a longer term view it tells a different story: 16/17 £299 15/16 £249 14/15 £299 12/13 £299 11/12 £286 10/11 £286 09/10 £310 08/09 £292 07/08 £292 06/07 £292.
Factor in inflation and they are significantly cheaper now than 10 years ago.

Next he complains the prices have gone up but the player budget will remain the same. He suggests this is because money is going to SISU or to pay legal fees. However the accounts show SISU have had to put in £780K this season as the club didn't generate enough to cover the budget. They have had a repayment of £250K from the Maddison sale. The accounts also clearly state SISU, not the club, are funding legal action.

Then he states SISU have invested £60m but he doesn't believe that figure. Well SISU converted £60m of debt into shares so the figure is correct, well actually the figure is £60,898,116.

He then does some maths where he decides we've up £10m in transfers since dropping to L1 which has disappeared. Bigi, Clarke and Keogh were under £1m each, Maddision £2m and Wilson £3m. So that's less than £8m before you take off the transfer and loan fees for players coming in. Again, look at the accounts and this is not true.

Onto ticket revenues. He has worked out its £3.5-4m for the season just gone but as we have 'only' spent £2.5m on the player budget he is again suggesting money is missing. Total attendance is 298,234. That would mean £11.74 - £13.41 per head. That's way higher than we've had in the past in a season when ticket prices were considerably lower.

Since they converted the debt to shares we have lost £4.4m and £1.9m. There simply isn't 'spare' money that isn't accounted for. What he's saying simply doesn't tally with the evidence available.
 
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stupot07

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  • May 23, 2016
  • #152
Brylowes said:
I have no idea , there's probably a perfectly rational explanation, just surprised that there was no
comment on it ,before that post all the talk was accounts.
After that post it was Juggy's a bootboy.
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Juggy's username on here was Leamingtonbootboy no ones having a pop at him by calling him "boot boy".

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Brylowes

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  • May 23, 2016
  • #153
chiefdave said:
What is it you want comment on? Lets look at the points in the article.

He starts off complaining about season ticket prices. They have indeed gone up this year but they were massively discounted last year. If you take a longer term view it tells a different story: 16/17 £299 15/16 £249 14/15 £299 12/13 £299 11/12 £286 10/11 £286 09/10 £310 08/09 £292 07/08 £292 06/07 £292.
Factor in inflation and they are significantly cheaper now than 10 years ago.

Next he complains the prices have gone up but the player budget will remain the same. He suggests this is because money is going to SISU or to pay legal fees. However the accounts show SISU have had to put in £780K this season as the club didn't generate enough to cover the budget. They have had a repayment of £250K from the Maddison sale. The accounts also clearly state SISU, not the club, are funding legal action.

Then he states SISU have invested £60m but he doesn't believe that figure. Well SISU converted £60m of debt into shares so the figure is correct, well actually the figure is £60,898,116.

He then does some maths where he decides we've up £10m in transfers since dropping to L1 which has disappeared. Bigi, Clarke and Keogh were under £1m each, Maddision £2m and Wilson £3m. So that's less than £8m before you take off the transfer and loan fees for players coming in. Again, look at the accounts and this is not true.

Onto ticket revenues. He has worked out its £3.5-4m for the season just gone but as we have 'only' spent £2.5m on the player budget he is again suggesting money is missing. Total attendance is 298,234. That would mean £11.74 - £13.41 per head. That's way higher than we've had in the past in a season when ticket prices were considerably lower.

Since they converted the debt to shares we have lost £4.4m and £1.9m. There simply isn't 'spare' money that isn't accounted for. What he's saying simply doesn't tally with the evidence available.
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If OSB 58 or anyone else for that matter had bought up an issue with the council,wasps or Higgs
(Could be anything ) this thread would be 40pages by now .
It's not my opinion on SISUs accounts, it's my opinion that people read his post and for some reason
Passed it by. IMO
 

fernandopartridge

Well-Known Member
  • May 23, 2016
  • #154
chiefdave said:
What is it you want comment on? Lets look at the points in the article.

