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Fair points but below is what I posted on the 'Season Tickets' thread to explain my thinking - i.e. why would we want our Football Club to apply a less rigorous credit check to a bank or credit card company?

I'm not sure why people think that the Football Club should have retained a payment system that (seemingly) required a less rigourous credit rating check than someone taking out a bank loan or credit card. It seems obvious to me that the Football Club (which is now being run by a successful businessman and banker) have deemed that the 'in-house' payment scheme was too risky (in that they were effectively dishing out unsecured loans to anyone who could sign a piece of paper) so have now given people the chance to arrange their own finances thus making sure the Football Club aren't exposed to a fiscal risk (remember what happened two years ago when the Club became exposed financially....?) Given the world's economies collapsed two years ago due to companies giving out un-credit checked finance I'm surprised that some people are actively encouraging the Football Club to do the same. One caviat to my views here in that I'm not sure what credit checks season ticket applications were subjected to in the past but I'm assuming it wasn't as rigorous as a credit card check (?)

Not had time to read the entire thread but there seems to be a lot of angst about the lack of a payment plan..... Surely people can easily use their initiative and take out their own 'payment plan' by paying with a "0% for 9 or 12 months" credit card? Plenty of options available: http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/credit-cards People would need to pass a similar credit rating for either an SFC scheme or a credit card application - just a different form to fill in. Simple, or am I missing something obvious here?

Not had time to read the entire thread but there seems to be a lot of angst about the lack of payment plan..... Surely people can easily use their initiative and take out their own 'payment plan' by paying with a "0% for 9 or 12 months" credit card? Plenty of options available: http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/credit-cards People would need to pass a similar credit rating for either an SFC scheme or a credit card application - just a different form to fill in. Simple, or am I missing something obvious here?

Simple answer: hold a referendum to see what countries the tax payer is happy to send aid to? Just a thought.

How much per text?

Hoorah....bring on the posh beer....

Bugger. One minute Pancake has convinced me that I'm an arse and now you're suggesting I may have a point. I'm off to put some underpants on my head and two pencils up my nostrils.

Ah, ok... I think I get it now.....so PFC only 'cheated' as much as we did then.... ;-) Thread closed?

But I still don't understand why the Football League would be obliged to accept the registration of a new club in the 2nd tier of English football..... Does that mean I can set up a new team and enter them in the CCC too....?

Who?

How many jobs have these 54 billionaire's business ventures created over the years and what is the total amount of income tax paid by all their employees over that period of time? The less tax our most wealthy pay the more they'll invest in their businesses and the more jobs they'll create. Anyone for rocket science?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/10166217.stm?ls

Any got a link to an online 'predict each result' competition (rather than the 'pick a team' format?) One that allows people to form their own mini league would be ideal. Cheers

No, just "ironic" (according to the Echo) ;-)

Could you be so kind to update this for me: http://www.yachtspotter.com/ysp2_ycard.php?foo=20051213 cheers

I've just genuinely laughed out loud in the office!

According to the Football League, Southampton FC was (to all intents and purposes) 'Southampton Leisure Holdings" so there would (in theory) be no creditors of SLH in isolation.....unless the Football League were wrong all along of course.....

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So, did we buy an oil rig in 2007 or what?

People that put 'HTH' at the end of their posts as if they're pointing out some revelation that no-one else on Earth knows ;-)