Sliding Doors moment?

[SwalePie]

Looking at the current ownership of Notts and Wrexham respectively, I wonder whether the Brothers Reedtz ever regret deciding to buy Notts rather than Wrexham? Perhaps if they had bought the Welsh club the Hollywood owners might have bought Notts.

I really hope the Reedtz chapter in Notts history turns out to be one of success but it is always interesting to wonder how differently things might have turned out. For what it's worth, I'm very happy to have our current owners.

[crazyfists]

I think they'll be happy they own Notts, it's a great club with a good fanbase and the potential to grow. Also we are known as the oldest professional club and this does carry some weight, not anything useful but people at home often say Notts County when I see it asked in quizzes for example and abroad people know us. Also we have the Juventus connection which I think has been criminally under exploited over the years. The only issue is getting out this league, once we do I believe we'll go up again to league one but I feel they, like us are frustrated at the moment.

[SwalePie]

I think they'll be happy they own Notts, it's a great club with a good fanbase and the potential to grow. Also we are known as the oldest professional club and this does carry some weight, not anything useful but people at home often say Notts County when I see it asked in quizzes for example and abroad people know us. Also we have the Juventus connection which I think has been criminally under exploited over the years. The only issue is getting out this league, once we do I believe we'll go up again to league one but I feel they, like us are frustrated at the moment.

Yes I think you're right, plus the potential catchment in the East Midlands is huge and the trains to London are easier! It seems to have been a very quick change of mind though, with just four days between the registration of the company they used to buy Notts and the change of the company name from Wrexham Limited. I'm confident they feel they made the right choice though.

[51Magpie]

It seems to have been a very quick change of mind though, with just four days between the registration of the company they used to buy Notts and the change of the company name from Wrexham Limited.

I thought you may have hooked someone with that, but nothing doing. Not a bad try though.

[SwalePie]

I thought you may have hooked someone with that, but nothing doing. Not a bad try though.

The change of company name from Wrexham Limited to Reedtz Limited was completed on the day the Notts takeover was announced as complete. Perhaps I have put 2 and 2 together and made 5 but it seems reasonably logical?

[51Magpie]

The change of company name from Wrexham Limited to Reedtz Limited was completed on the day the Notts takeover was announced as complete. Perhaps I have put 2 and 2 together and made 5 but it seems reasonably logical?

Apologies, you're obviously better informed than I am. I'm now a bit puzzled though. Wrexham Limited is listed at companies house as a fast-food business in Rhyl that looks to have always been owned from inception in 2005 by Peter and Hai Ling Lam. That's company number 05359816.

Then there's Notts County Football Club Limited which seems to be the current incarnation, having been an off-the-shelf company created in 2003 and called Blenheim 1862 Limited until 2012. The Reedtz brothers were appointed directors of this entity, apparently the current football club, on 26th July 2019.

Sorry if I'm now starting a wild-goose chase but I'm now intrigued. I don't care about any muddying of the ownership waters by King/Munto, Trew or Hardy, but it's somehow disappointing to find that our owners may have regarded the choice between Notts and Wrexham as a coin-flip. There'd always be more to it than that in a negotiation obviously, but all the same...

[Mapperleypie]

The change of company name from Wrexham Limited to Reedtz Limited was completed on the day the Notts takeover was announced as complete. Perhaps I have put 2 and 2 together and made 5 but it seems reasonably logical?

I'm struggling to find this on companies house Swale. What are the respective company numbers?

[OP67]

I'm glad we have owners with a football background in some way and know how to make a football club sustainable. Rather than the circus that surrounds Wrexham.

[SwalePie]

I'm glad we have owners with a football background in some way and know how to make a football club sustainable. Rather than the circus that surrounds Wrexham.

Me too!

[crazyfists]

I didn't know they were going to buy Wrexham so maybe you're right although think we're still overall the better club if both went up to go further. I think whoever they bought then they might think we should have bought a league 2 club ha ha, this division is a killer. I know it's only 2 up but it seems also to not really follow any kind of pattern, it's really dog eat dog. You think you'll be out of here quickly but you get dragged into the tedium.