alpine_saint

No it wouldnt have. I am talking about results bringing them back, not celebritiy transfers. In fact, that would have been the last thing we needed, imo. We needed a TEAM playing with decent TACTICS and MOTIVATION, not 11 bloody Maradonnas...

Here is a better epitaph "May 6 days earlier, a relegation battle still open and 10 points better off, more parties would have been interested. But Lowe knew better. As he ALWAYS does"

That is far too superficial a perspective. Allowing the club to build up its business (in terms of providing a quality of product or service to attract custom) is what banks are supposed to do. Whats the point in them otherwise ? What they did was nothing less than financially asphxyiating the club. They shoved a pillow over the face of SFC.

I have to say there appears to be a sinking inevitability in all this...

You demonstrate AGAIN that you dont get it. Whether it was Scowcroft or not is irrelevant. Barclays prevented us strengthening the team in whichever way the manager felt was most urgent, on the basis of short-term financial issues.

Nope, it is you who doesnt get it. If we had better results with better (or more suited) players, the attendances would ahve gone up and possibly admin wouldnt have happened. You dont know at what point the block of the Scowcroft move happened. How many times did the team respond with attempted increased attendance with a sh*t performance ? If the teams performances had been better and got better results, increased attendances would have snowballed

Yeah, and the "last minute hitch" has something to do with funds, I'll bet...

Hang on Dunc, what's with the girly melodrama ? You said the other day you knew the names involved and were cautiously optimistic !!

If he's been taken in by a photocopier salesman, St. Cuckoo-David and Barry the Briefcase, I am deeply worried about his competence..

Yep. Spot on. These delusional gimps are going to kill the club...

Yep, bizarre. Spends the last few months since his PR-engagement blaimng the fans, then starts going on about boycotting.

bungle is talking out of his arse. We got rid of 3 strikers and a decent defender at the behest of Lowe and Barclays, shipped goals at a ridiculous rate, failed to score enough, and as a result attendances PLUMMETED, massively cutting the club's revenue. That is the "false economy" that has killed us. Oh, that and the d**khead decision to go into administration 6 days after the league's cut-off date... Anyone who thought the clubs revenue would hold up in the light of p*ss-poor football is a complete clown.

As big a difference as there is between survival and administration-cum-liquidation... No wonder you are a luvvie.

St David is involved ? Oh f**k. More tyre-kickers and ITKs then..

Yep, all the things we were missing. I do wonder about bankers and City people...have they never heard of "false economies" ? Seems the British middle-management is rife with it..

...and a big thankyou to Mr. Barclays for preventing us for taking Jamie Scowcroft on loan and possibly saving us from relegation with a few goals... I hope you get 10p in the pound, you tw*ts..

A truly superb post, but unfortuately it is highly unlikely to illicit a response...

Why should I buy tickets from here, with zero chance of being able to attend, when SFC and its OS havent even got the courtesy to report on how many disadvantaged kids benefitted from the last organised effort to buy tickets in absentia to help the club ?

First there was 3 Then there was 2 :-( Now there is 1 :-(

Whereas any chairman who makes decisions without a second of consideration for how the fans will react will get the club relegated and put into administration. Oh....

As is your spelling...

So, we are down from 3 to 2... :-(

Agree. Ridiculous thread (as usual). Rupert Lowe was neither.

Bored.

Sweet, another -20 points coming up...