limpid

I would be even more surprised if Xai allowed any of the board to have a stake. It just makes things complicated if he wants to sell in the future. It would be very unusual for a single owner to give appointed directors a stake in the company. I'm afraid that Pat Murphy mentioning "Vice-chairman" convinces me of nothing. The term is meaningless in such a small company. Samuelson's a director. Nothing more. His remit will be buying the small clubs Xia has mentioned numerous times. I doubt he'll be involved in running those. He'll be paid a salary and a bonus. If he keeps doing his job, the bonus will reflect that.

What stake? I've seen nothing to suggest he has a stake in the company. I've seen nothing to make me believe he's "vice-chairman" or even what that means.

No. In the described frame, the error bars around your jump accuracy would put the movement of the earth way down into the noise level. Even if you could guarantee that you could jump perfectly accurately, you are effectively in a closed system where the atmosphere is moving with the surface of the earth and therefore would move you with it when you jump.

"Hover" implies that you stay over the same ground. So yes. Your frame of reference here is yourself, so if you discount forces external to the described system, the only thing that can change is the nature of the "place" where you land. Due to many things (atomic decay, quantum fluctuations, other entropy) that can never be the exactly the same (and neither are you). If your context excludes those changes then you land in the same place.

Rather than teasing us all, can you say where you've seen that. If you can't link and quite then at just name the site or publication so someone else can.

A few have suggested that his job is not related to football activities in any way. Much like my HR director has nothing to do with building acquisition.

I'll let you know if they call. Unless they tell me I can't.

As far as I can tell, he's on the board of the holding company, presumably as a facilitator for purchasing the other clubs which will make up the group. I'm basing this on what I've read about him, the PR from the new regime and his previous involvements with football. He's there for his contacts. I don't think he'll be involved with the Villa part of the business as he appears to have no skills in that area.

Can you highlight how this answers any of my questions?

Show me EVIDENCE not things people are repeating on the internet. There is nothing to "reflect" on anyone unless we know some facts. Please share the facts you've found about these two other bids. Assuming they actually exist, was he anything more than a middleman? How do you know he was trying to take control? Everything I've read suggests he's a middleman. Even if he was trying to take control, what exactly is wrong with that?

How exactly does this reflect negatively on Samuelson? In this story, it's the buyers who failed to come up with the money, that's nothing to do with him. I'm calling it a story because there are no facts.

It's the same one I linked, except you'll need two extra power sockets. You really don't want to put these in extension leads.

I use four of them. IIRC they have their own thread in the tech room They work like ethernet without running cables. I have my wifi AP on one of these in the middle of the house and when the network is quiet I get pings around 6ms to the internet router.

He wasn't on the board, nor a member of Lerner's company.

Someone loves me enough to set up a fake twitter account. @limpidavfc I'm proper famous now [ Heads over to the Rubbish Claims to Fame thread ]

Usual rules. Played fixtures stand, remaining fixtures would be a 3-0 defeat for the defaulting team.

Is that the fake me on twitter?

Can't believe I used the wrong "your" there. I'm blaming my phone.

From all your quizzing, I'm sure your aware of several times laws have been passed to prevent something being done, which has never been done or is even impossible. (And I don't mean blasphemy.)

TBF, he didn't ask if it was legal.

Or when Yodel throw it on your roof?

Genuine question, when you click "start new topic" and click Poll, do you get these options? The one lower right would seem to cover this scenario, but either way, the mods would rather tidy up than be asked to do extra work which others can do. If you aren't happy after you've created it, report it and say what's wrong.

Or you could create a new one?