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I'm pretty sure there were people on here suggesting we were breaking even or there abouts. Were we ****. Our wage bill was huge (Lallana doesn't sign a 5 year deal for buttons when he had offers from the Premiership) and despite the decent crowds you can't cover top end Championship wages whilst in League 1 (you can't in the Championship). Into the Championship and players like Cork and Sharpe will have expanded (£1m each a year maybe??) that wage bill considerably. Loses next year anyone? Jesus these Liebherrs have been brave. Thankfully it is paying off, but even they can't of expected us to go through the league. These kind of losses are exactly the reason why I've been asking questions. But I needn't have bothered as all my concerns have been washed away with the news of the debt being turned into equity. Brilliant news and fair play to those people on here telling me that the Liebherrs would do just that. You were spot on.

the alex is open from 10

I wonder if many of the companies that form the CVA will vote against on principal seeing as they will get almost nothing. For example a £10k debt was reduced to £2k and if that's reduced down to £400 (20%) you are starting to get down amounts that people will let go on principal. I think many won't have been fully aware how long it would take to start seeing any money and how easily PFC could squirm out of paying it full stop.

the chocolate brown numbers suit me

no it suggests we have sold a fraction over 5000 tickets, with 150 available tomorrow morning then an extra 500 making the 5817 tickets as previously stated. "Final allocation club will receive" means no chance of increasing it. Pity.

absolutely. This promotion is along way from being secured. Exciting!

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They might own it, but the fans are a massive part of the business, I mean club. I would guess that they will depart long before many of us stop supporting the club, so fans ought to ask questions about the amount of debt we are carrying, whether that will written off, be part of a selling price or included as a debt to be serviced by the new owners if that should happen. The skates has been ridiculed on the takeover thread for not asking questions about previous owners and the way they spent beyond its income, but you appear to suggesting they were right for not saying anything as it had nothing to do with them.

For me Nick Holmes should be included ahead of KK and Shilts

I've got £25e/w on Lambert being top championship goalscorer at 22-1. Lovely.

I too couldn't stand it, but having turned it back on the skates it actually feels good singing it and helps dissolve the nightmare

After what has happened in the past, Saints fans are fully justified in asking serious questions about our finance. No matter how rosy things appear situations can quickly change.

we don't know what his salary is because the last set of accounts only showed 6 months of his wages so we are not sure if it is £600,000 or £1.2m

he was absolutely woeful, slow, lazy, didn't track runners, didn't get forward. Looked old and weak. Only Habib Beye looked worse. Diouf looked a very good player, thankfully he spent too much time argueing with the ref.

wage permitting I'd like to see Craig Gordon from Sunderland come in and really challenge Kelvin for a place.

hate leaving before the end, but on the odd occasion I have tried to time my walk down the steps to coinside with the final whistle. It takes ****ing ages to get out if you are sat at the back.

behave, its like getting blood out of a stone. Ask any question you like and he'll say, its not about individuals/opposition/manager/Ricky/decisions and then get back to his one game at a time line. I don't even think he believes in what he is saying its just become his defacto response. Could be worse, he could whine like Clot

Can't stand Adkins interview style, he just puts a PR front on and doesn't really say what he really feels at all. I think he has only done so once and that was when he was fuming after a defeat, donny away perhaps, and in it you got to see the real Nigel. To be honest I get close to switching off whenever he comes on the radio. The one game at a time line is so ******* boring. But hey, who cares? It's what the team does that matters and whatever he says to them away from the microphone it is working. So carry on.

Lambert is fitter. The rest is largely the same - brilliant link up play, only less goals from freekicks.

and some are easily pleased. If he wasn't so slow he'd of been in a position to shoot. Because he is slow he was forced to square it and luckily we got the pen. You can gloss it up as awareness, but it was much more down to his lack of pace and dare I say it lack of confidence to take the chance on for himself. jeez, next you'll be telling me the whole game turned because of him. My argument is that he is not an impact sub. He doesn't have an attribute to change the pattern of the game.

he crossed a ball that led to a penalty. I thought at the time that a sharper striker might have got on to the ball quicker and taken the chance on himself. I still thought he should have shot, but he made the right decision to pass. Other than that square pass he did pretty much **** all. That's not an impact.

Sharp is a goal poacher. His all round play is pretty average and he is so slow its not true. That doesn't mean he's not a good signing, although I personally never thought he was the right guy, but what it does mean is that he needs to play the whole game to give him the maximum chance of doing what he does best - taking a chance when it comes. That is what he does and expecting much more of him is wrong. He doesn't have a secondary attribute - pace or strength or dribbling skills for example, that means he's not ideal as an impact sub.

I think fat Sam has done a decent job. Yes they play hoof ball ****, and yes they have bought players, but they are right there, challenging for promotion and as we all know this league is as tough as old boots. There is never a guarantee of going straight back up even if you do retain quite a lot of your Premiership squad. Newcastle apart, most big sides with huge wages that go down stay down. West Ham were terrible last season and he has turned a losing mentality into a winning one, all be it one that has stumbled recently. Sam has done what he has had to do. I'm not a fan, can't stand him or his style of football, but west Ham fans expectation levels have been sky high.

I don't care what anyone says, Puncheon has been woeful since he came back in almost every game. Much worse than when fans were jumping on his back over a misplaced pass or poor control. In fact I don't think he has been good in any of the games, even the first one, which was perhaps his best. I've backed the guy since he has been here, largely because I like underdogs and I suggested him as a player to buy on the HCDAJFU thread many years ago, but I think now that he has become more `popular' with fans (perhaps just to neutralise those that are quick to slate him) he's no longer an underdog and I'll start slating him. Far too casual, needs to get right `on it' from the first minute, pull his socks up and start using that ability he has to much greater effect.

where did you get to in ull? I lived there for several years back in the 90s and frequented Boothferry on many occasion. The KC apart, I imagine ull as a whole is still very much in the 90's?