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The Dindane thing is yet one more nasty example of cheating. They knew full well, back in September, that they were potless, but they saw a player they fancied from an equally skint, but trying to play by the rules, club. So they offered them a big fee, deferred till he'd played 20 games, knowing either one of their fake sheiks had found some dosh, or they'd gone t1ts up by the time they had to pay up, to get twenty 'free' games out of him. His club, Lens I think, said they had to loan or sell him because they couldn't pay his wages (& still can't) so now they either get lumbered with him or end up doing some sh1tty deal with Poopey where they get to keep him till the end of the season but Lens pay half his wages. They really are a nasty little club, aren't they?

I like the post below - simple & to the point "Who's paying for it?"

I think that is the point. It is no coincidence imo that he is the administrator. a)No reputable company would touch them with a sh*tty stick (even dodgy Vantis) & b) no-one else would be prepared to go along with all the dubious financial stunts that the various interestesd parties are preparing to pull

I'd like to think that was the case because we so comprehensively dissed it on here that the smoke blew away in double time and Mr Android had to beat a hasty retreat.

PROPI - Pikey Republic of Piscatorial Interferers

And another thing about Corpy's rant. Boateng was last heard of in Germany, with an injured knee, refusing to come back to Skatesville. Also, it said on one of the Leeds sites that he didn't want to move north anyway so they were never really in the running. (And even in the highly remote possibility that the guy really was there with Boateng, is it just possible that an agent might have been bullsh8tting to big himself up).

I'm waiting for him to say his position is almost untenable, like Storrie because of the PL's harsh treatment, but then cling on likewise drawing his £20k/week. He is either very very stupid or yet another shyster (and given the company he has chosen to keep, I know which one I think he is....)

Yet another great quote from Skatey 606: Should the administrator not just refuse to complete this seasons fixtures? Then he could sack everybody and have no more bills, making us more attractive to an investor and more financially viable next season... What is the point in mortgaging the future to satisfy the premier league? What have they done for us? Correct nothing! I really can't decide if this is another Saints wind-up or whether I am actually just laughing cruelly at the mentally disadavantaged

The point is that we did over-reach ourselves, albeit only slightly, but took it upon ourselves to try to trade lawfully and get out of insolvency with all the total-football misery that went with it. The skates did make some effort, but still took the p1ss by outbidding their rivals and signing relatively high-profile players whilst knowing they were beyond broke. That is what rankles with me - we played a bunch of kids, they still have a bigger, more expensive squad than their rivals & then complain that football should be sorted out on the pitch. Cheating b*stards.

That's my point - you might get a few £1-2 mill sales, but for each of those there is a Utaka or a Mullins who are going to cost that much to persuade them to walk. I reckon if they offloaded the entire squad they would be lucky to break even

They will get next to nothing for their players at the end of the season, because a) half of them are loans/out of contract anyway, b) they aren't much use anyway & c) they are on such huge wages for basically CCC grade players that no-one would take them on (Remember Rasiak, probably worth £2 mill but we couldn't even give him away) and will probably be forced to 'pay them off'. Mr Android has probably got to put them in as a net cost rather than asset to try as he tries to move them on.

Attention all our insolvency experts. I have a qurestion: If the club is bought from admin and the creditors only get, say, 20p in the £, will the new Poopey get the parachute payments going forward? Or will it, as guaranteed future revenue of a skint company, get to be considered part of the assets to be distributed to the creditors? I think the answer to this will go a long way towards deciding what their future holds.

We really did pick a very bad time to go into football and financial meltdown, didn't we? The only crumb of comfort is that the skates have done so even worse (financially, anyway). Thinking of this, here is a question for the experts - If Poopey are guaranteed £50mill over the next four years, can all that money be siphoned off to pay back creditors, or do they come out of admin (even with minus 15 or whatever) but get their fishy mitts on that cash to rebuild?

Is she Fred's lovechild with Bunty James? (You to be quite old for this reference....)

We've got our finger on the pulse here...

I thought it was £30 mill over two seasons I see on tribal football it could be £50 million. That would really hack me off except that they still owe £80 million so it will mean more for the creditors rather than more for the skates

From skatey 606: the end of season arrives,we've had our parachute payment early and the wages, ect are due,what happens next. I think this is the calm before the storm.I just hope i'm wrong It's like watching evolution unfold as you watch. What happens if I rub these two sticks together....

And me

No. Don't want to. You can't make me. So yah-boo and shucks.

All that effort and the Beeb have updated their site now. Well worth having a look at.

It's about time Sky & the Beeb updated their tables. Honestly call themselves professionals! However, to brighten the day after last night, I have done a little amending of the Beeb's Premier League table..... Team P GD PTS Full Premier League table 1 Man Utd 30 46 66 2 Chelsea 29 42 64 3 Arsenal 30 38 64 4 Tottenham 29 25 52 5 Liverpool 30 19 51 6 Man City 28 17 50 7 Aston Villa 28 17 49 8 Birmingham 29 -1 44 9 Everton 29 4 42 10 Fulham 29 0 38 11 Stoke 29 -5 36 12 Blackburn 29 -17 34 13 Bolton 30 -18 32 14 Sunderl'd 29 -8 31 15 Wigan 30 -31 28 16 West Ham 29 -12 27 17 Wolves 29 -24 27 18 Burnley 30 -32 24 19 Hull 29 -34 24 20 Portsmouth 29 -26 10 It just sort of looks right, somehow...

It was a classic smash-and-grab from Swindon. They rode their luck at times, but they earnt it. They were a typical Danny Wilson team, neat and tidy on the ball, busy off the ball and fully committed and I thought they looked as good a team as we have played this season. We weren't terrible, we did create chances, but they did their homework, closing Puncheon, in particular, down so quickly he never had an opportunity to use his tricks. And maybe the fact that everyone knew what was at stake made our players edgy, as well. In different circumstances we would be able to write this one off as 'one of those nights.' Unfortunately, with the stakes as high as they were we can't. But the play-offs were always a long shot, anyway. (Just as a point of interest, the team in the first play-off CCC & League 2 are both on 55 points, and League 1 it is 63, just to make an impossible task harder.) I'm just going to enjoy Wembley and the rest of this season in an anxiety-free manner and I fully expect us to go up next season. Since the start of October we have P25 W14 D6 L5 and that form next season would see us get promoted.

That's not Mr Guided Missile Food is it?

Dotting t's and crossing i's probably

Saturday's attendance was the fifth biggest of the weekend - only Man U, Chelsea, Spuds & Sunderland had better than us. Bigger than Hull, Brum, Bolto, Burnrley, Stoke, Boro, WBA & Leicester. Not bad for a mid-table third division team