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read in the guardian today that one of their players (don't know who) is on £7k a week. that is huge money for division 3.

no wonder they're in the shasta.

in the last 9 weeks their players have received only 2 1/2 weeks worth of pay. the management team all had to chip in to pay the £500 filing fee to appeal one of the red cards they got against bristol rovers.

also, they have been in administration 3 times now.

anyway, good luck luton.

And they had the cheek to ask Liverpool to give up their gate receipts for tomorrows game.

the administrators asked, as you would expect them to really.

i remember chelsea donated their share of gate receipts to scarborough a few years ago.

liverpool declined the request.

Cunts they are then. What is something like 100k to fucking Liverpool.

On another note i was SSN yesterday and it seems that Luton are going to have to sell some of their players. They have no choice. Things really are bad there. Makes us look good sadly.

what's cheeky about it? it's not as if liverpool are on the verge of going out of business.

just another example of the self-ordained and self-proclaimed "big four" losing touch with reality and their roots.



Liverpool rejected cash-strapped Luton's request to forgo their share of the gate receipts for Sunday's FA Cup third round tie. Luton, who are in administration, could go out of business on Monday. (Various)

Aren't Liverpool actually in massive debt themselves cos these yanks have borrowed all the takeover money?

I hope we get Liverpool in round 4 and they ask us to concede our gate receipts  :mrgreen:

seems to like the kind of thing that should be offered, not asked for, otherwise everyone will start doing it.

the request shouldn't have been made public imo.
it would be a nice gesture, but liverpool didn't get luton into the shit they are in.

Imho Liverpool, like Luton, are a business. Why should they stump up their share of the gate receipts?

Fair play to Luton for asking... End of the day we know how it feels to be in the shit and atleast they are lookign for a way out.

and Blackwell is in the paper today saying the FA should have done more to help them..ah I don't think so, if the club gets into trouble due to over-spending they want the FA to help - no fucking chance

Apparently, when they were bottom of the Championship last season, the club dished out new long-term contracts to 3 players, on Championship wages, when they should've put a clause in the players contracts that is they do get relegated, they get a pay reduction.

Luton have ,ade poor decsions but so did we, it wasnt long ago we could of lost our club.  Personally I hope they get the fans bid sorted that has been submited

how comes a thread on luton has got this far without someone saying

'lets sign Sam Parkin'

lets sign Sam Parkin

what? are you fucking stupid?

Why would you even think that?

good idea.

One of there players has more tatoos than Lee Peacock apparently  :shock:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/l/luton_town/7181317.stm

The clear-out has started.

Jesus, not good for them is it.

That could so easily have been us selling players (or worse).

Read in the paper this morning that they could be helped out if Pompey sell Matthew taylor (which it looks like they will do). He's former Luton, so they should get around half a million with the sell-on clause.

Doubt we'd get Parkin if they are selling Talbot and Andrew!

would we seriously want him back?

i'd hate for him to return and not produce the goals and displays he did years ago.

i'd hate for the boo boys to start going on at him cos he's not scoring

I'd have him back if he was fit.  He's still not playing is he?

I read somewhere he had 45 minutes for the stiffs this week.

Why havnt we signed Sam Parkin yet?

because he's been injured for about 3 years straight and isn't very good any more.

fair to say that luton are proper fucked now?

-10 points and players leaving in their droves.

is there a buyer to takeover?

i thought i saw a short while ago that they had plans for a new ground?

i genuinely hope something gets sorted for them, if only for the fans.

A consortium lead by TV's Nick Owen apparently

And if ever a team needed a new ground...

Couldn't agree more!

i love luton's ground. it's like walking into someone's back garden.

Blackwell off as well in four weeks.

Yup. He's resigned becaus he is fed up with it all there.

http://www.lutontown.premiumtv.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10372~1212709,00.html

gotta feel sorry for them

Looks like they could be saved. Must be someone else with a lucky watch in Luton.

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11719_3049884,00.html

Hope it works out for them and their fans especially.

A lucky watch? Is it Bernard's watch? What would you do if you had Bernard's watch? I suppose it would be more what would you do first as you'd have time to do whatever you'd want.

i dont remember us getting this much press attention during our problems!

but good luck to them.

we were dying fairly quietly whereas Luton have done it in a quite a public fashion.

plus, consortium leader nick owen is a media person.

and they're in london. ish.

unfortunately this is still a factor in newsworthiness.

Nick Owen's consortium have preferred bidder status.  God I'm glad we don't have to go through all that again.  I wish the bloody BBC would have paid half as much attention to us - cunts

Fuck me I take it all back - we got 1 sentence confirming Maurice Malpas as new manager on five live.

because we weren't getting players sold left right and center
we didnt go into administration
we didnt actually get a published fixed deadline saying we had to get all debts paid up by date

it was bad, but i feel our plight was slightly over-exaggerated a tiny bit. Theres no doubt we had a terrible board in charge, but we weren't in a position as bad as luton are.

Parkin is on the bench tonight.

Good luck to both Luton and Bournemouth. Having been there and done that (twice), I feel for the supporters of both clubs.

I guess we'll never quite know how close to the brink we were really, but all I know is that I never want to go through the pain and uncertainty of the last 5+ years again.

Apparently, Blackwell has now been sacked !!!

He was going anyway. Maybe TV's Nick Owen didn't want him moping around the place so is bringing in his own man sooner rather than later.

Anne Diamond?

looks like a man :mrgreen:

why haven't we signed him?  :x

god don't start that again.

We could probably swap him for a scratch card

he was sacked by the Adminstrator not Owens Consortium which is a bit rich considering he hasnt been paid for months and had the right to walk away but had the decency to give them a months notice.

It could look that way Yeovil or was he trying to look Mr Nice Guy and expecting a big juicy contract from the new owners.
Played a bit of poker and lost.

I see the administrators have appointed Mick Harford as manager until the end of the season.

  I think Harford must have worked with Parkin at STFC....would be good if he can get his career back on track.

It should be a diamond.