Tom Shutes

Quoted from mimma

I have my reservations over Shutes and his grandiose ideas. If it's the first GTFC have heard of this, then I bet it's the first that ABP, or whoever owns the land, have heard  of it as well.Has Shutes and his team done any feasibility study on this?  The Freeman Street proposal has the backing of the owners of the land, and the council, and it is cleared and ready to go.

As for the financing, do you think for one minute that the board have dreamed up this scheme without looking into how it can be paid for? They will have spent many hours in discussions will the relevant people to come up with a method of financing it, drawing on the experiences of other clubs that have relocated.It's only like you and me buying a house, only there's more noughts on the end. If everyone thought of how much their house costs, nobody would ever buy a house.

Quoted from mimma

As for the financing, do you think for one minute that the board have dreamed up this scheme without looking into how it can be paid for?

Quoted from Bigdog

As is his right, Tom Shutes has finally given us an overall view of his plans for a new stadium. By going public after all of this time and also during this pandemic, he nust be more confident of delivering the project than a lot on here give him credit for. Too many people look at things from their own microeconomic point of view rather than expanding their minds into be more macroeconomic. Small town mentality kicks in far too often and it's why Grimsby gets left behind as a backwater. Shutes has put a little more meat on the bone and it's now up to him to deliver or be left looking foolish. And my gut instinct is that he's no fool and is far more well connected than the current board, far more visionary and far more able to raise the necessary finance. He's had one say in the press and that's it so far. Our current board, who at the minute, have hung their hat on Peaks Parkway and failed, hung their hat on Freeman Street and asked fans at a forum if anyone has got a spare 20 mill (which isn't enough anyway), promised Championship football within three more years, still write season ticket holder details in an exercise book.and refer to our surrent majority shareholder as the "main man" having bankrolled the club over twenty years for the princely sum of a third of one season's turnover and he still wants that back too. The club have controlled the narrative on a new stadium, delivered nothing, on occasions have been downright disrespectful and reading between the lines putting a far higher standard of future takeover funding than they could ever dream of putting together themselves. I'd like to see more of what Shutes has to offer before I can get fully on board with his project and welcome the fact that we still have another potential option. The odds on favourite is that we'll still be in BP in ten year's time but my gut tells me that Shutes is a strong second to deliver a new stadium (and one that we can be rightly proud of) and our current board a poor last (with a Poundland shoe box effort)..

Lets not be quick to dismiss Shutes, let's be patient and see what else he has to say in the future and let's not believe everything our board has to say as the gospel truth as their words can only be written from their own personal viewpoint. The world hasn't ended with Covid, government coffers may dry up, but there's plenty of investors with deep pockets out there looking to get more bang for their buck post pandemic..

Quoted from pen penfras

Unless it's covered by a NDA, then it absolutely is not his right. You claim to have been involved in lots of business, have you ever heard of somebody entering into negotiations like this without a NDA in place?

As for the takeover and them pursuing a new stadium, I think that's what everybody wants. But first questions need answering like how much is it going to cost and what is the financial implication for the club. That information was requested well over a year ago and hasn't been answered. Would you really be ok with the club being sold to people that are promising a new stadium that could cripple the club without any explanation of how they're going to fund it. The board clearly know how difficult funding a project is, let alone one of the scale of the docks proposal.

Also, Holloway has spoken very fondly of "squeaky" and the way the club is run, and has signed up to  us as a project. I'm not so sure he'd be happy to work with a group of unknowns that might not agree with his vision for running a club.

Quoted from pen penfras

Unless it's covered by a NDA, then it absolutely is not his right. You claim to have been involved in lots of business, have you ever heard of somebody entering into negotiations like this without a NDA in place?

As for the takeover and them pursuing a new stadium, I think that's what everybody wants. But first questions need answering like how much is it going to cost and what is the financial implication for the club. That information was requested well over a year ago and hasn't been answered. Would you really be ok with the club being sold to people that are promising a new stadium that could cripple the club without any explanation of how they're going to fund it. The board clearly know how difficult funding a project is, let alone one of the scale of the docks proposal.

Also, Holloway has spoken very fondly of "squeaky" and the way the club is run, and has signed up to  us as a project. I'm not so sure he'd be happy to work with a group of unknowns that might not agree with his vision for running a club.