Jack Tordoff and his legacy

Going on ignore now

 

Can I respectfully ask what your agenda is? It's a bit strange for a poster to come on and post the questions you have in the short time you have been on the forum. Theres nothing out there to say you can't ask these sort of questions but in my time on here I've not really heard anyone have a pop at Jack Tordoff other than the questionable funding of our campaign in 87/88.

 

100% this, totally agree Jack doesn't even come close to that man, Bob Martin hardly covered himself in glory and although Geoffrey took us to the Premier league we almost lost our club because of his ego.

 

We get that you don’t like Tordoff.
Fine.
I’m just a bit bothered by something in your original post

“As a chairman, personally I didn't rate him at all as anything special nor did I feel he did much for the club (after initial £30k? Buying of club and stopping club winding up).”

So you don’t think he did much for the club after stopping the club from being wound up and probably going out of business.
You’ve rubbished the most important thing he did(save the club) with what appears to be a throwaway comment.

It’s a long time ago but you seem to be well informed about what happened.
I don’t remember a load of people kicking down the door to put a substantial amount of money forward to save the club.
If you know different perhaps you can enlighten us.

You are bang right about the 87/88 funding issue.
But guess what?
Football chairmen make mistakes.
It happens.
But I think these mistakes are often made for the right reasons.
Once again,if you know different,enlighten us.
In your reply to @Rogered Tart you say you don’t want to speak publicly.
Why?
You’ve bothered to register for here and make lots of claims.
Have the courage of your convictions and make public “what you’re ranting about”

At the moment you just look like somebody with a hidden agenda.

 

Look, there's a well known saying around these parts.

Either take a sh1t or get off the pot.

 

Through Jack Tordoffs association with the club it must have benefited running into the millions with sponsorship and other things o er the years and he was always on hand at times if need. I admit I was disappointed that nearly season when we didn’t go for it but his contribution to this club has been nothing short of brilliant.

 

I believe both Jack & Stafford were joint owners when the safety issues was brought up yet you don't mention Stafford.

The one big negative for me as a fan was with regards Jack not backing Terry Dolan regards the signings of Keith Curle or Andy Townsend, fans made it quite clear at the fans forum (although Jack had signed Micky Kennedy in the January) our squad was not strong enough for our promotion run in as we depended heavily on the likes of McCall & Hendrie and the signing of Curle & Townsend would help our campaign, he did not sign them and those who were around at the time still feel had Jack financed the signing we would have been promoted.

Other than that I thank Jack and Stafford for saving our club and JCT600 for being our main sponsor for many years.

We may not have had a memorial at the ground by we did have one in the City center where we pay our respects each May, and a plaque on the back of the Sunwin Stand.

 

Jack Tordoff was an ever present at Valley Parade right until the later years of his life, even when his beloved club were being ruined under the ownership of Rupp & Rahic.

 

Richmond and his son David were big Leeds fans and went back to watching them.

As you say Tordoff was a lifelong fan of City.

 

Seems like you're constipated then m9.