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I haven't a clue, but if we are wound up it would have to be something new like Aldershot started in the equivalent of the Wessex.

Something to do with woodchips or leaves/straw.

At a guess £300,000. Saga, Euell, Skacel nearly £100,000.

If we are wound up by the end of the month the players will still be paid by the PFA but we won't have a football club.

The football club has £6m debts and no assets. It will not go into administration, points deductions are irrelevant as we would be wound up.

It was the opportunity for 32000 'fans' to donate £20 each to buy time for the club. What happens in the 90mins is irrelevant. If there isn't a buyer I expect us to be wound up by the end of the month. I just hope the bidders are not all smoke and mirrors, fantasists who have assets but in the end don't have the cash. That is my big fear.

The difficulty now is in my opinion we don't have the time left to rescue the club in the event of no buyer in the next few days. The process has taken too long and the third week in may is the endgame. The last resort legends game that would have bought more time, has only sold 700 tickets because of apathy and the expectation of a white knight. Mike Osman told me it may well not now take place. This was really the only way to raise £0.5m quickly to keep us going for another month. It was all geared up for April 27th but Mark Fry vetoed it as he didn't want to send out the wrong message. Whatever that means. He had better get it right or the immediate collapse would be down to him.

The big problem now is that as this process has taken so long, it is probably impossible to rescue the club if a buyer isn't forthcoming this week. Mike Osman felt on Saturday that there is so much apathy and the expectation that the club will be sold shortly that the legends match has only sold 700 tickets. It may be that it won't now take place. In the event of the club failing to find a buyer it was the only way of generating £0.5m quickly to buy time, now that option has disappeared.

Clapham Saint summed it up nicely. Crouch explained the situation at a meeting I was at. It is the personally liable situation that stopped the season tickets being sold especially as the club knew that it's trading position is such, that it's debts of £6m and no assets, render it bankrupt. It is only the fact the creditors and the bank are holding off hoping for the whole concern to be sold and refinanced that is stopping them being wound up. The players are only an asset if they don't become free agents by not being paid.

Absolutely, with 17% of the shares if he was any sort of a man at all he would have imposed his will by calling an EGM the second Lowe disagreed with him. He was complicit in everything that happened. He is a weak prat, so much so, he lost millions. It was his inability to organise the composition of the board, and walking out that caused all this.

It is quite conceivable that Marc Jackson has succeeded where he has failed in the past and brought together a group that can demonstrate that they possess the money. That is a million miles away from transferring all the money into an account and handing it over. In any event the ability to bring people together is one thing, but if that is the only thing on offer it won't be long before the money men either fall out, or get together and freeze him out. I'm still thinking there is a wild card out there. Then again the delay may just be the difficulties the groups are having in actually producing the money.

Wotte + Diamond= narrow rubbish + bemused players. For God's sake why do you think we got relegated? A traditional British manager, playing 4-4-2, a clearout of any players without the ability and character to take us forward. We also need a reliable penalty taker and two wide players that can cross the ball from the byeline and put corners and free kicks into dangerous positions.

I don't like the idea of Jackson being involved. Based on the premise that he doesn't have the capital. unless it's borrowed, I'm quite relaxed because I happen to think within a month of their bid being accepted he won't be part of it having been sidelined. Secondly the LMT group seem to have substance and thirdly my intuition says there is another bid to come out of left field that nobody knows.

That doesn't add up Duncan. Buying the stadium is a 'no brainer'. It could be self financed at the reported price and make a profit without a football match played at the stadium. 4 decent concerts a year, the council contract plus using the corporate facilities etc would make a minimum £0.5m profit after mortgage payments. Anybody looking to cut the stadium loose doesn't have the money to do anything but apply a band aid.

He doesn't seem to want to talk to anybody at the moment. I just can't help thinking there is somebody else. Mike Osman told me today that everything is unusually quiet. Another person told me that there are two in but neither have all the money needed. Ron has known of this bid since the Burnley game but is sure Marc Jackson isn't involved.

While the two bidders play head tennis in the media, Fry can get on and quietly deal with the actual buyer. Just a thought.

Yes, but they were big high profile companies and we knew we were being sold, we knew who was looking at the books etc but it was always someone else, who we knew nothing about.

I just don't think it's going to be any of the known bidders. A penny to a pound the unknown ( not necessarily unknown and could in fact be well known ) buyer will come out of the blue. I'm just applying logic, as all the takeovers that have affected me, none were known until after the event, although there were rumours but never the correct buyer.

The bid I knew about was the same one Weston was sure wasn't MJ. The protective bit was talking about potential as opposed to actual and delaying the process. It seems we are no further forward, however groups that seek publicity in takeover situations almost never complete, conversely the successful buyer usually comes out of the blue. I believe that could well be the situation, whilst the two parties are using the press, Mark Fry is making no comment, which makes me think the real buyer is neither of the above.

It wouldn't surprise me if it was neither of the above. It looks possible there is a bit of unravelling going on.

My personal opinion, if Marc Jackson is visibly involved with one of the bids the administrator will sideline it in favour of another. Weston says not, but in the light of the things he is posting, it is possible Marc Jackson pulled it together, however I would expect to see him sidelined p.d.q. if his group moved forward as it won't be his money funding it. It also wouldn't surprise me, if when the money needs to be paid, it doesn't happen. It is not unknown for an imminent decision to give a loitering party the signal to move. The administrator would have to consider them.

At least it will pass a bit of time.

Not any more, and No. It wouldn't be fair.

MJ posted on the MLT thread a couple of days ago.

They also said that a preferred bidder could be revealed tomorrow, with the negotiations completed shortly after.