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Sky Blue Pete

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  • May 15, 2023
  • #71
Broken Hearted Sky Blue said:
In with Boddy though isn’t it?
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Not really I’ve met and talked with boddy I only know what others have said regarding Mr Hoffman
That’s low from you and I expect more of you. Boddy is the ceo he’s the one we have to engage with. I have no feelings towards him about whether he can or has or will take the club forward from here
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • May 15, 2023
  • #72
DazzleTommyDazzle said:
In my view, this "rumour" came from a complete misreading of a set of Board minutes from years ago.
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It wasn’t a rumour it was a specific quote from Elliot in the minutes.
 
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Danceswithhorses

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  • May 15, 2023
  • #73
Wilf said:
Creepy bloke, used to hang around the entrance to the corridor by the art room at Bablake. Always on his own...
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Why is that creepy, and i ask as a former pupil ?
 
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Grendel

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  • May 15, 2023
  • #74
The other great reference on Hoffman - and what ultimate finished the sky blues trust as a remotely credible voice of the fans - was the total delusion that Preston Haskell was a serious bidder and turned the council against the club which started the downfall - now a self declared bankrupt who faces jail if he enters the country again
 
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alexccfc99

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  • May 15, 2023
  • #75
chiefdave said:
How does running a bank qualify you for running a football stadium & events venue?
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It’s called ‘Jobs for the boys’
 

rob9872

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  • May 15, 2023
  • #76
Grendel said:
The other great reference on Hoffman - and what ultimate finished the sky blues trust as a remotely credible voice of the fans - was the total delusion that Preston Haskell was a serious bidder and turned the council against the club which started the downfall - now a self declared bankrupt who faces jail if he enters the country again
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Careful, they'll be threatening the boss of your business to ask you to sack yourself if you keep going.
 
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Deleted member 5849

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  • May 15, 2023
  • #77
Grendel said:
You compared him to Dale Evans who hadn’t a pot to piss in and a so called banking guru thought was the real deal
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... Whilst there was great scepticism elsewhere. Double it up with Haskell, throw SISU in the mix and it's fair to say Hoffman's judgement about potential financial partners for CCFC hasn't been great. Now that could actually be because as a fan he lets his objectivity go a bit in the desperation for a saviour (I'll even let him off Evans as just saying nice things and not really caring), but the track record was never the most encouraging.

So maybe involvement with the stadium is better, allows him to step back a bit. His career outside of CCFC is certainly a good one after all.
 

DazzleTommyDazzle

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  • May 15, 2023
  • #78
Brighton Sky Blue said:
It wasn’t a rumour it was a specific quote from Elliot in the minutes.
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Not as I recall.

There was a bit about potentially closing the academy and then a comment from JE that it would look bad (my paraphrase).

Now, firstly, JE had historically been the sponsor of the academy, so it would be a bit of an about turn for him to then be pushing to close it.

Secondly, I have far too many years' experience of Boards and how Board minutes are used.

In most Boards, any contentious decisions are/were made before the meeting started and then went through "on the nod" (very different now, if you're in a regulated sector).

I took the JE comments to be a watered down reference to him challenging the proposal to close the academy, not to be proof that he was pushing it.

Still, only those actually in the meeting will know.
 
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Wilf

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  • May 15, 2023
  • #79
Danceswithhorses said:
Why is that creepy, and i ask as a former pupil ?
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As I recollect, he used to have a hunched up stance, stand in the doorway.
 
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Wilf

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  • May 15, 2023
  • #80
...and write things down in a little book. I found that a tad creepy.
 

Robinshio

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  • May 15, 2023
  • #81
Wilf said:
...and write things down in a little book. I found that a tad creepy.
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was he a referee ?
 
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clint van damme

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  • May 15, 2023
  • #82
Wilf said:
As I recollect, he used to have a hunched up stance, stand in the doorway.
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The nerve of the man.....
 
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skybluetony176

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  • May 15, 2023
  • #83
I’m not convinced that Dale Evans was even a real person myself. The whole thing stank of a set up.
 
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AOM

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  • May 15, 2023
  • #84
skybluetony176 said:
I’m not convinced that Dale Evans was even a real person myself. The whole thing stank of a set up.
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Dale Evans bids for the club. 5 years later, Sisu sell up

 
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Hobo

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  • May 15, 2023
  • #85
chiefdave said:
How does running a bank qualify you for running a football stadium & events venue?
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That is a bit naive.
 

Brylowes

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  • May 15, 2023
  • #86
KenilworthSkyBlue said:
I don't doubt that he wants the club to do well. But don't be so naive to think that he doesn't hold his personal profile over what's best for the club.
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Well the exact same thing could be said about anyone, why would anyone place the best interests of their career/work life above that of their own family and personal interests.
But why would that particular scenario ever come to pass anyway I’m pretty sure that just like most people ‘Gary Hoffman is more than capable of finding a good professional/family balance.
 

Brylowes

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  • May 15, 2023
  • #87
Robinshio said:
he gets into bed with anybody
sisu / ranson/ council/ Frasers/ haskell/ etc etc
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Probably rejects more positions than he accepts.
 
