SaintBobby

shall i keep posting negative thoughts...seems to hurry the thing along!

was beginning to look like ANOTHER "no news" day....grrrr

Sounds right to me. It still amazes me that some people think the first sign of the deal being sealed will be a tip off that "there's a press conference at noon/2pm etc". The story will be out long (hours if not a day or two) before a press conference is held (or possibly even scheduled).

Remember you have to use EXACTLY two of the four cards in your hand. The number of times I'be had, say, just a single heart and have wrongly thought that I have a flush with four hearts on the board...well, it's why I stick to Hold Em!

she'll do...

If we have to wait for Switzerland to join the EU and the euro before the takeover goes through, we will all be F5ing for years to come...

Great kit. Loved that ealry 80s Rank Xerox style.

The real delay - the annoying one - was the 21 days Pinnacle sp*nked up the wall. I really do think this Swiss thing will happen - probably in the next 48 hours. The continual refrain that we're "nearly there" is starting to grate though.

"Bournemouth based "businessman" waiting in the wings should Swiss bid fail"

if you want to know when a press conference is/is not happening.....u can phone the Saints press office.....(albeit not at 2am!) There is nothing "secret" about press conferences. At least 95% of press conferences "trailed" on here by supposed ITKers are easily rebutted by a call to St Marys. They are usually scheduled between 12 and 24 hours in advance. That said, in these sort of circumstances, I wouldn;t be surprised if e.g. an 8am statement was followed by a press conference a few hours later. However, it's hard to work out what the press conference would be for. The new (putative) owners are quite probably not in the UK and there may be a delay until new manager etc is announced anyway. If there is news later today, it may just be a written statement.

I fear it's all too good to be true.....but am more than happy to indulge in another round of hope over expectation...

Good interview from Wotte on SSN. "Lots of people want to buy the club, but then don;t show any money..." Said he was confident that latest bid was serious though.

was 3-3 last year, with us letting in a last minute equaliser just liek today.

Things have been moving so rapidly in the last few weesk, I doubt Fry's feet have touched the ground.

Federer wins 1st set on the tiebreak

The issue is whether any putative new owners can e.g. pay Stern John's salary. Or will they seek to make another million or so from player sales? Big difference.

Ah well....if he texted you it must be true. Clearly Lynam is now a man to be taken very seriously.....

Wow. I am terrified by their wit and originality. Don't think I'll turn up now. Am far too scared. It's like being slapped in the face by a mixture of Leonard Cohen, Elton John and Neil Sedaka. Terrifying. Please forgive me for staying at home as I continually change my underpants.

To whom is this apparent?

I'd say that it is possible to find some ambiguities in the FL statement, but nearly impossible NOT to find ambiguities in Pinnacle's recent statements. If it was an additional 15 points that was at stake, just say this loud and clear. The whole way Fialka was rolled out to add "weight" and "substance" and the existence of a "few hundred million" was left entirely as a matetr of faith sugegsts to me that finance had become a major problem. I'm not sure about the conspirac theories re: hoax/prank. My guess would be that the "few hundred million" was a bit optimistic in the first place - and fell away pretty quickly. Lynam and others were desperately scrambling to shore this up, but failed abysmally to do so.

I assume the OP meant "taking on" as in "challenging" not "taking on" as in "appointing"

On the Cross suggest teh Swiss group is Red Bull http://www.southampton-mad.co.uk/news/loadnews.asp?cid=TMNW&id=452149

No...probably too late....

Has your track record of predictions improved in the last 3 hours? I sure hope so....

priceless....