George Reynolds
George Reynolds
His much delayed court appearance over alleged harrasment in connection with a planning application has concluded.
Got off with conditional discharge and costs.
https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/ ... sts-order/
Got off with conditional discharge and costs.
https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/ ... sts-order/
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Re: George Reynolds
George still causing havoc in his 80s. Theres probably a part of him who gets a thrill out of it all and been back in the limelight
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If only we had won against Plymouth on that rainy Friday night at Wembley things could have been very different.
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Peterborough, Plymouth was in 1996.quakersfan wrote: ↑Fri Mar 12, 2021 7:38 amIf only we had won against Plymouth on that rainy Friday night at Wembley things could have been very different.
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And it was sunny (Plymouth game)eek wrote:Peterborough, Plymouth was in 1996.quakersfan wrote: ↑Fri Mar 12, 2021 7:38 amIf only we had won against Plymouth on that rainy Friday night at Wembley things could have been very different.
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And it would still probably all have fallen apart because although we didn't know it at the time,it was all built on sand.eek wrote: ↑Fri Mar 12, 2021 7:47 amPeterborough, Plymouth was in 1996.quakersfan wrote: ↑Fri Mar 12, 2021 7:38 amIf only we had won against Plymouth on that rainy Friday night at Wembley things could have been very different.
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To be fair you can trace our current situation all the way back to the early 90’s but Reynolds’ building of the arena and move away from Feethams certainly sped up our demise as a league club. To me the financial rot really seem to set in during 1991/92 and from that point onwards we were always seemingly on the verge of financial catastrophe. With hindsight I think we would have survived without George coming into the club in 1999 as Hodgy could probably have sold off players like Gabbas, Liddle, Preece and brought in circa £700-800k in transfer fees to keep the wolves at bay but at the time such a move would have seemed unacceptable to the fans. I will still never forgive George for the folly of the arena & leaving behind what was a perfectly good ground in Feethams.quakersfan wrote: ↑Fri Mar 12, 2021 7:38 amIf only we had won against Plymouth on that rainy Friday night at Wembley things could have been very different.
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I would tend to disagree with this, player sales would not have even come close to paying off the debt we were in at the time which I think was in the region of £5million.
With very little tangible assets, ironically other than the newly built East Stand to which the debt was attributed, had Reynolds not stepped in I don't see how the club could have survived. You could even argue Reynolds saved the club twice, as the major creditor he voted in favour of Sterling's CVA in 2004 which if I recall rightly was worth around £150,000 had he vetoed as I believe he did initially before they forced his hand with bankruptcy proceedings, the fate that befell us in 2012 could well have happened a lot sooner.
It was scandalous looking back as creditors barely got a fraction of what they were owed and the fact the Arena was not repossessed and bulldozed all them years ago beggars belief, to say it has had a charmed existence is an understatement.
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You can’t argue that, as his reckless mismanagement put us in administration in 2003.quaker4life wrote: You could even argue Reynolds saved the club twice, as the major creditor he voted in favour of Sterling's CVA in 2004 which if I recall rightly was worth around £150,000 had he vetoed as I believe he did initially before they forced his hand with bankruptcy proceedings, the fate that befell us in 2012 could well have happened a lot sooner.
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That goes without saying.quaker4life wrote: his reckless mismanagement put us in administration in 2003.
However if he had vetoed the CVA then it would have been curtains.
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Of that £5m debt in 1999, wasn't Hodgy one of the major creditors, so in effect we weren't in as much peril as perhaps was made out as he was never going to call in that debt if it would lead to the club going under?quaker4life wrote: ↑Sun Mar 14, 2021 1:41 pmI would tend to disagree with this, player sales would not have even come close to paying off the debt we were in at the time which I think was in the region of £5million.
With very little tangible assets, ironically other than the newly built East Stand to which the debt was attributed, had Reynolds not stepped in I don't see how the club could have survived. You could even argue Reynolds saved the club twice, as the major creditor he voted in favour of Sterling's CVA in 2004 which if I recall rightly was worth around £150,000 had he vetoed as I believe he did initially before they forced his hand with bankruptcy proceedings, the fate that befell us in 2012 could well have happened a lot sooner.
