Views from the Sieve

The new owners have been announced.

https://daggers.co.uk/dagenham-redbridg ... group-llc/

I just read this announcement on the club website, Im pleased that finally everything is out in the open and resolved but on the other hand "Happy Fan Group" sounds like an american sitcom!
Then again we have behaved like a sitcom for the last couple of years since club underdog took over, I really really hope this new ownership works out but what is the investment and long term goals.. purely just survival or an ambition to get us back into the National league and beyond? so many questions and so much uncertainty with this whole "new" set up.
Fans Forum please Mr Uddin

Nice to see anwar uddin as chairman

As already said apart from the takeover being completed there are so many questions to be answered but hope that this is the start of something positive.
Hopefully a lot more information will be issued soon.

BB-Dagger wrote: Mon Feb 16, 2026 6:44 pm I just read this announcement on the club website, Im pleased that finally everything is out in the open and resolved but on the other hand "Happy Fan Group" sounds like an american sitcom!
Then again we have behaved like a sitcom for the last couple of years since club underdog took over, I really really hope this new ownership works out but what is the investment and long term goals.. purely just survival or an ambition to get us back into the National league and beyond? so many questions and so much uncertainty with this whole "new" set up.
Fans Forum please Mr Uddin

As an American, I was thinking "Happy Fan Group" sounds like a translated-to-English-from-Japanese game show.

I'll take it just to have it resolved so we have some stability, hopefully stability that moves up back to the NL and higher but stability in NLS is better than nothing or the owners wrapping things up just to get out of the business (Was the last thing every an option?)

I read up on Anwar Uddin on his Wikipedia page, so I know a bit about him already. Wikipedia mentioned he was a director from July 2025 as his article seemed to think the Qatari takeover happened last summer.

John Grabowski seems to be a local Londoner (Londonite?). I assume that would be a positive over the foreign ownership groups of the last decade or so. One need not be xenophobic or jingoistic to appreciate a local owner that might understand English football, and also can be onsite to keep an eye on things on and off the pitch. I read his LinkedIn profile and he had some ties to IMG, which is big in sports marketing in the US, especially in the university/college sports area and to be honest looking over.

This sounds like a positive unless his interest is to flip the club in a few years by investing very little in the mean time and the club was purchased on the cheap and very little money needs to be put into the club to make a flip profitable. Hopefully that will not be the case.

Time to put the fixtures back in my diary.
See you all at the end of the month.

Just had a look at Happy Fan Group on Companies House and it appears that on the 30 December 25 a notice of compulsory strike off notice was published?

Auntie Merge wrote: Mon Feb 16, 2026 7:42 pm Time to put the fixtures back in my diary.
See you all at the end of the month.

I'll miss you popping up on the MixLR but your place is at Victoria Road. (Of course you could do both. )