CONFIMRED - This might be it!!

[Snowflake Royal]

Am I alone in just not listening to football commentary on the radio ?
For me football is about being at the game, if I’m not there I’m not actually interested in listening to someone else’s filtered experience. I’ll check on the score a couple of times but spending 90 mins getting a partial description just has no appeal.
I also rarely if ever watch games on the tv, again it just doesn’t provide what for me are the essential elements of the game
I accept I am probably just odd. I don’t like Tim Dellor though.

I watch the game remotely, and there's just something very wrong with football on mute.

I don’t find that the case, quite regularly have it on mute. And other sports as well. I’d much rather that than having to listen to terrible commentators

I'm sure it's far from universal, but it's uncanny valley for me. I'd obviously rather just have a pitchside mic than Dim and Mick.

[Extended-Phenotype]

Am I alone in just not listening to football commentary on the radio ?
For me football is about being at the game, if I’m not there I’m not actually interested in listening to someone else’s filtered experience. I’ll check on the score a couple of times but spending 90 mins getting a partial description just has no appeal.
I also rarely if ever watch games on the tv, again it just doesn’t provide what for me are the essential elements of the game
I accept I am probably just odd. I don’t like Tim Dellor though.

If you were alone mate, you'd be standing in an empty stadium

Unashamedly a literal fair-weather fan, here. It's too cold for me in the winter. I tend to be too hungover in the summer. Er, and the winter.

[cp]

I know it's more enjoyable to be at the game, but if I can't, I actually like the banter and ramblings of the Berkshire radio commentary (although it's not very cool to say so). Sometimes when the club machinations and depressing results feel oppressive the light heartiness and genuine feeling for Reading FC that Dellor has makes me feel a bit better.

[Brogue]

Perhaps all the fans can get the little ear pieces that they give you at the snooker to listen to Tim and mick during the game in the stadium .

[Hendo]

Perhaps all the fans can get the little ear pieces that they give you at the snooker to listen to Tim and mick during the game in the stadium .

Guy who sits next to me does this. Grumpy git, rarely gets up to celebrates goals as well.

[Snowflake Royal]

Perhaps all the fans can get the little ear pieces that they give you at the snooker to listen to Tim and mick during the game in the stadium .

Guy who sits next to me does this. Grumpy git, rarely gets up to celebrates goals as well.

Not the doddery not too old bald bloke - used to be Y24 ish about 10 years ago - although he had a radio back in the day.

[Hendo]

Perhaps all the fans can get the little ear pieces that they give you at the snooker to listen to Tim and mick during the game in the stadium .

Guy who sits next to me does this. Grumpy git, rarely gets up to celebrates goals as well.

Not the doddery not too old bald bloke - used to be Y24 ish about 10 years ago - although he had a radio back in the day.

I mean, that doesn't narrow it down too much

Probably not though, I'm Y22ish. Just North stand side of the halfway line.

[Snowflake Royal]

Guy who sits next to me does this. Grumpy git, rarely gets up to celebrates goals as well.

Not the doddery not too old bald bloke - used to be Y24 ish about 10 years ago - although he had a radio back in the day.

I mean, that doesn't narrow it down too much

Probably not though, I'm Y22ish. Just North stand side of the halfway line.

The last time I saw him he wasn't looking well, and that would have been 2018/19 ish I expect. So my guy probably isn't even still alive.

[Royalwaster]

Not the doddery not too old bald bloke - used to be Y24 ish about 10 years ago - although he had a radio back in the day.

I mean, that doesn't narrow it down too much

Probably not though, I'm Y22ish. Just North stand side of the halfway line.

The last time I saw him he wasn't looking well, and that would have been 2018/19 ish I expect. So my guy probably isn't even still alive.

So definitely not standing up to celebrate goals now is he?

[LUX]

Sorry to be picky, but this thread should be for more important things

[Snowflake Royal]

I mean, that doesn't narrow it down too much

Probably not though, I'm Y22ish. Just North stand side of the halfway line.

The last time I saw him he wasn't looking well, and that would have been 2018/19 ish I expect. So my guy probably isn't even still alive.

So definitely not standing up to celebrate goals now is he?

Guilty

[Snowflake Royal]

Sorry to be picky, but this thread should be for more important things

Fair enough Lux.

Back on track, absolutely nothing is happening, and there's been no progress in 18 months.

[blythspartan]

This oxf*rd takeover stuff confuses me. By all accounts it sounded like PT/Blue Horizon were granted exclusivity without actually making a formal offer. How does that work?

I am not the brightest, but surely an interested party makes an offer which Dai accepts and then they have to provide proof of funds. They go away for a couple of months do their due diligence and then come back with an adjusted offer that Dai does or doesn’t accept.

