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85 million in debt, perhaps not. Perhaps they'll hire Poortvliet instead. If they can afford to pay off Southgate of course.

I'm not saying anything of the sort, wish I hadn't bothered.Just that he was rumoured to be in line for a bigger and presumably better job.

he can't...it's full members only as far as I know

Anyway whilst we're on the subject of Pearson here's a juicy one. Some are saying that Southgate will be sacked soon and that Pearson will replace him. Wonder how they'd feel about that a Leicester.

Far far less than a "manager" at 320K per annum unfortunately. We were cost cutting, he wasn't having any of it. End of. If he'd have agreed to work for 100K/annum no doubt he'd still be here. The board don't give a toss about the fans just now, they HAVE to cut costs, if people don't turn up to watch us that's just part of the collateral damage. We will have cut our salary mass by over 50% (wait and see) anything that stopped us doing that was surplus to requirements.I don't like it any more than anyone else but there was no other solution.The STs were disastrously low and financial backers aren't particulary interested in would bes or might haves. We were already 4K down on STs alone, that costing the club nigh on 2 million in guaranteed revenue. The crowd downturn was to be expected in any case.Not so much perhaps but people were bitterly disappointed in our last season's showing.

That and the 320K salary he's purported to have asked for.

I thought he wanted 10 million for transfers and Rupert laughed at him. Probably just urban myth though. There was a guy who always used to insist that we were run like a corner shop...probably gave up in the end.

We do seem to have a penchant for making bad managerial decisions though. It can only be because we're such cheapskates,can't see any other reason. Do not forget Moyes turned us down because the transfer budget was laughable.

Didn't understand the specificity of football north of the English Channel, like so many before him. English football is in no way, shape or form played as it is elsewhere. It's probably the others who've gone off the track though. I watched Spurs Arsenal yesterday and couldn't believe some of the stuff that fouls were given for and some of the stuff that wasn't.

Nah we were bullsh*tted about them,and their "impact from day 1. Crouch and McMenemy fooked up, you've got to accept that. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-512867/Saints-faith-Gorman-Dodd.html

It has everything to do with the ability of the players, that's the whole point. Great players can impose their will on the game by their finesse and technical ability. Lesser players may want to go down the wing or through the middle or deliver raking 50 yard crossfield passes but they don't have the ability to do so, thus the opponents impose their style on the game with ruggedness and force.If we had Ronaldo,Berbatov and Rooney we'd do whatever we wanted as well.

A loan at 1.5 million for a handful of games? Sounds like a right load of old carp to me.

What a futile argument. The best team in the world plays however it wants because it is composed of 30 or so of the world's best players. Assembled at a cost of about 500 million pounds there's no point in comparing it to our bunch of odds and ends.

What's this got to do with Steve Moran, I think he's a lorry driver nowadays.

Wolves get promoted?? we shall see; They're starting to go into stall already, the nosedive won't be long afterwards.

As they're only on part time salaries and haven't been back long the figure would be insignificant. Probably wouldn't pay Jason Euell for a month.

Anyway it would seem to me that only one thing will galvanise the support base. 2 straight wins in the immediate future. Remember the mood swing when we went and beat Reading at the Madjeski.

That was of course a poetic "everyone". Obviously there are always a few voices of reason who've seen it all before and understand the situation to some extent. Seem to be a dying breed though. I blame TV of course,and video games and Donner Kebabs and the price of Melons.

Not blaming anyone Hypo, just that it seems to be a recurring event at SMS. I remember how everyone turned on Beattie when he stopped scoring and Davies and Fuller,Blackstock got some stick. It's just human nature I suppose.

Anyway Lowe's and Cowan's payoffs pale into insignificance when compared to the pay-offs we've had to make to bad managers in the recent past. How much do you think we had to give to Dodd and Gorman or Gray or Wiggley or Sturrock. I seem to rember that the total bandied about for Gray and his "assistant" was well over 2 million £. Lowe error of course.

Yes but it's not helped by the fact that he was named as one of "50 for the future" in some rag or other recently. In a good side he'd probably score a lot of goals actually, like Rasiak and John--oh wait they can't score for nuts either. We've had so many cases of strikers being mute and fans getting onto their case after a couple of goalless games that have gone on to score prolifically elsewhere that I'd have thought we'd learnt our lesson by now.

Itzak's Donner Stand

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Well perhaps not BWP, especially if he was involved in the same hypothetical incident.Euell would be OK though

Those that were paid executives of the club would certainly have got a severance payment,same as anyone else in any walk of life who is made redundant or has his contract revoked.As far as I know Crouch took no salary from the club and would therefore have got no payout.McMenemy is perhaps a different matter. Anyway the sums are in the accounts on each occasion.Not individualised of course, just the total.