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Not sure he has the cash or the inclination for this right now. In an ideal world of course......

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7760684.stm Shouldn't that be up to the Jury? England is fucked.

Get in there before the next tranche of market collapses.

Are NUSC going for representation at board meeting or suchlike?

The utter and unmitigated collapse of SD. 27-Feb-07 300.00 301.00 272.00 276.25 68,538,300 276.25 17-Nov-08 36.25 37.75 31.00 33.50 874,000 33.50 Currently of a basket of 6 brokers 4 are neutral and 2 have it as a sell (negative). I see it going to 25p.

I still think they would IF he lowered his price enough......... which is what I suspect he's trying to justify with all this current guff. We won't get any venture capital funds interested in us at the moment (or any time in the near economic future), but then that's probably a good thing anyway. He probably should think up another response to interested parties other than ".... £450 million of your Earth pounds.... muahaha..... muahahahhahahHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAaaaaa....." as well.

One has to wonder how they don't see these things.

There might be bigger shock in the works for clubs with beg debt.

So do you think any of the previous regimes in say the last 30 years at SJP have been so much better than Ashley and his muckers?.....or is it just because he let KK walk off into the sunset? I don't think anyone bar Sir John Hall has really moved the club forwards, and KK was a pretty stupid appointment if the plan was to have a "continental" management structure above him....it was always going to end in tears,the whole football world told us but most of us chose not to listen. Mostly we've always in my time been run by a shower of self serving twats, and Ashley is just the latest. The club has changed since the days of "sack the board" 20 years ago, two new generations of fans have come into the club. The club is virtually unrecognisable in form and structure from what was there in those days, so to think we can get rid of Ashley by sitting down in protest on the Gallowgate or outside the Stawberry/ waving badly spelt bed linen at skytv cameras outside Shearers or bycotting matchday beer and the club shop is, sadly, a bit far fetched. As far as I can see compromise is what is needed on both sides, and this NUSC statement makes a lot of sense.Still won't be joining though....why do they need a tenner from everyone? apparently a thousand have signed up, so they have 10k in the bank less what the flyers handed out before the Blackburn game, website set up costs.....does all that cost 10 grand?.........if they really wanted to put pressure on to force Ashley out, then perhaps a campaign for everyone who had signed up to the 3 year season ticket deal to cancel the direct debits for next seasons ST's? A mate of mine suggested this to them but they've ignored it in favour of compromise when the chance was there to put the club in an awkward posistion....swallow it or take the supporters to court.......it wouldve been interesting to see what wouldve happened, but it may well have damaged the us and them terminally. So compromise it is, which is very different to their initial stated aims. I cant get away from the feeling though after their bold initial aims and now this sudden about turn that it will be just another talking shop acheiving next to fuck all with a few "media oppurtunities" for those who have got themselves on to the comittee.With us plebs paying 10 quid to let them do it. It's what the people want apparently.

Good.

Packs of robots will hunt down uncooperative humans The latest request from the Pentagon jars the senses. At least, it did mine. They are looking for contractors to provide a "Multi-Robot Pursuit System" that will let packs of robots "search for and detect a non-cooperative human". One thing that really bugs defence chiefs is having their troops diverted from other duties to control robots. So having a pack of them controlled by one person makes logistical sense. But I'm concerned about where this technology will end up. Given that iRobot last year struck a deal with Taser International to mount stun weapons on its military robots, how long before we see packs of droids hunting down pesky demonstrators with paralysing weapons? Or could the packs even be lethally armed? I asked two experts on automated weapons what they thought - click the continue reading link to read what they said. Both were concerned that packs of robots would be entrusted with tasks - and weapons - they were not up to handling without making wrong decisions. Steve Wright of Leeds Metropolitan University is an expert on police and military technologies, and last year correctly predicted this pack-hunting mode of operation would happen. "The giveaway here is the phrase 'a non-cooperative human subject'," he told me: Use the force ffs Luke! lol

At fucking last.

