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If they took over the mortgage that would be £2m a year out of their budget. That wouldn't treble your bill at all, in fact it might not increase at all if they decided to cut spending elsewhere. How about fortnightly bin collections in exchange for a football club?

when you put it like that it doesn't look good.

is there not an opportunity here for the debts to be cleared by someone offering 25p in the pound or such like to the creditors?

not neccesarily. Youth devlopment existed long before stapleford and the academy. Its doesn't cost much to hire a pitch you know especially during the week.

who says they have left SFC, they have only resigned for SLH as far as I can see. Has someone got a link to tell me otherwise?

I noticed that. Where is the confirmation that Lowe and Quisling have actually resigned from the football club? All I see is their resignation for SLH.

Is the farm land owned by the club or the PLC?

What kind of hit are AVIVA and Barclays willing to take I wonder? What are the assets really worth if we were liquidated such as the farm, the training ground and of course SMS? What is the monthly wage bill for April, May and June?

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I thought he came back to save his investment. That has failed. Perhaps he will walk away now? However maybe his desire to make that money back will encourage him to try and buy the club and make a profit out of it. He better than any other person knows if that can be done - make a profit I mean.

does admin mean that Lowe's 5%, Crouch 9% and Quisling's 16% are now pretty much worthless?

Very good post this and the may well be negotiations between those two parties to allow SFC to effectively remortgage to pay off the overdraft. However, I'm not so sure AVIVA could play `hardball with Barclays'. As you said AVIVA have more to lose than Barclays so Barclays could say to AVIVA, pay us our £4M or we take the company to admin. AVIVA then faces the prospect of losing perhaps as much as 80% of the £24m they are owed.

he may have dazzled a few with his shiny white boots but his lack of pace, trick or effort to get up and down were all I saw. The only thing I liked about him was the fact he was a left footed player willing to cross the ball rather than keep coming inside or coming back on himself. Having said all that Surman has been so poor in recent weeks that perhaps some competition, any competition can't be a bad thing.

we failed to sign anyone, that is not the same as `staying out of the loan market'.

Basically you get 8 games free as a ST holder. There has been a number of promotions this season that removes two of those `free' games. So ST holders have ended up getting 6 games for free this season. That still seems decent value but were two games live on TV? Not the same I know but all the same you could say that ST holders got just 4 games for free. But as all ST holder know there is always illness, weddings, work, crisis, holiday etc that get in the way so you end up missing games that you have paid for. Buying a ST is getting less appealing with every line I type...

tell me more. They both remind me of chocolate fireguards.

Who scouted these players. They should be sacked. I'm sure I could do a better job, no I'm certain I could. I wonder what delights are in store for us next summer or will we be returning to the youngsters like Gobern and Thomson.

Holmes is on a par with Smith. Both extremely average to say the least.

any non season ticket holder that has been to more than 10 home games deserves a bloody medal in my book.

he might do a job at center back with a pacey player alongside him but I get the feeling he would look very exposed out wide.

why on earth did we sign a player with a broken foot? Complete stupidity and I said so at the time. Are Stoke still going to pay his wages seeing as its the same injury?

I like you have seen very little of Liptak, but what I have seen of him he is a giant cumbersom CB and I wouldn't want him at full back

I quite liked Gobern as a DM. He gets about the pitch and gets stuck in as well.

you've missed nothing. Far too slow and talentless to play at this level and thats why Plymouth got rid.

Huge loss. Along with Saeijs, Gillett has been our best performer in recent weeks. He has basically been covering the whole of the centre midfield on his own. Losing him is going to upset the whole balance of the side. I think Wotte needs to rethink the centre of midfield as neither Wotton nor Schneiderlin are capable of doing the same job. I think having McGoldrick at the head of the diamond is going to have to go.