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In the old days (pre '81 I think) the away team used to get about 45% of the gate money. These days the home team keeps it all, although if you buy your tickets from the away club, I believe that they keep something like 5% as a handling fee. Hence a number of people posting recently...

And the very next match was away to Sutton Utd......

What a great season that was. Avoided relegation in the last match the season before, then (I think) made only one close season signing - Ray Graydon, so hopes were not too high. But Milne changed our formation to an out and out 4-2-4 and we saw some great attacking football and some...

Magnificent!

Just another reason why the plan to move to Northampton makes no sense at all. Destroy your revenues and make every possible attempt to alienate your customer base..... This will make a great case study for a MBA course one day.

"the rather ludicrously fantasist in Joe Elliot " "the rather foolish banker" "all these greedy bastards" "SISU played hard ball and like a wounded animal fought back" So, a fine piece of objective analysis. :thinking about:

Couldn't agree more. I'd settle for a degree of competence and trustworthiness.

Neither were we until SISU turned up :)

To be fair, given where we are now, that would probably feel like success... I suppose that if we can just reduce our expectations far enough, it could be a "good year". We just have to redefine "good".

So none of those happening is now the definition of success? P.S. I think you'll find that "eleventy billion" is copyright of GMK.....

I think that the more valid and immediate question is why on earth would they go to Northampton?

Certainly not when Mr Fisher was speaking :)

Although to be fair, given his track record, no one would believe it if he confirmed it, crossed his heart and gave his best Brownie promise.

Is there a version of that that makes sense?

I didn't realise that all those clubs had also been moved out of their home cities/towns by their owners. How did that pass me by???

As I say, depends what cost it comes at. I gather that Joy sits on the Takeover Panel. Might get a bit embarrassing if she's called in by a Select Committee for example. Perhaps there might be a bit more focus on their investors, something that they might not welcome. Etc, etc. Some...

The Directors and the "shadow director" :whistle:

I think that there's a valid argument there. The way to fight that is to use all the weapons at our disposal, given that "football clubs are different". I'd paraphrase your argument to be that SISU would liquidate the club if the benefit (in their mind) of showing how you don't back down...

But that's what I don't get. I think that had they behaved sensibly, SISU would have been able to buy the Ricoh over the last few years - I can't prove that, but I can't see any reason why the Council/Higgs wouldn't want to sell to a "trusted partner". If we accept that that opportunity has...

My tongue was firmly in my cheek, as you know. I'm generally a great believer in the cock-up theory of history, rather than the conspiracy version and SISU's recent track record lends much weight to that view. The lack of rationality is certainly an issue though. In my view our only hope is...