Administration

[Reg Smeeton]

I can understand the general point.  Long term, the finances of football clubs should be self-sustaining.    But the way in which STFC has been gleefully singled out this week as if it is some sort of special case/statistical outlier has been embarrassing.  Our total debt - all owed to the club's owners, I should add - is approx equal to the losses sustained by Bristol City during their last financial year.  We could all give plenty of other, much larger examples.

So where's the perspective?  Nowhere.  That's where.  It's gone.  Fucked off over the horizon because our manager is called Paolo Di Canio.  I expect partisan rubbish from the fans of other clubs on twitter or on message boards.  But in the print media?!  I suppose they are having to sensationalise to compete with the bollocks elsewhere.

All of which should tell you that if we can't find a taker, then the powers that be, will not take a benign view of our situation...we'll be more Looton than Pompey...Patey might not be to everyone's taste, but he's a job to do, if he fails the consequences won't be worth thinking about.

[Bumpkin]

Home town of Chris Dunlavy

[Oaksey Moonraker]

So this guy thinks PDC has run up these debts. The 2011 accounts show a £11.5m debt of which 7.75m is the old debt that this board cleared up and not due for repayment until 2015. We lost £1.3m in 2011 despite £1.6m in transfer fees. Suspect we lost about £2m last year as no we didn't sell any players for big money. No different to when Wilson was here.

[Bumpkin]

Basic maths suggests we need to sell a player a season for a million-ish.

[Arriba]

If cunts like the above, and that prick on talkshit keep calling the club cheats then I hope the club have instructed their lawyers to sue them.

[Ardiles]

...which would be one way to balance the books, I suppose.  

[Flashheart]

...which would be one way to balance the books, I suppose.  

Ha ha. Wouldn't that be a beautiful irony.

[pauld]

All of which should tell you that if we can't find a taker, then the powers that be, will not take a benign view of our situation...we'll be more Looton than Pompey...Patey might not be to everyone's taste, but he's a job to do, if he fails the consequences won't be worth thinking about.

And that's why pieces such as these, easy to dismiss though they are with just a cursory examination of the facts, are so harmful. The club should take this twat and his "paper" to the cleaners.

[nochee]

And that's why pieces such as these, easy to dismiss though they are with just a cursory examination of the facts, are so harmful. The club should take this twat and his "paper" to the cleaners.

Going to court would mean spending money, the exact opposite of what Black wants to do.

[ghanimah]

If cunts like the above, and that prick on talkshit keep calling the club cheats then I hope the club have instructed their lawyers to sue them.

Thus the inverted commas...

[pauld]

Going to court would mean spending money, the exact opposite of what Black wants to do.

True. And by the time it got there, any damage would have been long since done and Black et al will most likely have gone. Any new regime is unlikely to want to have legal baggage as part of the takeover package.

[alanmayes]

One of the most annoying aspects of modern journalism is the 'opinion columns' from young journos.
If i were Nick Watkins i would be contacting Dunlavy's editor and boss David Emery,who is a long standing
sports journalist.

david.emery@theleaguepaper.com

If this paper takes a sensationalist stance then they need to be corrected and isn't it funny that
Dunlavy ignores the current spending by Bournemouth and our promotion rivals from last season
Crawley, who were financed by their benefactor.Why let opinion get in the way of facts Mr Dunlavy?

[Benzel]

Maybe AB could put his new law firm to some use.

[Shaw Rosso]

What sort of editor allows shit like that to be printed? I hope the club are aware of this. No doubt the scummer is reading this having his chuckle, bet its that cunt John Lennon.

The last laugh will belong to us when we are playing Championship football and the inbreds are still floating around in League 2.

[donkey]

His article mentions that every time we added to our wage bill, we knew someone was going unpaid.  Would he care to name a single business, organisation or individual that this applied to?  Just one.  Go on, just one...