CB Fry

+1.

It doesn't matter what the rules say. We've got ten points deducted and we won't win an appeal. We don't actually have a legal right to be part of the Football League you know. They could kick us out - it's a private members club and the members make the rules as they go along. And, as others have said, they could just punish us more for wasting their time with pointless appealling. At the end of the day we had a dopey little ruse which was never ever going to work, we got two weeks grace while the League mooched about "investigating", and then we got the punishment we had coming to us. We deserve ten points deduction according to the rules we helped put into place and we got it.

He'll do a job for a CCC club next season. Can't quite see him in the Prem, but I could see him at a West Brom or a non-promoted Derby, Reading or Cardiff. Or, dare I say it, Leicester City.

I think those two are a bit ambitious, but there are names that I think aren't hat ambitious who I would think could get us into the play offs even with ten points (not easily, but possibly): Lawrie Sanchez, Ian Holloway, Steve Cotterill (probably my first choice), Mark Robins, Paul Tisdale, Martin Allen. Remember, we're a big club in L1 and can you see any of those names getting jobs much better than we can offer? Depending on the ambition and pockets of the new owners (who knows they could be loaded) then your Boothroyds, Jewells and Inces could step forward, maybe. It's a long shot on a par with the Keegan at Fulham story. But those others above, none of them would be first choice for getting us in the Prem, or even play offs in CCC, but from where we are next season, I'd take any of them. Wotte can go. Let's start again. Again.

He was a right old Jack Walker wasn't he? You response to people saying that Crouch came across as a wally last night is as rambling as one of Leon's radio interviews. What has telling us to "wake up and smell the League one coffee" got to do with anything? Leon came over as a complete arse yesterday and his contribution to the Ted Bates statue, or Lowe's complete demolition of our football club haven't really got anything to do with it. He made himself and the club look utterly foolish. Christ.

I'm the self important one? "I suspect Luton and Doncaster out of sheer spite" Oh, my aching sides. Stop it you're killing us. You couldn't pull a humourous thread out of you bottom.

It doesn't really matter what happened at some pointless talking shop anyway. We'll be taken over by one or a number of businessmen and none of these uberfan clowns will be anywhere near the football club. please god, no fan ownership ever, ever, ever.

I fixed it for you.

On another thread..... You really are a t w a t, Alpine. My prediction is you will stop dwelling on this in about 2035.

Not really. Leon telling the nation we tried to cheat the system didn't require much "twisting".

Err - he's not a shareholder in that no one is a shareholder anymore, and he was a director, and I'm sure no-one forced him to speak on the radio. He was a complete and utter embarrassment on Five Live yesterday and any sympathy and neutral fan would have had for us went straight out the window once Leon had finished. Leon, shut up you clown.

I don't think we've been set up at all. We tried to cheat the system with the lamest alibi imaginable, like a eight year old with a football looking sheepish next to a broken greenhouse window. The only thing that the FL did wrong was poncing about in the first place - they should have given us the ten points on the day we went into admin. Any idiot could see we deserved the penalty as per the rules.

Yes.

Oh well. He is a ****adelic ****burger ****chops anyway.

It's Alpine all along. He's our saviour. Shame I tend to call him a ****ing ****ing ****ing ****buddy ****flap mong**** ****worth ****face every other day.

For what? And who is going to take legal action? Let's concentrate on reality. He has gone for good. The end.

I heard the interview and Crouch came across like a total arse, with the presenter shooting eight foot holes in his "seperate entity" story. He was a complete embarrassment. We deserve the 10 point penalty, lets just swallow it.

Being that you consider a fortnight a perfectly reasonable period of time to completely reverse your opinion about something then whoever is our new manager won't stand a chance. You'll be *****ing and moaning before the month is out regardless.

This is the same Glenn Hoddle who with a jacuzzi full of parachute cash who couldn't even scrape Wolves into the play offs? :rolleyes:

How many games did Ince last before he was sacked. At least Boothroyd managed to last a full season in the premier league. Ince got found out and bombed out.

But its not going to be the only option. There is some chancer consortium out there that will end up taking the club over. It won't be the fans groups. I'm a bit sick of all this stuff about "we'll end up in the Wessex league" and all that. It's like people have been living in caves - how many times have Notts County, or Mansfield been here? We're not going to end up like Bradford Park Avenue. It's jolly exciting to pretend we are and getting MPs and action teams together but I bet both of my bottom cheeks it doesn't happen and a consortium of businessmen takes us over sometime between now and "the eleventh hour".

I'm with this guy. We don't need any of this apart for the sake of a bit of "we did our bit" ego stroking. We will be taken over by one or a group of businessmen. We will not be "saved by" or "owned by" ver fans. Not next month, not next year and please, please, please god, not ever.

What do you think Tisdale would do if some random asks him if he wants to manage Saints. A polite laugh is what you're going to get. If offered the Saints job under a new regime I'd bet he'd take it. He won't get a better offer than that any time soon.

I look forward to my little note from whichever mod you've crawled off to in the morning.

You remember we have to finish above two clubs, don't you? By the time we play Forest we won't be able to catch them. We're relegated, by the way.