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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Season tickets
« on: July 08, 2023, 08:58:22 AM »
The numbers also look like they have been rounded off.
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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Season tickets
« on: July 08, 2023, 08:18:36 AM »
Season ticket holder numbers are listed in the accounts, with 22-23 being in next year's accounts.
21-22 17,680
20-21 N/A (Covid)
19-20 17,650
18-19 17,750
17-18 17,350
Figures are up to the 30 June in each year, so presumably include half season ticket holders.
21-22 17,680
20-21 N/A (Covid)
19-20 17,650
18-19 17,750
17-18 17,350
Figures are up to the 30 June in each year, so presumably include half season ticket holders.
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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Action For Albion/ Potential Takeover
« on: June 23, 2023, 05:17:06 PM »
It was an era when the board were Albion men through and through. The club's interests came first and they weren't in it to enrich themselves.
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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Action For Albion/ Potential Takeover
« on: June 23, 2023, 02:21:58 PM »
Add John Williams to the list - he was effectively a Peace appointment.
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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Pre season friendlies
« on: June 21, 2023, 08:00:43 PM »
U21 friendly at Worcester Raiders
https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/sport/23595910.west-bromwich-albion-play-worcester-raiders-pre-season/
https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/sport/23595910.west-bromwich-albion-play-worcester-raiders-pre-season/
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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Action For Albion/ Potential Takeover
« on: June 19, 2023, 09:13:43 AM »
Holdings have stated they will act as guarantor for the £5m loan to Wisdom Smart Corporation.
https://www.expressandstar.com/sport/football/west-bromwich-albion/2023/03/30/west-brom-5million-guochuan-lai-wisdom-smart-loan-now-owed-by-wba-holdings/
The extortionate interest rate of 5% a month for the Warmfront Loan must impact Holding's ability to guarantee the £5m Wisdom Loan.
https://www.expressandstar.com/sport/football/west-bromwich-albion/2023/03/30/west-brom-5million-guochuan-lai-wisdom-smart-loan-now-owed-by-wba-holdings/
The extortionate interest rate of 5% a month for the Warmfront Loan must impact Holding's ability to guarantee the £5m Wisdom Loan.
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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Carlos Corberan
« on: June 18, 2023, 08:13:38 PM »
Johnny Giles too.
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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Guochuan Lai
« on: June 18, 2023, 08:53:48 AM »
The same person who stayed on as an advi£er for a year.
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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Guochuan Lai
« on: June 16, 2023, 10:25:15 PM »Perhaps he had initially borrowed from £3.7m short-term from a third party and needed to replace that borrowing?
£2,100,000 was borrowed by Holdings in the accounts up to 30/06/14. The accounts for 30/06/15 show that this had been repaid and replaced by owing £3,716,000 to group undertakings (i.e. club).
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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Guochuan Lai
« on: June 16, 2023, 08:32:52 PM »could be wrong but remember club stumping up over £3 million so that he could get over threshold to be majority shareholder.
The 10:1 share consolidation was in 2008 and took JP's shareholding to approx 60%.
JP had increased his shareholding to 67% by 2014.
The £3.7m loan from the club to JP was in September 2014 - a few weeks after he had bought shares from individual shareholders at £3k a share in July 2014, thereby increasing his shareholding to 77.3% and over the vital 75% threshold.
What did he need the £3.7m for? No explanation has been offered.
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General Football & Sports / Re: Ron Gourlay - CEO
« on: May 31, 2023, 06:28:21 PM »
Very grim. What happened in March to trigger this? Only thing I can think of is the release of the accounts.
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General Football & Sports / Re: OFFICIAL CHAMPIONSHIP THREAD
« on: May 27, 2023, 07:11:19 PM »
Excuse my ignorance, but how would Luton going up benefit Villa?
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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Season tickets
« on: May 22, 2023, 01:46:25 PM »
He took a £187,000 loan out to cover legal fees recently. There is probably scope to squeeze a bit more out of the club from somewhere if he wanted.
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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Season tickets
« on: May 22, 2023, 12:38:04 PM »
We may never know, but it's possible the campaign has made Lai think twice before taking any more money out of the club.
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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: How we have sunk in the Midland's rankings
« on: May 21, 2023, 09:38:28 PM »
The Albion News programme is featured on the wall of the shed in various scenes of Confessions of a Window Cleaner.
See it behind Tony Booth between 49 mins and 49 mins 30 seconds at
https://youtu.be/RJW4ypb8E8Q
See it behind Tony Booth between 49 mins and 49 mins 30 seconds at
https://youtu.be/RJW4ypb8E8Q
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General Football & Sports / Re: Play-offs: keep, reform, or scrap?
« on: May 20, 2023, 10:01:25 PM »
The antithesis of the play offs is the meaningless end of season game. We rarely get them now, but I used to quite enjoy watching stress free games at the end of a long season.
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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Guochuan Lai
« on: May 18, 2023, 05:51:56 PM »The only thing you've qualified is that you're making an assumption based on a guess. He clearly doesn't give a flying fart about the 12% as proven over a near seven period or Shareholders for Albion in particular.
Add 14 years to that total. JP treated the minority shareholders with absolute disdain too.
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General Football & Sports / Re: OFFICIAL CHAMPIONSHIP THREAD
« on: May 06, 2023, 09:52:04 PM »
It is a great shame that Leagues One and Two which have largely been untouched by Sky will soon be subject to its wholesale fixture changes. These leagues were a remnant of football as it used to be and a lot of fans appreciated them for that reason.
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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Report & Accounts to June 2022
« on: April 06, 2023, 08:50:15 AM »Details of the recipients of the mysterious £2m borrowed from Warmfront Holding are revealed in the latest accounts for West Bromwich Albion Holdings Limited.
£692,000 went to our old friend Wisdom Smart Corporation and £1.03m to three unrelated parties. No surprise that no repayment have been received and the amounts owed has been impaired to a value of nil creating a 'further material uncertainty' for
the group to operate as a going concern.
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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: TV Games
« on: March 31, 2023, 06:11:39 PM »
Easter Monday game v QPR is an international broadcast fixture, so on BEIN Sports, ESPN etc.
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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: TV Games
« on: March 29, 2023, 09:48:56 PM »
Yep, Sky have updated the list. Albion have either changed their mind or were late in deciding!
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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: TV Games
« on: March 24, 2023, 05:28:01 PM »
Good to see that Rotherham and Albion have told Sky to do one - neither Good Friday or Easter Monday games are on the Red Button.
https://www.skysports.com/watch/football-on-sky/competitions/championship
https://www.skysports.com/watch/football-on-sky/competitions/championship