Dark Munster

Can't think why. "If you're offered a better job with far, far more money and playing at the top level, it's every footballer's dream," he [Posh's director of football Barry Fry] said. "We've stopped him fulfilling that dream five or six times."

Not much chance of that. After Chinny has scarpered I think they'll find the cupboard very bare. Actually, they probably won't even find a cupboard.

It did cross my mind. But then I was comforted with the thought that, whatever points they get deducted, the FA will make sure that QPR will finish at least one place above the Cheats.

... and then buy the yacht.

Imagine you are a loan shark, owning a club you have no interest in, except to extract as much lucre out of it as possible. You get advanced the remaining parachute money, and have paid off as few creditors as possible. You are left with several million. Do you: 1) Plough it into the club to keep them semi-competitive in the Championship (mid table at best) for a season or two. or 2) Abandon the rotten carcass and buy yourself a nice new yacht?

Correct.

Agreed. And hope. The best the few can hope for, when Chinny's gamble fails, is for him to keep them on life support (making our last season in CCC playing kids look like a Man City type extravagance). He'll most likely spend the bare minimum to fulfill the fixtures until the last drop of parachute money can be extracted. Then it will really be pull the plug time.

I can't imagine anything more painful for the few than having a storming end of season, but only finishing 7th (on goal difference), and as a result Chinny pulling the plug, selling everything that's not bolted own, and closing them down for good. Actually I can. Getting to the playoff final and losing in the 30th minute of extra time, due to a very dodgy penalty. And then Chinny trousering the match receipts, pulling the plug and closing them down.

Remarkably, I don't believe it's ever been achieved. However, if we beat Bompey and they field an ineligible player, they would get deducted 3 points, making the match a "nine pointer."

Would that be the party where we're celebrating Chinny pulling the plug and where we're dancing on your grave?

SFC's old teacher:

I think the nickname Fourpast sums it up.

Yep. Their current 6 game win streak reminds me of a desperate swimmer being chased by sharks, achieving a world record speed for a few hundred metres as he races toward the shore. But he'll be knackered (and eaten) before he reaches safety.

Yes, indeed. Just our bloody luck to be the first team finishing third from bottom and getting relegated.

Remember it used to be straight two up - two down. Guess who were the very first victims from the old division one when it changed to three up - three down?

As mentioned above they'll get 30M plus a fresh 4 years of parachute payments (which is bullshit - if a team only stays up one season they should only get 1 year of parachute payment, especially in the Cheat's case). I doubt Chinny will bother buying a whole squad, other than a bunch of youngsters and cheap rejects to fulfill the fixtures. Even if they finish on a lower points total than Derby he'll still be laughing all the way to the bank.

Let's hope history repeats itself. It would be particularly painful for the few this time, since their loan shark owner will most likely pull the plug if he can't get his grubby hands on the extra parachute payments coming from a quick return to the PL. He only funded their excessive wages this year in a gamble to go up. Further details can be found in the Cheats Takeover Saga thread over in the lounge.

This.

Gonorrhea = Lose against Walsall and beat fellow promotion hopefuls Colchester. Syphilis = Beat Walsall and lose against fellow promotion hopefuls Colchester.

Me too. I just hope not getting CMS doesn't turn out to be the difference between us getting promoted versus them going up at our expense.

Slight understatement. I forecast a disaster if that happens.

I'm having this nightmare that CMS will score the winner against us in the playoff final.

I too hope they don't fold. But IF they are going too anyway, I hope they do it before the season ends so that we can benefit. Football is a dog eat dog business.

With Forecast on the bench on Saturday, the 3 top three priorities are: 1) A goalkeeper 2) A goalkeeper 3) A goalkeeper

If they don't go up this season I reckon they'll plummet down faster than a lift whose cable has snapped.