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What's the £6million Market Cap?

We would start of -10 for going into admin so relegation again would be a very real possibility. I think a team of kids would struggle big time in League 1 anyway, it's a lot more physical than the Championship.

I think the issue is that Lowe has forced our manager to use our best midfielder (Surman) and a kid who's not ready, at left back while Skacel's been sat there doing naff all. It may have excaped your notice but while this has been happening the team has been playing ****e and look like getting relegated. Lowe hasn't saved the club a penny, he has made the managers job harder, reduced the quality of the team and demotivated a player who could potentially be very usefull, and possibly with the right man management could have hit his Hearts form and been sold this Jan for a half decent amount.

What the OS?

Because sticking Skacel in the reserves has really worked a treat hasn't it? I have no problem with them trying to sell Skacel, but as he decided to stay we should have tried to get the best out of him, not try and let him rot. Maybe if we had a decent manager and with a bit of encouragement we would have got the best out of him and someone would offer some cash for him now. You must be completely thick if you think Lowe has handled this well.

Surely the more information the shareholders/banks have, the better descision they can make about who is best at running the club?

Yes but if my boss told me I was not wanted and he would try and force me out even though he was tied into paying me a highly paid contract - I wouldn't give a toss about slagging him off. Rudi's done the right thing in letting us know how Lowe's been acting, the more that's out in the open the better.

I want them to tell the truth, if the club is the shambles we all think it is then the more people that speak out the better.

Just show's what a complete ****ing shambles SFC is at the moment. "Last summer they told me that if I didn't leave I wouldn't be playing. And then at one point they moved me from the reserves to the first team." So basically, just as many of us thought, Lowe froze Skacel out of the team to try and force him to leave. Jan was forced to play Surman and that 12 year old Mills at left back when we had Skacel sat there doing naff all. Another great piece of interference from Lowe - making the manager's job even harder. Jan doesn't stand chance with ****** like this stopping him doing his job properly.

I doubt the bank is making the decisions, it will be down to Lowe. For example it is unlikely the manager of Barclays Reading branch insisted we sign Smith and that new left back. Or insisted we bring in numerous useless players on loan, injury prone midfielders and a 3rd choice goalie from Spurs that we will never play.

Usually if those descisions go against us I am seething, the first goal was offside, the penalty was very harsh and it was never a sending off. However ManUre's reserves beat us without breaking sweat, the descisions were irellivant, we would have lost regardless, probably by the same score. If we had managed to fluke a goal early on United would have just stepped up a gear and probably would have beat us by a greater margin than 3-0.

Jan might be a fine coach, the problem is that the teams we are up again have a manager and a coach.

Pearson spent his career in all 3 top divisions with Shwesbury, Sheff Weds and Middlesboro. He won the League cup and Promotion to Division 1 with Wednesday as captain, also reached both cup finals in 1993. He also captained Middlesboro to promotion twice and captained them to 3 domestic cup finals.

Complete waste as a left back at a time when we can't buy a goal. He scored for fun in the Scottish Prem, always had alot of assists for us when in midfield. Any decent manager would have brought in a left back on loan or from the lower leagues for peanuts freeing up Surman and Skacel for the midfield but our donkey has wasted both of those as left backs this season.

Totally agree, we do have the basis for a half decent side. We need to get in a manager who know's the Championship, know's how to battle and can motivate these players plus get a couple of experienced players on loan. Dowie fit's the bill perfectly IMO, if Lowe and Wilde had any brains they would finance the new manager out of their own pocket - the alternative is they will lose everything.

Oh lord help us.

If Kelvin is sent on loan to Plymouth it means we are basically preparing ourselves for League 1. If it does happen I will start preparing for League 1 as well, by not bothering going to SMS until Lowe leaves.

Changng manager will only work if Lowe either leaves or admits his Head Coach/Rupes DOF idea will never work. Having said that I think we stand little chance of staying up anyway, we have wasted what little resources we did have on crap signings and pointless loanies. Our one and only chance was to back Pearson to build a team, Lowe ****ed up that chance from day 1.

No, doesn't make any sense.

What else could Crouch have done? He took over in January, loaned out some high earners to save money and kept us up - you cannot argue that he did not achieve what was needed. You could be sure if Lowe had took over that January there is no way he would have sanctioned the loan of Wright, he would have saved a few quid on wages, put Poke in goal and we would have got relegated.

It was Wilde's execs that screwed the club up, all Crouch did was take over after their mess. Crouch actually did a good job by keeping us up while also making some tough cost cutting descisions like loaning out Skacel and Rasiak. Pearson has proved a shrewd appointment and allow him to bring in loans like Perry and Wright saved the club from relegation and administration.

Oh please, Alex Ferguson is about to dump Jan's team out of the FA Cup, he's gonna be nice. I notice he said "interesting", usually managers in this situation expect a "tough" game. For "I expect an interesting game" read, "this crazy Dutch fool is gonna try and out pass us".

It looks like it will have to be Perry and Lancashire on Sunday which should be funny. BTW we have had 10 different CB pairings so far this season - that is shockingly bad management.

I fail to see how by getting dicked by their reserves we are going to encourage Sir Alex to loan us some players.

I don't see what money has to do with it, we can afford Cork. What is worrying IMO is that we have lost a player we wanted to keep to a shower of ****e like Watford. It might be that he was good mates with the guy at Watford and there is nothing we could have done about it. But it may also be the case that he just doesn't want to be part of some dozy chairman's experiments - given what has happened in the past I think we can be forgiven for assuming the worst. The guy was here half a season, he was playing regularly and playing well. You would assume he was half settled here, bonded with the other players/coaches and have a bit of loyalty to the team. To chuck all that in for a **** hole like Watford sugests to me that SFC is the circus we all think it is.