It was scandalous looking back as creditors barely got a fraction of what they were owed and the fact the Arena was not repossessed and bulldozed all them years ago beggars belief, to say it has had a charmed existence is an understatement.
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Let’s be fair, had he vetoed it, no one would have got anything. Either get some money or zero money. His motives were not out of altruism. He never cared about the club, only his ego.quaker4life wrote:That goes without saying.quaker4life wrote: his reckless mismanagement put us in administration in 2003.
However if he had vetoed the CVA then it would have been curtains.
And if he managed the club properly, not built an oversized stadium we didn’t need, taken us away from the centre of town needlessly, spent money beyond our means, let his ego run rampant, bullied fans, banned press, alienated players and generally been a total shyster, we wouldn’t have been in the mess in the first place.
Never understood why people are so keen to mitigate Reynolds’ actions, and make out he was some sort of decent guy who saved the club.
Reynolds is responsible, more than anyone, for the destruction of the club. It’s taken 15 years to start turning around the damage he did.
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As bailiffs were actually at the ground removing stuff when GR got there I do not think you can say we would have survived with any confidenceNimrod wrote: ↑Sun Mar 14, 2021 1:16 pmTo be fair you can trace our current situation all the way back to the early 90’s but Reynolds’ building of the arena and move away from Feethams certainly sped up our demise as a league club. To me the financial rot really seem to set in during 1991/92 and from that point onwards we were always seemingly on the verge of financial catastrophe. With hindsight I think we would have survived without George coming into the club in 1999 as Hodgy could probably have sold off players like Gabbas, Liddle, Preece and brought in circa £700-800k in transfer fees to keep the wolves at bay but at the time such a move would have seemed unacceptable to the fans. I will still never forgive George for the folly of the arena & leaving behind what was a perfectly good ground in Feethams.quakersfan wrote: ↑Fri Mar 12, 2021 7:38 amIf only we had won against Plymouth on that rainy Friday night at Wembley things could have been very different.
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The bailiff was actively orcastrating removal of items from the Worthington stand entrance as George Reynolds pulled up in his then green Rolls Royce,
He spoke to the bailiff sorted something and the items were returned straight away,
So had he not stepped in Darlington fc would have gone that evening , that is fact, how do I know, I was there,I saw it happening.
There was then a meeting of shareholders who were told that shares worthless,
He spoke to the bailiff sorted something and the items were returned straight away,
So had he not stepped in Darlington fc would have gone that evening , that is fact, how do I know, I was there,I saw it happening.
There was then a meeting of shareholders who were told that shares worthless,
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I wonder if he hadn’t been our ‘Knight in shining armour’ and paid off our debts would we have went bust and lost Feethams anyway?
I like to think if he hadn’t turned up that day we’d have found another buyer or ended up starting again at Feethams and 20 years later we’d be in a much better position than we are now.
Even after 18 years I still miss that place, I still look at old photos and think of what he could have done to improve it rather than moving to the white elephant on Neasham road.
I like to think if he hadn’t turned up that day we’d have found another buyer or ended up starting again at Feethams and 20 years later we’d be in a much better position than we are now.
Even after 18 years I still miss that place, I still look at old photos and think of what he could have done to improve it rather than moving to the white elephant on Neasham road.
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But wasn't that the problem. We (he) didn't own Feethams therefore developing it any further was harder than building a new stadium?TKOA wrote: ↑Sun Mar 14, 2021 7:02 pmI wonder if he hadn’t been our ‘Knight in shining armour’ and paid off our debts would we have went bust and lost Feethams anyway?
I like to think if he hadn’t turned up that day we’d have found another buyer or ended up starting again at Feethams and 20 years later we’d be in a much better position than we are now.
Even after 18 years I still miss that place, I still look at old photos and think of what he could have done to improve it rather than moving to the white elephant on Neasham road.
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He made a right pigs ear of it.
I could be wrong but didn’t he try to buy the football ground and the cricket ground first then when that failed he built the arena. I wish he’d just stayed away.
I could be wrong but didn’t he try to buy the football ground and the cricket ground first then when that failed he built the arena. I wish he’d just stayed away.
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Fact is no one knows what might or might not have happened but what is clear is that developing Feethams any further would have been problematical.
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I thought that a monument to George was his ambition from the outset.
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Not sure if needed 'developing' as much as it needed maintaining.
Who knows what pressure there would have been to relocate regardless when the housing developers had eyes on the site.
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Depends on what you mean by 'developing it further' I suppose. The fact is, we weren't filling Feethams anyway. Modernising the west stand and actually replacing some crumbling concrete on the terraces would've been more than enough.bga wrote: ↑Sun Mar 14, 2021 7:32 pmBut wasn't that the problem. We (he) didn't own Feethams therefore developing it any further was harder than building a new stadium?TKOA wrote: ↑Sun Mar 14, 2021 7:02 pmI wonder if he hadn’t been our ‘Knight in shining armour’ and paid off our debts would we have went bust and lost Feethams anyway?
I like to think if he hadn’t turned up that day we’d have found another buyer or ended up starting again at Feethams and 20 years later we’d be in a much better position than we are now.
Even after 18 years I still miss that place, I still look at old photos and think of what he could have done to improve it rather than moving to the white elephant on Neasham road.
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Onewayup has confirmed what I said about the bailiffs being in the ground when GR turned up.TKOA wrote: ↑Sun Mar 14, 2021 7:02 pmI wonder if he hadn’t been our ‘Knight in shining armour’ and paid off our debts would we have went bust and lost Feethams anyway?
I like to think if he hadn’t turned up that day we’d have found another buyer or ended up starting again at Feethams and 20 years later we’d be in a much better position than we are now.
Even after 18 years I still miss that place, I still look at old photos and think of what he could have done to improve it rather than moving to the white elephant on Neasham road.
As to reforming and still having Feethams, I think the cricket club would have made it VERY difficult if not impossible for us to get a contract to play there as the old contract would have died with the club.
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You think VERY wrongly then.The cricket club did not want the football club to move but it soon became clear that they were dealing with an arsehole in Reynolds,EDJOHNS wrote: ↑Mon Mar 15, 2021 9:09 amOnewayup has confirmed what I said about the bailiffs being in the ground when GR turned up.TKOA wrote: ↑Sun Mar 14, 2021 7:02 pmI wonder if he hadn’t been our ‘Knight in shining armour’ and paid off our debts would we have went bust and lost Feethams anyway?
I like to think if he hadn’t turned up that day we’d have found another buyer or ended up starting again at Feethams and 20 years later we’d be in a much better position than we are now.
Even after 18 years I still miss that place, I still look at old photos and think of what he could have done to improve it rather than moving to the white elephant on Neasham road.
As to reforming and still having Feethams, I think the cricket club would have made it VERY difficult if not impossible for us to get a contract to play there as the old contract would have died with the club.
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The cricket club made their antipathy towards the football club very clear when they blocked access to the comedy club nights and various other functions.Emdubya wrote: ↑Mon Mar 15, 2021 9:59 amYou think VERY wrongly then.The cricket club did not want the football club to move but it soon became clear that they were dealing with an arsehole in Reynolds,EDJOHNS wrote: ↑Mon Mar 15, 2021 9:09 amOnewayup has confirmed what I said about the bailiffs being in the ground when GR turned up.TKOA wrote: ↑Sun Mar 14, 2021 7:02 pmI wonder if he hadn’t been our ‘Knight in shining armour’ and paid off our debts would we have went bust and lost Feethams anyway?
I like to think if he hadn’t turned up that day we’d have found another buyer or ended up starting again at Feethams and 20 years later we’d be in a much better position than we are now.
Even after 18 years I still miss that place, I still look at old photos and think of what he could have done to improve it rather than moving to the white elephant on Neasham road.
As to reforming and still having Feethams, I think the cricket club would have made it VERY difficult if not impossible for us to get a contract to play there as the old contract would have died with the club.
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As I remember it the Cricket Club looked down on the football club and enjoyed always having the whip hand.
In a way Reynolds had a point though. DFC could only progress if it had it's own stadium - it's exactly the same as now, D.J. now says the same thing.
So it wasn't the idea of the Arena (although personally I didn't like it) it was the way that Reynolds carried it out. He did it in the only way he knows how, and we all know how he operates.
I think that even if we had of won that night at Wembley and gone up, with Reynolds it would have come crashing down at some point. Not so much a matter of if, but when!
In a way Reynolds had a point though. DFC could only progress if it had it's own stadium - it's exactly the same as now, D.J. now says the same thing.
So it wasn't the idea of the Arena (although personally I didn't like it) it was the way that Reynolds carried it out. He did it in the only way he knows how, and we all know how he operates.
I think that even if we had of won that night at Wembley and gone up, with Reynolds it would have come crashing down at some point. Not so much a matter of if, but when!
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Re: George Reynolds
Had the club gone bust and re-emerged as a phoenix club at Feethams (assuming the Cricket Club allowed us back), at some point I think our progress back up the football pyramid would have been hampered because of access issues. If you remember, the away team's coach used to park in South Parade and the team with all their kit had to walk over 200 metres around the cricket pitch to reach the changing room. The football world has moved on a long way in the 18 years since the club left Feethams and I can't imagine that the EFL (nor possibly the NL) would admit a club with such antiquated access arrangements for the opposing team.TKOA wrote: ↑Sun Mar 14, 2021 7:02 pmI wonder if he hadn’t been our ‘Knight in shining armour’ and paid off our debts would we have went bust and lost Feethams anyway?
I like to think if he hadn’t turned up that day we’d have found another buyer or ended up starting again at Feethams and 20 years later we’d be in a much better position than we are now.
Even after 18 years I still miss that place, I still look at old photos and think of what he could have done to improve it rather than moving to the white elephant on Neasham road.
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From what I understand, thats an issue likely to cause Spendy problems too, poor access and lack of on site parking.Maurice_Peddelty wrote: ↑Mon Mar 15, 2021 3:36 pmHad the club gone bust and re-emerged as a phoenix club at Feethams (assuming the Cricket Club allowed us back), at some point I think our progress back up the football pyramid would have been hampered because of access issues. If you remember, the away team's coach used to park in South Parade and the team with all their kit had to walk over 200 metres around the cricket pitch to reach the changing room. The football world has moved on a long way in the 18 years since the club left Feethams and I can't imagine that the EFL (nor possibly the NL) would admit a club with such antiquated access arrangements for the opposing team.TKOA wrote: ↑Sun Mar 14, 2021 7:02 pmI wonder if he hadn’t been our ‘Knight in shining armour’ and paid off our debts would we have went bust and lost Feethams anyway?
I like to think if he hadn’t turned up that day we’d have found another buyer or ended up starting again at Feethams and 20 years later we’d be in a much better position than we are now.
Even after 18 years I still miss that place, I still look at old photos and think of what he could have done to improve it rather than moving to the white elephant on Neasham road.
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Parking at Harrogate Town is Willow Tree Primary School can't be too much difference!
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Would like to hear where you get your info mate as from my youth I remember a lot of antipathy reported from the cricket club towards the football club.Emdubya wrote: ↑Mon Mar 15, 2021 9:59 amYou think VERY wrongly then.The cricket club did not want the football club to move but it soon became clear that they were dealing with an arsehole in Reynolds,EDJOHNS wrote: ↑Mon Mar 15, 2021 9:09 amOnewayup has confirmed what I said about the bailiffs being in the ground when GR turned up.TKOA wrote: ↑Sun Mar 14, 2021 7:02 pmI wonder if he hadn’t been our ‘Knight in shining armour’ and paid off our debts would we have went bust and lost Feethams anyway?
I like to think if he hadn’t turned up that day we’d have found another buyer or ended up starting again at Feethams and 20 years later we’d be in a much better position than we are now.
Even after 18 years I still miss that place, I still look at old photos and think of what he could have done to improve it rather than moving to the white elephant on Neasham road.
As to reforming and still having Feethams, I think the cricket club would have made it VERY difficult if not impossible for us to get a contract to play there as the old contract would have died with the club.
Just 1 example a fund raiser in Strikers was locked out by the rugby club with no notice whatever. As that was in Strikers it was obviously in the last days of us being there though I do not know the exact date
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