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Now that made me laugh a lot!

Why thank you. Once I've finished this bottle of wine I'll probably find it more than somewhat hard to say!

Quite agree. He's a football manager by choice and will be well aware (or certainly should be) of the vicissitudes of that particular trade. If he expected to stay on as manager then that says more about his high opinion of himself than anything else.

Fear not, Tony Adams was also mentioned as a possible for the Celtic job! Yes, as if. It seems that the old-fashioned journalistic trait of connecting anybody who's come within the limited scope of their radar (for which read those who've managed or played in the Premier League) with any managerial vacancy is still going strong. As to whether Askham, Richards or any other former directors will lose their seats in the directors' box - of course they will. It's a new company now. They own no part in it, they have no say in it - and they'll get no perks from it either. And a bloody good thing too.

Thankfully though, you're not the one making the plan.

Well f*ck me - that was sudden, quick and decisive. Glad they've acted so speedily and (in my view at least) correctly. No point in sticking with somebody whose record as a manager is one of pretty much unvarying failure. And I don't buy the loyalty bit either - Wotte would have been gone like a flash if he'd been offered something else (and, given the circumstances, I wouldn't blame him). But he wasn't - that's the only reason why he stuck with us.

I know what you mean there - it's most distressing. You'd think there'd be bylaws about that sort of thing.

Sod what it stands for - I'm just waiting for GM to look it up at Companies House and show the company has no assets or trading history!

Thanks, that's what I thought was the case. Now, if I were in the position of the creditors I'd feel mightily pleased that an offer from Marc Jackson and his Magical Melting Money Men hadn't been taken up by the administrator who was working on my behalf. And, if the sum offered was in the region of £8M, as has been suggested, then they'll be even happier as the reported figure being paid by Markus Liebherr is £12.5M. Well worth a few weeks' wait to get over 50% more I'd have thought.

Good idea - but why not take it a stage further? Create a whole new message board for people to argue to their hearts' content about the past; anybody wishing to discuss Lowe, Wilde, Crouch etc can post on there, and any threads started on the main board on such subjects can be moved there.

Excellent word!

Nick, you've frequently alluded to an offer which was on the table some time before Pinnacle gained exclusivity, and said that Fry studiously ignored that offer. A couple of questions about that: first, who was behind said offer; second, how much was it?

Come now, Phil - if the past few weeks have taught us anything then surely it's the beauty of delayed gratification!

Well, as long as the catering's world class I'll be a happy man. Anything else is a mere bagatelle in comparison.

Oh my, but you are soooo droll...

Are you Jerry Lee Lewis? Wow!

Not at all certain that it actually was the FL that messed things up for Pinnacle, or indeed that the latter gained any concessions. The piece in the Echo recently suggested otherwise, and also stated that the League has no plans to impose further sanctions on us.

What, a horse? The neighsayers will like that!

It doesn't say anywhere in the article that the minor issues are with the League. My guess would be that it's legal niceties rather than anything else; there'll be plenty of contracts between different parties to be ironed out.

Once a price is agreed, the deal done and contracts signed, the club is the new owners' to do with as they will. If they choose to spend megawads on us then the administrators will have no say in that - any more than you would if someone negotiated a huge reduction in the price of your house, then spent a fortune doing it up once they'd moved in. It's perfectly possible, of course, that new owners won't immediately splash masses of cash, but that won't be the reason.

He wasn't Scooby, but he's been a serial id-changer - Flashman at the Charge, The Fourth Bear, Sundance Beast, Nineteen Canteen. Oh, and a user called Speculator, exhibiting remarkably similar style and views, popped up and disappeared again rather quickly just recently. Hence my little dig.

You're the one making the claim, so you should be the one backing it up with figures. Are you able to do so?

Alternatively, why don't you just retire your current id and create a new one? It would be much simpler and quicker for you. Of course, your new id will get spotted sooner or later, but it may take a while - and in the meantime it will give the rest of us plenty of chance to, er, speculate...

Can you give us the exact figures for each manager then, as I seem to remember seeing ones quoted which showed the exact opposite. Thanks in advance.

Call me a pedantic git (it's OK, I'm used to it), but teams don't relegate, they get relegated.