Players booed off. I've said this for 2 years now. Rafa is too conservative and it tells in these games. Should have been a comfortable win. Keane 1 in 15.

Quite. I'm sick of it. I want all the apologists in this thread and they will be dealt with.

Be aware DANNY we don't mind a bit of banter and gawd knows some distraction is needed. But there is no need to try and talk down to us as if we can't articulate a good debate or answer for ourselves. You don't want me all up in your shit. Innit.

I wish. You defend Wise and seem very very touchy about Ashley. FACT.

How much are they paying you Danny?

By Ben Bland, Online City Reporter Last Updated: 1:40AM BST 27 Apr 2007 Audio: Richard Fletcher on why it could end in tears Sports Direct IPO adviser does U-turn Sports Direct falls after 'aggressive pricing' Mike Ashley: The reclusive billionaire 10 questions for Mike Ashley Sports Direct International , which owns the Sports World retail chain and the landmark Lillywhites store in Piccadilly Circus, has come under fire again after it issued a trading update that "raises more questions than it answers" and leaves the company's impressive growth story "in tatters" according to one City analyst. The statement, which seemed designed to reassure investors that the company had its financial situation under control, has instead fostered confusion and uncertainty, sending the shares tumbling by 15p, or 6.5pc, to 221p. Sports Direct, which is the UK's largest sports retailer in revenue terms, has disappointed investors since it was floated on the stock market at 300p in March by billionaire founder Mike Ashley. Questions have also been raised about the way Sports Direct deals with investors, with finance director Bob Mellors absent from meetings with analysts and the company sacking its public relations advisers soon after the IPO." He is well used dressing up his little offerings and deals.

What has he tagged onto the asking price then? You're naive beyond bounds man. He's a scam artist, it's well know in the city. No hes not and the insinuation that he is, is actionable. Action it fucker! I know who you are mate.

What has he tagged onto the asking price then? You're naive beyond bounds man. He's a scam artist, it's well know in the city.

Ashley: "There is still £27m net to pay on transfers that were done before I came. So probably in the latter years before we came in you could argue that the club was beginning to lose its way. It had also already taken upfront payments from commerical deals and sponsorships which didn't help us at all. It seemed as though the club was in a very downward sprial, one it would have found very hard to come out of." Guardian. Ah! So we do have debt? What happened to all the debt free quotes from 2 months ago?? I seriously doubt he has pumped 100m in to reduce debt. It is more like 30/40m.

So was he right when he said he'd paid off all the debt, meaning he lied about owing on players? Or was he right when he said there was still owing on players, meaning he lied about paying off the all debt? He can't be both. Ashley Statement 14 Sept 2008: But like any business with assets the club has debts. I paid £134 million out of my own pocket for the club. I then poured another £110 million into the club not to pay off the debt but just to reduce it. The club is still in debt. Even worse than that, the club still owes millions of pounds in transfer fees. I shall be paying out many more millions over the coming year to pay for players bought by the club before I arrived. This really is a non story. Written by some Mackem journo looking to deflect attention away from Keane. You lot are too easy. So he was lying when he said he paid off all the debts then. (assuming he isn't lying now, of course ) Surely you should have worked that out in September? If he ever said it was in the first place. are you the same dimwit who was a boring pain in the arse a few months ago and was banned ?

So was he right when he said he'd paid off all the debt, meaning he lied about owing on players? Or was he right when he said there was still owing on players, meaning he lied about paying off the all debt? He can't be both. Ashley Statement 14 Sept 2008: But like any business with assets the club has debts. I paid £134 million out of my own pocket for the club. I then poured another £110 million into the club not to pay off the debt but just to reduce it. The club is still in debt. Even worse than that, the club still owes millions of pounds in transfer fees. I shall be paying out many more millions over the coming year to pay for players bought by the club before I arrived. This really is a non story. Written by some Mackem journo looking to deflect attention away from Keane. You lot are too easy. Agreed, amazingly. Straight lie.

4-0 Liverpool.