Stuart Murphy's latest project

Sounds like a dodgy deal but looks very glossy. No doubt there will be funding coming from the Welsh Government and possibly Euro grants. The balance sheet would make interesting reading, if anybody was allowed to see it.

I remember him from the early days of CFC when he was a good benefactor until he never got his own way. At that time he upped and left, leaving the club with some commitments (Sky/BT in the bars is one example that springs to mind) that he said he would cover but never.

I get the impression this is what happened 2nd time around. He had promised to fund new contracts for players and staff, and when it became obvious that the Bumpers Lane Surf Centre and Monkey Garage nightclub wasn't going to happen he upped sticks and left.

The tidal generation scheme would be very attractive to government money, and is a very now topic. I just cant see how a man who is driven around in a car bigger than my house can play the eco warrior card with a straight face...

Businesses are looking to the easiest growth areas and renewable energy with the huge government subsidies are a quick win. Nice to know the 1/3rd of my energy bill that pays these subsidies is keeping him in profit...

All he needs is someone else’s £5bn 🙃

I wouldn’t just burn it, I’d have it laced with C4 for eternity before I’d let this c**t near our club again.

The man is a crackpot.

At least Vaughan was an out and out criminal, this man gives me Allen Stanford vibes.

When I realised the source of this news was the Irish Times (or any other newspaper of repute) I immediately thought the date of the article was April 1st - I checked but no it is Wednesday 13th April!!.

This guy is obviously bidding to become the President of the "Snake Oil Society of Salesmen" However, this time, following the debacle at CFC, he is attempting to play Big Boys Games but with Big Boys Rules that inevitably will cause this crackpot idea to crash and burn. 

This is of course not to denigrate the idea of tidal energy, which has various prototype projects in Scotland and off Angelsey. However, these projects are tidal turbines that are submerged near the sea bed at locations that offer high tidal flows rather than using a high hydraulic head (using a barrage or Murphy Islands) on the incoming and reverse tides to drive power turbines.

Yes, the guy deserves some credit for the contribution of some cash a couple of years ago but I think CFC was never going to be big enough for him and I think when these successful guys earn so much money they start thinking about legacy and this is the latest idea.

Is contrarian shorthand for posting absolute bollocks?

Who’s throwing out insults here? You used the term fascist, nobody else did. I’m just calling out the bullshit facts he’s using, obviously gleaned from the far-right media he is a proud consumer of. As for the moribund off-topic section, two of the busier users, Oaks Blue and upsidedown, had some kind of emotional breakdown, and as for the other Tory boys, they are probably too ashamed or embarrassed to post.

Could we please have some kind of blanket ban on political discourse, at least on the general discussion pages? I’ve not been here long but this week alone I’ve seen multiple threads degenerate into slanging matches with little to do with the original topic, all because a few posters are desperate to shoehorn their own agendas into the conversation regardless of their relevance or lack thereof.

I’m someone with pretty strong political persuasions myself but I’ll leave them at the door when I’m posting on here, as indeed I do when I’m at the games in person. Those who refuse to do the same are just giving off the same impression as a few cranks arguing with each other in the local pub, and often ruin things for the rest of us who post on a football forum because we want to talk about football; it’s not as if there isn’t an off-topic section for those who want to have these sorts of non-footballing discussions.

It is tedious. It's sometimes hard to know when a thread becomes "political". For example, did Bluejay start that by talking about energy subsidising or did Ian H with his response? Ian could've just pointed out the mistake without bringing far-right websites into it and I suppose one or two people could do with being less confrontational as that's how these things escalate. Might have been better for these two Murphy threads to have been in off-topic from the start, as someone has now decided they should be.