benjii

How do you propose he "veto" it? When did he pander? When he loaned out Rasiak? When he loaned out Skacel? When he appointed a largely unknown and, to many, initially uninspiring manager? Your post just shows a lack of understanding and misaprehension of the facts which is common amongst people who seek to blame Crouch for this. Crouch is not very good at speaking "on his feet". Apart from that, I fail to see what he has done wrong. You could say he shouldn't have supported Wilde but frankly, he shouldn't have supported Lowe either. If you cast your mind back he was actually trying to broker a truce between the two and was roundly criticised by many for wavering in his support for Wilde.

FFS, really? What a ****.

"Denialists"? Is that really a word? Sounds like something George Bush might say. Can we please use the phrase "a person who is in denial"? I think that is more elegant. Thank you all.

Yes, sorry, I meant "and". I've heard from a hitherto irreproachable source that there was a Masonic Lodge and a guy called Sheikh Hn'vac involved also.

That's the key question IMO. If: (a) Administration was a surprise (which it seems was the case from Lowe's reaction) then why on earth weren't we selling the tickets as early as usual? Because we couldn't be arsed to think of a price structure taking possible League One into account? Because we wanted to hold out to charge more for the Champ? If so, what another shocking piece of management. (b) Administration was known to be on the cards, then the fact that it happened only a few days after the league deadline is another damning indictment.

Probably David Beckham, Lord Lucan or Bill Gates.

Thanks!

I am presuming that Hone earned more than Hoos. That's not material to the fact that both earned less than £250k per year pro rata.

I've just posted the facts! And if you're looking for "purpose" beyond the pointless, sometimes bellicose, sometimes imbecilic, sometimes insightful, sometimes funny, sometimes vitriolic, sometimes hyperbolic, sometimes mundane twitterings of a bunch of people then you might as well close this down and give us our fivers back.

The highest paid director in 2007 (presumably Hone, not Hoos) received, including pension contributions, £226,000. In 2008, the highest paid director received £142,000, including pension contributions. Less than Rupert this year then pro rata, if he did basically work two days a week.

chdajfu?

"Middle management" on £250k a year pro rata. Get real.

It's verging on the obscene actually for a part-time director of a company making a loss, with a turnover of only c£12m (from memory), and who has a full time executive chairmanship with another company. We were told he worked two days a week, so he was on £250k a year pro rata, yet apparently Nigel Pearson was too expensive. The man is an insidious repulsive ****.

I posted the same thing myself a few weeks ago. I don't think it is "illegal" to sell the tickets as things stand (although I have no idea if the Football League have some rule or other), however, whether any waiver of consumer rights would be binding if the club ultimately failed to fulfil its fixtures, I'm not sure. I suspect not. It's hard to see how this would be a problem for the company itself, as if it did fail to fulfil the fixtures then presumably it has gone under anyway and so the consumers would merely join the ranks of the unsecured creditors and any complaints would effectively fall on deaf ears. However, it is a different matter for a director to go ahead and authorise this if the solvency of the company is in doubt and I can understand why they wouldn't take the risk. (I believe the situation in our case may be further coplicated, as I'm not sure if ST income actually goes to SFC Ltd - my belief, based on sketchy details that have emerged, is that the original stadium finance structure ensured that ST income went to the stadium project vehicle. I believe the debt was later refinanced by Aviva so this may have changed.)

I generally disagree. Used to watch Forest a few times in League 1 and it was, mostly, rubbish. The only concern is that pace and height are important and we don't really have any at the moment. Our players are perfectly good enough though. Indeed, they are mostly good enough for the Championship. They have suffered this season from a lack of balance, tactical misdirection and ****-poor management in general. The likes of James, Holmes, McGoldrick, Lallana and Surman have far more ability than most in League 1. McClaggon and Thomson could also have an important part to play. Wayne Thomas, of our current squad, could be key if retained (although I appreciate he is apparently on silly wages).

I think the main criticism was spouting ignorant crap and appearing utterly amateurish and desperate, rather than using the media TBF. Many takeovers are conducted professionally and within full glare of the media. Indeed, we were a fully operational PLC at the time so not to use the media would be odd to say the least. In summary of your post: There is a a written bid with the administrator. Thanks.

Wouldn't be too surprised!

I had dinner with someone the other day who has never heard of MJ. Don't thank me for this insightful contribution.

Yes, yes it is.

No doubt this is true, in the sense that if no savings had been made we would have gone into admin sooner, but it doesn't mean that the choices that were made were not utter guff.

You might be able to trust their good intentions but you can't attach any weight to most of what they post IMO.

Oh The Echo, you are a terrible cad.

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No rotundas, St Kitts & Nevis Saints or David Beckhams in sight. Bah! humbug.

Of which club?