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Salford makes Private Eye : Thu Sep 25, 2014 12:38 pm  
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Trio agree a secret bailout for the local rugby club… which is followed by a fat redundo cheque and a new job at said club for one of the trio!


The story is that in summer last year the elected Mayor was involved in a £160,000+ bailout for the club, which was kept on the QT and not even minuted. Then one of the three officers, Martin Vickers, left, with a £78k + "redundancy" cheque in his trousers, and then went to Salford to be their new Chief Executive. The Salford Star did an article

Nice work. As Private Eye might say, trebles all round!
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Trio agree a secret bailout for the local rugby club… which is followed by a fat redundo cheque and a new job at said club for one of the trio!


The story is that in summer last year the elected Mayor was involved in a £160,000+ bailout for the club, which was kept on the QT and not even minuted. Then one of the three officers, Martin Vickers, left, with a £78k + "redundancy" cheque in his trousers, and then went to Salford to be their new Chief Executive. The Salford Star did an article

Nice work. As Private Eye might say, trebles all round!
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Re: Salford makes Private Eye : Thu Sep 25, 2014 10:38 pm  
Ah Private eye, them were the days. Always a good laugh.
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Re: Salford makes Private Eye : Fri Sep 26, 2014 7:05 am  
Keep up FA:
the owner has been in Private Eye before: there was a similar article a year ago re his (err) Liverpool hotel issue and I remember an article on something else since. As for this story, it has been brewing in the local media for a month or more. Even I, who lives in Rochdale, am becoming bored by the story.

There have been numerous posts on here and on our site re. the owner and the loan (or whatever it will turn out to be labelled) and his business history. Local Councillor Ms Garrido is a keen opponent of our set-up and uses the Star (a Socialist organ methinks) to spread her Tory ideas and attack the Salford club! Sort of like Standee using Codhead as a mouthpiece.

The breaking news is our fall out with Kooga. Here's your chance to get that into Private Eye.
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Re: Salford makes Private Eye : Fri Sep 26, 2014 9:41 am  
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Keep up FA:
the owner has been in Private Eye before: there was a similar article a year ago re his (err) Liverpool hotel issue and I remember an article on something else since. As for this story, it has been brewing in the local media for a month or more. Even I, who lives in Rochdale, am becoming bored by the story.

There have been numerous posts on here and on our site re. the owner and the loan (or whatever it will turn out to be labelled) and his business history. Local Councillor Ms Garrido is a keen opponent of our set-up and uses the Star (a Socialist organ methinks) to spread her Tory ideas and attack the Salford club! Sort of like Standee using Codhead as a mouthpiece.

The breaking news is our fall out with Kooga. Here's your chance to get that into Private Eye.


We bit confused Hillbilly, why would a Tory use a socialist paper to attack a socialist majority council? Think you have been sniffing too much glue there. It is newsworthy, no point attacking FA, it is a demonstration of a rotten borough (as Private Eye call them). Snouts in the trough and all of that.
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Re: Salford makes Private Eye : Fri Sep 26, 2014 10:47 am  
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We bit confused Hillbilly, why would a Tory use a socialist paper to attack a socialist majority council? Think you have been sniffing too much glue there. It is newsworthy, no point attacking FA, it is a demonstration of a rotten borough (as Private Eye call them). Snouts in the trough and all of that.



I don't think Hillbilly is confused, rather pointing out the irony of Garrido being allied with The Star, as Shakespeare once said "misery doth acquaint a man with strange bedfellows"
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Re: Salford makes Private Eye : Fri Sep 26, 2014 11:54 am  
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as Shakespeare once said "misery doth acquaint a man with strange bedfellows"


Gotta be worth an inquiry by the RFL.
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Re: Salford makes Private Eye : Fri Sep 26, 2014 12:00 pm  
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Keep up FA:

"Keep up"? With what? In what respect?

WTF are you on about?
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Re: Salford makes Private Eye : Fri Sep 26, 2014 3:51 pm  
The newness of the story.

and I've given you a story you could make hay with!
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Re: Salford makes Private Eye : Fri Sep 26, 2014 4:16 pm  
Hillbilly_Red wrote:
The newness of the story.


:?

Has there been a previous thread? I did look but couldn't immediately see one.

Is it in the current issue of the Eye? Er, yes.

Hillbilly_Red wrote:
and I've given you a story you could make hay with!

Start a thread about it then if you think it's worth discussing!
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Re: Salford makes Private Eye : Fri Sep 26, 2014 6:44 pm  
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The story is that in summer last year


Therein lies the newness of the story - and it has been reported in Private Eye after the press reports and enquiries had concluded recently.(They certainly dig out a story,but I presume all their reporters are based in London.)

Bit rich the thread being started by a Bradford Bulls fan after their 'involvement' from a local MP - No doubt 'Gorgeous' George Galloway is seeking the truth from his local establishment somewhere in the Middle East or Tower Hamlets.

It is not unusual for a local council - when the person responsible is not on the sick and able to sign the necessary documentation - and after everyone who is meant to be there is there - to hand over money to a stadium which hosts rugby league.

164k last year is possibly the same as 170k a couple of years ago as we all recover from 13 years of Nu Labour

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Ferocious Aardvark wrote:
The story is that in summer last year


Therein lies the newness of the story - and it has been reported in Private Eye after the press reports and enquiries had concluded recently.(They certainly dig out a story,but I presume all their reporters are based in London.)

Bit rich the thread being started by a Bradford Bulls fan after their 'involvement' from a local MP - No doubt 'Gorgeous' George Galloway is seeking the truth from his local establishment somewhere in the Middle East or Tower Hamlets.

It is not unusual for a local council - when the person responsible is not on the sick and able to sign the necessary documentation - and after everyone who is meant to be there is there - to hand over money to a stadium which hosts rugby league.

164k last year is possibly the same as 170k a couple of years ago as we all recover from 13 years of Nu Labour

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