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Only at Southampton can such confusion reign over such a simple thing.

Not this time, we will field an awful side and get slaughtered. And I'm usually such an optimist.

Won't be much of a shop window for us come Sunday, we will get absolutely hammered, 5 maybe 6 nil. The smart money would be on breaking a finger nail in the warm up or something and crying off injured..

Euell of course, although there are others that haven't pulled their weight, or the weight of their salaries anyway. to me, and this is just me, any player taking more than 5K a week from the club this season (and last) has not contributed to the height of his abilities. I blame the players, make no bones about it.

It's a shame that he created the illusion that he would be fit and ready to go last summer. If he hadn't we might have got a central defender in last July and avoided all the tossing about with Lancashire,Pearce and eventually Cork who could have played midfield instead. No blame on Svensson really but his purporting to be an effective player sold us down the river when we didn't need that. Against Blackpool he was atrocious, he cost us that match . When you're finished you're finished no point in hanging on for dear life because you desperately want to try to play again.

Oooh I expect there's a lot of wool being pulled over a lot of eyes. It's all just Gee Up tactics, are the 4 interested parties falling over themselves to get their bids in? Don't seem to be but who knows. As long as mugs keep handing over money to pay expenses that don't concern them the administrators won't tell them not to do it. They're getting the best deal possible for the creditors like that aren't they. Some of the players we have on our books for next season are scary prospects, frighten them into leaving at lesser terms? why not, good for the creditors cos anyone buying the club won't have to pay them will they.

And the grammar, whilst you're at it. Should have After all you did mensh

I see 9 year old Matthew has got it wrong then....it is the players fault. 14K a week for 5 goals from 58 games is unacceptable.We could have got a League 2 striker in at 3K a week and he'd have fluked just as many.Bet Sam Vokes doesn't get 14K a week,yet the money paid to that player stopped us from acquiring lads like Vokes.

Not wanting to side with the enemy but I too don't really see why we talk about Skate's debt. They owe money buty they have decent Sky revenues plus a bit at the gate. They have players that they could sell for a total of over 50 million tomorrow, true the side would be weakened but not by all that much. Correct on the Mother Theresa front, give me a Ghengis Khan any day, at least you know where you are with them cos there's no bollax talked. If there's a choice between a Somali Pirate and a couple of likely lads from the Channel Islands give me the pirate any day. We should never have opposed the return of Hoddle because we didn't like his way of doing things,we are now paying for that.

I can't see that we'll fold either, but really any prospective buyer will just have to try to work out why the club could not sustain top flight football although all the indicators said we should have been able to.It will take time to see why the business was not viable and whatever it was that caused the insolvency will have to be thrown to the sharks.My guess is it's either the retail arm or the academy. Something costs too much other than the players,they cost a lot to be sure but with all the transfers out that we've made even a few silly salaries should be possible.

The nature of Aviva's guarantees has never been established. Sometimes they ask for preferential creditor status in that kind of transaction. It could be that they have a clause saying they will get paid before anyone else, happens in Europe, in the UK I haven't a clue whether that would be a legal possibility.

That won't happen either, all that needs to be settled is the amount. There are obviously good buyers but they have their ceiling price which isn't anywhere near the creditors floor price for the time being;Just a question of patience and time I expect.

not surprising when the concensus of opinion yesterday was that Aviva would cave in for a handful of coppers.They won't I know they won't.

Prospective purchasers obviously not offering enough money I expect.

I think you're all underestimating the power of Aviva to be honest. If whoever buys the club doesn't meet their terms they just won't let us play at the Stadium. We shall see, no fury is greater than that of a lender scorned. They aren't going to accept 5 million which would be about 20p in the pound, just the same as Barclay's aren't going to accept 800K. We have saleable assets which will get them more and if necessary they'll be liquidated. I've always said that 15 million was absolute minimum and I see no reason to change that.

But I thought the consortium who are supposed to be best placed to succeed in their venture were going to get us "an exciting manager who will put bums on seats" don't really think any of the above fit that description.

Top post Sherlock, the fact that he shows Bassingbourne cum Kneesworth Herts as his location is just to throw us off the scent then.

We shall see CB, we shall see. I personally doubt that we'll end up giving Aviva any less than £15 million one way or another. They have us by the bollax and not even administration will change that.They had belt and braces guarantees written in to be sure.

You mean he's really a taxi driver who got the info from a hairdresser. Nuff said, must be true.

The salient point probably being that he's been looking in these last 2 years and has finally decided that whatever you may say someone will take it seriously and not consider you as a rank idiot. Having mastered this fact it's easy to overcome an eventual stage fright and take the plunge for that all important first post.

Perhaps it was more dramatic this way and more beneficial to the club in the long run.

I went to Uni with a lad from Royston, Arsenal supporter. He emigrated to Oz with his last £10 because a decent raincoat was £11.99. True story.

We shall see if the offer is made and if it's acceptable.