Recent content by Archie

Hope his road to recovery is a short one and glad he's got the help he must have needed. Just looking up at the pinned thread on here. Always a way forwards with the right help.

It wasn't even mistimed, or just a bad tackle, or a 50-50. It was properly a 'break your ankle' stamp down. That's not right. And doing it at 2-0 down when the team needs to tighten up defensively is just stupid. He'll learn hopefully, but won't defend any tackle like that. It wasn't the worst...

There's few excuses any more not to be finishing top half. Just outside European places is a fair minimum standard really. 55 point season or round that? We're just off that kind of pace at half-way mark, and we should really be better than it. We've 8 of the teams above us in the table to play...

This is scraping a par so far. 9 points off top four, four points off top six. Even if the second half of the season goes well, we'll be regretting the stupid dropped points of the first half. There's room for improvement, but precious little room for us not to tighten up when we're in front and...

Some of them will, no doubt about that.

I give Bill brickbats at times, but he loves the club and he'll do his best by it on this at least.

Didn't take it that way at all mate. Hope you and your's have a really good Christmas! And too right on accountancy thread. Have said my piece. Back to lurking and hoping for some good football to watch :D

Your assumption is there's a ground... It's part of Premier League rules. NI, payroll and income tax need to be paid or it'll go straight out of tv money etc etc. Was a period when taxman got first dibbs, when law changed that's when they started to get more aggressive in issuing winding up...

Will do. Always the assumption I made for it to be viable. Ticket price rises and staying the same is much less appealing. They're paying the asking price. Slightly more seriously, I'll put a tenner in the Alder Hey box next time I'm in there if it isn't. We'd both agree it's the most likely...

The swiftest way to improve the bottom line is to start finding out at which point ticket price increases start to eat into attendances. I'm sure there would be an improvement in marketing and sponsorships. They'd be needing to cover the interest on their loans they've used to buy the shares, so...

Did the other reasons include the fact that the reason the supporters' representatives were lairy about the whole thing because there was absolutely no money for the team or club going in, and so they weren't keen at all on letting this bunch get into a position where they'd have full control of...

Swansea knocked them back when terms of agreement they wanted were revealed. All the 'investment' was payments to shareholders to buy 60% of the club and do a full takeover. But, yes, Moores has experience of demanding a new stadium for his sports franchise paid for by the taxpayer or...

That would be fine. But these are not the investors for that. They're after clubs with (relatively) low debt to leverage onto. If you think this is dislike because of 'oh businessmen', not at all. But Swansea have knocked this lot back already. Ask why. They could have really used an injection...

More like the couple who bought the RS and took them to the brink of a bankruptcy order - they touted themselves to half the clubs in the league before someone was stupid enough to think they were legit. This bunch would do a new stadium so long as it's us who fund it and it doesn't cut into...

The interest is legit, but if you think they're interested because they love football or they love sport or they see anything other than pounds signs because we run a tight budget then you need to give your head a wobble. The guy leading this took a quarter of the money from the tv deal of his...