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On 11/13/2023 at 8:36 PM, Toady said:

It has to be completed to satisfy planning  no stadium no final phase of houses yes it may close but it has to be fully completed first.

What final phase of houses? The car park is being built on and the stand / sound barrier are far from complete - no services, no drainage and just the support for the barrier.

Osborne played a classic "i need more funding to complete the stadium" and the previous SBC bent over..

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On 11/13/2023 at 8:42 PM, Sir Sidney said:

Completed to what standard? It's all semantics really.

It will be completed to the minimum possible standard so that the remaining housing can be built.

I predict it will then be swiftly close, with the cost incurred on the build far less than that gained by the land sold for development. 

Its fair to say the shell is going up but to date no Glaziers, Electricians, Carpenters or Plumbers have been used

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2 hours ago, Toady said:

You no like him then ? Have a read of this to see if he can change your mind https://www.torbayweekly.co.uk/news/home/1360077/exclusive-clarke-osborne-interview.html

Perhaps this is where Swindon Speedway's new ground will be... where is midway between Swindon and Torquay,  Yeovil? They already have a quite famous football club, how about Glastonbury? The Glastonbury Druids?

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9 hours ago, Toady said:

You no like him then ? Have a read of this to see if he can change your mind https://www.torbayweekly.co.uk/news/home/1360077/exclusive-clarke-osborne-interview.html

He's very good at interviews & tells us what a good bloke he is & how successful his company is, why else would anyone invest their millions in his ventures. Then theres the cold light of day when Mr Osbourne has done nothing in 3/4 years & he still has the investors money. some will be returned but whilst he has had it he has been using it to make himself even more profits. He is a conman A very good one but a conman all the same.

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20 hours ago, Technik said:

He's very good at interviews & tells us what a good bloke he is & how successful his company is, why else would anyone invest their millions in his ventures. Then theres the cold light of day when Mr Osbourne has done nothing in 3/4 years & he still has the investors money. some will be returned but whilst he has had it he has been using it to make himself even more profits. He is a conman A very good one but a conman all the same.

I Agree , However, I don't think he is a particularly clever conman. Bizarrely, where money is involved, there are still too many people willing to accept what he says at face value. A quick check on his business dealings over the years would reveal all. As they say, 'There's none so blind as those who will not see.' Osborne is nothing but a total faker.

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Osbourne is a business man nothing more nothing less and his decisions/opinions are based on money, when you get the higher up the money chain you find morals and scruples get less and less, people like him would stamp on their own Nan to get the money, if speedway was in a better financial state he would change his stance, he doesn’t break any laws he just doesn’t do or say anything in favour of speedway cause it’s not making him money 

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On 12/15/2023 at 4:53 PM, Toady said:

I Agree , However, I don't think he is a particularly clever conman. Bizarrely, where money is involved, there are still too many people willing to accept what he says at face value. A quick check on his business dealings over the years would reveal all. As they say, 'There's none so blind as those who will not see.' Osborne is nothing but a total faker.

Yet again no questions that should have been  asked...We know why hes in Torquay to build houses on the ground . No one ever gets a chance to take him to task.. This interview is crap and just a platform to spead his garbage.

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On 12/17/2023 at 11:22 AM, THE DEAN MACHINE said:

Osbourne is a business man nothing more nothing less and his decisions/opinions are based on money, when you get the higher up the money chain you find morals and scruples get less and less, people like him would stamp on their own Nan to get the money, if speedway was in a better financial state he would change his stance, he doesn’t break any laws he just doesn’t do or say anything in favour of speedway cause it’s not making him money 

Well said Dean as always, but one move Osbourne did make that was not so smart was when registering his latest limited company he give anyone access to his home address, not the cleaverest thing to do when you have walked all over people!

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1 hour ago, orion said:

Yet again no questions that should have been  asked...We know why hes in Torquay to build houses on the ground . No one ever gets a chance to take him to task.. This interview is crap and just a platform to spead his garbage.

Agreed, according to the main local paper he has a cosy relationship with  the interviewer https://www.devonlive.com/sport/sport-opinion/questions-torquay-united-owner-clarke-8940159 so he probably set the questions himself !

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48 minutes ago, Ghosty said:

Well said Dean as always, but one move Osbourne did make that was not so smart was when registering his latest limited company he give anyone access to his home address, not the cleaverest thing to do when you have walked all over people!

I think you will find almost all of his companies give his home address and have done for years ?

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21 minutes ago, Toady said:

Agreed, according to the main local paper he has a cosy relationship with  the interviewer https://www.devonlive.com/sport/sport-opinion/questions-torquay-united-owner-clarke-8940159 so he probably set the questions himself !

  Get  the feeling he tends to have the local media in his pocket. Swindon looked like a classic case of that 

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