Overseas Consortium.Who?

[60YearsAPie]

Notts County FC. Yours for a quid!

A quid for the shares plus taking on all our debts.

[nw6pie]

did'nt the 20 M deal fall through after he got his chopper out

Presumably so, if that was the £15m in contracts AH was tweeting about - although that sounds a little odd to me unless the deal was with, say, the Church of England. The Peckergate story was already fish and chip paper after a couple of days, hardly a big scandal in the great scheme of things.

[MAD_MAGPIE]

Wrong, we will still be the oldest professional football club in the world.

As for the consortium I know for a fact its the same one Ray Trew daggled us, they're based over seas on fantasy island

I thought Fantasy Island was located at Ingoldmells, near Skegness on the East Coast of Lincolnshire?

Perhaps the consortium is headed by the Jolly Fisherman and Billy Butlin.

[60YearsAPie]

The Jolly Fisherman ain't interested!

[jackal2]

The Jolly Fisherman ain't interested!

Shame! He's a blue chip pan alley investor.

[slack_pie]

Presumably so, if that was the £15m in contracts AH was tweeting about - although that sounds a little odd to me unless the deal was with, say, the Church of England. The Peckergate story was already fish and chip paper after a couple of days, hardly a big scandal in the great scheme of things.

That's what I thought. I can't imagine why any normal business would rip up a contract because the owner of another business posted something on Twitter. I can't see how that would affect the customer's reputation. I mean the customer's customers wouldn't know who fitted out their buildings, nor would they care.

I just don't think the business world is that moralistic. If it were, hardly any business would get done.

[theory_extinct]

It's more likely the customer pulled out due to Paragons precarious position. Things like late payment of sub-contractors on other jobs can be deal breakers on new contracts - client probably cut their loses due to lack of confidence in Paragon being able to deliver their job.

http://www.constructionenquirer.com/...-for-survival/

[irishpete]

Rumours of a local consortium getting together-BBC red

[Simon the Pieman]

Customers do look at heads of companies they are dealing with and form a judgement as to whether to trade/invest with them or not. Trust me.
Look at Philip Green for example. Very Hardy-esque.

[theory_extinct]

Customers do look at heads of companies they are dealing with and form a judgement as to whether to trade/invest with them or not. Trust me.
Look at Philip Green for example. Very Hardy-esque.

Not typical in construction, due to the short nature of the relationship. This looks like a simple case of Paragon stopped paying their sub-contractors, the new customer got cold feet regarding their ability to successfully fulfill their contract with them. That is a common thing in construction.