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I may be being stupid here (so what's new?) but.... the lease on the land surrounding the stadium - not the land on which the stadium stands - is owned by a company that has no formal connection to the club. In which case - unless there's something in that lease which cancels it if the club is liquidated - then surely the lease would continue as is?

I think the BDO statement makes it pretty clear that he won't.

Liquidation wouldn't remove the problem about ownership of the land surrounding the stadium. (or is it ownership of the lease on that land?) Or were you meaning start again in a different location?

BBC website says "First Half begins"

"SOME CHICKEN! SOME NECK!" Definitely not Duncan Ferguson, speaking after the 15 point deduction.

The game in hand is on Tuesday night. The postponed home game against Stenny.

Chicken and egg. Positive plans and good ideas for the future should encourage prospective owners, even if they have different ideas.

1-1! Just from reading the BBC website updates, it was clear that things had swung our way. Now get another and overtake Annan!

Wot they going to do? Put us into administration?

Or, to put it another way, in theory we don't have to rely on other results any more. Win all our games and we'll be safe. In practice, of course, it won't happen like that - we will drop points - but it's an infinitely better situation than just a few months ago.

Good article about Ryan Christie in the Sports section of "The Times" today. He has won possession 154 times this season - more than any other player in the top 5 leagues in Europe (including the EPL). And today is his 30th birthday. He recently realised that he is 2 or 3 years older than most of the rest of the Bournemouth squad. "How the **** did that happen?", he says

Could be a timely kick up the backside. Really need to knuckle down now for the run-in. And other cliches like that.

Vital one to win, since Annan won as well...

To be honest, it's difficult to see why anyone would want to buy a small, lowly Scottish league club miles from most places, which can't possibly sustain itself through football income alone. Unless you are rich and daft enough to put a seven-figure sum into it every season. So then you have a look to see what other possibilities there might be. Makwana was a fantasist, of course, but some of his ideas indicate the thinking that's needed. And then you run into problems about change of use of the land, so the council would have to be involved, and that would take more time. Who knows? All that may be happening now. And, without going back and checking, hasn't Savage talked about him leading a consortium being a way forward? Which would also take time to set up.

Revising the final chapter of his upcoming autobiography.

Aye. "I remember when we dropped acid listening to the Floyd in the 60s, and I saw things like that in my bedroom".

And Montrose 2-0 up on Annan after 39 minutes

I was just about to say that 3 bookings in 3 minutes surely meant that the game was getting away from us. And then we scored What do I know?

Back to the old habit of going to sleep at half-time

And so they did. I went on the 16th - but they did three sold out nights there - about 750 people each night. They played for a couple of hours, and were excellent. DSOTM was the first part of the second half. They also performed songs from Wish You Were Here, The Wall, A Momentary Lapse, and the Division Bell. Sadly, for me, nothing from before DSOTM - go see Nick Mason's band for that! The first photo below is from the very start - just the guitarist and keyboard player on stage, doing the intro to Shine On. After that the phone went away until the interval, when I took the other shot. The Moon is actually above a space between the band and the audience, so if it fell down it wouldn't have hit anyone.

Great result! We'd now be equal 3rd on points if it wasn't for administration. And that's with that eejit in charge for the first part of the season. Going to be a long, happy trip back up the road tonight.

He left in August

Sorry, but no. We were beaten 4-1. End of.

Halfway through our season, we are 9 points behind Annan. If we hadn't had 15 points deducted, we'd be 6 points ahead of them. Survival in League One must be our main goal this season. So, assuming that Annan's form remains the same, in the New Year we need to be a bit better than we were in the first half of the season, if we are to reach safety in 8th spot. Just a wee bit better - not a complete turnaround, about half a point a game better. Given that we no longer have Ferguson holding us back, I think that there is a fighting chance of achieving that!

You got that right Please eat more gingerbread men.