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I can confirm that is correct

Aye. That's what I thought....which makes one wonder why they go to the trouble of writing these peripheral reports and then try and flog them in the first place? Perhaps they contain some 'informed' opinion of how the club is doing and what is likely to happen in the foreseeable future....again, pretty subjective I'd have thought.

Yeah...one of the more amusing typos I've seen of late

There's a couple of independent market reports of SLH available for download here: http://markets.ft.com/ft/tearsheets/analysis.asp?s=UK%3ASOO One released this week - 7th Jan (Reuters) and the other on 30th Dec 08 (Wrights). Not sure if they'll contain anything we don't already know. Am not quite tempted enough to splash out a tenner on each download to find out...

Coincidently, I was re-reading the above sections last night (Sad life? Check!) and those couple of lines about seeking alternative investment stuck out to me too. It did say, if memory serves me correctly, that they would persue 'internal funding' options ahead of 'external funding' which, as you suggest, perhaps indicates that there are still cards up sleeves/rabbits in hats/irons in fires etc.....damn...I new this would all fizzle out into a non-event....here was me starting to see the beginnings of a new broom...

Oxymoron

As we're getting things out into the open.... Was TSF poster Leonard "fellow travellers" Coming (who was subsequently banned for no publicly apparent reason) a Tommac inspired stooge at Vulcan Capital? Thanks.

Barnsley 3 Saints 0 Saga sent off (67 min)

Amid all the falsely reported denials, wasn't Paul Allen quoted as saying that he would snap up the club but only after we go into administration? Someone could have made that up of course.

Easy. They are the ones that go defensive when someone has the temerity to suggest there might be PR plants on the MB....

Whoops....sorry....cheers.....took me a while to work out what to do!

It was posted on here that it turned out to be a bogus company & website that was (somehow) used to dupe the board at the time (or visa versa....sorry, memory not too good) ....or perhaps it was all a weird dream? Wasn't that a website that someone found with a potential connection to 'Sundance Beast' who then got all un-proportionally defensive when denying he had anything to do with it? Again, memory on the blink tonight....

Or perhaps a consortium struggling to convince the major shareholders to sell their shares leaked information they had gleaned via due diligence in a bid to flush out the inertia and stalemate at the club and shake things up a bit? A wild stab in the dark but plausible perhaps?

If Matt Le Tissier can be persuaded to be head coach then count me in.

It's certainly gone eerily quiet after the initial storm....someone at the club "had words" perhaps?

Hmmm.....Two in goal with Davis up front could actually work I reckon...

Why has it taken Jan 6 months to "raid" one of his old clubs? Redknapp takes mere days....

Where the devil is Roman anyway....you'd have expected him to pop up now that his old sparring partner has got a new mention!

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-sport/article-23613601-details/The+top+10+worst+January+transfers/article.do The top 10 worst January transfers The January transfer window never fails to bring in a fine array of truly awful footballers. Players who appear to have never even kicked a ball before flock to these shores as teams go crazy in their hunt for a bargain. With millions being spent every year on over-the-hill journeymen, fat hoofers, and players who are “unknown” for a reason, here is our definitive guide to the top 10 worst January signings of all time. Have we missed anyone? 10 James Beattie, 5 January 2005, Southampton to Everton At Southampton he couldn't stop scoring. At Everton he couldn't start. Unveiled as the Toffees most expensive signing, £6m, it took Beattie a year before he became truly awful. His link-up with strike partner Andy Johnson was non-existent and in the summer of 2007 David Moyes scratched his head and pondered who he should get rid of. No prizes for guessing how that turned out. 9 Lee Bowyer, 6 January 2003, Leeds United to West Ham At Leeds, Bowyer was an exciting young English prospect. Then he was involved in the infamous nightclub incident and his life somewhat fell apart. Unfortunately for the Hammers, so did his football. In his first spell at West Ham he was a shadow of his former self, always a yard off the pace. Bowyer was later to leave for Newcastle, where after several fights, he returned to Upton Park. 8 Fernando Morientes, 13 January 2005, Monaco to Liverpool For Spain and Real Madrid he scored sublime goals. For Liverpool, he couldn't hit a barn door. At the time £6.3m seemed like a bargain for a player of his caliber. And yet 18 months later Liverpool were lucky to get £3m for him. Morientes went back to Spain and scored 18 goals in 28 games for Valencia and earned a call up to the Spain squad. Rafa must have been livid. 7 Jan Kromkamp, 4 January 2006, Villarreal to Liverpool Rafael Benitez's worst ever signing, and that's a bold statement. Rafa brought the Dutchman to Liverpool in a part-exchange deal with Josemi, who was also pretty useless, going the other way. If Steve Finnan had been worried about a younger defender coming in, he needn't have been. Kromkamp was woeful. More suited to the slow passing of the Dutch leagues than the pace of the Premier League. 6 Djimi Traore, 11 January 2007, Charlton Athletic to Portsmouth Liverpool's weak link became Charlton's, and then Portsmouth's. In a spot of wheeler-dealing Harry Redknapp spent £1m on the Frenchman and Charlton laughed all the way to the bank. The following January, having played 12 games for Pompey, he moved to Rennes on loan. How did that man ever win a European Cup winners medal? 5 Ricardo Rocha, 23 January 2007, Benfica to Tottenham Brought in as cover for injury-ridden captain Ledley King, Rocha was yet another Tottenham defensive failure. Spurs spent more than £3m on the Portuguese plodder who signed a three-and-a-half-year deal. Four months later he requested a transfer. 4 Eric Djemba-Djemba, 31 January 2005, Man United to Aston Villa So bad they named him twice. United signed Djemba-Djemba as a potential replacement for Old Trafford legend Roy Keane. Unfortunately he was so horrendous Ferguson flogged him to Villa for £1.5m where he made a handful of appearances, usually as a substitute, before Martin O'Neill loaned him to Burnley. His contract at Villa was not renewed. 3 Michael Ricketts, 31 January 2003, Bolton to Middlesbrough Up there with the worst of them. At the beginning of the 2003 season things were looking good for Ricketts. The previous year he had bagged 15 goals for Bolton, and earned himself an England call up - appearing against Holland. Then he fell out with Sam Allardyce and was shipped out to Middlesbrough where his career fell apart. A year-and-a-half later the striker joined Leeds on a free transfer having scored the grand total of three goals. 2 Nigel Quashie, 17 January 2005, Portsmouth to Southampton A journeyman's journeyman. QPR, Nottingham Forrest, Portsmouth, Southampton, West Brom, West Ham, and Birmingham, Quashie's played for them all. You have to be worried if your club buys the harbinger of death this January. Bryan Robson said he had the “experience of relegation fights”. I wonder why that is? 1 Jean-Alain Boumsong, 1 January 2005, Rangers to Newcastle Boumsong. The very name sends shudders down the spine of any Newcastle United fan. To the rest of the footballing world, cue mass hysteria. A first class donkey who somehow cost Newcastle a stunning £8m. And Rangers had got him for free in the first place. Alongside Titus Bramble, Newcastle had a defence that could have been picked apart by a bunch of 12-year-old girls.

Great minds.....no offence...

So that's where 'Roman' has been the last month or so....

Chin up guys....we're only 18 points off the play-offs edit: damn, beaten to the cheap playoffs gag