That tiny relevance is still more than your belly button, which was your contribution.
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If you look at one of their other ventures, Sovereign FC, thereās bugger all content on that too.
Does worry me a little, like one of those fraudulent companies that thereās no physical substance to.
Bud, that was a simile.
Iām far more interested in the new guy on the board, their goals for the club, how theyāll implement any change, what theyāll invest to help us get promoted, what can be done to improve the match day experience, leverage other income streams and generally make things better, yet here you are looking at sails. 
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Perhaps it goes some way to explain Pomlett being so pissed off about the pitch invasions. If there were representatives of Trivela at the games it wouldnāt have looked good.
I too share your scepticism - but unlike many other clubs that come up for sale, we carry little or no debt. Lots of clubs come up for sale cheap - but they come with millions of pounds of debt.
Add that to a relatively modern - and easily upgradeable stadium, plus itās location in the hinterland of the UKās second most populous city, I think as far as development potential goes, we do tick some important boxes.
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Hopefully some of those issues will be touched upon in general terms today.
Also in āgeneral termsā, Iām very interested as to how they plan to more greatly engage the club with its community, something that was an undertone in yesterdayās press release.
As for the folks on here discussing what they feel are issues of concern, I honestly donāt see the problem even if they seem trivial to others. Given our history, and how we ended up in this mess, you could argue if only someone had paid closer attention to Davenmanor, Denglen, and the minor issue of Severn Trent changing its mind about selling the freehold back in the day.
If this takeover has been a year in the making, then the new lot should have some pretty substantial, detailed, and well laid plans that they should be able to articulate from day 1. With that in mind I donāt really get why Pomlett needs to stay on for 4 years. Fair enough, 6 months or even 12? But 4 years?? Two years beyond the planned purchase of the freehold??? Thatās my own personal red-flag so far.
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Good points. I think after decades of Bonserism weāve all got a bit of āSmallsallā attitude where we canāt see ourselves from outsideā¦itās a big adjustment to think weāre actually better than being shit.
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Hindsight is wonderful, but when all that happened there was no internet. Nobody had a clue what was happening until years later. Everything was buried deep by the time reality saw the light of day - and itās way too late to say they wouldnāt get away with it now, unfortunately. Shitās happened, we have to move on.
Thatās not to say it should be forgotten or forgiven, though. Never. All the more reason Gilman should resign right now. He knows what happened, and how, and I frankly donāt understand how heās still on the board.
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Jeffrey Bonser came to town
Stole our ground and freehold
Then Ben Boycott turned around
And said f*** off, youāve been told
(Wishful thinking)
But thatās exactly my point. Today we do have the internet, and weāre not looking at this takeover in hindsight, weāre looking at it in real time. Therefore individuals that wished they (or others that were around at the time) had the ability to better scrutinise the events of 30 odd years ago might find themselves predisposed to scrutinise current events.
Personally Iām not that bothered, Iām firmly in the ānothing can be worse than the slow deathā camp, even if that means sudden death! We have some brilliant people in our fan base, eg look what ISSA have achieved, and Iām certain that if the current Walsall FC was to be once again shagged with a rag-manās trumpet as it was in 1989, we could reincarnate with something closer to what we are supposed to actually be.
My point is that given the takeovers experienced by most of us, even older fansā are, Ramsden, Bonser, and Pomlett - I fully understand individuals scrutinising the minutiae given that we have a far greater ability to do so now than in years gone by.
Agreed.
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What I would like to see is them trying to make investments on players so signing a 22 year old for say 100K then in 3 years time selling him for 750K that sort of thing because then we get to enjoy the journey of a player and the fruits that come with it so maybe āinvestmentā might also mean making money on playing staff as well as what @enniskillen says above selling the club for 4X itās worth when we reach the championship the most over used 3 words of the last 24 hours but āTime will tellā
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The Peterborough model would a good route to go down, buy promising young attackers and sell them off for a tidy profit rinse and repeat.
Thatās a good shout mate and one that did pass through my mind as Iāve been digesting it all itās quite a bit to take in after years of well you know what Iām going to say.
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If you look at the Sovereign fc website (also run Boycott) there is a comment about untapped talent pools in the developing world. This is why I think weāll see foreign players at Walsall. Longdogs says this wonāt be the case because of Brexit, but I donāt know.
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For years fans have said āweāre a selling clubā. Just not had much to sell recently. Lost our wayā¦
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Considering we need about 6 new players who knows
Iām not bothered where they come from as long as they play for the shirt and are half decent
with regard to concerns about the logo; The Beatles Apple label and Apple, iPhones etc have ended up in legal wranglings over music streaming but not over the use of the name and the symbol, (an Apple). So although there are close similarities between Corsair and Trivela logoās it may not be an issue as the said companyās do different things
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Fair point, and I do hope nothing comes of it. Slight difference in the example though, where Apple Music and Apple had similar logos, in this case they appear to be identical. Minor points like that can be the difference. Even if thereās no concern of litigation, it could still be interpreted as a bit lazy, which I think would be a relevant observation.
Until the press conference, thereās not much meat to chew on other than logos and speculation.
Normal practice for big companies which makes me think these are in it for the good of the club (and themselves obviously, why wouldnāt they want/expect a return) and that they do know what theyāre doing and arenāt coming in thinking they know it all and just want it doing their way.
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Looking at it from purely a footballing point of view, if you rewind the clock back to the appointment of a director of football, something a lot of fans were asking for, and had announced Matt Jordan I think most fans would have been very enthusiastic. Compared to the bloke we went in for, who had a failed management career on his CV at Halifax (and people were still positive about), imagine if weād announced somebody whoād managed to build up a franchise in Canada so well it was accepted into the MLS (Notoriously difficult to do, itās considered a closed shop) and then over saw his next club win a major domestic trophy (again, much more difficult than say, winning the FA Cup after spending a billion pounds, and far more to do with āgeneral managementā than it would be over here).
Iām not saying that everyone would be positive, but that is a damn site more impressive of a record than what we ended up with.
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