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How good is the source on a rating from 1-10. 1 being bloke down pub, 10 Marc Fry

Also if not buying the stadium means they have a bit more cash for players this/next season then in the short term it could be a good move.

I would guess that the best thing for Aviva would be to keep the stadium and rent it back to the club. Someone will get a cheap football club but will have to rent the stadium.

I don't know wether to worry or not, which is worrying.

Liar Liar

The Echo also said we wouldn't get a 10 point deduction - they know Jack ****.

This is unbearble, something's obviously gone all ****ed up. My gut feeling is that a combination of the recession and the way SLH is structured means were ****ged.

I agree, Stoneham would have been rubbish. Lowe has to take credit for getting SMS sorted because no one managed to get it built previously. However I think most credit has to go to Sky TV because if it wasn't for their millions it wouldn't have been built. Second in line for credit has to go to Matt le Tiss for keeping us on the Prem gravey train. Lowe can hardly be considered a genius for getting it built, every other club up and down the country, from Bournemouth to Middlesboro have managed to build a new stadium in the last few years. It's hard to think of a club who havn't at least transformed their stadia, even Fratton Park has a roof on the away end now.

The problem is MJ would probably have told Fry he was fronting the consortium when the truth is I expect he knows someone who knows someone who might have enough money. Fry thinks the deal is almost there while MJ is trying to sell his plans, complete with Monkeychicken petting zoo, to people who are not even slightly interested and everyone's time is wasted.

I would have gone but I think canceling is the right thing to do. The bucket collection sort of made sense "to get Saints to the end of the season", but now the season has ended the club just needs to be sold, we might make enough to pay the administrators for another week then what? We can't hold a charity match every week.

I would have thought if the offers are that unacceptable then Fry would be in the Media making more desperate appeals, I'm hoping his silence means he has something decent to go on and he's busy playing them off against each other to get the best deal for the banks. If everything's about to go tits up I don't see why it would be so quiet?

I'm Lowe's harshest critic but even I am amazed at how spectacularly he has ****ed things up this season. He just needs to shut his mouth and go back to his pig farm because the more he opens his gob the more of a laughing stock he becomes - you would have thought he would have at least learned that by now. It's a fitting tribute to Lowe that the dreaded administrator, brought in to rip the club apart and flog what's left to the highest bidder, is actually more popular than him (at the moment).

Dumb thread, considering you know nothing about what is going on. Almost as dumb as the Mr Fry is great thread.

Great, we've got "business genius" Deluded Missile telling us we are fooked on one thread and now Cryptic Nick is telling us we're going to be OK. I'm off to look at porn.

Does he have a big nose and is good at kicking a ball?

My mac can't view it either.

Sauce

What a ****, we could have appointed a Wenger and it wouldn't have made any difference, we still would have gone down due to the 10 point penalty.

Think you might have a point there, it's not looking good if that dreamer has been given the time of day.

Even if the club was to wait until the transfer window opens as soon as other clubs get a wiff of us folding there is no way they will pay a fee, they will just tell the player to wait until we go under so they can get them for free - they get a player for nothing, the player gets higher wages and their agent gets a nice wedge. There is no way in a million years the council will stump up for the stadium if SFC doesn't exist, them buying it isn't overly popular anyway and that is with saving SFC in mind.

What would the banks get on liquidation? If the club folds then the players are worthless - their contracts will be cancelled and they will be free agents. SMS would be worth naff all as the Council have made it pretty clear that it will stay as a stadium. That leaves Staplewood, the Academy and a bit of farmlend in Hedge End - can't be worth alot. If the bids for SFC are rubbish surely it makes sense to accept it and flog off things not needed like Staplewood, the farm, academy etc. Then at least they can sell SMS so that it could be rented back to SFC and have some value.

You're ignoring the fact that he is ****.

The big difference is that Hoo's is not a major shareholder who, after receiving a massive severance package, swans back in, sacks a chairman who's working for nowt, sacks a good manager - because of his wages, then hands himself a massive salary for a few days work a week - despite the club being in serious financial trouble.

Don't think it's a legal issue, the Football League can make their rules up as they go along if they want. They could quite easily say "your club badge has a **** tree in the middle - minus 20".