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Yep that's what I was saying. Unless you can seriously believe that the costs of running the football club (other than St Mary's and the player's coaches salaries) amount to the 11 million or so that we lost,then the non footballing activities must be losing as well.I still don't believe that Rupert Lowe would have paid Rasiak 20K a week, to me that's urban myth. But you see whatever we received for Rasiak in loan fee we immediately shelled out on A Davies, don't forget he was paid for (I suppose) in January.

don't think Holden actually stands in any rye fields. The catcher in the rye is a poem that keeps running through his head.It's by Rabbie Burrrrns.

Bet if Beckham signed for Portsmouth she wouldn't go anywhere near the dump. Having said that,anyone on the Great South this Sunday? say hi to Paula for me,she used to help my girl with her training at Font Romeu, a lovely lady.

Is there a paradox in there somewhere? Crouch and Pearson(well not so much Pearson) are the LAST thing we need.Crouch knew we had to sell players and not sign any(yep I mean Andrew Davies). We didn't actually sell any and I don't doubt that whatever we saved by loaning our Rasiak and Skacel was gobbled up by the loans at the end of last season,(Perry,Lucketti,Pericard,O Halloran,Wright, Ian Pearce and I've probably forgotten some as well) The only plus points on the revenue front:Whatever we got in loan fees and Burley's compensation. Bet we had to pay off Gorman and Dodd with whatever we got for Burley.

But if as you say we've reduced our costs already by 5 million or so (which is probably very likely ) that equates to 250000 match day tickets (£24 less vat) .If we're still losing money this season on 16K gates (average) that means that last season our break even figure was about 28K. Obviously we weren't going to get that so the statement by the execs that players HAD to be SOLD in the January window was justified.We needed a mass clear out last January, it was evident and the board knew it,why didn't it happen??? I mean we must be getting to the stage where non-footballing activities are costing the club money which has to be financed by football. There is no way that last seasons running expenses for the football side could equate to our entire income so I propose to you that the non-footballing activities are now detracting from the football. The stores must be losing money, so must the event catering and all that.

I don't think the operational loss was as high as 17 million actually Steve, 13 million is the figure I've always heard used. As I said the other day, last year we lost more than our entire player/coach wage bill. How we've gotten into a state where our "other running and administration costs" already gobble up all our income beats me. Doesn't matter how much the players earn, peanuts or mega-bucks, we can't afford to pay them anyway. If you pay the players (and coaches) 12 million in a year and lose 13 million,well then you need some tyro kids who'll play for free.

Master has a new avatar with black shiny drawers.:p

What's most worrying is that junior employees were already disenchanted with the execs in November 2006.Mind you there are some right gabby kids about, I fire anyone who speaks ill to outsiders of any colleague behind his(or her) back.

Well although Weston and LS both said it don't think most took it very seriously. I didn't. I have no doubt that if we don't get money for Saganowski this January, Surman and Lallana will be sold. I can live with that, you get used to it at SFC. But surely we can't be living off the 5000 walk up so far? I mean, 5000x£24 every 2 weeks doesn't pay all the bills. If we're at 8 mill NOW we'll be at 10 mill at least by Christmas. I worked out on the back of me fag packet (which is getting over full and dog-eared as I gave up in 1982) that we should still be living within our means.Perhaps there are incoming monies,perhaps we had back taxes to pay before.

Oh well, those that don't ask, don't want.

I promise not to be surprised if you tell me.:mad::mad:

Probably did, Crouch and the Execs kicked him out. Perhaps he wasn't keen on "march madness" either. That has got Crouch and Corbett stamped all over it. Knock off £100 from all early ST renewals, yep right smacks of good business management.

It depends on their living styles though doesn't it. Now as far as I can see we were playing Sunderland later that afternoon; But would the Manager and Chairman be involved in the next morning's events of the team? Probably not, as long as they were there for lunch that would be OK. When you live a varied life you sometimes have to adopt strange hours. It would seem to me that the week that followed that match was international week? ie no football for 14 days or so afterwards.Perhaps the players had been given time off afterwards. To have the full facts to judge the case you'd have to know all the whys and wherefores. You just can't judge anything reasonably from hearsay and half-facts.

Anyway, it's all a bit academic. Why don't we ask the man in question. How about it Mike? are you fit to be Chairman? not that I expect a reply of course.:roll::roll::roll::roll:

What about the Faustian pact synopsis. He agrees to play now,where the coach wants him to ,to his full ability and for less money,we give him a free in January.

Yep, some-one got a 365 billion dollar research grant to work out that any football club that has gone downhill since 1992 is underachieving.(Not that I bothered to read the report of course, I've seen so many "research reports", I know that the vast majority of them are ******). Her indoors writes "research reports",mostly on tropical plants which are of no concern to anybody,unless you get richly paid to study them that is.

Ticket Office, you should befriend some-one "Ticket Office hasn't made any friends yet" doesn't look so great.:rolleyes:

Wow, didn't know Chapman was reading the Catcher or that Salinger is with AOL.

There was a film called the Catcher in the Rye (bout 1995/6) but it's complete tosh, nothing to do with Salinger.

Bugger, the other thread has been closed so I'll get this in before this one goes that way as well. Nope, my wife works for the French Government,bloke called Nicolas, never heard it called Eric before, a lot of names, most of them singularly uncomplimentary but not Eric.

What like Jim in American Pie II ?

What? suppose you mean the Field of Dreams connection. I don't think the Catcher has ever been produced for the big screen, thought there was a project 2 years or so ago but I've no idea what's happening on that. There might have been a few amateur efforts though, I've never seen any of them and I'm quite a film buff.

They're interested in Phil + Eric's Sunday Commercial House's League team, Bullfrog Town apparently.

Arguably the best book ever written. Parodied of course by David Mitchell Black Swan Green.

Anyway,at the end of the day Wilde owns 16.46% of the Saint's shares. Whilst that is so he will always have the role of Kingmaker provided that neither the Crouch faction or the Lowe faction wilt in the battle.