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The authorities should have addressed this a long time ago. The fundamental flaw is that we have a league system, not a franchise system. If you get relegated, then you lose money; therefore you have to spend money to keep up; but if you get relegated anyway, it's with a truckload of debts...

But we do replace. This season has seen Dunn, Murphy, Hreiderssan, McDonald, Nimely, Norwood, and Gardener brought in. The names might not wow you, but they are warm bodies, and they were probably about the best replacements we could get for what we lost. Westwood and King are special players, I...

Yes, good to cash in with Juke. People panicked over the prospect of Westwood leaving every transfer deadline...until he walked for nothing, and then people complained about that. Same thing is happening with Clingan now. Hate SISU as much as you like, but the reality for most clubs is a need...

Juke was sold in the middle of January when CCFC were bottom of the table by seven points (effectively eight considering goal difference). He would have entered the final year of his contract come the summer and, with L1 status to boot, his value would have plummeted. All things considered, it...

We're down, but that nice fellow Thorn still has a job, so there's that.

It's a bit ironic that you're hoping for teams to hit administration in order to save CCFC, but then slag off SISU who have ostensibly cut costs in order to avoid administration.

Exactly. Contract extensions for star players are fairly meaningless for clubs such as CCFC. All they really amount to is asset protection, paying a fee (in the form of higher wages) in return for a future transfer sum. Still, it would be a step in the right direction for SISU, who neither...

Again, why are you quibbling over such an insignificant issue? Find me a single post where users are under the impression that Hoffman would be pumping in his own millions. Incidentally, I'm really not sure what the distinction is between "Hoffman is buying the club" and "the Hoffman bid". In...

You have said it close to a hundred times, but I'm not sure why you consider it important; there are no points to be scored by reiterating it. Everybody knows that Hoffman is merely the figurehead and not the money. Naming him in association with the bid is just for the sake of simplicity...

Truth is that it's too late. December was the time to make a change. This squad may have been capable of squeezing out enough points for safety over half a season, but I can't see how they're capable of going on an extended winning run.

Do you believe that the club has made a loss since SISU took over and, if so, who do you think has been making up that shortfall?

So you acknowledge that, actually, they have both done well since leaving CCFC. Thanks. I'd rather hire Martin O'Neill for five years at £Xm than spend the same amount on players.

Suggest how.

If a job comes up at a L2 side, there will be tons of applications. Carsley's would just be one among them. It is difficult to get on the ladder; if you're offered a job like that of CCFC, then you take it if you truly have managerial aspirations. None of us know for sure what he'd do, but...

I can't see how it will be business as usual. This ridiculous game of debt blink ought to stop. It will put the onus back on fans to fill out their ground in order to see better squads.

The thing that nobody's talking about re. the Hoffman bid is this: the Financial Fair Play rules. SISU has taken a hammering over their lack of spending, but any new ownership will find themselves officially confined by next season, especially so in L1. "Championship clubs will be allowed...

Black has distinguished himself as a coach. Bruce took him everywhere, and he wasn't off the shelf for long - he's now Blackburn's AM. Nobody could blame him for not wanting a managerial hotseat after what happened at CCFC. As for Nilsson, he has been a very successful manager in Scandinavia...

Any would-be manager with their head screwed on should know that all clubs in League Football will be constrained in the seasons to come. It won't be exclusive to CCFC and thus shouldn't be a drawback. It also overlooks simple human nature. I think most people want to be in 'the show'. It is a...

I don't believe that. Every time we have sacked a manager in the last decade we've heard "who'd want to manage us"? But then we also hear from the club that there are dozens of candidates who have applied. I remember when Reid took on the CCFC job. He was still quite a high-profile guy at that...

I really don't have a longing for Carsley. It could be pretty much anyone, as far as I'm concerned...it's just that he and Rioch seem the most obvious candidates (and I'd actually be quite excited to see what Rioch could do). I can't imagine that anyone in Carsley's position wouldn't prefer to...