Well, about the commute... a friend of mines other half works for an estate agent, she showed up 2 weeks ago to a house on the market in Chalfont, and it was MD
I asked the question around the future of AP. The answer was that there’s 46/7 years remaining on the lease, the trust own it etc. It didn’t quite answer my question as presumably the club could build a new ground anyway and the trust are left with a stadium.
It would be good if the trust could confirm the agreement surrounding the stadium.
That reminds me - something the trust said last night, along the lines of ‘we agreed to release shares to the previous regime on the basis of necessary improvements being made to the infrastructure’. This is quite telling on their stance around AP - they would clearly like some of the challenges at AP addressed sooner rather than later including the FA roof, the terrace and the toilets.
As a student I did Birmingham to Wycombe for home games - I would not want to do that on a daily basis. That said, if he was doing Birmingham to Sunderland, a bit of traffic on the M42/M40 is probably no bother!
On average it takes a ridiculous average five months these days between agreeing a house purchase and completion. Which of course is why few football managers bother moving nearer to their jobs - few of them survive in post that long.
Most of the houses being built on greenbelt land around Bucks are being bought to rent. The whole squad should be able to get themselves a nice four bed executive home...
The trust had their pants pulled down by Couhig, they gave him extra shares so he could complete a variety of infrastructure schemes and then he sold up without doing any of it.
There's nothing to enforce or encourage the new owners to do anything to AP and like others have suggested they could choose to negotiate an extension or to go elsewhere.
I recall this being discussed way back when the Trust were proposing the sale to Couhig in the first place. The Trust directors essentially said, if an owner decides to move to another ground, we could sell AP and pocket the proceeds by way of security for a worst-case scenario of having to create a phoenix club.
I've still never found out what the Wycombe Nose Club was, or why it was called that?
There's a college in Oxford called Brasenose which makes a big thing of noses, as you can see below. There are noses on lots of college documents and windows and the plant pots around the quads. A regular phrase used by their sports teams is "Up the Nose". I can't imagine the two are related though?
The Nose was a secretive club. If making enquiries non memebers were given short shrift and dismissed with a tap to the proboscis and a curt “don’t be so bl**dy nosey”.
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Well, about the commute... a friend of mines other half works for an estate agent, she showed up 2 weeks ago to a house on the market in Chalfont, and it was MD
Yes I'm not sure Birmingham to Wycombe is much of a convenient commute!
I asked the question around the future of AP. The answer was that there’s 46/7 years remaining on the lease, the trust own it etc. It didn’t quite answer my question as presumably the club could build a new ground anyway and the trust are left with a stadium.
What does that timescale actually mean?
Can they extend that lease, and who do they extend it from? The club themselves?
But you're right, presumably the owners could just build us a stadium elsewhere meaning we still have a stadium safeguarded but not actually used!
It would be good if the trust could confirm the agreement surrounding the stadium.
That reminds me - something the trust said last night, along the lines of ‘we agreed to release shares to the previous regime on the basis of necessary improvements being made to the infrastructure’. This is quite telling on their stance around AP - they would clearly like some of the challenges at AP addressed sooner rather than later including the FA roof, the terrace and the toilets.
As a student I did Birmingham to Wycombe for home games - I would not want to do that on a daily basis. That said, if he was doing Birmingham to Sunderland, a bit of traffic on the M42/M40 is probably no bother!
Mike Dodds is from Coventry so journey even easier.
On average it takes a ridiculous average five months these days between agreeing a house purchase and completion. Which of course is why few football managers bother moving nearer to their jobs - few of them survive in post that long.
There are always houses to rent, I think.
And camper vans to buy!
Most of the houses being built on greenbelt land around Bucks are being bought to rent. The whole squad should be able to get themselves a nice four bed executive home...
The trust had their pants pulled down by Couhig, they gave him extra shares so he could complete a variety of infrastructure schemes and then he sold up without doing any of it.
There's nothing to enforce or encourage the new owners to do anything to AP and like others have suggested they could choose to negotiate an extension or to go elsewhere.
I recall this being discussed way back when the Trust were proposing the sale to Couhig in the first place. The Trust directors essentially said, if an owner decides to move to another ground, we could sell AP and pocket the proceeds by way of security for a worst-case scenario of having to create a phoenix club.
Or sofas at the old training ground!
There has never been a better time to bring back Wycombe Nose Club.
I've still never found out what the Wycombe Nose Club was, or why it was called that?
There's a college in Oxford called Brasenose which makes a big thing of noses, as you can see below. There are noses on lots of college documents and windows and the plant pots around the quads. A regular phrase used by their sports teams is "Up the Nose". I can't imagine the two are related though?
https://campusoxford.com/legends-of-brasenose-college-oxford/
@WanderingDays As with so many mysteries in life, I think the gasroom has answered this before. Isn't it to do with syphilis sufferers?
The Nose was a secretive club. If making enquiries non memebers were given short shrift and dismissed with a tap to the proboscis and a curt “don’t be so bl**dy nosey”.
There used to be 'no nose clubs' in London for people with advanced syphilis, as the disease could cause the nose to collapse into the face.
So a 'nose club' could be a club for people without syphilis???
Seems a very niche thing to base a football club on but 'making chairs' is not really much better.
Obviously making noses never got off the ground.
Nothing to sniff about.
Yeah, enough about the Gasroom though. Let's get back to the Nose Club
Wonder if it was mine?