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I'd personally be OK with 250K,I thought he was so-so but on the right lines; But then it's not me that decides is it.If he was Ok with the drastic cost cutting that would have been fine by me. If we'd got Pearson in the first place instead of having a the near vacuum of D+G we may have been better off .

Little birdies are notoriously inaccurate, especially when they're squawking about management salaries.I seem to remember at the the that another little birdy was supposed to be saying that Pearson's salary took a big hike if we stayed up.Don'tcha just love those feathery grasses.

No it doesn't say that, it says the THOUGHT Paul Allen was going to make an offer;They got led up the garden path by someone claiming to represent him. Paul Allen has said time and time again he was never interested and never involved; Short memory there Nick.

What you don't seem to be able to grasp is that those player earn absolute peanuts. Some may be on as little as a K a week and some of them are on loan with no long term commitment.John had a contract at a reported 14K a week until the summer. That's probably what we pay half of our team in total now.

JP is head coach, he is not manager. Harry Redknapp was the last manager SFC had whilst RL is chairman.

Ask Mark Wright,Steve Williams,Terry Paine and Reuben Agboola about experienced pros speaking their mind in Lawrie's day. One way ticket out of SFC.

Must have happened before he got kicked off the board then. Euell was signed on 31st August 2007 but Crouch was kicked off the board towards the end of July of the same year. May have been ongoing of course. Didn't he try to take over in a "coup d'etat' and install Paul Thompson as chairman or something.Oldknow was appointed to stop that happening, or is all that just spin and BS ??

Probably halved,

Might I just nominate BWP to first in the queue to be loaned out? Then Euell,I did think he play a much bigger part for us this season. Injury,Suspension and ??? seem to prove to be too much for that to happen.

You obviously never saw Paul Bennett then. Paul (a school colleague of mine) did a fantastic job on some of the country's best attacking players of the time. Lancashire not so much (at the moment).Perhaps the forwards are just getting better and better though. Strange though in those days nearly every fan of the club (common or garden terrace fans that is) had been to school with (or their kids had) at least one of our first team players. They came from Tauntons,St Marys,Barton Peverill, St Johns Gosport, Brockenhurst Grammar. Most had seen them play (or played against them) at Hampshire Schools Sixes on the Sports Centre;No-one considered them too young or too inexperienced,football was like that. Nowadays if they don't cost 45 million and start playing at 48 years old they're considered young and inexperienced.

A big win 2-1 Nah not really, but hey it's Christmas Eve.

Are you his mum??? Represented feelings of a majority, my ass.

Nah, doesn't ring any bells.

Which shareholder was he representing anyway?? One of our local MPs perhaps. Whatever happened to that "working party" he was putting together with MPs and City Councillors??, thinking about it it was probably they who gave him the coppers, our share of the government bail out.

yep in the UK when there's no credit there's no sustainable life form. How did you all get into that mess? Woolies I can understand, out of date, haven't moved with the times but an "entertainment store" chain. Young people (and not so young) have always bought discs,cassettes and videos. If they've stopped it means that the insular world is that is the British Isles is about to end.

He's not a loanee, that's the point. A loanee is crap, you get shot of him when his loan is up. A signed player is crap, not so easy, if you can get rid of him make hay whilst the sun shines, otherwise you have a whole load of dross getting paid for a long,long time.At least we've learnt our lesson there.

So it's been extended, no mention of 500K swans winging our way though is there. The club don't want the bloke (apparently) he's got 6 months left on his contract,loan extended, no swans. End of. Signs for them at the end of the seasons. I mean if we say to them give us the dosh and they say **** off it will cost us nearly as much, nice try though.

I have, 4-00 am till 11 am this week so I'll be signing off soon,

Richard was silly, should have bought at least a couple of shares so that Rupert couldn't deny the fact that he was a shareholder in his own right,with every right to attend the meeting. Smacks of amateurism if you ask me.A shareholders proxy you see, ie no individual right to be present, lowest of the low etc etc. Don't care about the rest, all's fair in love and war and all that, but get the basis of being there right at least.

He's obviously been reading up on Houdini,

9.95% unless he's upped it recently

Very little in loans, very very little. We've probably dropped our salary mass by much more than 100K a week. Consider that Claus+John+Rasiak+Saga accounts for at least 50K/wk. Then there's all the rest, Vignal probably cost more than Smith,Pekhart,Robertson,Pearce,Gasmi and Morgan put together. Cork is probably subsidised by Chelsea.Vignal cost us a great deal of money, like renting a flash pad, you pay through the nose and it's never yours at the end of the day.We would have taken an attendance drop anyway. Go on I'll be generous and say 3000 down due to team/Lowe/Quality issues. 3000x23x£18 (av ticket price allowing for VAT and concessions[about £13.50 last season] =£1.24 million against a saving of at least £5 million.

It's true the Davies knee problem was known at the time that we actually bought him. I could see that paying a mill or so for a player plus 10 or 11K a week for a total of 23 games might irk more than one.Especially as the knee injury is ongoing,he's on the bench at Stoke but still not earning his crust up there. We just couldn't afford that really. 6 months down the line and still nothing to show for it. 1.3 million banked and 300K saved. Pity, when he did play he was handy enough.

Now I could see it this way. Say he say 1 player COST us 15% of our total revenue, not earned but cost. That would apply to Saga,Thomas or Davies if the salary was high enough.

Andrew Davies or Wayne Thomas, take your pick.