kpturner

4) He signed Peter Crouch

.... we aren't ;-)

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Isn't a parachute only used to prevent you going downwards too fast - not upwards :-)

...you ain't seen nothing yet - wait until the 7th year has finished ;-)

Several nails hit squarely on the head IMO. Football in its current guise (i.e. the way it is all financed) rather reminds me of the sub-prime mortgage market collapse leading to a global meltdown of the banking sector. It is a huge unsustainable bubble of mounting debt and it will inevitably burst...then everyone will sit around scratching their heads wondering how such a thing could possibly have been allowed to happen. In a perverse way, it may be a good thing that SFC has hit rock bottom now (if indeed we have). If we survive this and start again on a decent sustainable footing we might actually be one of the clubs to survive the impending football apocolypse. PS: Handicapping the successful teams with points deductions is a bit of a daft idea - but I haven't managed to dream up the perfect solution either.

We don't have 30 players earning £3000 per week and we don't have a board either.

We'll have to agree to disagree and move on. My only final parting comment(s) would be that no player is going to "step forward" on any forum or in the media and say "guess what, I contributed £xx" - if they did then many cynics would just question their motives in spouting of about it. Those of us that have made contributions (and that includes buying tickets or chucking money in a bucket) did so with the intention of helping the club keep going. That is not just about paying players wages, it is about meeting all the costs from the tea-lady upwards and wanting to have a club to support next season. I don't understand your last comment really - or rather I do understand it but I can't believe your are being serious. What do you hope we will get in to replace all these nasty greedy players that we currently supposedly have - professional footballers that work for free perhaps?

Summed up here methinks: http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=13134

At the risk of sounding naive, how do you know this to be true? For all anyone knows he has "put money in the pot" just like many of us. Many of the players may have done - and it would be crass of them to starting spouting off about it if they did. To just say they haven't without knowing it to be 100% correct is just not on IMHO. All this vitriol directed at the playing staff is not helping us. As I have a said in previous posts, we need to hope the club's future is resolved, then unite behind the club, management AND team and have a ****-em all attitute to beating this 10 point penalty and getting into the playoffs. If we start next season booing every player because we think they didn't help the club financially then we will end up in Div 2 by christmas. Come on - get over it and get some positivity going.

Hang on, not wishing to bore the tits off everyone with pedantry, my post start "Somebody somewhere must be losing the plot" and the post you have send a link to starts "Talks continue". Just which bit was supposed to be a direct quote then - use of the letter "e" perhaps?

If it was a direct quote I would have quoted it! It was a complete coincidence - jeez :axe:

By contributing to this forum you are showing this to be completely untrue.

I would like to add my own flame to the many that you will receive for posting such drivel.

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I appreciate that you are only posting something you have heard might be true. Please appreciate the fact that I would like to say that it is also complete nonsense. MLT would never knowingly back a consortium that include RL - IMHO.

From comments I have seen from fans of other clubs in the same boat in the past, this is exactly how it always pans out. I don't think any of them have had it easy - it just seems that way because with them you were not waiting with bated breath every minute of the day.

I fully expect him to say, "It would not be appropriate for me to say, but I think it will be within the next 24 hours, now I'm off to Stoneham for a quick round".

Somebody somewhere must be losing the plot. Yesterday we have big headlines about "Put up or shut up. Come up with the readies or you are out of the picture for good" and now its been extended until Monday??? So the statement from MF printed in the Echo should really have read: ==================================== The leading contender to buy the club had been given an ultimatum to deliver on their deal today or face being axed from negotiations :smt093....unless of course you can't, in which case we will let have until Monday....unless of course you can't, in which case we will let you have until Tuesday....unless of course you can't, in which case........8-[ ==================================== Hard-nosed uncompromising stuff eh?

Blimey,somebody whose user id is even less anonymous than mine!