The Kraken

I walked past Food Factory yesterday; I never knew exactly what it was or where it was before then. The 4 fat slobs I saw that were taking themselves in there and licking their lips in delight at the never-ending food marathon they were about to face was enough to put me off.

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Hopefully after the photo was taken she proceeded to beat the sh*t out of him.

I should have made it look half convincing.

Not necessarily, gambles with old players don't always come off. The Dixon/Speedie example though was just a poor analogy, that's all. Its just I've been able to see some fantastic players at Saints, a lot of who would never have come here in their prime (yet when they did we finished 2nd in the league so by no means average players). So I'll always be open to seeing an older head come in, if its the right one. As I sais earlier I thought the Jaidi signing was a really good one, he was past his best but just the right player we needed at that time.

Exactly, I'm surprised Colin came out with that, its a bit of a naive statement. Jaidi was a fantastic signing for Saints, absolutely brilliant for what we needed at the time. And finished his career with us. I can't believe there were people saying "ooh, Jaidi? Too old. no thanks" when we got him. Maybe there were.

Ring them up quickly and get them to spell it properly before they print it.

I guess that explains it. Some of our most successful and exciting teams ever were built on a backbone of experienced pros who were seeing out the back-end of their careers with Saints.

Did you support Saints during the Lawrie Mac era? Or Chris Nichol, with Jimmy Case? I've got plenty of time for the right type of old pro coming in.

I seriously hope not, I made it as unconvincing as I could!

Good idea, back in 5.......

In that case, welcome aboard Saint Derek

Wow, are people actually taking this seriously? :lol:

I'd prefer it if we went for Franco Baresi.

They're not allowed to start a second season in administration; no golden share for that. I wonder what the FL regulations are for them coming out of admin in the close season (as to when they get the points penalty?!) I perhaps wouldn't be surprised to see that its not in the FL rulebook right now!

Jesus, I think the world would implode. 'Arry leaning out of the window of his Range Rover rentaquoting while Cortese is chasing away the gathered reporters with a sh*tty stick.

Or it also suggests he's had his knuckles rapped by NC about speaking to the press. Adam Blackmore has already this week been banned by Cortese from speaking to NA, following his blog with Adkins' quotes from Monday.

I'll forward you that PM then, give me a minute or two.

Premier League rules are a minimum of 3,000 seats (minus segregation) or 10% of total capacity, whichever is the lower figure.

Cheers for the PM Turkish; very interesting.

There's times I feel sorry for them. Then it just takes another little moment, such as Appy crying his heart out that his squad isn't competitive so can local companies please forgive their previous indiscretions and gift the club £60K for players that other clubs in the league can't afford (while they happily send out youngsters on loan and not play them in case they are registered as in their quota of players), and you realise they just will never, ever learn their lesson. Which is why I wish them Chainrai, then liquidation, and then best of luck to the trust who can pick them up from that and hopefully rebuild a club that isn't mired in complete sh*te from top to bottom.

If Chainrai is bidding then the Trust no longer have a bid, as their council loan will not be honoured. So if Chinny wants it and meets the terms of the CVA, he's in. I'm sure the £4m plus in cash reserves are very appealing to him right now (although Tricky Trev will probably hoover up half of that for his wedge of the fees). Chinny is in a better position to negotiate for what he wants if he sits in place. So he can take over, run it on a shoestring, likely trouser what parachute payments he can and get out of the club before all repayments to players are up.

I think you're there already...