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First smile I've had since yesterday :D

Only problem with your comment is that it wasn't the club that decided to delay the kick off. The decision was made by the Police, because of the number of fans still outside the ground. I presume that the rationale was to avoid some sort of crush caused by people panicing to get in.

I guess you mean harder to get out of by being promoted. If SISU run us in the same way as this year, we may find it easy to get out of the Division - what's Division 4 like?

The comment about the wage budget was about the only thing that had any substance to it.

A few weeks back, I thought that Bristol were going down, but credit to them for a strong finish to the season.

Hi Tommy. Further to our chats over recent days, I wondered if you heard the Tim Fisher interview. He was asked what the wage budget would be for next year given the massive loss in revenue. He replied that it would be similar to this year. That would mean that SISU would have to find...

Might have been something to do with losing King. Takes a little while to adjust to losing your key player. Doesn't really help when just when you're getting things on to a more even keel, you go and sell your (new) leading scorer. Talk about deja vu.

As it appears that you're in the know, could you let us know how much SISU have invested in keeping the club afloat in, say, the last 6 months?

Now I understand the problem. You are controlling a COST budget and it would appear, applying your experience to the situation at CCFC. In your situation, if you have a cost overrun, the only way to resolve the position is to cut costs. As I seem to recall you saying in an earlier post - you...

Obviously differing agreements then, so unless someone has a copy of the SISU/CCFC one, we'll never know.

Not sure what your experience in these matters is Godiva, but this doesn't accord with mine. Where I've been involved with PE investors, they've had a shareholders' agreement that gives them the veto over all significant financial decisions. In this context, the word significant tended to...

OK I apologise - you didn't "lurch to £4m", you lurched to £1m and then re-lurched to £4m. Can I be disappointed that you didn't read my post too? I was talking about £90k investment. Even on your initial "lurch", that's only 9% (2.25% of your re-lurch if you're interested :D). I can't agree...

Who would pay for that modest investment? - well, as I recall, we have frequently been told that SISU have "been funding" the club over the last 12 months. Indeed a number of posters (I'm guessing, perhaps you among them?) have on occassion criticised "SISU out" posters, with a "you may not like...

I suppose we ought to have a reply along the lines of - it's not OUR ground, we're only tenants (who may or may not pay the rent)

If we go into administration, any penalty will be carried over to next season. The rules were changed a few years ago to stop relegated clubs going into admin and so effectively avoiding the penalty.

And as a non-soldier I would never presume to advise you on military strategy. You really have to try to open your mind just a little. Investment is not "plugging the gap". Relegation is going to cost us £4m. Actually, as we are not likely to bounce back next year, it is going to cost us a...

I think that Platt can still do a job in the role AB bought him for - i.e. sub to bring on for the last 15-20 minutes if we're chasing the game. The problem this year is that once SISU had finished their "prudent housekeeping", he was left as our frontline striker.

Sorry but I have to disagree. I have a financial background (Chartered Accountant, FD for 20+ years, bought and sold companies with PE backing) so I have every sympathy for the need to run a business in a sensible prudent way. However, this is not the same thing as "cut costs and hang the...

Tommy - in another post they were excellent businessmen. Excellent businessmen (even OK ones) raise money for investment when it's required, i.e. to avoid a £4m loss in revenue. I think just about everyone agrees that cuts needed to be made. You seem to think SISU made these cuts in a...

Excellent post. Needs a bump.