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Has it been announced that we are going into administration. Where does that come from??

But we're not actually in administration yet, is that right? Haven't time to trawl through 5000 posts because I'm supposed to be working.

It was rumoured some time back that Rupert was seen coming out of Hextalls, who have a specialist sports insolvency practitioner.Perhaps football league rules haven't been updated to the latest brilliant wheezes by high flying kick ass fijudicial practitioners. Don't forget OJ got off first time on a technicality that nobody had even thought of.

Tell me all the above tomorrow, maybe I'll take it seriously then.

Davies was an iffy signing for Stoke, they've been thoroughly shafted on it. 1.3 million plus a years salary (by the time summer comes round and they can loan him out again to some Lge 1 club) at 12K a week for what??? absolutely f**k all. Never ever sign an injured player, no matter how good he is or was you need to wait and see what happens when he tries to get back into the game. If the sale of goods act was applicable to Davies he'd have been back here long ago,it's just one injury after another with him. He may get over them all and become a decent player but now it's a 2 million jab in the ass for Stoke. We just have Pulis to be "triste" about.

Trouble is we have to field a reserve team now and again. Last night's was reasonable but the one we turned out against Reading was lamentable. We had to sign some really iffy players to be able to field a reserve side, must be some football league rule or other I suppose. Pulis just hasn't worked out I guess. On an aside note I predict (via my 2009 sports almanac obtained during a day trip to the future) that Gasmi will score from a 28 yd free kick this very Saturday afty, not a vital goal though because we were already 3 -O up.

There are 2 offers. One buy a home shirt and get a free ticket voucher for any oneof the remaining 3 home games, the other is 15£ for the Charlton game, £5 concessions. Just ring or contact the TO online, they'll put you straight.

We just couldn't afford any that would have done us any good. Wotte virtually said so. Wotte also said there was no money for loan signings.If,as has been reported, we couldn't afford to slip Notts Co the 100K that we owe them then we may have had our recruitment suspended until we do pay them.

We aren't a side equipped to play 3 at the back and certainly not with Skacel being part of the 3. It's 2 stoppers and a sweeper behind them usually. If you play Size and Perry as stoppers you need a rugged,all seeing midfield player behind them (and occasionally in front of them to relance the system when possible) that's not a Skacel sized job really. Morgan has the technical ability but at 19 he's just not got the experience for the job. All the best sweepers are converted defensive midfield players. We haven't got anyone that fits the bill. I'm not sure that Saga will start, will depend on what part he plays in Poland's game on Wednesday,when he get back and if he's been shaken up att all in the 2 internationals.May start will Euell and McG up front with Saga to come on at half time depending on how it's going.We need him most at Watford.I personallythink that we'll p*ss all over Charlton.

But some are more snakely than others.

loans are finished,goalkeepers only now I think and then in exceptional circumstances.

Become an MP, I'm sure you could claim expenses for that.

You don't know that James is suspended that's obvious. But anyway how are you going to get the ball with that midfield,where are the soldiers they're all artists.Liptak won't play at right back because he can't. If he could he would havde done so at Blackpool. Holmes will play,Morgan,Wotton and Surman in midfield. Lallana is a luxury just now unless he does what he's best at and get down the right wing, but he won't he'll just drift into centre midfield.

Well we'll just have to be adventurous and take the game to them won't we.We need to win anyway.I don't particularly rate Gillett anyway though many give him good reports of late. I'd rather see something far more constructive in midfield and let Wotton do the water carrying.Just let him protect Thomson a bit and break down a few attacks.

The Fat Controller will no doubt be delighted . Thomas probably won't play for us this season, maybe in an emergency for the last match but you just don't come back from 9 month's injury like that. Depends what he's been doing in rehab.

I think someone informed us (correctly or not) that we're up to date with our payments to the IR.I do think that whatever the result on the field the club is being wisely and scrupulously run.The players are apparently being paid in full and if we're up to date with the IR well the situation's not so bad. I'm sure those that know the true situation are acting in the best interests of the PLC and the shareholders. If the football's crap,then it's because we just can't afford anything better until overheads are whittled down to a reasonable level. How anyone can berate the board for not putting the club into administration when they don't know their arse from their elbow about the accounts I just couldn't say.

Rupert is on 2 days a week pro-rata, probably 60K a year. Cowan now? is it 1 day a week for 25K/annum or something like that. Wilde probably claims minimal expenses for the little time he spends at board meetings or whatever;He's allowed but few days in the UK anyway. In fact he beefed with the old board about arranging too many board meetings and running up expensive slates. You can be sure that all 3 of them put together don't earn more that Lawrie Mac 'ambassadorial expenses" last year. Probably far less.Then we had Hoos,Hone,Dulieu,Oldknow, all on salaries plus all the other odd bods sticking in their expense chits now and again. Jeez do we need to get those half year figures out, it will put a definitive end to all this money nonsense. In my (uninformed) opinion we have slashed every penny off the outgoings thats is possible, otherwise with what we're getting through the gate we'd have been goners months ago.

well I think you have to have some debts to administer,otherwise you just wind up the company or get someone else in to run it.Administrators cost money, no point in getting them in if what you really want is a CEO or Operations Director. Oh I see what you mean can a creditor put you into administration? no I think they have to apply either for a winding up order in the courts or ask the courts to make you pay what you owe them. Look up Cardiff and err whatever that creditor was called.

You know these "professional" guys are usually quite wary about giving a (free) opinion about anything to do with their field of expertise. I don't, I confine myself to subjects which I know nothing whatsoever about.

Well I don't fancy her anyway. I'd rather watch Oceans 13 if that was the only other option really.

I used it on purpose.

I doubt if he wants to express an opinion to be honest.

Independent CEOs on a full time basis cost money don't they?? We haven't any, just get used to that fact, it explains everything.

Well I'm sure you're right. However did you know that in Manchester there are 47% of the households without a car and in Southampton it's only 30%? Manchester is about 10% down on the national average on GCSE numbers, yet the average household revenue is still above that of Southampton which is well below the national average and even further below the South East average. To me Southampton is a relatively poor city because the jobs are mainly in education, health care and retailing (these make up about 42%) I am not saying your average south coast fan in less passionate but is certainly more discerning what he does with his money,maybe because of higher educational standards.

nearly finalised according to Sky. http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11688_5121566,00.html Edit the title for me would you please,someone with that magic power must be looking in Thomson, how crass of me to get that wrong-again.