Tinkler walks away from Knights

[Guest]

sucked in to tho fat**** money can't buy all things!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[supermario]

I guess it is a wait and see situation, it will be interesting to see what ensues over the next month.

Supermario, just on that comment of yours, if the Knights current revenue was already 10mil then you would think they wouldn't have any issues at all, however they do acknowledge they have financial issues?

yeah they do have financial issues, and thats with them getting a revenue of $10mill, and thats what i think is the whole point, if the deal was as the original papers, it would be their revenue + $10mill from tinkler, that would have them in a far better financial position compared to revenue + the balance to make $10mill

[Kramer]

There will be more to come on this.
Tinkler and his advisers will wait for Newcastle to come back to the table.
He is in the power position, they need him to survive.
If they dont, welcome back Central Coast Bears, sooner than later.

[Vasco]

Tinkler is a master when it comes to fine print My Daughter who rides some work for a guy who trains a few horses for him up here was only telling me the othere day about how a clause in the fine print left a horse ineligible for a 1 million bonus for winnind the two legs of the Blue Diamond Prelude and then the Blue Diamond The fine priont stipulated that each race must have a minimum of 12 runers There was only 11 in the 2nd leg the horse won,thus making him inelible for the bonus. It was very smeaky, Knights did well to read the fine print

There is nothing sneaky about that. The rule states that a minimum of 12 runners must run in order for a bonus to be paid.

Does your daughter ride for Toby Edmonds?

[Cockadoodledoo]

There is nothing sneaky about that. The rule states that a minimum of 12 runners must run in order for a bonus to be paid.

Does your daughter ride for Toby Edmonds?

Could it be that a horse was deliberately pulled to remove the possibility of the payout being made. That would be sneaky. You know.. "Take $100K and come back next week"

[Guest]

Could it be that a horse was deliberately pulled to remove the possibility of the payout being made. That would be sneaky. You know.. "Take $100K and come back next week"

It was the Sheik's fault..

Everyone with a rule book knew what the conditions of the bonus were..

The Sheik has about 120 2yo's in work..He should've entered 3 more to ensure the bonus..Sepoy was a certainty anyway..

Back on Tinkler...He is the "Kerry Packer" of the future..

Newcastle are "off their heads" taking a punt with this man..

A club with the infrastructure & comittee problems they do can't afford to pass up the opportunities he offers..

[Kingbilly]

The interesting thing is that Tinkler is portraited as the astute business man, very clever and very well off. Although this is the case in many of his deals, there is at least one open legal case against him and several stuffed-up deals that he has been part of that have left some very sour tastes in people's mouths.

I wonder if he is close to firepower or alan bond than Packer

[Cockadoodledoo]

It was the Sheik's fault..

Everyone with a rule book knew what the conditions of the bonus were..

The Sheik has about 120 2yo's in work..He should've entered 3 more to ensure the bonus..Sepoy was a certainty anyway..

Back on Tinkler...He is the "Kerry Packer" of the future..

Newcastle are "off their heads" taking a punt with this man..

A club with the infrastructure & comittee problems they do can't afford to pass up the opportunities he offers..

Well he looks like a heart attack in the making.

[Guest]

Well he looks like a heart attack in the making.

Love it..

[Guest]

The interesting thing is that Tinkler is portraited as the astute business man, very clever and very well off. Although this is the case in many of his deals, there is at least one open legal case against him and several stuffed-up deals that he has been part of that have left some very sour tastes in people's mouths.

I wonder if he is close to firepower or alan bond than Packer

The very same words could've been applied to Packer..

[Spirit of 66]

The very same words could've been applied to Packer..

Packer looked like Todd Byrne compared to Tinkler. The fellow is morbidly obese.

[Guest]

Packer looked like Todd Byrne compared to Tinkler. The fellow is morbidly obese.

I agree..

But you quoted my point about court cases and such..

[elo]

There will be more to come on this.
Tinkler and his advisers will wait for Newcastle to come back to the table.
He is in the power position, they need him to survive.
If they dont, welcome back Central Coast Bears, sooner than later.

The current board will never ever take anything Tinkler proposes to the members, there's too many conflicts of interest involved. For starters the current major sponsor of the Knights is a direct competitor to Tinkler, secondly all of management would be jobless within a week if the takeover bid ever got through. The leaking of Tinkler chasing the likes of Snowden and Idris were no accident, this was a deliberate ploy by his group to get the public on his side and to insight a revolt against Knights management by the members when he pulled out of even meeting to discuss the issues of the proposed bid.

He'll either win and the members call a no-confidence against the board (I believe over 50 have already signed a petition to get this in motion - requires 100 members) and get them kicked out - or Tinkler's bluff will be called and his dash is done, for a while.

[supermario]

He'll either win and the members call a no-confidence against the board (I believe over 50 have already signed a petition to get this in motion - requires 100 members) and get them kicked out - or Tinkler's bluff will be called and his dash is done, for a while.

i wonder if there was an "influx" of members since the time Tinkler first offered the bid..........

[Billy Gunn]

Once you sell your club it's gone, why couldn't Tinkler pour money in without ownership?

I read comparisons to Packer and the only commonality i can see is they are both fat bastards. I know from within the racing industry there are plenty of people who think he a very tough bloke to work for who goes through staff at an unbelievable rate. He went though two trainers very quickly.