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PigmanRDFC wrote:The issue with Crawley for me is:

1. The people putting the money in are un-named, we have no idea who they are or where the money is coming from - it could be laundered drug money for all we know??
2. They have, in the past, owed many people money (small businesses etc) when they have gone into administration twice in the recent past - now they're rolling in it they have done nothing to compensate those people, its morally wrong to celebrate when you have picked people's pockets to the tune of 50p in the £1
3. Evans is a convicted cheat and fraudster - you start to add 2 and 2 together and wonder, I certainly do
4. The previous owners (the Majeeds) were threatening bullies who, I understand, are now serving time for a variety of offences......Crawley have a history of attracting the wrong kind of people

Now, if you could tell me that a millionaire with Max's integrity were to step forward, I'd be delighted to be hated for having money again. Crawley are a different case. People don't hate them because of the money, they hate them because there is so much suspicion about where the money has come from and who is spending it. Evans has cheated his way to the title before, the suspicion is he could be doing so again.

Formic wrote: I'd argue that Max did do this - but some of it has been allowed to wane over the years. Max's investment in the Youth scheme is still paying dividends, but his local work took a knock with the downgrading of the DM's business.
We used to have a lot of people that focussed on the local community, as far away as Bedford and Milton Keynes - Greg Broughton is one name I remember (now at Luton), but others were around as well. The new owners made it clear in the fans forum how local initiatives had been neglected in recent seasons.
Max did a lot to attract local businesses too - perhaps he was too generous in what he offered them - but like a lot of glory hunters they disappeared as soon as the team started struggling and they were charged the going rate for hospitality.

Mad Dog wrote:I've always wondered if a cinema would be ideal down at Nene Park. It would be far enough away from K*ttering and Northampton to justify and would draw people from Wellingborough and Rushden.

davealbon wrote:
There was talk of one being built on the site back when Griggs was at the helm, along with a McDonalds, but it obviously never materialised.

coltrane wrote:Do we really want someone to do what Max did get us promoted and then pull out? Answer yes!