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It's fairly obvious that SISU are now employing the same tactics used when they 1st took over at city, namely to push things to the last possible deadline in order to get other negotiating parties to cave in to their demands. I have a feeling that this time everyone is wise to this and will...

The telling thing for me is the use of the word 'may' in the tread title. Surely if someone is confident in what they are saying then the word 'is' would be used ! Nonetheless, I still hope it proves to be correct.

Meetings over the next month take us to the 2nd week of June. If agreement is reached by that time, then the formalities of filing the accounts have to be completed. Absolutely no chance of having a squad in place by pre season training then !!

The biggest 'hate' figure when he returned to play against City was the sadly departed Les Sealey. When he played for us he wasn't one to take abuse from the home fans and I can clearly remember him turning round to the West stand and shouting 'fuck off' as loud as he could when the abuse was...

I think that probably sums why were so dismal away from home. Sitting back and inviting pressure caused us no end of problems, especially with the lack of pace to play on the break. 3 more wins away would have kept us up, but for some reason Thorn couldn't rectify the way we played and...

It's simple. Most are staying away due to poor performance/lack of enjoyment, with the bye product being that they save money. As time goes on, they no longer budget to go to the matches, so can no longer afford it, plus the family time gained is an added bonus. The underlying reason for the...

Using your calculations the club will have to cut it's wage bill in half to meet League 1 rules and yet they are talking about maintaining the same budget. Something doesn't add up !

That's correct. I reckon with an average gate of 12k we can afford to pay a squad of 25 players, 2k a week on average. We won't be allowed to exceed the 65% without being given a transfer embargo, so it's irrelevant to talk about SISU increasing the budget for players wages unless the fans...

Selling a spare ticket I had for the Liverpool home game in 1992 to a Scouser who then had to witness us batter them 5 - 1. To be fair to the guy he was very magnanimous in defeat :D. Mick Quinn scored his 8th goal in 5 games a scoring run that's only just been equalled by the guy at...

I suspect wage demands came into play, which we can't/won't pay with League 1 pay restrictions we have to comply with.

That's the point I'm making. The rule in League 1 is 65% of turnover can be spent on wages or a transfer embargo is imposed. I don't believe for one moment that we are compliant, even with the cost cutting undertaken to date.

At the risk of repeating myself, the club can only spend 65% of it's turnover on player's wages next season. if anything the wage bill will need to reduce further as our turnover is now based almost exclusively on ticket sales. SISU or any other owner have to comply with this !

I think the advantage of Carsley over Rioch is that he's been there and done it at the highest level and can impart this knowledge to the players. I just hope we're not grooming him' only for him to go elsewhere and become successful. In terms of Rioch, his skillset seems to be in...

I don't read it that way. Rioch seems more than happy to stay in the background and gains great satisfaction from seeing Academey lads get into the 1st team.

Even if we wanted to (and SISU were willing) we can't spend that amount of money in League 1. Under FFP we are restricted to paying 65% of turnover as wages and players costing £1.8m will demand high wages. By my calculations our squad will have to average 2k per week to comply with this...

There is one key fact everyone needs to remember. In league 1 we can only spend 65% of our turnover on players wages. So SISU or new owners have to comply or .... you guessed it ........ a transfer embargo is imposed !