bridge too far

Frank I can't quite agree with your comment 'IF there was a serious bidder who was by far the best and had made an offer by now it would ahve been accepted'. If, as widely reported, he has three serious bidders, I rather suspect he's looking at a Best and Final Offer from all three in order to decide which is best within the remit he has.

Nooooooo :shock: All we are hearing at the moment is the Sound of Silence!

No more than you. But the fact that they've dropped by the wayside suggests to me that they weren't worthy of further consideration. Of course, they might not have liked what they were seeing - I'll concede that point. His job is to sort the wheat from the chaff.

Tosh! I would say he's doing a very good job as he's weeded out the silly offers to concentrate on the serious ones.

LOL! If he bought us, everyone should change their name to Al.

Garfunkel?

Any worthwhile business person would always have a fall-back position.

I haven't got number lock on my laptop Mais merci en tout cas

I think you'll find the Guardian is very critical of the current government ATM. And, for anyone genuinely interested in current affairs, they run good articles from the breadth of the political spectrum. They've done some great exposes recently (can't do the accent on the last e) including the one on big business 'avoiding' the payment of taxes and, of course, of the police behaviour at the G20 protests.

Nothing on BBC South Today that I heard, anyway.

More of the usual clap-trap from you, I see. The Guardian reports well on football, although not as much on CCC and lower leagues as I would like to see. What the Guardian does well is to report factually instead of screaming (and usually 'economical with the truth') banner headlines.

Me too

Aaaah - the old 'when does the week start' debate

Although, TBF, the Coles did donate £500K to Comic Relief (or maybe Children in Need).

Generally yes. But sometimes the linked article is so long and the crucial point buried in the middle, that it's useful to be able to just print out that crucial point. I'm very guilty of posting links that are very long and generally obscure apart from one point :oops:

After all, our erstwhile 'figurehead' didn't put that much money in, did he

When writing dissertations, students are allowed to 'quote' other people's work as long as this is referenced. Surely that would be the same on here? In other words, to echo Stanley, if I pasted an extract from a newspaper article, as long as I also referenced that article by also posting the link, I'm doing nothing wrong?

Sorry Gemmel, my bad. Guilty of reading last 3 posts only and drawing (wrong) conclusions :oops:

I can't recall Salz EVER making a statement about us :confused:

Isn't the salient point about Salz the fact is that he's an expert in mergers, takeovers and aquisitions? I've never held the view that he was going to invest - only that he had the nous, experience, respect and influence to facilitate a takeover. I'm sure Morph will put us straight on Salz' actual involvement

Do you know, I don't honestly know Nick. I've been a Saints supporter since I was 8 and that's an awful long time. And it's a lot of personal history to consign to memory only. I'm hoping it's all hot air about RL coming back. But if he does, I'm not sure I could pay any sort of homage to a club run by someone, in my opinion, who is a sandwich short of a picnic. Someone who owns it out of a sense of personal vendetta and not love of the club. It's an awful dilemma and one that I really hope I don't have to face.

Re-read the OP Lee - he was talking about Saints 1885 entering the Blue Square and playing alongside RL's Saints at SMS in the BS. However, the idea of starting up Saints 1885 as an alternative to Saints with RL at the helm, but realistically starting at a much lower level could be a grand idea.

I know it's been posted before, but his CV makes for interesting reading. He sounds like a really nice person. http://www.moneyweek.com/news-and-charts/anthony-salz-the-city-lawyer-everyone-wants-to-hire.aspx But I get the impression his specialty is mergers and takeovers (), rather than courts. However, he'd have contacts, surely?

Yes I know, but Docker is talking about setting up another club if Lowe takes over Saints again. Not the same scenario at all.

How can this club start in the Blue Square Premiership? Didn't someone say earlier that the only reason Saints might qualify would be because they had some money. Would £1.8m count as enough money? Where would this new club play? At SMS? How so, if RL has already gained control of Saints? Even if it could ground share, would it be able to pull in the projected 12K attendance to pay its way, given that there'd be another club called Saints playing there? If not, wherever it played, would Blue Square consider that ground suitable?