Starting over again

I've watched the events unfolding at St Marys over the last 97 days with a mixture of dispair, fear, horror, laughter and finally relief!

While the "Pinnicle" groups takeover had, on the face of it, lots of things going for it, in reality it increasingly became "the foolish man built his house upon the sand". When they pulled out, however, it did look pretty bleak until Markus Liebherr re-entered the bidding. It does appear that he was close to securing "exclusivity" before Pinnicle beat him to the punch.

Now Saints have a new German owner (who live in Switzerland). He is worth over a billion and says he is in it for the long term. But who ever says anything else? He's already sacked the manager and the press release is couched in words of quiet Germanic efficiency.

This time last year I was quite taken by JP and is youth policy, look where that ended! Now I'm a bit more circumspect.The choice of manager will be crucial to our progress next season, it may even be the good old director of football/coach scenario, who knows?

I'll watch the next few weeks with interest.