Dark Munster

I reckon we'll comfortably beat Dagenham, but struggle to break down Redbridge.

Yes, but do you think we'll win?

If they are still in with a shot of promotion, disgustingly, yes. Come on Cardiff, QPR, and A. N. Other. Don't let the cheating, lying bastards get away with it.

Plan A. See above.

That surely is BC's plan B. Plan A is the gamble to get promotion this year. We'll enjoying watching plan B unfold the moment it becomes obvious that they aren't going up.

Memo to self: don't read this thread while drinking coffee.

I have to disagree, it would ruin a lot of the fun. It's like shooting fish in a barrel.

And you conveniently forget that ManUre were down to 10 men, with Rio in goal. Oh, and you won with a squad of players that you couldn't afford. Cheats!

That I actually agree with, as I've mentioned a number of times (and you have too, I know). But, he also is making a gamble on promotion. If your lot go up you may be lucky enough to have enough left over, after he sells and gets as much out as possible, to have a chance of surviving, especially if the new owner (if a stupid enough one can be found) has sufficient dosh and is suitably benevolent. If you don't go up, the shit really hits the fan for you, and it's almost certainly goodnight Vienna for Cheats FC. Fingers crossed.

It'll be poetic justice if they (Cardiff) go up at Bigger Cheats FC's expense. Oh how we'll laugh.

Tears of laughter for us. P.S. With pfc123 hilarious posts, how can this thread die?

Well, looks like he has got rid of it (and even a new thread was started about it, to boot!) Pancake, how about this for your new avatar? A bit more tasteful, n'est-ce pas?

Yes, but ... given the choice, would you really want the Skates (aka Cheats FC) to go up instead?

As long as he changes his avatar.

The promise of future parachute payments is surely the only thing keeping them alive at the moment. If BC is indeed borrowing against these future payments, it can only bring forward the date of their collapse. Which reinforces my view that if they don't go up this season, BC will pull the plug, scarper with everything that isn't bolted down, and it's game over for Cheats FC. Fingers crossed.

Brilliant. But shouldn't HMRC get some award as well?

How about Lowe putting us into administration a few days after the point deduction carryover cut off date? A totally avoidable act of maliciousness.

Let's not get too carried away. Idiot savant is perhaps a bit more accurate description, don't you think?

If BC keeps borrowing to keep you going, and you manage to go up at the end of the season, possibly. He's already made it clear to your manager that's where he stands. If you don't go up, the thread will remain very much alive as we'll be dancing on Cheats FC's grave. How does it feel to know that promotion this season is literally a life and death affair? I'd be quite nervous if I were you.

Depends whether the new company supplies brown envelopes, sufficiently stuffed, to key people making that decision.

And don't forget the increased parachute payments the year they went down. Injustices Mann and Tart not winding them up. The PL relaxing the embargo. Getting around the FL embargo. A weaker than usual Championship. HMRC screwing up in court. And, as you say, Malwinney gone just at the right time. They've really had an incredible charmed life as they've cheated and lied their way all through this. It's almost as though they've made a pact with the devil. The one silver lining is that if they don't go up this season they are f*cked. Come on QPR, Cardiff and one other (Leicester would be amusing). Cheating, lying bastards.

Indeed. The parachute payments, together with a gamble on promotion, to be precise. All this talk from AA about liquidation is pure bullshit. But it worked on the PL and Injustices Mann and Tart, so why not on the FL? They'll string on the administration until either it looks a good bet on promotion, or pull the plug if it looks unlikely. Cheating, lying bastards.

Have you just been watching Inglorious Basterds?

And for anyone who may have missed it, please join us in the Lounge at the world famous Cheats FC Takeover Saga thread, which is still going strongly, and where we are currently spitting blood that they could be cheating their way back to the PL.