OldNick

I appreciate Hypo defending me from some abuse but i can take it. If by Fry holding on for offers that may or may not appear and then get less for his client or even lose the initial offer and so left with nothing,it is fair to say he Fiddled while Rome burned. The actual posts I have had in reply has surprised me a bit.It is though i have s####ed the family pet.

From someone who has an avatar depicting The Smiths lol. Shouldnt you be on the Samaritans site instead of this one?

I think the mods should get the editing brush out. Nick is concerned that fry etc etc Fitzhugh Fella wonders if saints are waiting for Godot Guided Missile advises you not to read the Echo tonight Lol

Mike I suspect you are right, some will know a fraction more than others and little less than a very few. As for thurs , it was great fun. I havent got over the injustice of the evening

I have never posted on UI and dont intend to thankyou. You again can make your own assertions and speculation. Fry is the only person who knows all the facts. i have made my concerns known as I am concerned that by waiting we may lose the only bid we have on the table at present.he may well be confident of another and he rightly will decide in his own time.That does not stop me from considering if we are left with no bidders the implications of that. Iam not saying Im in the know, I just had heard something that disturbed me and voiced it on here. If i know something is certain I will say so.

are those my players in the corner alledgedly warming up..sheeesh

You're easily pleased, a fan of Hinge and Bracket by anychance?

fair comment but also some of these people have ego's and want an answer quickly.They may only threaten to pull out or might even reduce their offer as they know if they are second best their offer will only come to fruition if the preferred one fails. These people are better poker payers than i am and so who am I to pre judge their thinking.I just post my fears and guage an opinion from the little bits I am hearing form friends and aquaintences.

i dont wear ties and dont like tap water! I accept that Fry is a smart man. Of course he would not have sold many football clubs and as we know to our cost football seems to have different business rules than most he would have come up against in the past.It is hard to quantify a worth in this case alos buyers motives.Clapham Saint is very interesting to follow in his posts as he is thinking i would suggest as Fry does and so that gives a good insight to that train of thought. SFC is a massive risk for a small middle sized investor, as i can see it is hard to make a business plan based on fickle football fans and footballers performance. They I would have thought been only interested if there is a good upside , as there is definitely a big downside. What is the expression ' how do you make a small fortune from owning a football club?' you start with a large fortune

but as many have pointed out to me on this thread that we have no choice, the administrator is getting as much as he can for the creditors and doesnt worry what about the club. It is as though i didnt realise it but it shouldnt stop me voicing my genuine concerns

Do you agree that it was basically to put RL etc in a very difficult position and timed (Ithink Im right)in the week of the demonstrations march and so a good headliner ?

Perhaps it was to do with the OP and people losing patience as the goalposts moving day to day or I may be having a nervous breakdown , you decide i suspect that B will be suspected by the majority on this thread.

Im fine thanks. Perhaps the call I got earlier today got the alarm bells ringing.

Hypo, I know but they are entitled to their opinions. I find it funny about the ridiculous thread of the month thing though, and then look down at the list below at some of the threads.Lol

You think i dont know that? I have been telling people that when they were calling for us to go into it, but it doesnt mean I want it

I think that is a very good assessment but many people cant be a#### to hang around. Ithink you are right it could well be a 'low punt' but it is a punt and we dont seem to have many queueing up to make middle range punts.It just signals to me that the people coming in are not big punters.

no I want what is best for SFC. If you have confidence that if the first people withdraw and somebody else will step in then fine.I have concerns that if the second bidders do not actually follow up we could be left with nothing.There is a tipping point and I hope that Fry (the administrator) can judge it correctly. I tried to find the link to Richard Fry (barclays) for you to read. It was in the echo last week under Wildes bit about his explanation of barclays involvement. I think also RL mentioned his involvement some weeks ago as well.It is not on the webpage now so i cant link to it for you to read. You may then see where i was coming from regarding him

Lol, RL is a money grabbing... but you Ok Fry stalling.

Well it deoends how long the offer has been sitting on the table. From various sources I have been told that there has been an offer on the table for nearly a week but the verbal offer was 2 weeks ago. He of course should give the opportunity for others to bid but he may be running the risk that thye lose interest and withdraw. I wonder sometines if the fans want him to extract more from the buyers as though us as a club gets it. We should not want the buyer drained of so much capital that they have nothing left to spend on the squad. I assume fans have pinned their hopes on Pinnacle getting the bid accepted, perhaps their publicising MLT's backing was indeed a masterstroke. A bird in the hand has always served me well and at times I may have achieved higher prices but I have learnt that there is so much talk with little backing with so many people.

we might win then

That is the point, he cant force anybody to buy us but he apparently has had an offer and is waiting for others. If the one party gets frustrated and they walk what aree we left with? His creditors are then left5 in a worse state than they were before so.Talk is cheap and we've had enough of that with buyers over the last few years,if we have an offer then for all parties it may well be best for him to take it.Of course Im not privvy to how much we have left in the kitty to keep us running and again if a local businessman made a loan to pay the last set of wages will he do so again??? if not its good night nurse and all those who are throwing cheap shots will be able to throw their arms up and say 'but nobody told us itmight happen , if only we knew' much like the people who couldnt see the house price dropping and banks overlending.

My god you have really enhanced this site. The stuart Pearce thing was tongue in cheek. Lol

Fry at Barclays was their man who basically oversaw the day to day decisions the club could make in financial terms. He even sat in on board meetings and a so called Saints fan.He was behind Barclays not agreeing to increase our overdraft and so bounce cheques

Of course I give him a chance but the clock is ticking.Allegedly there has been an offer on the table for a while.Now of course it may be derisory, sometimes in life your first offer is your best offer. From my experience in retailing the worlds best buyers appear when there is a sold ticket on item if it is a one off. The minute you say 'well I think the person who was buying it has changed their minds' they are off like a shot. Mark Fry has to get his best price i agree but he also may lose the opportunity to get any buyer. We have been on the market for some weeks now and have whittled it down to perhaps 2. I hope our complacency does not cost us in the long run.

Im sorry to have a view