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Anyone who has been through the pre-takeover due diligence process recently?

A warm welcome back to the chap who was using the 'Sundance Beast' login id prior to December 08. Almost a seamless handover....

Why does the Echo article refer to the current player's wages in the past tense? "so and so's wage WAS blah, etc...". Ok, I appreciate the wages were established in the past but they are what they are currently being paid so it seems strange to refer to current wages in the past tense.... Perhaps the person who leaked this to the Echo knows something about the short term (non)future of the club?

Cheers

BBC Crimewatch might be interested in them as e-fits for their forthcoming reconstruction of crimes against football fans?

Anyone got a copy of the article? I can't access the Echo website any more (it's enough to make one start a conspiracy theory...)

Indeed. And the amazing thing is that Jan admitted a month or so ago that our lack of pace on the wing was the reason why the 4-3-3 system hadn't been working for months....but still persisted with it....is it me or does something not quite add up here...?!

Are the Echo and/or the Club not in breach of the Data Protection Act here? p.s. the Echo website appears to have gone bang.....hmmmm....

Aye....Funny that....

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Cheers. I knew there'd be a simple explanation (to match my intellect)

Hands up. I was one of those calling for giving the academy boy(sh) a bigger/longer crack of the whip, but I don't recall us asking for a complete reverse of the previous philosophy of overloading the team with said journeymen. We were simply calling for a balanced approach. We've gone from one end of the scale to the other. So, not complete hypocrisy to be fair!

Just an observation, but you're comparing and contrasting results/outcomes. (Most) other people are comparing the effort and desire of Saints compared to these other sides.

So, who's telling the truth this time? Was it: (a) The OS ('it was nothing to do with money') or (b) Jan Poortvliet ('it was to do with money') ??????????????????????????????????????????? Anyone else getting fed up with all these half truths?

Go easy on me....was only a Wilde guess

Given the time of year I fear they'll look more like this...

Or, alternatively, we were so good that we ran Man Utd ragged thus making them ill equiped to face Derby 3 days later...

Not sure we quite lived up to the verb 'chase' to be fair... chase 1 (chs)v. chased, chas·ing, chas·es v.tr.1. To follow rapidly in order to catch or overtake; pursue

Our beloved chairman sits in the center circle 3 hours before the game and thaws the pitch out with his facial glow. Or so I'm told

Mystery, Inc.

Hmmm...so, given the ex-academy players don't count as 'assets' (I recall that being stated when the Gareth Bale sale debate was raging)....by getting rid of all the senior pros, Lowe is effectively in the process of asset stripping? So, getting the senior players off our books isn't a revenue generation (aka debt clearance/avoidance) exercise as everyone assumed....it's simply a means to an end so Lowe can call in the administrators? Yes? No?

If it's not in Barclays' or Aviva's interests to place us into compulsory administration then it can't be in their interests for the club to place itself into voluntary administration. Can it? As such - and this may be one logical conclusion jump too far - doesn't that leave us in a perpetual stalemate where Barclays and Aviva give us just enough rope to keep our heads above water but not enough rope to hang ourselves? Out of interest, what % of Barclays and Aviva's overall 'wealth' is the SLH debt? Given it must be relatively miniscule, why are they seemingly so reluctant to cut their losses in the first place?

I wonder how much has the club has paid Seymour Pierce over the last 3 years?

Jodrell Bank

The computer company? http://www.dell.com To be honest, I'm surprised the marketing gurus at SMS didn't think about that one before....