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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.

Before the Saints game I was standing by JH's statue - hurt like hell being outside the ground while we were playing. I don't blame AT though. I completely agree that he's made mistakes, but he had all the ground cut from under him. Responsibility lies fairly and squarely with the inept...

And so the SISU spiral of decline will continue. Might we stabilise in League One? (at least it looks like I'll get a local fixture next year - it's only 10 miles to Shrewsbury :D) Just at the moment, I'm hoping we'll have sufficient players left to find 4 clubs worse than us next year.

Cody and Juke would have been an excellent partnership in time.

You argument seems to be that because they did "something", that was good. My argument is they needed to act in a financially sensible way that was supported by an overall strategy, not to just slash costs and then hope that everything turned out OK.

You've got to ask yourself, who's our fitness specialist. Oh yeah, he went in one of SISU's "financially prudent" cuts............

About as sensible and constructive a comment as - "if everyone agrees to never speak ill of SISU again will you promise to let it go?"

What was the phrase that comment brought to mind? Ah yes - "Physician heal thyself"

What bargaining position? If they've got a signed contract that's that. Any negotiations would run as follows; SISU - We'd like to pay less rent ACL - No SISU - Oh And before someone says, "they should walk away from the Ricoh and play elsewhere" - if they did that the contract would...

Too many ???

As you say, it's all about differences of opinion. I'm of a similar vintage to you - started just after JH left (sadly), but I'm afraid I see things differently. I don't think that SISU have "been wise enough to get a grip financially" - I think they had an initial business plan with RR, it...

My guess is that one day it will all come out in a MBA case study entitled "How not to run a business".

I'll bet that Waterstones would insist on it being put in the fiction section - "You can't be trying to tell us that that really happened..............."

After a year in which our Chairman/Director of Football redefined the colour orange, sat in the dugout for a match and generally behaved like he was desperately trying to be cast for a new series of "The Office" - nothing would surprise me!

Board official; Hibs have offered us £100 a week if we let them have that Scottish bloke, defender, James something or other AT; But we've got vital games coming up and we need all the squad members we can get Board official; Didn't you hear me - £100 per week! Board lunches don't pay for...