errr

Delia admitted: "It's mad, but I don't regret it. The money is probably lost but all we want is for our club to be successful. What else could we have done with the money that meant so much?"

The couple invested pounds 1m in 1996 to bail out Norwich and take seats on the board. Two years later, they upped their investment to about pounds 3.5m, buying 61 per cent control. "We knew we'd never see the money again, so we asked each other if there was anything we'd rather do with it. And we said no, Norwich was the greatest passion of our lives and we wanted to help."

last AGM

"The only way we would relinquish our shares is if somebody is going to put money into the football....Only if they put money into the squad - not if they buy our shares, we don't want money. It has to be that there is money for the squad, serious money for the squad."

2 - Taken from the Daily Mirror re the last AGM -

But when the board was criticised at this week's AGM, she astonished the crowd by snapping back: "Anyone who can find idiots like us to put money in and get nothing back can have this club tomorrow."

Posted By: phrankin on July 14th 2008 at 09:54:58

Message Thread

And yet they still don't ask the obvious question that is the key to the whole matter (NCFC) - Jim, Jul 14, 09:33:51
- Bloody right! (NCFC) - Old Git, Jul 14, 09:54:03
- Delia had always said she wasnt expecting or wanting to get any money back (NCFC) - phrankin, Jul 14, 09:41:06
  - ... (NCFC) - malkybarkid, Jul 14, 09:51:58
    - WW2 (n/m) (NCFC) - phrankin, Jul 14, 09:55:45
  - Not quite what she has said (NCFC) - Jim, Jul 14, 09:50:25
  - Not quite what she has said (NCFC) - Jim, Jul 14, 09:49:21
    - errr (NCFC) - phrankin, Jul 14, 09:54:58
      - Good quotes (NCFC) - Old Git, Jul 14, 09:57:01
        
        some of them: (NCFC) - phrankin, Jul 14, 10:03:36
        
        And here is the full AGM one: (NCFC) - phrankin, Jul 14, 10:05:59
        
        Which could well highlight the problem. (NCFC) - megson, Jul 14, 10:20:16
        
        You are right, no-one is ever going to fill that criteria (NCFC) - phrankin, Jul 14, 10:29:31
        
        and even that might not be too much of a problem (NCFC) - megson, Jul 14, 10:33:14
        
        of course Delia had to pay 700,000 for Watling's shares (NCFC) - phrankin, Jul 14, 10:32:24
        
        ?9m is the MAX for theirs is it not? (NCFC) - megson, Jul 14, 10:36:09
        
        I think so yep - nothing is easy in this. (NCFC) - phrankin, Jul 14, 10:56:38
        
        Yep its a bloody minefield, which is why somebody needs to lay it all out. (NCFC) - megson, Jul 14, 11:09:24
        
        Agreed, we know nothing really (NCFC) - phrankin, Jul 14, 11:20:07
  - Repeat hourly throughout the day (n/m) (NCFC) - BerlinCanary, Jul 14, 09:46:27
    - Sorry, it's the pickled onions (n/m) (NCFC) - Old Git, Jul 14, 09:58:49
  - ... (NCFC) - Johnny Comecardiff, Jul 14, 09:44:22
- None of us really know anything (NCFC) - Chalk Hill Bitter, Jul 14, 09:36:51

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