Why are people speculating on the reasons for rumours? Surely that would become a self fulfilling prophecy?

Is it true then? If so that’s a massive shame. Surely at some point mr Mir would have been warned to expect scrutiny and some hostilty from some fans? From our fans more that from most other clubs.

As Meadow says, it's the Prince's Trust, which has been a thoroughly worthy venture for many decades.

Ah that makes sense.

Trig, it used to be the Prince's Trust and changed name when Charles became king.

Went to the cinema tonight and saw an advert for The King’s Trust. Never heard of the damn thing til Mir’s AI video now suddenly it’s on the big screen.

Nicely put, Nick.

At this point it remains rumour and innuendo, but if Mr Mir has pulled out because he's upset at scrutiny, then I would imagine he has a reason to fear scrutiny.

Cummon Watchet Town!

Maybe they'll give us Kingsmeadow back, for a fee.

Chelsea supporting friend of ours said a few weeks ago 'we'll buy your ground'. Nice bloke. Always supportive, when he thinks of it. Just telling it how he saw it.

Well if it all goes t*ts up and the club completely folds or gets sold and moves to Dublin, I can’t see a second phoenix club being formed, so we will all have to stop supporting a football team or choose another to follow. At least there will be some money to be made on memorabilia….

Apparently AI share values nosedived massively this week after the midterms - isn’t Mir’s money in AI? Maybe there’s a link there, maybe not…

Speculation is pointless because if the investment was genuine in the first place then there are myriad reasons why it might have gone away (if it has) and you can’t exactly trust Price and Fox to tell the truth.

If, large if (I have no idea) that 1. The pulling out rumours are true, and 2. The money is really coming from Cheyne capital as opposed to Omar; perhaps the reason for pulling out is not anything to do with social media bull, but rather the fund has just been routed in the last few weeks. They wouldn’t be the only ones!

If the rumours are true then the at least we have a club brigade will no doubt be delighted. Some people would rather we were in non league than accept any investment even if it’s minority investment.but there’s a bigger picture to all this. With no investment we have been told the club will be broke in 4-6 month. If this is the case the alternative is administration and let me tell you an administrator won’t care about keeping the club or stadium fan owned and we will be sold on the cheap to whoever they can get the asking price from. The. Guess what ? We don’t own our club we don’t own our stadium and we have no say whatsoever as fans. I was voting in favour not because it was the ideal scenario (it isn’t) but it keeps us in control of the club while making us competitive. I seriously believe that no investment means even greater consequences for our club one-consequence being that it won’t be ‘our’ club anymore. It will fall into the hands of administrators then 100% out of fan ownership.

Ledward is a liability and should be nowhere near a position of responsibility within a football club supporters trust.

I'm no expert on insolvency but I think (and happy to be corrected by those who know more) that there are pretty tight rules about moving assets out of the reach of administration when insolvency is imminent, so if we haven't done something to protect the ground etc by now then it's probably too late to do so.

Russ - I do agree that it is likely that we will be in administration before the next offer comes to fruition. Of course that will mean no messing about with the DT members having to scrutinise and approve the deal, as the existing shareholders (including the DT) will be entirely out of the process and in that case we can wave goodbye to any thoughts of any protections around anything - the administrator will just sell the club to whichever bidder gives the best deal for the creditors.

If he’s withdrawn because of the constant rumours and false claims about his background then it’s something to think about with the next investor. Will probably be in administration before then, though. As long as the DT have made the ground safe from any potential insolvency we’ll be fine.

If the deal is off because Dr Mir has pulled out, because he didn't like questions being asked about his wealth, then (1) we are in deep deep trouble, as (at best) we will now have to go crawling back to the second-best bidder and see if they are still interested and, by definition, that is going to be a bid which was less favourable than the one on which we had been voting (and they will know that time is very much not on our side, so will drive a harder bargain) (2) the deal would never have worked anyway, as the degree of questioning he is getting now was probably less than he would have got after the deal. It's hard to blame the DTB if Dr Mir has pulled out - but it does suggest that the other SSC principals didn't really know their investor as well as they told us they did

Looked it up , 47500K to Crewe , Us a share of the gate money after expenses. Probably a fiver.

Losing the FA Cup match has cost us around £47,000 in prize money, if another post from a winning side is correct.

Not that it would have mattered but their 2nd goal looks offside to me: [Link] Didn't make the game today but no win in 10 is not good enough. Only really played well and won one game this year against Bromley who are shite. Think Jackson's time is coming to an end. Things seem to be slipping and getting beat by another team in a lower division in the FA Cup is rubbish. He seems to have a real issue and it's boring now. Our squad is clearly not up to much but it's also the way we play, it's boring.

Did anyone take a tin foil FA Cyp to Crewe, it seems to be a requirement.