[Archived] Lib Dem Leader In Scathing Attack On Venkys

[Iceman]

Get Tim a ticket to that Q&A session

[VinjayV4]

Mentioned it a while ago but all he seems to do is tweet pics from holidaying in exotic places every week as does Howard Walker. Maybe a nice settlement contributed towards all that and softened the blow of er...parting from the club !

Indeed they are on twitter...

https://twitter.com/HowardW1962

Interesting to see what is on his follow list and what isn't.

https://twitter.com/MatthewmanRich

Also Richard Matthewman who as mentioned above is married to one of the Walkers.

[old darwen blue]

Hi pal, are you bored with Man City now?

[JBiz]

Hi pal, are you bored with Man City now?

In the famous words of Stuart; "play the ball not the man"...

[BiggusLaddus]

What do you expect with our parochial 80s mindset?

[onlyonejackwalker]

What do you expect with our parochial 80s mindset?

It's not him. He'd have risen to the bait by now.

[ABBEY]

It's Saco again I reckon..def not vinjers

[K-Hod]

Nope, not Saxo again. The writing style was much different to Saxo's. (IE coherent). :-)

[old darwen blue]

Gordon?

[Husky]

Here come The Belgians!

[VinjayV4]

This is quite interesting Michaela and Ross Walker filed a lawsuit against Paul Egerton-Vernon a couple of years ago.

http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=7fed978f-fcf3-4a99-b0c1-a4f4cd9f44c8

I've also sent an email to Egerton-Vernon asking if he has any statement of regret (while admitting I was quite rightly a major critic and pro takeover between 2005-2010) over what Venkys have done. Did say the sale wasn't necessarily conducted in bad faith though. Won't hold my breath over a response.

EDIT...Here's another link as well with more information. http://www.jerseylaw.je/Judgments/UnreportedJudgments/Documents/Display.aspx?url=2014/14-01-24_Walker_and_others-v-Egerton-Vernon_and_others_025.htm

[Exiled in Toronto]

This is quite interesting Michaela and Ross Walker filed a lawsuit against Paul Egerton-Vernon a couple of years ago.

http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=7fed978f-fcf3-4a99-b0c1-a4f4cd9f44c8

I've also sent an email to Egerton-Vernon asking if he has any statement of regret (while admitting I was quite rightly a major critic and pro takeover between 2005-2010) over what Venkys have done. Did say the sale wasn't necessarily conducted in bad faith though. Won't hold my breath over a response.

EDIT...Here's another link as well with more information. http://www.jerseylaw.je/Judgments/UnreportedJudgments/Documents/Display.aspx?url=2014/14-01-24_Walker_and_others-v-Egerton-Vernon_and_others_025.htm

Interesting find. It seems the fans aren't the only ones with an axe to grind against the Trust, accusing them of peeing away 130 million in "highly speculative and disastrous investments." Maybe the Trust put as little effort into investing the family fortune as they did into checking out Anderson and Venky's.

[VinjayV4]

Interesting find. It seems the fans aren't the only ones with an axe to grind against the Trust, accusing them of peeing away 130 million in "highly speculative and disastrous investments." Maybe the Trust put as little effort into investing the family fortune as they did into checking out Anderson and Venky's.

It also states in the 2nd link that Egerton-Vernon retired as a trustee in July 2009. So why was he the one who made a statement following the sale as Chairman of the Jack Walker settlement?

Just want to add EIT I always thought you were one of the better posters on here

[VinjayV4]

Interesting find. It seems the fans aren't the only ones with an axe to grind against the Trust, accusing them of peeing away 130 million in "highly speculative and disastrous investments." Maybe the Trust put as little effort into investing the family fortune as they did into checking out Anderson and Venky's.

Also seems like the Walkers filed the lawsuit purely in their own interests as beneficiaries of the settlement. So certainly no attempt by them to investigate the lack of funding for their Dad's football club plus the sale proceedings. I do wonder if the Walkers were referring to Rovers as one of the "disastrous investments" despite the legal entitlements in terms of funding the club.

[koi]

I don't think any of the Walker's could give a toss about the club and I very much doubt that their actions followed Jack's wishes after he died.

I did once spend quite a bit of time looking into the trust and the individuals involved and I found quite a few people made themselves very rich after the death of Jack.