Fenty on proposed Shutes takover

I'm told Shutes has never even been to a Town game

Quoted from Alfie

I'm told Shutes has never even been to a Town game

How would people know if he has or has not? is there somebody who watches every single person at every single game? the fact is if he went to our next game the vast majority of people would not recognise him as Tom Shutes and if he went to a game last season before his name become known around here nobody would have recognised him as he would have only been a random face in the crowd.

How many millionaires  who are football fans would sensibly invest in G.T. unless they were specifically a G.T. fan. JSF invested only because he was a G.T. fanatic. Not many out there even those who think they could get a return on their outlay.

Quoted from Alfie

I'm told Shutes has never even been to a Town game

He might post on here then if you listen to some people’s opinion on Fishy posters.

Quoted from Davec

How would people know if he has or has not? is there somebody who watches every single person at every single game? the fact is if he went to our next game the vast majority of people would not recognise him as Tom Shutes and if he went to a game last season before his name become known around here nobody would have recognised him as he would have only been a random face in the crowd.

He’s probably admitted it to someone on the board and it’s got out that way. It seems completely plausible to me that he’s never been before - we didn’t even hear that he went to Stamford Bridge to see town, let alone come up here for a game.

Quoted from Alfie

I'm told Shutes has never even been to a Town game

The current owner has been to loads of games and look how that's worked out. I actually hope that Shutes is interested in the wider regeneration of the town and the role the football club can play in that. I don't care if he knows anything about football, a sensible owner with some self awareness would appoint someone else to run the club anyway.

I think the main problem here, as well as money, is that Shutes is mainly interested in the regeneration of the town which may include the football club as merely a small part of it.
We really need someone who wants to own GTFC for itself rather than just a stadium which will be part of or even centre piece of an overall town plan.
Fenty is right not to simply hand it over until he is 100% sure. I don't think Shutes has the money (not just to pay Fenty but to fulfill his grand plan) and certainly does not have the football club's interest at the front of his mind.
If he was that keen to regenerate the town he'd have sent a bulldozer into East Marsh already

Problem is how many people are there out there who have the money, time and long-term commitment. We'd all love a millionaire who spent his childhood on the Pontoon and is willing to invest a big chunk of his time running a football club. But is there more than one out there?

Quoted from Davec

How would people know if he has or has not? is there somebody who watches every single person at every single game? the fact is if he went to our next game the vast majority of people would not recognise him as Tom Shutes and if he went to a game last season before his name become known around here nobody would have recognised him as he would have only been a random face in the crowd.

In the LULL of EXCITEMENT during Towns home games I sometime count the crowd. I have counted the crowd at the last 53 home games and know every bodies face off by heart. He has never been.

I realy cannot see the point in having a new tin mish stadium with no soul and nothing in, under, by it to bring money in to the club so we do not have to rely on just gate money. And i thought that was a big part of having a new ground.. So many times it has been said that freemo is not a big enough site for what we need to generate funds.. I am not against freemo, but i fail to see how it will make us any better off. no one is going to come in and throw money at us . we need better training areas not the ploggers type thing we have now . we need to own in built shops  restaurants , leisure facilitys etc to generate cash or it is a waste of time in my view.