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Could have been 3-0 if it wasnt for the cheeseburgers apparently. Plus the kitkat cost us a penalty.

Football club clerks put up signs saying position closed And secretaries turn off typewriters and put on their coats Janitors padlock the gates for security guards to patrol And bachelors phone up their friends for a drink While the married ones turn on a chat show

Little bit high IMO - 1-2 thousand less for each category.

Clearly any man who has played in the Dutch premier league, been technical director of Feyenoord and managed the Dutch national U21 team would be out of his depth in L1.

He's a good guy with a lot of valuable experience and contacts we arent going to find in any other manager pepared to work in L1. I'm not sure he is necessarily the right man for the first team, jury is still out IMO, but I think we should hang on to him in some form.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldstone_Ground

I'm not saying the site isnt without problems, but as part of a wider development opening up access to the river it would be a goldmine for any long view investor. The property market will be buoyant again in 3-5 years, so if you want to launch a scheme like this you'd have to start planning, ooh, about now. Its dangerous to take Aviva for mugs and think they dont have other options than accepting whatever pittance a bidder for the club might deign to offer.

Sounds like Northam to me. http://www.eukn.org/eukn/themes/Urban_Policy/Urban_environment/Urban_renewal/Brownfield_development/gasworks-estate_1044.html

You do realise people live there already? My sister lived for years in a gas board flat in Brittania road. Were not talking about Chernobyl here.

Its not actually that expensive. You take off the topsoil put a non permeable membrane down and build over. You proabably wouldnt want to eat vegetables grown in the garden, but since the site would almost certainly be flats or offices, its not that relevant.

Not true. ex Gasworks sites have been developed all across the country. Greenwich in London is one example. http://www.cabe.org.uk/case-studies/greenwich-peninsula

TBH I think you miss the point a bit. Aviva hold a charge on the stadium and land. They can repossess SMS and still claim money for the balance between what they lent on it and what its worth now. Making them a chicken feed offer will just result in them saying thanks but no thanks -we'll sell to a developer. SMS is on a big site. The property crash just means the land is worth a bit less, not next to worthless.

Arent you both right? The clubs overdraft reduced during the season, as is normal when money is coming in through the gate, the limit was lowered - possibly not by mutual agreement - and so when the season was over and no money was coming in and overdraft requirement started to rise again - there was no cash and insufficient loan facility.

That, unfortunately, is bang on the money. If many of us rose tinted spectacles fans cant see the club is worth £14m, who else is going to think its worth a punt. We need a passionate fan with £14m he doesnt need back. Cant be too many of them.

Fry is doing a very good job for the people he is working for - the creditors. Unfortunately what is best for them isnt best for us. Jacksons offer - "£8m, with a further £2m deferred and another £5m dependent on promotions" sounds like a damn good deal to me considering the **** the club is in. Even with the brinkmanship I doubt Fry will get much more.

Lost on him. A big whoosh for the current reigning High & Mighty Champ.

If almost nobody else in the UK can make the figures ad up to make us look an attractive proposition - then a former chairman whose mere presence would take a few thousand off the gate certainly wont.

Nice idea. Wouldnt have a problem with that. Trouble is Lawrie, allegedly, used his honarary ambassadorial role as a lunch (launch?) pad to becoming 'involved'.

He bleeds red and white.

Brighton have been fortunate to have a very good Chairman in D ick Knight, not wealthy, but good. He has brought a local boy made good in - the perfect combination - a wealthy fan who can deliver on the aspirations. Even with that £93m million committed they are still only aiming to get back to the CCC - which shows the size of the task Saints are facing. Oh... and its taken them 9 years so far. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/football_league/article6315929.ece

I agree. For all their faults both Crouch and Lowe have actually achieved something for the club (we can all argue by how much the negatives outweigh the positives). Wilde was just a disruptive influence, securing power on the back of unfulfilled promises.

No offence, and at least you stated your reasoning - but getting from A to B based on that is a hell of a big jump!

Good post. Nonetheless one which I'm sure will be roundly attacked.

Lets hope it is brinkmanship and haggling over the price because they dont want to overpay, not because they lack the funds.

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