If Mr Murray is to be believed, the offer from the McCrory syndicate for BFC was £5M. The Auditors have indicated that relegation will cost us £6M. With relegation looking increasingly certain, does that mean Mr Cryne would have to pay McCrory £1M to take the club off his hands? Logic dictates it must mean that unless some of the above information is wrong. This poses some unsettling possibilities. Mr Cryne deserves our gratitude for what he has done in the past to save the club. I am in no way being critical of him (although I do think hiring the Rochdale Massive and allowing him to sign his elves was a mistake). No-one could criticise Mr Cryne if he thought that rather than have to pay to hand over the club, he could bank the memories of the golden days and capitalise his investment by winding up the club and selling for housing development (admittedly, this would need the collusion of cash-strapped Barnsley MBC). Alternatively, again being loth to have to pay to divest himself, Mr Cryne might decide to soldier on. His past inclination suggests that if this were the case, he would understandably wish to end the situation of the club being a money sink, and would seek to reduce costs still further, with even poorer management and playing staff being recruited than Hill and the has-beens/never were's. We would probably get out of League One, but in the wrong direction! I'm speculating wildly, and clearly I (nor most on here) know all of the true facts, but could you rule the above scenarios out? Of course, relegation is not a mathematical certainty (yet), but the character of the side offers little hope of the great escape spirit which will be needed to effect a miraculous survival. For what it's worth (and most on here will think not much), I'd personally like to see the following in League One. Keep Danny and let him rebuild. Get rid of everone signed under Hill/Flitcroft (playing and coaching staff). Coalitions don't work. Give full rein to Ben to reduce prices slightly and further increase discounts for season tickets. Explore whether we can escape the dreadful franchised website and adopt our own free website to generate interest/excitement. Pray. Hope this helps.