He starts off complaining about season ticket prices. They have indeed gone up this year but they were massively discounted last year. If you take a longer term view it tells a different story: 16/17 £299 15/16 £249 14/15 £299 12/13 £299 11/12 £286 10/11 £286 09/10 £310 08/09 £292 07/08 £292 06/07 £292.
Factor in inflation and they are significantly cheaper now than 10 years ago.

Next he complains the prices have gone up but the player budget will remain the same. He suggests this is because money is going to SISU or to pay legal fees. However the accounts show SISU have had to put in £780K this season as the club didn't generate enough to cover the budget. They have had a repayment of £250K from the Maddison sale. The accounts also clearly state SISU, not the club, are funding legal action.

Then he states SISU have invested £60m but he doesn't believe that figure. Well SISU converted £60m of debt into shares so the figure is correct, well actually the figure is £60,898,116.

He then does some maths where he decides we've up £10m in transfers since dropping to L1 which has disappeared. Bigi, Clarke and Keogh were under £1m each, Maddision £2m and Wilson £3m. So that's less than £8m before you take off the transfer and loan fees for players coming in. Again, look at the accounts and this is not true.

Onto ticket revenues. He has worked out its £3.5-4m for the season just gone but as we have 'only' spent £2.5m on the player budget he is again suggesting money is missing. Total attendance is 298,234. That would mean £11.74 - £13.41 per head. That's way higher than we've had in the past in a season when ticket prices were considerably lower.

Since they converted the debt to shares we have lost £4.4m and £1.9m. There simply isn't 'spare' money that isn't accounted for. What he's saying simply doesn't tally with the evidence available.
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It's pretty amazing that a paper would actually print that drivel even as an opinion piece. Next on the Coventry Telegraph, it's a column from Jedward about the economic case for Brexit.
 
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Brylowes

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  • May 23, 2016
  • #155
fernandopartridge said:
It's pretty amazing that a paper would actually print that drivel even as an opinion piece. Next on the Coventry Telegraph, it's a column from Jedward about the economic case for Brexit.
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I agree they shouldn't, very irresponsible a reporter would never have got away with
Such unsubstantiated comment.
 

ccfc92

Well-Known Member
  • May 23, 2016
  • #156
Brylowes said:
If OSB 58 or anyone else for that matter had bought up an issue with the council,wasps or Higgs
(Could be anything ) this thread would be 40pages by now .

It's not my opinion on SISUs accounts, it's my opinion that people read his post and for some reason
Passed it by. IMO
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Agree with this completely.
 

Ian1779

Well-Known Member
  • May 23, 2016
  • #157
fernandopartridge said:
It's pretty amazing that a paper would actually print that drivel even as an opinion piece. Next on the Coventry Telegraph, it's a column from Jedward about the economic case for Brexit.
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I've had a little glimpse at the pre-draft.

Edward has a surprisingly succinct understanding of the IMF...
 
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oldskyblue58

CCFC Finance Director
  • May 24, 2016
  • #158
Lets clear a few things up. I have no answer for the anomaly but I am not free from concern either. I can not and will not say that there has been any underhand dealing or wrong doing. I do not know why there is an anomaly and can not explain it. Will the club or owners or administrator/liquidator explain it, very unlikely.

Firstly the reason I looked at all is because I didn't agree with Juggy's summation of what was going on and at this moment I have seen no evidence to make me change my mind. The only evidence we are ever likely to see is the statutory accounts filed at Companies House. It looks to me that player sales are shown as contributing to reducing the losses

A cash flow statement is exactly what it says on the tin. It reconciles the operating profit, which includes non cash items such as depreciation, player contract amortisation etc, back to the actual movement of cash in the year to finally show how the cash balance changes from the start to the end of the year. Its starting point, the operating profit, is before taking in to account profit on sales of players

You can get to a calculated sales value (excl any VAT) of the player sales by taking the cost of disposals less the accumulated amortisation on disposals then add back the profit on sales. All figures clearly disclosed in the accounts

So having satisfied myself that the profits on player sales appear to be included in the accounts and therefore applied to meeting the costs of the club I checked the details in the Cash flow statements expecting the figures disclosed there to bear a close correlation to the total sales figure in the various sets of accounts. I have never carried out that exercise before

Several years there were no differences 2008 & 2013 which you would expect. Two particular years there were large differences 2010 £607k and 2012 £2.25m between the calculated sales figure and the figure disclosed in the cash flow statement . Other years had smaller differences. Overall there is it seems a difference of £3.15m over the years since SISU got here to the 2015 accounts where the calculated sales value is more than the proceeds shown in the cash flow. Now you could put it down to timing of cash flows but over 8 years if that were the case then you would expect it to even out. The difference in 2015, the year of the Wilson sale was £74k and that could be the net effect of agents fees or costs- who knows . Would anything from 2010 or 2012 still be outstanding in 2015?. Some of the overall difference could be agents fees being netted off the amount actually received but not the larger amounts surely?

