stevegrant

Spot on. I'm led to believe that Aviva haven't had any issue with our debt to them. They'll obviously be ****ting themselves now, mind you...

The lot of them have a hell of a lot to answer for. I'm still baffled as to why Lowe, Wilde and Crouch agreed to actually pay their contracts up rather than have them sacked for gross misconduct. I mean, seriously, who in their right mind sanctions spending of £7m on the basis of someone saying "yes, it'll be coming, don't worry"? Particularly the CEO of a public limited company!!

Seems a bit odd given that he dropped two players from the starting lineup for last night's game because they were out drinking!

If he offers more money than anyone else then yes, he does stand a good chance of buying Jackson's Farm. It'll be a number of years before anything can/will happen on that site, so it would require someone with the ready funds to buy it now but with the patience to wait 10 years+ to see a return. In the current economical climate, I can't imagine there are many people who fit that description, and I certainly wouldn't put Lowe in that bracket.

This.

Do we get to play noughts and crosses on Barry's jumper again?

I got a text from Son of Bob this morning who said he saw a car with the number plate K 84 TES heading south on the M3 - it's not beyond the realms of possibility that Ken Bates is going to brief Lowe on "best practice" regarding placing a company into administration and emerging in complete control at the end of it...

I don't understand Barclays' logic on this, to be honest. They seem to be cutting their nose off to spite their face. The overdraft has been reduced by £2m+ in the last 12-18 months, so it's moving in the right direction, and yet they've decided to pull the plug for the sake of what is a relatively small amount of money. Now, it's entirely possible that they'll get back absolutely none of that money - I suspect it's not secured against anything - whereas if they'd continued working with the club, they could have recouped all of it plus interest over the next few years.

You've lived a sheltered life, Minty

I'd received the info on the condition that it was subject to an embargo until 7am today - I felt I should respect my source's request on that.

I never "poured scorn" on what you said, given that I had received what I suspect was identical information. I made a sarcastic post in response to fos1 who seems to only ever post in response to you by saying "yeah, I agree with you, Duncan" - it looks ridiculous and appears as though he can't come up with his own opinions. Knowing the bloke, I know that isn't the case, but as I say, it looks ridiculous, almost as though he's hanging on every word you say like the kid at school who stood behind the bully repeating everything that comes from his mouth.

Yeah, we just end up buying the ground itself

I would think it highly unlikely that Bates would be out-thought by anyone. He's out-thought HMRC for the best part of 50 years, and they're not exactly idiots. If the quotes from a "spokesman" are true, I cannot believe the sheer stupidity of the Football League.

If SLH does go into administration, the Echo reckon the Football League have told them the football club won't be docked points. http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/saints/news/4251026.Football_League_says_Saints_will_not_be_deducted_points/ Seems very odd...

Sky Sports News "unconfirmed reports"

If I was wrong with my assumption, fine, but I don't think I was wrong to make that assumption, given the pair of you have - as far as I'm aware - tended to get the vast majority of your information from the same source in recent times.

Unfortunately, I've heard similar. However, I'm intrigued that this is being leaked given that the person responsible could get in some seriously hot water with the stock exchange. Well there's a surprise. That was my initial thought as well, but it's a few hours early. It entirely depends on where we finish at the end of the season. If we, by some bizarre miracle, finished 11 points ahead of the relegation zone, the penalty would be carried over to the start of next season. That would also be the case if we ended up being relegated anyway. If we finish "safe" but 10 points (or 9 points if our goal difference is better than whoever finishes 22nd) or less clear of safety, the penalty would be enforced immediately.

Davies would be ideal as a ready-made replacement for Heskey, IMO. He's also rediscovered the ability to score a few goals as well.

Yes - he also convened the creditors' meeting at very short notice and was particularly obtrusive towards each of the many interested parties who wanted to carry out due dilligence on the company's accounts - hence while there were parties who were believed to be willing to offer much more than Bates was offering, they refused to register an offer without having conducted due dilligence, so Bates' offer was the only one on the table.

Upside-down screen in Windows always gets people panicking

I thought it was highly amusing that, having basically hinted that Chanderpaul doesn't field very much, KP ended up having to miss half of the West Indies innings yesterday due to injury. Karma in action

Yep, still two spaces at centre-back... entry instructions are on the first post in this thread

£30 a ticket at the BIC... seems a little bit over-priced to me.

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