SaintBobby

Does this also mean the players have gone without pay? Am less bothered on emotional grounds, but are they now free to walk?

I'm interested in the possibility of some sort of AFC Saints option....

The lottery is terrible odds, cos only 50% goes into prize money. You're better off trying to predict an excat score in one of the Wimbledon matches today.

And presumably, he has been....

Presumably, Fry starts to dispose of assets on the Tuesday...?

My morale is hitting rock bottom. Maybe that's just a reflection of the negativity on the forum though rather than anything in the real world.

sounds plausible.

Any more pearls of wisdom? Tw*t

Agree on some of the OTT stuff. But if Pinnacle have rolled out Fialka to enhance their credibility, then God help us. If TL believes Fialka adds "weight" and "substance" to the deal, I'm deeply concerned about how he got a visa to visit planet Earth in the first place.

Can you sack him, then? If so, please do...what a tw*t....

I might be persuaded to complain IF ever deal goes t*ts up. So far, I think Fry has been pretty excellent. I'm also not going to make a di*k of myself by firing off letters of complaint (a)before I know the full details and (b) possibly a few hours before a deal is completed.

And other interested parties could apply for exclusivity immediately.

Can this be blocked, removed or down-graded please. Not appropriate and not even remotely funny.

If the Swiss consortium is serious, and really want to buy the club quickly, why not pay say £50K for a 96 hour exclusivity period? They could knock Pinnacle out of the ball park...

Impeccably bad (good?) timing - see update on anotehr thread.

I'll gladly accept this from TL. But it does mean today is the day. If this drags on over another weekend, that stretches credulity. So, here's hoping. Plus it will also be a delicious fringe benefit for the morons like GM to be proven wrong.

League 2 or Blue Square rather than -25 in League One.

The Football League can't run its members' club in breach of the law. It may be doing just that.

August 8th. We have time to accommodate four weeks, if we survive that long.

Jackson's a fantasist. Don't believe a word he says. In fact, if he does say something it actually makes it less rather than more likely that its true. The chances of Peter Reid being the next manager are falling merely in virtue of Jackson suggesting it.

I'm just beginning to lose fiath in Pinnacle. Given a straight chocie between Pinnacle and the (unknown) Swiss, I might now prefer to take a punt on the latter.

I get the sinking feeling that today really is the last chance saloon.

Is this actually true? Are there no legal limits on their discretion?

It's enfuriating. I probably concede we deserve the ten point penalty - but refusing to allow Saints to play in League One unless Pinnacle surrender all rights of apeal is, as others have said, disgraceful. I don't even see why the appeal needs to be dealt with before the kick off at the first game. Points deductions have been made in the course of a season before - including a coupel of occassions last season. Okay, it migth be bad news to see Saints win an appeal after 42 or 43 games, but I don't see why it would be a problem in, say, September or October. What I don't know - and I doubt many posters do - is whether the League's behaviour is illegal in some way. One school of thought seems to be that it's the FL's league, so they can impose whatever rules they want. But there are obviously legal limits to this. I'd doubt that they could apply conditions such as (a) you must write a personal cheque of £10,000to Lord Mawhinney or (b) you must sack all your black players etc. So, the real question is whether rescinding the right to appeal is on the legal or illegal side of the line. I suspect it is illegal and subject to judicial review, but I'm not a lawyer.