stevegrant

Available from Companies House if you so choose.

He was never a prolific poster, and he has been online since the two week ban expired.

Except he hasn't...

Well it's certainly not ****ing Saints-related is it?

Except the "news" part of the site isn't part of the "sale". Everyone has access to that part of the site if they choose to use it. The subscription gets you full access to the forum. While it's a reasonable point, the user stats show that the vast majority of people visiting the site go straight to the forum. 88% of people "land" (i.e. the first page of a visit) on one of the forum index pages, compared to 4% at the overall home page (the rest are specific links, usually straight into a thread). As I said earlier, I'll be getting the news bit sorted shortly.

To be fair, I still haven't moved, thanks to solicitors, management companies, etc I am hoping to put the wheels in motion towards getting the news section sorted tonight. However, I would also say that the viewing figures on the articles that were being written were pretty low, so it would seem to me that a lot of people are complaining for the sake of complaining. Just to make a change.

VAT threshold is £70k, I think.

We're currently 26th in the country in terms of average attendance this season: http://stats.football365.com/dom/ENG/LGE/attend.html

Isn't that what Storrie-teller was saying for years?

It was removed as it's quite an intensive query to load all that data, and as we were having major problems with the database coping with the number of requests, that was one way of easing the load. Now we've managed to tweak the settings to make it much more robust, I will try to phase some of those small features back in over the next few weeks.

I suspect the £8m he's talking about is broken down as follows: £6.9m advanced to the club when they went into administration (documented in the administrator's 6-month progress report) Plus another advance (or possibly a legitimate scheduled payment - not sure when parachute payments are actually paid) The most intriguing thing there is that Duffen has come out and said all of this, considering he's likely to be bound by a non-disclosure agreement...

Incorrect. They were deducted ten points for the actions of previous directors in relation to payments to agents. That sanction was imposed by the FA. They were also deducted twenty points for failing to exit administration with an accepted CVA (which was the third time they'd been in administration). That sanction was imposed by the Football League.

Good game, I thought. Don't see how anyone could complain about the red card or the penalty, City did well to create as many chances as they did with ten men, but Arsenal always looked pretty comfortable. That said, 3-0 flattered them.

Intrigued by this part of the FL statement: Does that mean they're still under an embargo?

Decent end to the game, nothing in it really. On a complete tangent, anyone seen the score from the Eredivisie this afternoon... PSV Eindhoven 10-0 Feyenoord

How does Mandaric owe Gaydamak money, when it was Gaydamak who was the buyer, not the other way around?!

Why is Delgado in the list of disliked personnel?

Fair enough. Was that accounted for in the budget, I wonder...

Not entirely sure, I don't think they have to start making the CVA payments until they exit administration anyway (hopefully Clapham Saint can confirm), so there's probably not a great deal the creditors can do right now. The administrator will be liable for any debts accrued during administration if things go tits up before the CVA is paid.

They won't be able to start next season in administration, although I guess there would be scope for allowing it on the acceptance of a massive points deduction. The CVA has been agreed, so there's no danger of any CVA-related sanctions.

I'd be very wary of taking things AA says at face value. I was led to believe that the advanced parachute payment was paid to them before they went into administration, and that Chainrai had said he would guarantee £7m during the administration period.

Unfortunately, I think Mann was right to throw out HMRC's appeal on the case that they presented to them. I'm no legal expert, but it seemed to me that they went at it from completely the wrong angle. With the players being allowed to claim for the money they would be owed over the remainder of their contract, HMRC should have counterclaimed for the PAYE/NI payable on those wages.

Correct. If it gets to the stage where there's no realistic prospect of finding a buyer, he could just pull the plug. I'm not convinced it'll come to that in the near future, it'll get strung out until at least the end of the season, IMO. That said, they would still be losing £1m a month if it wasn't for Chainrai putting in that £7m loan, so perhaps the situation is (for once) as AA says it is, i.e. end of this month or bust.

Someone should organise a down on Hayling Island, tbf...

He's already contributed £7m during administration, so I expect he's (finally) discovered some financial sense.