Jordanhill Jag Posted September 16 Report Share Posted September 16 22 hours ago, Fawlty Towers said: Written report and video from the Q&A now available to read and view. https://ptfc.co.uk/ptfc-news/summary-of-meet-the-board-qa/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EN_wyZie4Is&t=894s Ref selling off another 10% of the Club Assets “I really don't see any downsides” from TJF Rep apart from the small matter that we will have sold off 20% of our assets -in less than 12 Months ? and the fact that there is No Plan to stop the massive losses -we are wracking up Not one single person from TJF questioning the strategy of selling off assets to fund losses -not one - complete U Turn from what a number of them were saying under Jlo - unbelievable the excuse last time was that TJF had no time to agree the Selling of Shares deal - now there front and centre pushing for it to happen again - and saying “ there is no downside” its all a nice wee cosy back scratching arrangement - TJF & the Board are one in the same breakeven to a £280K loss - but it wasn't the Board - a Big Boy did it and ran away as for referring to the Jlo Board about asking questions on the finances / can you imagine if they proposed selling off 20% of the Club to fund the losses ? the strategy for stopping the losses - pretty much the same as the last AGM / that seemed to have worked well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BowenBoys Posted September 16 Report Share Posted September 16 20 Go To 10 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Third Lanark Posted September 16 Report Share Posted September 16 44 minutes ago, BowenBoys said: 20 Go To 10 Sorry? What do you mean BB? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert's Ghost Posted September 16 Report Share Posted September 16 8 minutes ago, Third Lanark said: Sorry? What do you mean BB? It's an endless loop in FORTRAN (an ancient computer programming language m'lord). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rid Skwerr Posted September 16 Report Share Posted September 16 1 hour ago, Albert's Ghost said: FORTRAN (an ancient computer programming language m'lord). OI! I trained in FORTRAN! (from black & white IBM videos, starring a guy who was a dead spit for Broderick Crawford) There's one for the real oldies.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
partickthedog Posted September 16 Report Share Posted September 16 2 hours ago, BowenBoys said: 20 Go To 10 That is very subtle BB, though I would never have got it without Albert’s Ghost providing the explanation. I was trying to interpret the references to 10% and 20% in JJ’s post! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lady-isobel-barnett Posted September 17 Report Share Posted September 17 7 hours ago, Rid Skwerr said: OI! I trained in FORTRAN! (from black & white IBM videos, starring a guy who was a dead spit for Broderick Crawford) There's one for the real oldies.... Ah, but would that not be 10 Go To 4? 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BowenBoys Posted September 17 Report Share Posted September 17 Now I feel really, really old... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eljaggo Posted September 17 Report Share Posted September 17 Join the club - Fortran programming + Highway Patrol - those were the days! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAG1970 Posted September 25 Report Share Posted September 25 Programme notes from Levi Gill from the clubs website today. Why remove the scaffolding (which was a revenue opportunity for advertising) if we don’t have a plan for the south terracing? “But while governance is the foundation on which all future success will be built, it’s important that nobody loses sight of the day job. For those attending today’s game it will be impossible to miss the changed landscape at the city end of the ground. The scaffold has been removed and hopefully (I’m writing this midweek) by now so has the wreckage that the project left behind! This may only be a small step toward tidying up the stadium but it’s an important one. Firhill is our home and we need not only to take pride in it but to weaponise it. This stadium, and our ownership of it, is the greatest asset that we have. How we develop it commercially, how we market it and open our doors to the wider community will be integral to our success. This is why the first recruitment of my tenure was Eve Wilson as our new Events and Hospitality Executive. The club understands the vital importance of developing our revenue streams and sweating our assets. I am very keen that we punch above our weight across the organisation, and to do so we need to innovate and evolve the way that we operate. The removal of the scaffold is a small step but a significant one. It demonstrates that we will challenge our operating model and evolve, and that we will make best use of the facilities at hand to deliver what all Thistle fans deserve – sustainable success.” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lambies Lost Doo Posted September 25 Report Share Posted September 25 I thought the scaffolding and advertising looked a lot better than the grassy knoll. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagfox Posted September 25 Report Share Posted September 25 9 minutes ago, Lambies Lost Doo said: I thought the scaffolding and advertising looked a lot better than the grassy knoll. That's plenty JFK... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotty Posted September 25 Report Share Posted September 25 That statement says nothing and means even less. We've removed an income stream and replaced it with? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BowenBoys Posted September 25 Report Share Posted September 25 Anybody else singing the JJaws music wile they read this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elevenone Posted September 25 Report Share Posted September 25 passed Munns today and it was getting new red’n’yellow signage. Is this part of the bigger picture? 😆 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norgethistle Posted September 26 Report Share Posted September 26 20 hours ago, elevenone said: passed Munns today and it was getting new red’n’yellow signage. Is this part of the bigger picture? 😆 👀🤫 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eljaggo Posted September 26 Report Share Posted September 26 How much are we losing by this decision, and do the advertisers have contracts that might cost the Club by ending them prematurely? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