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Broken Hearted Sky Blue

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  • May 15, 2023
  • #88
Sky Blue Pete said:
Not really I’ve met and talked with boddy I only know what others have said regarding Mr Hoffman
That’s low from you and I expect more of you. Boddy is the ceo he’s the one we have to engage with. I have no feelings towards him about whether he can or has or will take the club forward from here
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Oh I can go lower than that ask Grendel
 
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Paxman II

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  • May 15, 2023
  • #89
He'll ensure evrything is in writing on the back of a fag packet......
 

chiefdave

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  • May 15, 2023
  • #90
Hobo said:
That is a bit naive.
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Yeah you're right, the track record of business people being dropped into top positions at the stadium is fantastic, definitely no cause for concern. I mean its not like Hoffman has shown him to be a spectacularly bad judge of character where CCFC are concerned

Obviously I hope it works out brilliantly for us but the track record of both Hoffmans involvement with CCFC and the fact he will be working in Frasers best interest not ours doesn't exactly fill me with confidence. Hoping I get proved 100% wrong
 
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Wilf

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  • May 15, 2023
  • #91
clint van damme said:
The nerve of the man.....
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People need to make their own minds up based on their own experiences. I knew of him when he and I were both kids and I thought he was odd.
 
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Skybluetracy

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  • May 15, 2023
  • #92
Wilf said:
People need to make their own minds up based on their own experiences. I knew of him when he and I were both kids and I thought he was odd.
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How did you know him? How old were you both? I know lots of people that have known him and just say he is a proud Cov kid who has done well but still loves the city and watches every week with his family. And at Cov building Society he was chairman and very well respected
 
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The Philosopher

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  • May 15, 2023
  • #93
Danceswithhorses said:
Why is that creepy, and i ask as a former pupil ?
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Before my time but wasn’t that next to one of the cloakrooms near Rev Kelly’s “monastery”. Or was that the pottery studio?

Don’t know why there’s so much hate for Hoffman - 100% Sky Blue, former head of the EPL, clearly wants what’s best for the club.

Yeah, he’s made some judgement errors but I think he had influence in getting the club back to the arena with CBS.

He’s a Sky Blue, an Old Wheat and now he’s taken a role at the Arena. Much rather him involved at that level than someone who only has Frasers’ best interests at heart. With his CV he could be doing career stuff elsewhere with his time.

Good news I think.
 
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Broken Hearted Sky Blue

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  • May 15, 2023
  • #94
Wilf said:
People need to make their own minds up based on their own experiences. I knew of him when he and I were both kids and I thought he was odd.
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Why because he was going to make a success of himself and you werent
 
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Danceswithhorses

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  • May 16, 2023
  • #95
Wilf said:
...and write things down in a little book. I found that a tad creepy.
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Well you've won me over....that all sounds like irrefutable proof, and practically the very definition of 'creepy'
 
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Danceswithhorses

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  • May 16, 2023
  • #96
The Philosopher said:
Before my time but wasn’t that next to one of the cloakrooms near Rev Kelly’s “monastery”. Or was that the pottery studio?

Don’t know why there’s so much hate for Hoffman - 100% Sky Blue, former head of the EPL, clearly wants what’s best for the club.

Yeah, he’s made some judgement errors but I think he had influence in getting the club back to the arena with CBS.

He’s a Sky Blue, an Old Wheat and now he’s taken a role at the Arena. Much rather him involved at that level than someone who only has Frasers’ best interests at heart. With his CV he could be doing career stuff elsewhere with his time.

Good news I think.
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One end of the cloakroom was the art room, and the other end was Rev Kelly's room, a music room, and the very end room was where economics was 'taught'/regurgitated from 30 year old notes iirc.
Rev Kelly....uurrgghh....now he was very 'creepy'
 
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AndreasB

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  • May 16, 2023
  • #97
No fan of Hoffmanns antics with ridiculous potential takeovers but some of the Nudge Nudge comments about him on here are disgraceful.
 

slowpoke

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  • May 16, 2023
  • #98
Hoffman was fronting a group of local business men to try and wrestle our club, their club from sisu, they tried a couple of times unsuccessfully but at least tried.
 
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clint van damme

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  • May 16, 2023
  • #99
slowpoke said:
Hoffman was fronting a group of local business men to try and wrestle our club, their club from sisu, they tried a couple of times unsuccessfully but at least tried.
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In collusion with wasps
 
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Nick

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  • May 16, 2023
  • #100
slowpoke said:
Hoffman was fronting a group of local business men to try and wrestle our club, their club from sisu, they tried a couple of times unsuccessfully but at least tried.
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The time with Wasps or Haskell / Council?

Imagine if the Wasps thing went through.....
 
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lordsummerisle

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  • May 16, 2023
  • #101
Wouldn't have a club if anything had gone ahead with Wasps or Haskell.
 
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slowpoke

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  • May 16, 2023
  • #102
clint van damme said:
In collusion with wasps
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Rubbish
 
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Grendel

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  • May 16, 2023
  • #103
slowpoke said:
Rubbish
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Not according to Overson who quit his consortium

He also tried to get Haskell in who was just a chancer who’d have busted the club
 
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Nick

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  • May 16, 2023
  • #104
slowpoke said:
Rubbish
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Erm? It's not though is it.

Remember the "leaked" photos of him meeting with Wasps years before that?
 

Grendel

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  • May 16, 2023
  • #105
Nick said:
Erm? It's not though is it.

Remember the "leaked" photos of him meeting with Wasps years before that?
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Didn’t he arrange a rental deal with them when he didn’t even own the club
 
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