Junior Mullet

And Steve Bull will be writing a book, "the pie years"

It aint so simple mate. Effectively this will continue until a deal is done or there is no reasonable prospect of there being a deal. Patience. We should be clearer by the end of next week.

I quite like Rupert's train picture.

Same economic entity apparently.

No. Alpine successful again in wind-up non-shock.

I'm in.

No. Lol. The buyer may elevate himself to MLT2 status in time however depending on their level of investment, decision-making and fan empathy. Anyway, David McGoldrick will prove to be MLT2 in good time.

spit-my-water on-keyboard-moment brilliant - the hair is the giveaway

Crouch will be involved with one group. Salz is definately involved somewhere. It's puzzling me who the 'household name' could be though. Would love it to be Branson - a good guy whose skill and judgement is equal to his luck. I'd be chuffed to bits if he bought us.

Seems there is no need for a DNA test - Wotton and the 'skate fan' both get a couple of teeth knocked out....a coincidence? I think not. Seems Wotton has shown his true colours.

My estimate is that we will hear something of real value within the next fortnight.

He will do well in the Prem with better players around him. See him in a 12 - 16th placed sort of Prem team personally. Good luck to the lad, he's done well for us, despite what some may say. Can't fault him for wanting to push on at this stage in his career rather than resigning himself to the possibility of a career in the lower leagues. I met Surman a while back along with BWP, Dyer etc and I have to say I thought he was a thoroughly good lad, happy to talk etc unlike the other two chuckle-heads he was with.

Sure I heard Mark Fry on SSN last night saying that there was a very 'suitable'/'appropriate' (or something along those lines) bidder in advanced stages. I would expect to see some development in the next fortnight, knowing how these things go. I fully expect Crouch to be part of any consortium purchasing the club. But please god, don't let him be Chairman again!!!! As someone else has said, he's a good guy but not the brightest spark.

Stag do - will be in Bournemouth watching the Cherries instead.

Incredible. Lowe couldn't even get the avoidance on this right. What sheer and utter incompetance. Presumably we will appeal if we find a buyer in time to make an appeal. The one glimmer of hope is that all bidders effectively know where the club stands and can put up or shut up.

I don't recall anyone saying admin would be a cakewalk. People like myself were saying it was a necessary evil and that we would have to endure short-term pain for long-term gain. I'm afraid your analogy simply isnt correct. Lowe and cronies were not genuinely interested in selling their shares for a realistic price and thus we could not attract investment. We had to rid Lowe and cronies and we had to rid ourselves of the PLC structure in order to attract investment and present a sensible business model for running a football club in this day and age. We would not have gotten rid of those two things without admin. It was indeed the necessary evil and Barclays knew that well and were prepared to make us resort to that once they had lost faith in Rupert and his business plan. I expect you and I are both frustrrated by the present situation and would like things to move on quickly but that is unrealistic. These things will take time. I will of course be wrong and will admit that if the club is not bought and we are wond up. I pray to god that doesnt happen, as I'm sure you do too. The only difference between us now Nick is that I am optimistic whereas you are perhaps more sceptical or impatient. Onwards and up.

I'm one of them right here Nick. I still maintain that admin was the best way to rid the club of it's daft PLC holding company and the likes of Lowe. In time this will prove to be a major turning point in the fortune of SFC. It will take time. Nick, you are few years' too premature with your "I told you so" type comments. I would take this every time over watching the club slowly die under Lowe and cronies' incompetance.

The club's buyers will have to pay for that. Presumably from sale of season tickets and from their own funds.

Enjoying my third season in the Championship with Eastleigh whilst we build a new 18,500 seater stadium in time for next season. Whilst in the BSS look for players from the Welsh leagues. When in the BSP and Div 2 look for players from the irish leagues such as Bohemians. Div 1 and Championship look for quality players from national teams' U.19/U.21 squads and from the trial days. Francis Laurent (french forward) and Danny Wright (Forward/AM)(S****horpe?) are must buys/loans for Eastleigh along with Steve Elliott (RB/DC from Lewes??). The thing that pis$es me off however is that any time a decent bid comes in the Chairman takes matters into his own hands and sells. I now go to the player transfer centre and put a very high asking price which means that clubs tend to offer that price. I also offer players to clubs at a higher price than the one accepted by Chairman to at least recoup a little more revenue, which seems to work about 75% of the time. Hopefully I can build a squad to challenge for promotion once the new stadium is built.

I was ridiculed for saying this on another thread early last week, now this is generally accepted and actually appears on the OS article about the Legends event last week. I would go as far as suggesting that if we are relegated next weekend after the Burnley game it will speed things up quite considerably. I would also expect some of the potential buyers to fall away to leave serious bidders.

....with Rupert's face on it. Seriously, the thought of Rupert gaining the whole club from administrators after fans have party with hard-earned money to keep the club running would be just sickening. BTW, I dont think this will happen but as we all know it is possible.

Sorry Oz, I feel your emotion but a lot of what you say is, I believe, factually incorrect. I'm not going into detail to say what exactly as one couold argue against most of it. I would agree however with the bit about having sunk so lowe (but I'm sure we are going to see our club rise once again sooner and be stronger once we are taken over). I would also agree that we were sold down the river as a result of the reverse takeover.

Nope, rules are rules. You can't just go around docking points and making up rules and breaking rules because you feel someone deserves it. The PLC is in administration and therefore it would be wholly improper to favour one creditor over another by paying the £50,000 to Bournemouth. Bournemouth will get their money in the end.

Relax Alpine, these things don't happen over night unless it is done by way of pre-pack, which is not the case here. The Administrators are busy making sure they get the best deal possible. Bidders may be waiting to see our final league position before making an offer. Bidders are also busy gathering finance. All of this takes time. Expect to see major developments within a month of the last game of the season. Until then relax and enjoy the fact that Lowe and his muppets have walked away with nothing but egg on their faces.

I would not normally have expected the council to want to get involved but with strong rumours that Aviva would be prepared to accept a lot less for the stadium than they are owed it would be a good investment for the council. It would also be a good investment for anyone else buying the club which is why I don't think the council will buy it. I suspect the administrator would prefer to see the stadium go to the new owner unless somehow there was a way that he could get more cash in by selling to the council (unlikley I think). I suspect also that any new owner would want the stadium as part of the overall deal.