Look at it even more simply in 2012 the club made £2.87m profit on player sales. The cash flow showed that £935K as proceeds. The following year 2013 showed no difference £0 between sales value and proceeds so no staged payments

There is also a difference of almost £600k on the player purchases. The figure shown on balance sheet is £596k more than the actual cash paid out on the cash flow statement.

The reason should be there somewhere because for every debit in the accounts there must be an equal and opposite credit. What the debit is I cannot tell, it apparently isn't an increase in the cash balance

Now I could have said nothing certainly but would I have been right to do so? Like I said I set out to show Juggy's assumptions were wrong and found this anomaly. It could be a mistake in putting the cash flow statement together, an accounting error. Any other reason people will have to make their own assessment. Other than the above I cant explain and in all honesty it is not up to me to explain the anomaly

The only thing I can say for certain is that the figures included in the accounts for both player sales and purchases do not have a good correlation to the figures disclosed as actual physical receipts or payments in the cash flow for each year and by some large numbers. Why that is I do not know and I am not making any accusations
 
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Deleted member 5849

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  • May 24, 2016
  • #159
As I've been ordered to comment else I love SISU and all its little babies, I'll ask a question that will be naive, and show I'm not an accountant

Player sales usually have clauses dependent on certain things happening. When CCFC sell, we never see our former players score a hattrick in the Lunar Cup final to pay out.

Could the initial figure be a figure taking into account, in some way, those clauses, and the money received being what was *actually* received?
 
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stupot07

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  • May 24, 2016
  • #160
Thanks OSB, like NW said could it be linked to staggered payments?

Also wouldn't the auditor pick up if there has been an accounting error? Surely thats their job? Wouldn't the club have to justify the discrepancies with the auditor before sign off?

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chiefdave

Well-Known Member
  • May 24, 2016
  • #161
I'm lost, is it something we should be worried about / asking questions about or not?
 

oldskyblue58

CCFC Finance Director
  • May 24, 2016
  • #162
simple answer is it shouldn't NW. It would also need to be disclosed in the notes to the accounts as a contingent asset and it isn't.
 

oldskyblue58

CCFC Finance Director
  • May 24, 2016
  • #163
chiefdave said:
I'm lost, is it something we should be worried about / asking questions about or not?
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Yes it should be clarified/asked but I am pretty certain it wont be answered given that they never have before. Plus it mainly actually relates to Companies that no longer exist

Yes I am concerned there appears to be £3m unexplained in the clubs cash flow. I am not however making any accusation of wrong doing
 
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oldskyblue58

CCFC Finance Director
  • May 24, 2016
  • #164
stupot07 said:
Thanks OSB, like NW said could it be linked to staggered payments?

Also wouldn't the auditor pick up if there has been an accounting error? Surely thats their job? Wouldn't the club have to justify the discrepancies with the auditor before sign off?

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Over the 8 year period you would expect the staggered payments to even it out so that some years reversed it. That does not happen. There was no difference in 2013 in 2014 it was (5436) in 2015 74036

Yes you would expect auditors to get it right. But then you would expect them to know the difference between a trading company and property company or to know who owned which assets wouldn't you
 
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Brylowes

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  • May 24, 2016
  • #165
oldskyblue58 said:
Yes it should be clarified/asked but I am pretty certain it wont be answered given that they never have before. Plus it mainly actually relates to Companies that no longer exist

Yes I am concerned there appears to be £3m unexplained in the clubs cash flow. I am not however making any accusation of wrong doing
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So maybe Simon Gilbert or Les Reid should try and get some answers, 3 million is
a lot of money especially for a club on the bread line.
It's probably easily explained, but we should know the truth .
 
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armybike

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  • May 24, 2016
  • #166
fernandopartridge said:
It's pretty amazing that a paper would actually print that drivel even as an opinion piece. Next on the Coventry Telegraph, it's a column from Jedward about the economic case for Brexit.
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Because it's an >>>opinion<<< piece?

There's no reason why you couldn't submit a piece offering your opinion on the situation.
 

Grendel

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  • May 24, 2016
  • #167
armybike said:
Because it's an >>>opinion<<< piece?

There's no reason why you couldn't submit a piece offering your opinion on the situation.
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It wouldn't get published. Opinions also have to have some basis of fact or should not be printed.
 

fernandopartridge

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  • May 24, 2016
  • #168
armybike said:
Because it's an >>>opinion<<< piece?

There's no reason why you couldn't submit a piece offering your opinion on the situation.
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It's an opinion piece that is littered with supposed 'facts'. It's an opinion based on imaginary facts,
 
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Deleted member 5849

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  • May 24, 2016
  • #169
armybike said:
Because it's an >>>opinion<<< piece?

There's no reason why you couldn't submit a piece offering your opinion on the situation.
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They're all psychotic murderers, who have dismembered Labovitch and fed him to their cat.

/note for any lawyers with less than two brain cells reading, this is for comedic purposes to illustrate a point, and I don't *really* know that they are psychotic murderers...
 

oldskyblue58

CCFC Finance Director
  • May 24, 2016
  • #170
Also think Juggy is wrong on the ticket income. In 2015 we had match day income of 1.797m on crowds of 9332 average. This season our average crowd was nearer 12570. Work it out from there and ticket income is closer to £2.42 m before factoring in whether overall prices were lower 2015 than 2014. Just about pays the player wages budget. What about the other costs

Other incomes in some areas will have dropped. The club shop is now a franchise as is program selling, where the club receives a percentage (not the case in 2014). There wasn't a lot of prize money but there would be some central distributions . In total probably less than 3m

So total income 5.4m.

Against that are the total staff wages, the direct costs and administrative expenses. in 2015 these were 5m, 1.5m and 2.9m respectively. Total costs 9.4m. In 2016 no doubt there were savings made but is anyone seriously suggesting the club traded at a profit in 2016?
 
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Brylowes

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  • May 24, 2016
  • #171
Deleted member 5849 said:
As I've been ordered to comment else I love SISU and all its little babies, I'll ask a question that will be naive, and show I'm not an accountant

Player sales usually have clauses dependent on certain things happening. When CCFC sell, we never see our former players score a hattrick in the Lunar Cup final to pay out.

Could the initial figure be a figure taking into account, in some way, those clauses, and the money received being what was *actually* received?
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That's a wee bit juvenile for a sensible poster like yourself, do you not think they
Should be accountable for there actions as custodians of our club.
 
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  • May 24, 2016
  • #172
Brylowes said:
That's a wee bit juvenile for a sensible poster like yourself, do you not think they
Should be accountable for there actions as custodians of our club.
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...and then when I do comment I get chastised.

Damned if you do...
 
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armybike

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  • May 24, 2016
  • #173
fernandopartridge said:
It's an opinion piece that is littered with supposed 'facts'. It's an opinion based on imaginary facts,
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An opinion has to be factual? That's a new one on me.

Are you going to write an opinion piece and submit it to CT? It would allow you to constructively demonstrate the issues with this piece.
 

stupot07

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  • May 24, 2016
  • #174
armybike said:
An opinion has to be factual? That's a new one on me.

Are you going to write an opinion piece and submit it to CT? It would allow you to constructively demonstrate the issues with this piece.
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If you're going to include "facts" in your opinion piece, then they should be factual.

Juggys maths are way wide of the mark, and people who don't know much about the situation will read the "opinion" piece and take it as "fact".

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armybike

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  • May 24, 2016
  • #175
stupot07 said:
If you're going to include "facts" in your opinion piece, then they should be factual.

Juggys maths are way wide of the mark, and people who don't know much about the situation will read the "opinion" piece and take it as "fact".
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So that's two of you that will be offering an opinion piece to the Telegraph then?

The readers would definitely be aware of the situation once they've read them.
 
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