V8 Headquarters could leave Gold Coast ?

Matthew Ronke · 6 Dec 2009, 22:07 (Ref:2595083)

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V8 SUPERCARS is one 'snide' comment away from packing up its Gold Coast headquarters and abandoning SuperGP if 'stupid' councillors continue to ridicule the sport.

V8 Supercars boss Tony Cochrane last night told The Gold Coast Bulletin he had 'had enough' of Cr Susie Douglas's bad-mouthing of the series.

"If the Gold Coast City Council keeps making us feel unwelcome we will not hesitate in packing up our Gold Coast headquarters and the 700 jobs that come with it and find a new home," he said after wrapping up the first V8 Supercars street circuit round in Sydney yesterday.

"We are sick of those snide attacks from Cr Douglas and her cohorts. We don't hang around where we are not wanted.

GC Bulletin

Juarez Jed · 6 Dec 2009, 22:16 (Ref:2595090)

He gets his feelings hurt easily doesn't he ?

One more snide comment and we'll pack up and leave.

They could set up base in the showbag pavillion at Homebush but where would they go during the Easter Show ?

Crash Test · 6 Dec 2009, 22:48 (Ref:2595105)

The problem is Susie Douglas is a senile old crack pot. She would have been voted out decades ago, but Gold Coasters don't bother voting in local elections

F J Nedos · 6 Dec 2009, 22:51 (Ref:2595109)

So when reality bites, how does V8 Supercar plan to relocate 700 jobs, the infrastructure, the people and their relocation requirements, the office etc somewhere else? Doesn't sound cheap.

Denosaur · 6 Dec 2009, 23:36 (Ref:2595129)

Don't hold your breath if one day they pull the pin on the GC and move to a nice office located somewhere in Homebush, verbal jibes or not.......

F J Nedos · 7 Dec 2009, 00:35 (Ref:2595155)

If they wanted to play politics, I reckon it would hurt the GC if they moved to Brisbane. Good ol' SE QLD rivalry.

PVDA · 7 Dec 2009, 00:40 (Ref:2595159)

I'd like to see a break down of exactly what are the 700 jobs that they will relocate.

Green Hornet · 7 Dec 2009, 01:03 (Ref:2595179)

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Originally Posted by PVDA

I'd like to see a break down of exactly what are the 700 jobs that they will relocate.

They probably figure it isn't any of your business . . .

TSR · 7 Dec 2009, 01:05 (Ref:2595183)

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Originally Posted by F J Nedos

So when reality bites, how does V8 Supercar plan to relocate 700 jobs, the infrastructure, the people and their relocation requirements, the office etc somewhere else? Doesn't sound cheap.

They have plenty of $$$$$$, did not they make a $400million profit a couple of years ago.So money is not the problem

touring fan01 · 7 Dec 2009, 01:29 (Ref:2595192)

"If the Gold Coast City Council keeps making us feel unwelcome we will not hesitate in packing up our Gold Coast headquarters and the 700 jobs that come with it and find a new home,"

What a complete joke. Does anyone seriously believe that V8SCA (i.e. the organisation itself) employ's 700 full-time people on the Gold Coast, that he is trying to imply that they do????

Think about that number....700 people employed by V8SCA, on the Gold Coast ?!! It wouldn't even be 10% of that amount, Australia wide.

The guy must think everyone is a fool and he needs to stop making stupid statements like that and losing credibility for our sport.

Juarez Jed · 7 Dec 2009, 01:49 (Ref:2595197)

Mayb the 700 jobs are related to the SuperGP and the reporting is awry ? Wouldn't be the first time ......
He may have meant if the SuperGP is canned 700 jobs would go and V8 HQ would take its bat and ball elsewhere as well ?

Tourer · 7 Dec 2009, 01:58 (Ref:2595204)

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Originally Posted by TSR

They have plenty of $$$$$$, did not they make a $400million profit a couple of years ago.So money is not the problem

Don't recall them ever making anything near that. If that were true the teams (who get 75% of the profit) would have been pulling down in the region of $10 mill each and they are nowhere near that. I'd suggest that its around a tenth of that figure from the numbers that I've heard from teams.

Denosaur · 7 Dec 2009, 04:12 (Ref:2595251)

I think he might be talking about all the teams as well when he says 700.

cavvy · 7 Dec 2009, 06:07 (Ref:2595283)

bet Coch0 was first to take his cricket bat & go home for the most insignificant of ....

davester · 7 Dec 2009, 06:16 (Ref:2595284)

Could TC be some kind of human fly, where everything he sees is multiplied by 20?

NewsStalker · 7 Dec 2009, 06:51 (Ref:2595291)

700 jobs? Wonder if the ATO is aware of this - pretty certain they wouldn't be paying tax on 700 salaries.

Maybe this is why Cocho is prepared to go to jail? (Hmmm wouldn't he then be barred from holding a directorship with any Australian company?)

PVDA · 7 Dec 2009, 06:57 (Ref:2595293)

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Originally Posted by Denosaur

I think he might be talking about all the teams as well when he says 700.

Funny but half of those would be based in Melbourne then....

kramer · 7 Dec 2009, 08:11 (Ref:2595312)

Maybe the 700 comes from the same place as his crowd figures.

Seriously, this guy has the most fragile ego of all time - can't TAKE any criticism. Ask any journalist what happens when you criticise him or his series.

Kramer

Juarez Jed · 7 Dec 2009, 19:21 (Ref:2595626)

When the V8 HQ was originally built on the Gold Coast, it may have been announced that it was creating 700 jobs ? Can anyone remember ? Does anyone care ? If so, I'm sure those concretors, sparkies, chippies and even mobile coffee van drivers would have moved on by now, and would be earning their incomes from some other source than V8 supercars

Denosaur · 7 Dec 2009, 20:46 (Ref:2595684)

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Originally Posted by PVDA

Funny but half of those would be based in Melbourne then....

And they Townsvillie Supercar heartland........ Oh, sorry, I forgot that you can't play any other sport that AFL in Mexico.

Crash Test · 7 Dec 2009, 23:17 (Ref:2595809)

Just to prove that the Gold Coast City Council have no idea...

Juarez Jed · 7 Dec 2009, 23:36 (Ref:2595817)

They would never dream of closing down an athletics club though would they ? Again motorsports are the unwanted & unloved.
Its funny how someone you have admired as a past-Olympian can turn out to be a real knob isn't it ?

**GTRMagic** · 10 Jun 2010, 09:04 (Ref:2708077)

Looks like a UFO almost succeeded in doing what the original thread post suggests

Article Here

UFO = Unidentified Ford Object... I mean a Falcon in Red! I didn't think Ford made such an animal

DAVID PATERSON · 10 Jun 2010, 11:20 (Ref:2708161)

“The driver, who appeared to be of Indian decent"

I guess they don't teach spelling at journalism school nowadays............

**Woolley** · 10 Jun 2010, 12:16 (Ref:2708193)

Are you suggesting he was indecent?

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