Whitey Grandad

... for the time being...

That's an interesting thought... Not paying their wages would make them free agents and off the books with no liability to pay them for the next season or two. Of course, the value of their contracts would also be wiped out.

I believe the phrase is: 'put up or shut up'

I hear you. The sanctions are not so much for what has happened but for what will happen.

Ta for that. So SMS loaned 10m+ to SFC and SFC has to pay interest on this as well as 'rent' for using the stadium? Direct costs of over £21m would seem to have been the problem.

Going? I think we've nearly gone.

If it's between SMS and SLH then why does it appear on SFC as a current liability?

The FL quote is, in my opinion, imprecise and disingenuous. There may well have been a document on the table waiting for Pinnacle to agree, but it may not have been to their liking, legal or financial, or maybe there were other compelling reasons as to why it was unacceptable. We can speculate all day but in the end, agreement could not be reached.

A strange case, really. What I found annoying was that you felt that he could be a really special player with that little bit extra. We'll miss his goals. I can't see anybody else scoring many, what with Surman and even McGoldrick gone.

What's this 'amounts due to parent company undertakings'?

mmm... according to the League SLH and SFC are 'inextricably linked'. 'Inexctricably' means 'cannot be separated from one another' so if SLH can go down the drain yet SFC, the Stadium Company, and other entities can be hived off, i.e. sold as individual assets, then these bodies have been 'extricated' from each other. If this can happen, then the League's original ruling may be invalid.

3 years! I've been married for almost 40, and some people have been wed to the club for longer than that.

That sounds like the name of a beer!

Perhaps that was the whole idea? I would expect that the price hads dropped by more than £500k.

Also: Cambridge!

It couldn't be as bad as last season. That was daylight robbery.

Who's panicking? I haven't noticed any sense of panic anywhere. :---)

If you were a multi-national, world-famous brand would you want it associated with a load of failures like us?

We would have the season-ticket money by then, but it would all be a 'big mess'.

Indeed. We might just as well have sold the players in January for all the difference they made.

Did I read that there was an 18 month limit for a club to be in administration? On that basis we have until October 2010. Not that the Club is actually in administration, mind.

Seems innocuous. Aardavrk never hurt anybody. Where's my coat?

Before the Thursday cut-off date thingy the deduction would have applied for 2008-2009, relegated or not.

I'm not impressed either.