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Your sentence would benefit from a 'that' between 'glad' and the second 'I' (in my humble opinion of course).

Four different posters with 'Channon' in their forum name in the first 13 posts of one thread. Some kind of world record I would venture.

Knock, knock

Is it Bob Geldof and Chris de Burgh?

Hoorah! Our 'overseas' bidder per chance....?

I'm Eddie Murphy's wife

Indeed... Geldof, Hoskins and Carolgees HTH

Any bidders for the mental picture I have right now?

Hasn't stopped previous owners.... (quack, quack)

Phew, that's a relief. And here was I thinking there had been three days of inactivity over the bank holiday weekend....

Something in common with Fry then....

Interesting thread...

But it`s not us. It`s Fry who has to be convinced. Do you think that he would have the wool pulled over his eyes? But given Fry's job is to secure as much immediate cash as he can muster, somone offering £14m with no long term investment funds for the club is more attractive to someone offering £7m now with £7m to invest in the club going forward. Alas....

Even 'better' then....in that case, any consortium that 'wastes' an extra £7m (or whatever the figure is) to line the pockets of one or two large financial institutions for a situation they helped create in the first place need to stop and think before giving away this money. Reading between the lines then....it would seem that Salz, Davies and Co are playing the 'right game'....i.e. they know that the club will be cheaper if it goes into admin proper (in addition to the PLC) and thus there will be more funds to invest in the team. I hope I'm reading this wrongly but it would APPEAR that the MJ consortium is 'happy' to stump up the extra cash for the benefit of the major creditors which, IMHO is a false economy for the football club in the longer run. All conjecture on my part, obviously.

Whilst I'm speaking from a position of relative naivity, isn't it now time to call the major creditors' bluff? As I see it, the outcome could well be the same whether we call their bluff or not... i.e. Outcome 1 = creditors manage to squeeze their desired pound of flesh out of the new owners (i.e. c.£14m) but that leaves little to invest in the squad so we perform badly in League 1 anyway and potentially get relegated to League 2 in the process. or Outcome 2 = all potential new owners (MJ's consoirtium included) collaborate and agree not to put in any inflated bids (say > £7m?). The football club is then put into Administration, the creditors get nowhere near what they're trying to squeeze out of the new owners and the club struggles to overcome the -25 point (or whatever) penalty with potential/probable relegation to League 2 to follow (although they could spend the additional c.£7m they were going to put in under 'outcome 1' on players etc) So, either way we face a 'battle to stay up' type season. In which case, I let's make the creditors squirm in the process rather than bow to their unrealistic demands for the sake of it?

Someone needs to point out to these financial 'wizzards' that it's their own ill-conceived loan strategies over the last decade that have led us to where we are today, both in terms of Southampton Football Club and the global financial world at large. A little humility as these financial giants pitifully try to dig themselves out of a hole of their own making wouldn't go a miss.... Oxygen tanks available upon request to those who have started holding their breath.

Ken Tointon (ssshhhhh....)

;)

"That's it, all over....Middlesbrough are down Jeff" (24th May 2009 @ 17:47, Sky Sports News)

You mean HelpMeRhonda is back? Knew it all along....

I'm a regular casual and it's all my fault

Huge plaudits to all the organisers for getting this event off the ground. They've put a tremendous amount of their own time into it. Nice one guys. Also good luck to Saints Aid songwriters COAST who have the match day kick off slot tomorrow (3pm) We all need these colours We all bleed these colours When our hearts are on the line We cry tears of red and white http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/video/video.php?v=81386153934&ref=mf

Technically correct but bear in mind that Lowe (WH Ireland) did put Begbies Traynor on their 'buy' list at the beginning of the year, so there is a connection, albeit one that is just slightly more than tenuous....

Del: One of my most favouritist meals is Duck à l'Orange, but I don't know how to say that in French. Rodney: It's canard. Del: You can say that again bruv!