partickthedog Posted September 26 Report Share Posted September 26 I am sure that there must be a sensible answer to the opaque riddle posed by Levi Gill's article. You feel that there should be some extra paragraph that explains it all, but somehow was omitted. The whole thesis of the article is that we make the best use of our assets, including extracting the maximum commercial gain. Where is the punchline that reveals the ultimate advantage towards which removing the revenue producing scaffolding was the first step? I wonder if this is one where our TJF reps could assist our understanding? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jordanhill Jag Posted September 27 Report Share Posted September 27 15 hours ago, eljaggo said: How much are we losing by this decision, and do the advertisers have contracts that might cost the Club by ending them prematurely? What I think may be happening is that those advertising on the Scaffolding Contracts have run out - it costs to have the Scaffolding there as its hired So if there has not been enough advertising sold to replace the previous ones - then its costing us Money therefore its being removed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAG1970 Posted September 27 Report Share Posted September 27 1 hour ago, Jordanhill Jag said: What I think may be happening is that those advertising on the Scaffolding Contracts have run out - it costs to have the Scaffolding there as its hired So if there has not been enough advertising sold to replace the previous ones - then its costing us Money therefore its being removed Makes sense but disappointing if we couldn’t find someone to advertise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodstock Jag Posted September 27 Report Share Posted September 27 To allay the conspiracy theories here... The scaffolding has an ongoing cost to maintain on The Bing. It's also ugly and tired. The Club has reached an arrangement with a (very helpful) sponsor to remove the scaffolding, get the area tidied up, and a suitable replacement advertising structure, put in place at no cost, in exchange for some of the advertising spaces. The new structure is hoped to be less intrusive, cost less to maintain, and could, if marketed properly, actually lead to more commercial revenue for the Club, not less. On specific debunking duty: (a) the land is not being sold! (b) this is not happening because of a failure to sell commercial advertising spaces and no contracts have been cancelled (indeed, overall commercial revenues have already reached last season's total with additional sources out to tender) (c) this is not to the detriment of any existing Club sponsors, who will be featured on the new structure as and when it is put up (d) TJF is not buying Munn's Bar (e) the moon landing was not faked 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAG1970 Posted September 27 Report Share Posted September 27 10 minutes ago, Woodstock Jag said: To allay the conspiracy theories here... The scaffolding has an ongoing cost to maintain on The Bing. It's also ugly and tired. The Club has reached an arrangement with a (very helpful) sponsor to remove the scaffolding, get the area tidied up, and a suitable replacement advertising structure, put in place at no cost, in exchange for some of the advertising spaces. The new structure is hoped to be less intrusive, cost less to maintain, and could, if marketed properly, actually lead to more commercial revenue for the Club, not less. On specific debunking duty: (a) the land is not being sold! (b) this is not happening because of a failure to sell commercial advertising spaces and no contracts have been cancelled (indeed, overall commercial revenues have already reached last season's total with additional sources out to tender) (c) this is not to the detriment of any existing Club sponsors, who will be featured on the new structure as and when it is put up (d) TJF is not buying Munn's Bar (e) the moon landing was not faked Pity Levi Gill didn’t say so in his notes, but good news nevertheless 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert's Ghost Posted September 27 Report Share Posted September 27 28 minutes ago, Woodstock Jag said: (e) the moon landing was not faked Prove it! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
partickthedog Posted September 27 Report Share Posted September 27 2 hours ago, Woodstock Jag said: To allay the conspiracy theories here... The scaffolding has an ongoing cost to maintain on The Bing. It's also ugly and tired. The Club has reached an arrangement with a (very helpful) sponsor to remove the scaffolding, get the area tidied up, and a suitable replacement advertising structure, put in place at no cost, in exchange for some of the advertising spaces. The new structure is hoped to be less intrusive, cost less to maintain, and could, if marketed properly, actually lead to more commercial revenue for the Club, not less. On specific debunking duty: (a) the land is not being sold! (b) this is not happening because of a failure to sell commercial advertising spaces and no contracts have been cancelled (indeed, overall commercial revenues have already reached last season's total with additional sources out to tender) (c) this is not to the detriment of any existing Club sponsors, who will be featured on the new structure as and when it is put up (d) TJF is not buying Munn's Bar (e) the moon landing was not faked Hi WJ. I do not think I was peddling any conspiracy theories. I was simply suggesting that there must be a sensible explanation, and that TJF might be able to help to provide it. You have done just that! Thank you. As stated by Jag1970, it would have been helpful if Levi had given this additional explanation. However, I do appreciate that his programme article may have been subject to a word limit, and perhaps he simply ran out of space (not sure if that counts as a conspiracy theory, although it does continue the astronomical theme). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodstock Jag Posted September 27 Report Share Posted September 27 50 minutes ago, partickthedog said: Hi WJ. I do not think I was peddling any conspiracy theories. I was simply suggesting that there must be a sensible explanation, and that TJF might be able to help to provide it. You have done just that! Thank you. Not aimed at you, old dog! Some silly speculation elsewhere! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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