Out of interest why does it? Being owned by very wealthy people

and despite the moneyball stuff that Beane guy has been pretty successful in baseball as i understand it.

Posted By: Jim on December 19th 2017 at 14:19:38

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"no buyers out there" - Update (NCFC) - Jim, Dec 19, 13:53:14
- Bloody hell, that sounds like a recipe for complete disaster. (NCFC) - CB41, Dec 19, 14:11:01
  - Out of interest why does it? Being owned by very wealthy people (NCFC) - Jim, Dec 19, 14:19:38
    - Because it appears to be a consortium of completely unrelated (NCFC) - CB41, Dec 19, 14:21:26
      - Doubt it. They will all know each other and to be honest that may well (NCFC) - Jim, Dec 19, 14:22:41
        
        Ok. Let me know how it goes. I'll most likely have forgotten all about it (NCFC) - CB41, Dec 19, 14:25:07
        
        Might even be dead by then. (NCFC) - Arizona Bay, Dec 19, 14:38:17
        
        Indeed (n/m) (NCFC) - CB41, Dec 19, 14:39:16
- Nice (n/m) (NCFC) - Ralf Scrampton, Dec 19, 14:06:11
- that looks like it's end well (NCFC) - Tombs, Dec 19, 14:02:51
  - Will be interesting to see where the respective clubs are in 18 months time (n/m) (NCFC) - Jim, Dec 19, 14:08:59
    - i cant wait it's going to be very exciting and i'd imagine a little but tense (NCFC) - Tombs, Dec 19, 14:16:13
      - No what happened is their owner is dying so realised he needed to find new owners (NCFC) - Jim, Dec 19, 14:21:42
        
        so they looked at NCFC and decided Barnsley was the better option? (NCFC) - Tombs, Dec 19, 14:28:09
        
        So basically, you are hoping that Delia contracts terminal cancer? (NCFC) - CB41, Dec 19, 14:23:45
        
        Interesting spin on what I said there (NCFC) - Jim, Dec 19, 14:34:37
        
        But it isn't so there isn't. The "nobody out there" clearly means (NCFC) - CB41, Dec 19, 14:38:46
        
        I agree thats what they mean but thats not how they present it (NCFC) - Jim, Dec 19, 14:51:34
        
        they want somebody already emotionally invested in the club (NCFC) - Ralf Scrampton, Dec 19, 14:58:35
        
        Up front about it? If by that you mean lied about/spun it for years then came clean in (NCFC) - Jim, Dec 19, 15:01:30
        
        pre-dating the Times interview by 6 months, Chris Lakey disagrees (NCFC) - Ralf Scrampton, Dec 19, 15:20:28
        
        no, that's their other club (n/m) (NCFC) - Ralf Scrampton, Dec 19, 14:31:02
    - When you say "interesting"..... (n/m) (NCFC) - CB41, Dec 19, 14:11:44
- Not sure I'd want Mr "moneyball" running NCFC (n/m) (NCFC) - Basingstoke_Canary, Dec 19, 13:58:19
  - Better than Mr “no money” Balls (NCFC) - Old Git, Dec 19, 14:03:45
    - Good one! I have a lot against Balls, most overated MP every. Thank god he never got the (NCFC) - Basingstoke_Canary, Dec 19, 14:12:08
      - You do surprise me (n/m) (NCFC) - CB41, Dec 19, 14:15:43
    - lolf (n/m) (NCFC) - Jumbo1, Dec 19, 14:10:32

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