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Swansea worth a tenner.

With Robins’s favourite Allen on the bench last week I half expected him to start today with Eccles dropping to the bench. Maybe reading too far into things but with Eccles being the pre-match feature interview it looks like that’s not the case and we will start unchanged. Can’t see Godden...

The BBC press guy Gilbert said he’d seen strong evidence else he wouldn’t report on it. I’m going with SISU we’re stupid, signed an EA, got caught flat footed. The EA was time limited and had expired by the time King cruised in. Storey was claiming that King was negotiating during the EA...

SISU didn’t need real money to buy the stadium for sub £20m. Getting finance for the premises you occupy and are paying rent on (and then having additional revenue streams) is a lot easier than just borrowing against fresh air. It’s like buying your council house: asset at less than market...

I’ve no idea either TBF, thought that he did and SISU thought he did - whatever. Either way, SISU missed the boat. They could have owned the stadium for £20m and a club in the play off places for the jackpot.

Just a reminder: If this bogan hadn’t tied SISU in an exclusivity deal then SISU might have bought the stadium (I’m sure they could have raised the cash) and a 5 year license not be applicable. Joy / Tim only had to do a bit of Google to realise their folly before signing that EA. TRAGIC...

I’ll try to find out what’s happening there - I’ve got some staff who have a bit of low level inside intel. There’ll be others who will no doubt jump in to bail out SUFC now that they have “guaranteed” prem income for a bit. It’s a nice thought that they could have a points deduction though...

You may be right, but I’d get the sense that MA is the type of bloke who would ultimately sign off any deal like this. Whoever signed it off would have ultimately had to get Mike’s ok. Probably. Presumably.

A lot can change in 5 years. The Uni project did seem kinda sensible so we 5 years rather than 10 or longer keeps that option on the distant back burner. This is good news. Lots of options. We get promoted and Doug can take a quick profit if he sells the club. Frasers can have a quick...

No Wasps. That’s that. Good one Doug👍🏼

The cost of money has gone up so I’d expect the rent to go up. Borrowing 17m (or not having 17m to put on deposit) or whatever Frasers did will cost a lot more with inflation and int rates than it did a couple of years back. Building a £100m stadium will cost huge interest, so we don’t have a...

Great news on the face of it - CCFC are safe. Always like to look at reasons for timings and paranoid that MA is a greedy / opportunistic fugger who was interested in Wasps who still haven’t got a stadium. Just did a quick search and apparently Wasps asked the RFU for a year’s grace to get...

Rotherham losing last night gave them a bit of extra hope. That’s another team in theoretical range for them (a draw would have left a 6 point gap with a big GD to chase) C’mon Blackpool

Just looking at the Cardiff v Rotherham match and their run in fixture list to see if we had a preference for tonight. Only thing I can see is that Rotherham have Middlesbrough before us so we want Rotherham fired up and fighting and softening Middlesbrough up? Rotherham have Wigan after which...

Good point. I’ve a feeling it’ll be down to us or Sunderland last day. We might only need a draw. Middlesbrough is a long way. Would we get a points deduction if the team coach broke down and we kicked off 15 mins late…..?

Great result for us. They slip back in terms of points and GD. In our hands. MR needs to go full Monty on everything - get the stadium blessed by clergy, faith healers, sports psychologists and hypnotists surveillance to make sure no one spikes Vik’s milk if he gets it delivered to his...

Having MA as an owner would mean that other clubs think we are loaded and transfer fees go up. The confidence that King displayed by buying SISU out without a stadium deal (and it is a big risk) did previously make me suspect that he might be a “front” (in which case not a bad plan). Bottom...

Imagine being SISU if we go up: Had years of stress and having to put money in and a few weeks later we hit the jackpot. Wounded.

I moved to South Sheffield a few years back, my 11 y.o. Daughter (born Sheffield) is just at that stage where she is becoming a blades fan. It’s hard to get her to follow the Sky Blues, and I can’t really call her a sell out - SUFC is her home town club. I refused to take her to Wembley at the...

10-15 years ago there was the “Rivals” platform, Telegraph Forum etc. Bob Bones, anyone remember him? Total random. I think this will stay the main non social media platform (Twitter/ FB/IG) platform. I thought Rivals was a good concept, surprised only us and one other club (Everton?) got...