Bill Archer's Lies

[Monkey Man]

In a parallel universe, one of the infinite number that some people say must exist, there must be a 100,000-seater stadium at Toads Hole, which was opened in 2000, with Bellotti, Archer and Stanley walking out to rapturous applause.

 

[ees complicated no?]

A stadium at Toads hole would of been much easier to get to for me :/

 

[Ninja Elephant]

A stadium at Toads hole would of been much easier to get to for me :/

Me too! The whole site is pretty horrid to look at as well, something needs to be put in there at some point. I'm sure there are plenty of NIMBY groups out there to stop it happening, but it isn't a bad idea. Plenty of wasted space there at the moment.

 

[Bold Seagull]

Me too! The whole site is pretty horrid to look at as well, something needs to be put in there at some point. I'm sure there are plenty of NIMBY groups out there to stop it happening, but it isn't a bad idea. Plenty of wasted space there at the moment.

You mean like a new school, residential and some business units?

http://www.toadsholevalley.co.uk

 

[Paddy B]

Something purporting to be a planning application was certainly submitted to Hove Borough Council, because they sent a copy of it to ESCC, where it passed across the desks of a number of people (including me) who were asked to comment on the transport implications. We confined ourselves to saying that it was impossible to comment without the Transport Assessment (which Archer refers to in his letter as something he was spending money on). I don't know how much, if anything, was actually spent on the transport study, but it never arrived - and the planning application therefore just ran out of time.

As I remember it wasnt the application something along the lines of a plan view of rectangle with the word "stadium" written on it?

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

Why would he head such a letter "Without Prejudice" if the contents were factually correct? It's the legal equivalent of having his fingers crossed.

My understanding of "Without Prejudice" is: you cannot use this document in a court of law.
aka if I've told a porky, tough!

 

[Ninja Elephant]

You mean like a new school, residential and some business units?

http://www.toadsholevalley.co.uk

Beautiful!

 

[Triggaaar]

In a parallel universe, one of the infinite number that some people say must exist, there must be a 100,000-seater stadium at Toads Hole, which was opened in 2000, with Bellotti, Archer and Stanley walking out to rapturous applause.

If only the idiots here had given them the support they asked for.

 

[Kumquat]

Jesus. Like a different world from now isn't it? What an amateur.

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

I misread the title as "Bill Archer Dies"

Imagine my disappointment...

I was looking forward to the party too

 

[Exiled in Exeter]

On the other side of the coin, Steve Gritt was a nice man wasn't he. Wonder how many of these letters he had to write?

I think my letter dates back to about 2001, just after we won the Third Division.

 

[kevo]

'I own this club lock stock and barrel'

...and there's nothing that you or any of those mindless morons can do about it.'

 

[kevo]

My favourite club corrospondance was the letter from Eversheds solicitors to Roy Chuter threatening to sue him and him tearing it apart. It was then published in Gulls Eye (and later, Build a Bonfire). Brilliant!

Agreed. That is pure solid gold.