by Igor Zidane » Thu Apr 17, 2008 8:45 pm
Statement from SOS , ripped from rawk.
There’s one thing to do. One thing you can do. That’s stand up. That’s fight back.
The situation is this: Hicks needs to raise money and he’ll be going back to the banks. The deal him and his estranged cohort got months back was an edgy one, an expensive one. Given the world economic situation, given our relationship with them, given their own track record, they got an expensive short term deal and in the process exposed RBS/Nat West and Merril Lynch. The former were worried about discussions of disruption and boycotts.
Let’s give them something to worry about. Let’s start disrupting RBS. Phone calls, letters, faxes, emails. We’ll get you the details. Trust us when we say they don’t want this and trust us when we say we can do this. We can hurt RBS. Hicks, the ignorant bully, may think he’s bloody-minded. We can show him, RBS and anyone else who may back him what bloody-mindedness really is.
The meat of the ignorant bully’s statement is that Rick Parry is incompetent. Rick Parry is no more incompetent now than he was after Athens. That’s pretty incompetent, but Parry is also a vote on the board against Hicks. It’s more bullying to get his own way.
And more lying. The debt won’t be on the club. Really, Tom? You’ve moved away from this:
“When I was in the leverage buy-out business we bought Weetabix and we leveraged it up to make our return. You could say that anyone who was eating Weetabix was paying for our purchase of Weetabix. It was just business. It is the same for Liverpool.”
Whether the debt is on the club or not, who will service it? Will you service it? Or do you want us to pay for you and Gillett to buy the club, us to pay for you to then buy Gillett’s half and us to then pay for the stadium. How much debt will you have us service, Tom? But it’s just business.
And on the stadium – Hicks accuses Parry of having been slow to make it happen. Probably very true. But Hicks said he’d have a spade in the ground within sixty days, almost eighteen months ago. He still hasn’t raised the money to pay for this spade. More spin. More smug Texan fireside talk when the club is in crisis. More absenteeism.
The bully wants his own way: “If George doesn't sell - because I am not going to sell - I guess we stay in this position that we are in.” And if he doesn’t get his own way he’ll gladly run this football club into the ground. He’ll gladly continue the inertia. He’ll gladly cut off his nose to spite his face. Except he won’t. This is a negotiating strategy. He knows his own position can become untenable very quickly, he knows his investment can depreciate in value, he knows he may have to bow to the inevitable DIC offer.
No one is saying he isn’t also prepared to stick it out but we can influence that. We can hurt the banks that are already unnerved by him. We can make a difference, possibly the final difference. We can stand up and be counted. Now is the time to stand up and be counted. Hit the banks, hit the phone-ins, repudiate the lies, attack the bully.
No money, no credibility, no honesty, no integrity, no dignity, no custodian. HICKS OUT NOW!
Spirit Of Shankly
UP THE PURPS !!!
https://www.colfc.co.uk/
Amen to that mate.
couldnt have put it better myself mind you i dont swear 