Also, if there are several interested parties why does it take so long to get to exclusivity with one of them. I know my view is simplistic, but oxf*rd me these things shouldn’t take so long.

[bcubed]

This oxf*rd takeover stuff confuses me. By all accounts it sounded like PT/Blue Horizon were granted exclusivity without actually making a formal offer. How does that work?

I am not the brightest, but surely an interested party makes an offer which Dai accepts and then they have to provide proof of funds. They go away for a couple of months do their due diligence and then come back with an adjusted offer that Dai does or doesn’t accept.

Also, if there are several interested parties why does it take so long to get to exclusivity with one of them. I know my view is simplistic, but oxf*rd me these things shouldn’t take so long.

Yes but what about Tim Dellor?

[Sutekh]

This oxf*rd takeover stuff confuses me. By all accounts it sounded like PT/Blue Horizon were granted exclusivity without actually making a formal offer. How does that work?

I am not the brightest, but surely an interested party makes an offer which Dai accepts and then they have to provide proof of funds. They go away for a couple of months do their due diligence and then come back with an adjusted offer that Dai does or doesn’t accept.

Also, if there are several interested parties why does it take so long to get to exclusivity with one of them. I know my view is simplistic, but oxf*rd me these things shouldn’t take so long.

Don’t think so, think it’s putting a general proposal to the seller and then entering exclusivity to thrash out the commercial details, do due diligence and build a formal bid. Presumably now they’re talking to other interested parties to see if anyone has a proposal which sounds like it might go somewhere and then we’ll go round the loop again

[Hendo]

This oxf*rd takeover stuff confuses me. By all accounts it sounded like PT/Blue Horizon were granted exclusivity without actually making a formal offer. How does that work?

I am not the brightest, but surely an interested party makes an offer which Dai accepts and then they have to provide proof of funds. They go away for a couple of months do their due diligence and then come back with an adjusted offer that Dai does or doesn’t accept.

Also, if there are several interested parties why does it take so long to get to exclusivity with one of them. I know my view is simplistic, but oxf*rd me these things shouldn’t take so long.

Yes but what about Tim Dellor?

Or older fans listening to radios in Y22-Y24?

[blythspartan]

This oxf*rd takeover stuff confuses me. By all accounts it sounded like PT/Blue Horizon were granted exclusivity without actually making a formal offer. How does that work?

I am not the brightest, but surely an interested party makes an offer which Dai accepts and then they have to provide proof of funds. They go away for a couple of months do their due diligence and then come back with an adjusted offer that Dai does or doesn’t accept.

Also, if there are several interested parties why does it take so long to get to exclusivity with one of them. I know my view is simplistic, but oxf*rd me these things shouldn’t take so long.

Don’t think so, think it’s putting a general proposal to the seller and then entering exclusivity to thrash out the commercial details, do due diligence and build a formal bid. Presumably now they’re talking to other interested parties to see if anyone has a proposal which sounds like it might go somewhere and then we’ll go round the loop again

Ahh right, that makes more sense.

[bcubed]

This oxf*rd takeover stuff confuses me. By all accounts it sounded like PT/Blue Horizon were granted exclusivity without actually making a formal offer. How does that work?

I am not the brightest, but surely an interested party makes an offer which Dai accepts and then they have to provide proof of funds. They go away for a couple of months do their due diligence and then come back with an adjusted offer that Dai does or doesn’t accept.

Also, if there are several interested parties why does it take so long to get to exclusivity with one of them. I know my view is simplistic, but oxf*rd me these things shouldn’t take so long.

Yes but what about Tim Dellor?

Or older fans listening to radios in Y22-Y24?

This thread has gone to the dogs

[Hendo]

Yes but what about Tim Dellor?

Or older fans listening to radios in Y22-Y24?

This thread has gone to the dogs

Happened about 330 pages ago, tbf.

[Mid Sussex Royal]

This oxf*rd takeover stuff confuses me. By all accounts it sounded like PT/Blue Horizon were granted exclusivity without actually making a formal offer. How does that work?

I am not the brightest, but surely an interested party makes an offer which Dai accepts and then they have to provide proof of funds. They go away for a couple of months do their due diligence and then come back with an adjusted offer that Dai does or doesn’t accept.

Also, if there are several interested parties why does it take so long to get to exclusivity with one of them. I know my view is simplistic, but oxf*rd me these things shouldn’t take so long.

Don’t think so, think it’s putting a general proposal to the seller and then entering exclusivity to thrash out the commercial details, do due diligence and build a formal bid. Presumably now they’re talking to other interested parties to see if anyone has a proposal which sounds like it might go somewhere and then we’ll go round the loop again

I'm not too upset its fallen by the wayside - sounded like a property developer looking to make some quick money.