rallyboy

It would be news if a potential owner hadn't approached a manager. If someone is planning to take over within a week or two they should have a full infrastructure ready to go so there must be a few people out there with half a job offer on the table.

Reading release players too expensive for the top of the CCC, and we are in a relegation battle 40 places below them. We can't afford them. They don't want to come. Next!

you've ruined my takeover now, I was just about to announce it, but now we are doooooomed. Got to go running out in the street to spread panic...

they haven't noticed, leave them to chat about fashion. And don't let on we were relegated....

There is the club on the brink and we are mulling over whether we should go for grey or yellow next season. Do you reckon they gripped on to the rails of the Titanic as it started listing and discussed what they would have for dinner the following night? That elephant is still sat in the corner, and he is wearing red and white so you can see him.

Three things might be pushing it but I suppose the relegation wages and sell on clauses were shrewd.... Then again, Harold Shipman cured a few people and Fred West was behind the wheel for some incident-free hitch-hiking journeys.

I think the council are missing a golden opportunity to claim a cash cow disguised as an act of help, and as for the paper clips tycoon, he is going to be gutted if his due diligence didn't pick up that our franking machine is knackered. I keep hearing residents banging on about how they don't want their money used to bail out the football club through buying a really cheap stadium that can create huge profits, thus reducing the pressure to increase council tax. Safer in an Icelandic Isa, cos you can trust banks. And MPs.

I was getting genuine sympathy from a Man Utd fan for our plight and I pointed out to him that we are going under with approx 1/25th of their current debt. It is as mad as a box of frogs out there at the moment, more clubs will go to the wall. One day we may even be seen as trend-setters, an example of how to phoenix.... as long as Fry pulls his finger out.

presumably some chancer/white knight is poised in the background offering to buy the stadium off new owners, doing them a favour by reducing their debt while making shedloads from concerts etc. I'm no expert but I think if you were buying the club you would plan to keep control of the major asset! And if you couldn't afford to keep it you can't afford the club.

It sounds like Swansea are trying it on with a rushed bid, and they must realise that a new well-funded owner coming in next week would ask them for a million. Yes we are desperate for funding to get us to a takeover date but we aren't simple, not even by Resolven standards.

the Nick Leeson link has been fairly well-documented hence my occasional reference to Rupert as the Frank Spencer of the business world. He was all over the show long before he stumbled into Hampshire.

I think we need to stick to facts. Anyway, my mate saw Richard Branson, Bill Gates, Mark Fry and Pele at Aldi yesterday etc.......

for a man of his 'skills' Lowe wasn't on a huge wage though I bet his expenses double the £100K. Another reminder of why the stayaway fans refused to finance his lifestyle as he let the club decline. The few who still accuse plastic protesters of putting the club into trouble should remember that the 'lunatic minority' didn't stop supporting the club, they just stopped paying Rupert, and that was the only way to stop him bleeding the club dry attempting to recoup his shares value. He came back to protect his own money, and like everything else he has attempted, he failed. Can we move on yet? Surely everyone must see him for what he is by now.

I think some people have missed the point, yes we would all want the wages we were due if our company was in trouble but this is about someone earning £17K a week watching working people putting a decent chunk of their cash into helping their club, people who may not be able to afford much but who have donated tickets, bought shirts etc. It's about guilt and that comes from within. I would like to think that most people would contribute if they were the high earners in that situation, rather than sitting quietly sqirrelling away every penny, bleeding the club dry. (and as an aside - not even earning it!!)

Barclays do seem to have panicked and their timing was very poor BUT if Lowe was treating them with the same arrogance he displayed to fans you can understand why they pulled the plug when he gave them the opportunity. The polite description is, he has an unfortunate manner about him - and if you treat people with disdain they will bear it in mind when you ignore their instructions and bounce cheques.

If this is a thread revival to show how people were wrong - I seem to remember us all being excited when Wilde appeared, and then even more so when Skacel appeared, I even recall thinking Lowe was doing a good job at one point - silly me. Anyway I have been away for a while, anything happened? Who have we got in the playoffs or did we get automatic promotion, has Lowe given the dutch anymore licence to raid youth acadamies to strengthen the team for the Prem?....hello....anyone there....

saw Monkou play for Chelsea old boys last year, he was the best player on the park and could do a job for us now.. he is as fit as he was when he left. (in the pre-Milliennium meaning of the word!)

anyone know if Ron Davies is nearing full fitness again yet? I presume he may have lost a little pace but we need him back.

In his day Hitler delivered a new stadium and he also sorted out the motor industry so by that you have to think he could have saved both the Transit factory and St Marys. Maybe we should try having a deluded lunatic in charge surrounded by yes men, blindly following a suicidal course of action....

addressing the question, personally I am still holding my nerve and hoping that a buyer justifies the pain of the last few weeks. If no buyer appears then maybe I was wrong and we may have been better with a club of some sort (with no unity, fanbase or funding) but at the moment I still feel lucky. I cannot see how we would have had any future as a going concern with the same people making decisions, they had a year back driving the bus and rather than parking it they crashed it through a crocodile of school children.

I caught my finger in the safety catch of a ground to air missile launcher at the Burnley game, I had forgotten I had it with me, I thought it was in my other coat. All that after I had made sure for health and safety reasons that I didn't take my water bottle in with the lid on though, silly me.

there were people on here telling them to go stick their sponsorship where the sun don't shine when they fell out with Rupert, but their return to the table is a positive move imo. If they are confident to stick with us and feel their relationship with the club has improved significantly with the obvious staff changes then the future looks brighter. They wouldn't do that at this stage if there was no buyer and we were on the rocks.

Can we have three stands named after Bates, MLT and Paine and have the Northam knocked down and replaced by a steam train?

didn't deliver regularly enough for an international striker on big money, so there is no reason to believe he would be more motivated in a lower league, his heart isn't in it. I would have thought a player with pride might want to go out with a bang for the fans and to show the coach what he is missing but if he would rather slip out sulking with his bottom lip quivering, that's the best way to show the Poland coach exactly what you are made of. We need players for the trenches now, have him and Skacel dig two graves and shoot them. Send the next one in.....

I am bored of slagging off Lowe, but to be the star guest at our opponents' survival party??!......he must be nuts. Why doesn't he abandon the pr and self-promotion, keep his head down and let the comments on here and his attachment to what is left of our club fade away? If I had crashed a train (twice) I wouldn't be hanging around the crematorium waving at the mourners.