Mo Chaudry: Did We Dodge A Bullet?

[Memphis]

http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/Revealed-City-council-s-Dimensions-closure/story-18156160-detail/story.html#axzz2KxRgFsDN

[FolkyVale]

We'd certainly have been back to square one and amidst yet another circus.

[bycars rob]

I think we have been very fortunate in attracting the owners we have, lets move on.

[melv]

So the council denied the deal.Well until the e mails etc were found.

[geosname]

I dont see how..... if a deal was agreed, and it seems it had, I cant see what mo did wrong. Its not his place to tell elected officials they can or cant do something. Discussions took place, things were agreed, the council screwed it up.... why or how they screwed it up has nothing to do with mo [from what I read]... they denied a meeting took place, denied a deal had been done, denied communications.... how is that mos fault?

I think we are better off with what we have but I dont see what mo did wrong.... unless Ive missed something

[bookworm]

maybe not geo but mud sticks and there was tons of it flying around the dimensions fiasco.

[robf]

Here is an OVF article concerning one interesting angle of the Sentinel/Mo Chaudry story.

 

It is currently on the OVF front page:

 

http://www.onevalefan.co.uk/content/sentinel-chaudry-questioned-council-loan/

[cheshirevaliant]

Chaudry would have done what was best for Chaudry. Much the same as any businessman would do, and much the same as Wildes and Smurthwaite will do. Some appeared to think he was in it for the love of Vale and the local community. I'm glad we've got the owners we have, who can view Vale's pros and cons objectively without any ties to the local area.

[60degree_wedge]

I dont see how..... if a deal was agreed, and it seems it had, I cant see what mo did wrong. Its not his place to tell elected officials they can or cant do something. Discussions took place, things were agreed, the council screwed it up.... why or how they screwed it up has nothing to do with mo [from what I read]... they denied a meeting took place, denied a deal had been done, denied communications.... how is that mos fault?

I think we are better off with what we have but I dont see what mo did wrong.... unless Ive missed something

 

This is how i see it........Mr Chaudry wanted to remove a direct competitor from the market so he could maximise profit from Waterworld.

The idea that the council and Chaudry came up with was sold on the basis that the coucil would save £60k from closing Dimensions and then spend it on giving free entrance to kids to Waterworld. This sounds very comendable on the face of it, but the extra paying adults and refreshment sales would without doubt increase to profit.

 

IMHO i think that Chaudry was using bully boy tactics without being seen as doing so. If a competitor fails because your firm is better,cheaper or whatever than alls fair, but getting into bed with councils to close them down i dont think is.

[Santa]

I saw a few tweets from Sentinel people last night promising a big exclusive, but the end it didn't really tell us anything we didn't really know already.

 

The Council is there to provide essential public services. The splash pool at Dimensions probably isn't an essential public service (Tunstall Pool has a better claim to be) and there is already an existing provision of such services locally in the private sector. Chaudry was probably justified in asking why the Council was running a splash pool in direct competition to his own, and doing so at a loss to the public purse.

 

The real issue here is how the Council handled Chaudry's offer, which they were well within their rights to turn down, and the subsequent spinning of the story in the local press.

[SuperValiant1876]

hmmm was never up for Mo, got branded a racist by some on here.....

[bookworm]

hmmm was never up for Mo, got branded a racist by some on here.....

 

you were'nt the only one:ninja:

[toyahw]

The council come out of this looking the worst. Mo just looks hard nosed and hypocritcal, with his change in attitude to the Vale council loan when he changed sides and it suited him. His treatment of Sam Plank just showed him as hard nosed and cruel. Mr Chaudry thinks of one thing and one thing only - and that is Mo Chaudry. He could easily have take over Vale if he'd been organized and wanted to. But I think he just used the whole thing as an exercise to inflate his own ego. Did we dodge a bullet? probably - but then look a Bill Bell. He was always a bullet in waiting. It's all history now.

[andy jones]

This story has nothing to do with Port Vale - it related to a deal struck between Council and Mo Chaudry which was perfectly legit.

 

It's a bit two-faced to criticise Mo for being a hard headed businessman - isn't that exactly what we were trying to get into Vale Park to replace V2001?

[cheshirevaliant]

This story has nothing to do with Port Vale - it related to a deal struck between Council and Mo Chaudry which was perfectly legit.

 

It's a bit two-faced to criticise Mo for being a hard headed businessman - isn't that exactly what we were trying to get into Vale Park to replace V2001?

 

Much the same way as Rob Lee was criticised then?