Re: The Shay. : Thu Jan 09, 2025 12:39 pm  

gizempo wrote:

From what i heard, it was the Fax group that were in discussions with Davy, whether this has now taken a different turn or its just they way this is being reported as Davy leading this, remains to be seen.

Which fits with some of the info I had heard that something was being discussed between the club and interested parties ( the consortium ) over the ownership of Fax and if it came off round about the springtime ( which fits with CMBC end of March deadline for getting shut ) it would be “Big”.

So at that time anyone taking control of the club also had the running of the Shay to take into consideration and were obviously looking at ways of doing it.

This was before Ken Davy came onto the scene but now he’s shown a firm interest with the clout to do it the options have now recently changed with him in pole position.

One possibility is we could end up with new different owners of both the club and the Shay in the same period of time running up to the end of the typical financial year.

Re: The Shay. : Thu Jan 09, 2025 2:40 pm  

Haa anyone considered that all this might just be a ruse by Mr Davy to use as leverage against shuddersfield council to meet his own agenda?

Re: The Shay. : Thu Jan 09, 2025 2:43 pm  

Hudd-Shay wrote:

Haa anyone considered that all this might just be a ruse by Mr Davy to use as leverage against shuddersfield council to meet his own agenda?

Yep. You have Hudds.

Re: The Shay. : Thu Jan 09, 2025 4:25 pm  

I think its the lesser of two evils, although i like the idea of the working group, I hate the idea that there is someone on it that might throw a party if Fax went bust. As Fax fans I am not sure how we could support something like that and although there are a lot of unanswered questions with the Davy bid its pretty obvious the council would rather get rid of the ground over have another group just running it. I feel like the working group is just kicking the can down the road, they don't have any financial muscle and its just going to keep the status quo for the next few years.

Re: The Shay. : Thu Jan 09, 2025 8:09 pm  

Let Davy come in and do the refurb. FC and Fax don’t have the money to do it. In fact Fax will never have the money to chip in. As Bubba has said Bosworth doesn’t have any interest in The Shay. Where will The Shay end up after someone has had a purpose built pitch laid and LED lighting installed who knows, but the work will not get done without Davy. As GFB said if the fans group or working group get hold of it they have no money of comparison to Davy and the issue would get prolonged