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Smith is very fast indeed.

What an awful looking team.

How do you know this?

It is interesting that Lowe, if I remember correctly, questioned the directors' compliance with their fiduciary duties before his return. Surely Jones shouldn't have been exempt from this criticism?

He owns 6% and is reliant on the support of others. Therefore he can be "got at".

You lost the audience at this point

It's a nice idea but I'm only just getting over a cold and I really don't want another one.

Ok - thought you may have meant that.... It would be interesting to know what our position is with respect to suppliers actually. Seeing as this money comes via the overdraft though, I'd imagine we're keeping our heads resonably well above water on that front - if we weren't I expect Barclays would have withdrawn support some time ago. Also, I expect the company that suppliers contract with is not the holding company or the football club so ultimately the threat of a statutory demand or winding-up petition would be fairly limited.

Ooooohhh..... Ponty won't like that.

Pearson was sacked you dinlo. "Sack" is not a legal term, it's a term that means you got the boot. Pearson got the boot. Simple.

1) I don't think Crouch has £20m spare - if he did we wouldn't be in this position! 2) They only need to pay debts as they fall due, you can't just demand immediate payment of all liabilities. Think the half-time walk-out would be more effective

"IWELUMO, HE SAY: LOWE OUT!!!"

It's a good point. You would like to think that if Lowe was hounded out for a second time some of the old dribblers that prop-up his position might have a change of heart. This would inevitably involve some sort of courtship from Lowe's successors though, which is why it would be best if an impartial board was in control IMO.

Normally happens after about 65 / 70 mins when the second goal sails in

Contracts are not voided if a party to them enters administration. That includes employment contracts, commercial contracts, any kind of contract. A commercial contract will have a clause allowing the solvent party to terminate it if the other becomes insolvent. The difficulty for football clubs is that they have to comply with FA rules (if they want to retain their league registration) in addition to complying with the law. I'm not sure what the FA rules say about player contracts.

ps. if fans want to boycott without hurting the club then we could just have a mass walk-out at half-time in a match.

As we all know Rupert couldn't care less and possibly has mental health problems in any event, any protest must be targeted at Wilde IMO. Fortunately, Wilde appears to be spineless and terrified so I think there is some potential to achieve results on that front. The impetus behind this whole sorry saga must surely be that Wilde was terrified that Crouch would do what is best for SFC even if that meant taking an option which was not for the biggest direct financial benefit to the shareholders. The publically available information suggests that Wilde's finances are very much in a slump at the moment and, it is my conclusion, that the buddying up with Lowe was simply a last ditch attempt at self-preservation. If the club is insolvent then it takes Wilde's £1,500,000 share investment with it (surely one of THE most ridiculous speculative punts ever witnessed?). Now, a one-off boycott can be easily dismissed as a spot of fan belt-tightening or as a response to a bad result. We all know the official attendance will be 12,000 + away fans in any event so any boycott only has the potential to decrease the official gate figure by a couple of thousand anyway (although admittedly tv pictures of an empty ground would be hard to airbrush). In my experience, what you need is a boycott plus something for the media to hang it on.... the problem is that this hanger will usually involve some sort of sacrifice. For example, on 17 Jan we play Donny at home. Leicester play Yeovil away. Not too far. If a load of fans went to Yeovil in support of Nigel Pearson instead of St Mary's that would underline the strength of feeling against Lowe.... but how many would actually bother? Couple of hundred? Unfortunately, I think by the time the anger levels are high enough for a mass protest it will be too late

I would expect action against Lowe to increase over the coming games as a result of yesterday. Only time will tell if that has an effect....

He's going on loan. I heard this last week.

FFS All you've done is wasted a bunch of your bandwidth with this guff. I hope we don't all have to pay extra to buy some more...

Defeats against Plymouth and Reading and the Man U game will be nasty IMO (outside the ground and in)

Err, actually I think you'll find we play like this: -------------------------GK----------------------- ------CB---------- ---------------------CB----------------------- -----------------------------------------------LB -RB----------------------------------------------- -------------------CM CM------------------------ --------------------------------------------CF ---------IR------ITH -------------------------------------------------------------------LW

Actually, on reflection, I think there's a lot to be said for sending Rupert on a US and A scouting mission. They'd love him over there.

Monty Python: Rupert Lowe: