collapse collapse

Please donate to help towards the costs of keeping this site going. Thank You.

Recent Topics

Conor Gallagher - moving to Spurs instead of us by rooboy316
[Today at 12:30:56 AM]
Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc. by eamonn
[Today at 12:16:49 AM]
Donyell Malen by eamonn
[Today at 12:14:30 AM]
Aston Villa vs Everton pre-match thread by olaftab
[January 12, 2026, 11:39:36 PM]
Other Games 2025-26 by adrenachrome
[January 12, 2026, 11:14:38 PM]
Boxing 2026 by dave.woodhall
[January 12, 2026, 10:34:20 PM]
Unai Emery by eamonn
[January 12, 2026, 10:12:05 PM]
Aston Villa Women 2025-26 by cdbearsfan
[January 12, 2026, 09:56:08 PM]

Recent Posts

Follow us on...

« previous next »
Pages: 1 ... 14 15 [16] 17 18 ... 1197   Go Down

Author Topic: The Takeover Thread - Recon Group - NOW WITH NEW POLL  (Read 2938252 times)

Online dave.woodhall

  • Moderator
  • Member
  • *
  • Posts: 64085
  • Location: Treading water in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry.
Re: Anyone else heard this?
« Reply #225 on: April 10, 2014, 08:41:36 PM »
Who, without Googling, remembers Nicholas Padfield?
Logged

Offline glasses

  • Member
  • Posts: 2546
Re: Anyone else heard this?
« Reply #226 on: April 10, 2014, 08:44:38 PM »
Quote from: dave.woodhall on April 10, 2014, 08:41:36 PM
Who, without Googling, remembers Nicholas Padfield?
solicitor who mon hired in constructive dismissal case?
Logged

Offline Monty

  • Member
  • Posts: 29941
  • Location: pastaland
  • GM : 25.05.2024
Re: Anyone else heard this?
« Reply #227 on: April 10, 2014, 08:46:37 PM »
Quote from: dave.woodhall on April 10, 2014, 08:41:36 PM
Who, without Googling, remembers Nicholas Padfield?

He was going to outbid Randy in 2006 but never did.
Logged

Offline Richard E

  • Member
  • Posts: 14446
  • Age: 55
  • Location: Telford
  • This also will pass.
  • GM : 28.02.2019
Re: Anyone else heard this?
« Reply #228 on: April 10, 2014, 08:46:49 PM »
Wasn't he the silk who was fronting a takeover bid just before Randy came in?
Logged

Offline Monty

  • Member
  • Posts: 29941
  • Location: pastaland
  • GM : 25.05.2024
Re: Anyone else heard this?
« Reply #229 on: April 10, 2014, 08:47:45 PM »
Quote from: Richard E on April 10, 2014, 08:46:49 PM
Wasn't he the silk who was fronting a takeover bid just before Randy came in?

That's more accurate than what I said. He wasn't a prospective owner, he was the frontman of a consortium.
Logged

Offline Clampy

  • Member
  • *
  • Posts: 30724
  • Location: warley
  • GM : PCM
Re: Anyone else heard this?
« Reply #230 on: April 10, 2014, 08:48:48 PM »
He's definitely a solicitor.
Logged

Online dave.woodhall

  • Moderator
  • Member
  • *
  • Posts: 64085
  • Location: Treading water in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry.
Re: Anyone else heard this?
« Reply #231 on: April 10, 2014, 08:51:17 PM »
Sort of, he was a High Court judge. He claimed to be fronting a consortium, made a series of PR cock-ups and vanished. Why he ever got involved, God knows.
Logged

Online Toronto Villa

  • Member
  • *
  • Posts: 59560
  • Age: 53
  • Location: Toronto, Canada
  • GM : 23.07.2026
Re: Anyone else heard this?
« Reply #232 on: April 10, 2014, 08:51:31 PM »
Quote from: dave.woodhall on April 10, 2014, 08:41:36 PM
Who, without Googling, remembers Nicholas Padfield?

pompous lawyer?
Logged

Offline Clampy

  • Member
  • *
  • Posts: 30724
  • Location: warley
  • GM : PCM
Re: Anyone else heard this?
« Reply #233 on: April 10, 2014, 08:52:46 PM »
Quote from: dave.woodhall on April 10, 2014, 08:51:17 PM
Sort of, he was a High Court judge. He claimed to be fronting a consortium, made a series of PR cock-ups and vanished. Why he ever got involved, God knows.

All remember was the title Nicholas Padfield QC.
Logged

Offline Richard E

  • Member
  • Posts: 14446
  • Age: 55
  • Location: Telford
  • This also will pass.
  • GM : 28.02.2019
Re: Anyone else heard this?
« Reply #234 on: April 10, 2014, 08:53:46 PM »
Quote from: Toronto Villa on April 10, 2014, 08:51:31 PM
Quote from: dave.woodhall on April 10, 2014, 08:41:36 PM
Who, without Googling, remembers Nicholas Padfield?

pompous lawyer?

Just say 'lawyer', we're all pompous, it's in the job description.
Logged

Online Toronto Villa

  • Member
  • *
  • Posts: 59560
  • Age: 53
  • Location: Toronto, Canada
  • GM : 23.07.2026
Re: Anyone else heard this?
« Reply #235 on: April 10, 2014, 08:59:05 PM »
Quote from: Richard E on April 10, 2014, 08:53:46 PM
Quote from: Toronto Villa on April 10, 2014, 08:51:31 PM
Quote from: dave.woodhall on April 10, 2014, 08:41:36 PM
Who, without Googling, remembers Nicholas Padfield?

pompous lawyer?

Just say 'lawyer', we're all pompous, it's in the job description.

I just recall him being in the above average category when it came to pomposity
Logged

Offline Richard E

  • Member
  • Posts: 14446
  • Age: 55
  • Location: Telford
  • This also will pass.
  • GM : 28.02.2019
Re: Anyone else heard this?
« Reply #236 on: April 10, 2014, 09:00:40 PM »
That's a high hurdle to clear.
Logged

Offline richl

  • Member
  • Posts: 1137
  • Location: Ramsbottom, very up north
Re: Anyone else heard this?
« Reply #237 on: April 10, 2014, 09:02:14 PM »
Quote from: dave.woodhall on April 10, 2014, 08:41:36 PM
Who, without Googling, remembers Nicholas Padfield?

Why ask?
Logged

Online Toronto Villa

  • Member
  • *
  • Posts: 59560
  • Age: 53
  • Location: Toronto, Canada
  • GM : 23.07.2026
Re: Anyone else heard this?
« Reply #238 on: April 10, 2014, 09:04:06 PM »
he used a word to define how resolute the seriousness of his consortiums bid. It was one of those long words you don't hear every day, maybe onlty in the legal world, that ultimately turned into an egg that they wiped from their face.
Logged

Online dave.woodhall

  • Moderator
  • Member
  • *
  • Posts: 64085
  • Location: Treading water in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry.
Re: Anyone else heard this?
« Reply #239 on: April 10, 2014, 09:04:23 PM »
Quote from: richl on April 10, 2014, 09:02:14 PM
Quote from: dave.woodhall on April 10, 2014, 08:41:36 PM
Who, without Googling, remembers Nicholas Padfield?

Why ask?

We were talking about new owners that never were. There was also Tord Grip and some German (I think) woman whose husband had made a fortune somewhere.
Logged
Pages: 1 ... 14 15 [16] 17 18 ... 1197   Go Up
« previous next »
 

SimplePortal 2.3.6 © 2008-2014, SimplePortal