----- Original Message ----- > Put up or shut up basically. Sorry. What does that mean ? (in this context).
> - but that goes for the money too, you won't even "own" unless you can > walk > the walk. We'd have Peter Sainsbury as owner now otherwise.......... We came within a couple of days of it so eventually Seb Sainsbury would have been able to walk the walk, at least initially. I have no idea what Peter Sainsbury has got to do with this so I bow to your greater knowledge on that one. I doubt that he was in any way funding or even supporting Seb but really Ii have no idea on that. > I find it hard if not impossible to believe that we are living within our > income at the moment. I think that at best we are deferring obligations of > several million pounds every year (so that Bates could show an "operating" > profit if he had to) It is very difficult to imagine, speaking for myself anyway, who would be daft enough to let Bates defer obligations at a time like this. Not the tax authorities of any type, not "footballing debts", so who might you suggest would allow such deferrals ? >and that our position this season means that we can't cod anybody anymore >with projections of future income streams. Who did we "cod" with that previously ? > What's a fans group going to do? > > Come up with several tens of millions of pounds? Why would they need to do that ? What would the several tens of millions be for ? Does this imply that Bates also needs to put in similar several tens of millions ? Just curious as to your thinking on this one. As you imply that your belief is that Fans would not be able to do whatever is necessary (forgive me if I have the wrong take on that) perhaps we should just agree to differ on that point and leave it. The other stuff has some mileage though IMHO. _______________________________________________ the Leeds List is an unmoderated mailing list and the list administrators accept no liability for the personal views and opinions of contributors. Leedslist mailing list [email protected] http://list.zetnet.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist 'I am in shock,' said Ferguson.
