And "next" season? This appears to be be raising more concerns than its addressing. You haven't told us there if there was any response from the Club to your various assertions. Did Suhail just sit there taking notes and say nothing or did he provide some responses that you have chosen not to divulge in the interests of building a relationship. I also think you're getting way way too hung up on the communication aspect. If we go into administration or out of business as a result of the Court Hearing on the 20th I couldn't care less if they communicate the news in an efficient and timely fashion. However whilst they are still Owners I do want them to fund the Club to the maximum amount permissible under the Regulations, to run the Club in a proper manner and provide a transfer budget to make us competitive. If they do that I'm not really bothered if we never hear from them from one year to the next.

If Nixon is correct that's more than reasonable on our part. It's Ipswich who are tyrekicking and not interested enough to pay a realistic fee imo. We SHOULD tell them to do one until they're prepared to take negotiations seriously. But.........

So from allegedly being ready to spend £2m on a keeper (Ha!) to bringing in a loanee. Normal service has been resumed

"Meanwhile seventeen days later the Club goes out of business".

Not that it means a great deal but the author of the piece estimates a fee of £1.7m to £2.1m if my fag packet maths is correct. Which I still can't see. Unless a very large percentage of it consists of add ons.

Without wanting to sound over critical I hope you discussed and got some revealing answers to some rather more pressing issues than "communication". That type of general thing can wait for another day.

Unless I've missed it somewhere, this is something that we need to ascertain, are these hearings a series of one off affairs whereby the Club have to trot off periodically more or less indefinitely to get expenditure authorised or is it envisaged that there will eventually be a final hearing at which a decision will be made either a) They can now transfer funds without restriction or b) They are not allowed to transfer funds over any longer If so how long is that going to take to get to a final determination?

At a rough guess a Court hearing pivotal to the very future of the Club in (now) 15 days time?

Must be feeling the heat if he agreed to it.

I hope so, otherwise the Trust is operating like some sort of secret society purely on the basis it's members have paid a tenner. It's important we know what you're being told by the Club and the views you're putting across in response as many people may not agree with either and may wish to make their own representations. That's what people are wary of and "getting their knickers in a twist" about I think, not the fact that the minutes aren't out ten minutes after the meeting has finished.

Good question.

Pretty lazy scouting if true - we were linked heavily with him 12 months ago. Also is he not a completely different kind of player to SS?

I'd cash out now if I were you.

Reports seem to suggest we haven't even agreed a fee so until we do it won't be getting any closer either. I still don't see a Universe in which we're paying £2m for a keeper in the current situation myself.

So from what has been said, am I right in thinking that a full report of the meeting with Pasha will be relayed on here - and if so when can we expect it, not to pressure anyone time wise, but just so we know.

Pleased for the player on a personal level if he gets a gig at a similar level after the way we messed him about. Then to cap it all off we rubbed salt in the wound by promising to go back in for him this summer, and of course we didn't.

I actually took Eustace's comments the other way as meaning it was important the situation was resolved quickly either way and that it was time for Ipswich to piss or get off the pot. I also read a piece in the Ipswich local press with Mckenna inferring that the two Clubs were still miles apart in terms of a valuation and he was playing it down saying thar SS was only one of a number of targets they were chasing etc etc

Nurse? !!!!!!!!!! Lol.

I agree whole heartedly but I wonder if the powers that be will think the pursuit of the 3 points is worth potentially missing out on £8m for if he picks up an injury. I doubt it.

Mike Jackman. I think you'll find Mike Hickman was the blonde striker from the Gordon Lee era chiselled out of granite!

We haven't seen him yet. (If he signs) You probably said the same about Wahlstedt at the time.

Apologies if this has been discussed elsewhere but I saw online that Gallagher had to go off holding his calf less than 30 mins into his debut for Stoke which is one of the funniest things I've read in a long time. You couldn't make this **** up - he won't get away with swinging the lead and not performing there for five seasons like he did here, they'll have him off down the road within a season I'd wager.

What's your problem with Eustace? No way we're spending £2m on a keeper imo. Happy to be proved wrong.

If he stays (which he no doubt won't) he'd probably still be the pick of our forward players though. You'd have to say if SS stays that overall we look theoretically stronger in forward areas but the new players are unproven so for me the season will hinge on how well he is replaced should the inevitable happen. I think it's very premature to say our relegation fears have eased but if SS either stays or is replaced well by someone not so far on the books I'd say we've given ourselves a chance and even that didn't look likely a week ago.

Never thought Pickering's lack of pace was his main problem, it's his positional sense that's the problem, wanders much too far forward, all the opposition need to do is knock a ball in behind him and they're away.