I don't disagree and from what I have heard more players are set to leave including those who we thought were contracted into next year. I hope this isn't the case but with no news or news you can't trust coming from official sources then who do you believe.

Not sure anything will be announced until after the 5th September (WUP). Staff and players leaving, the Jarrod Sammut tweet, but the owner continues to make the right noises, players being signed etc. Something doesn't make sense.

I agree that nothing makes much sense.

Players are being announced for next season and it appears to be business as usual, except that the management apparently has an escape committee and is executing some sort of, 'Sound Of Music escape plan', by disappearing one by one whilst singing, 'So Long, Farewell'.
It is all very redolent of a river trip I took some time ago, where the boat's captain told us, I think jokingly, that in the event of an emergency we were to remain in our seats and carefully follow the instructions which he and the crew would would be shouting to us through megaphones from the riverbank.

On the basis that, if the chairman didn't feel confident of pulling the club through, there was little point in him scraping together the wages last month and he may as well have just called it a day there and then. The fact he didn't makes me guess there has to be a plan, though I can't think what. If we get past wages day without incident I'll maybe start feeling a little more confident.

The old expression was hope for the best but expect the worst - I think I'll go and dust it down...again.

Like the reference to the sound of music ha, so long, farewell. Will we see Marc Green next to go, disappearing through the Captain Vonn Trapp door.

Maybe we already have a new owner and it is being saved until after the WUP on Mon before being announced? It is a very strange series of events playing out. As has been said, why would signings for next year be being announced if everything is doom and gloom. Jarrod Sammutt's tweet was odd and he later seemed to back track a little and say he'd heard some old news about wages coupled with some chinese whispers.

If a new owner has been sorted/agreed they probably wouldn't want their first public duty to be presiding over a winding up hearing.

We haven't heard anything about players/staff not being paid this month? That should have been Fri or today shouldn't it? If someone had just taken over or the process was ongoing you could understand the delay in payment last month.

The optimistic side of me is hoping Sundays match is a win, the hearing on Monday is a non-event like the last one and then we have an announcement immediately after saying a new regime (or at least a significant investor is on board with Marc) is in place and we can get on with looking forward to the rest of the shield and 2017.

Of course we could be typing about the death of the Bulls this time next week.

All very well, but what we need is an announcement. I think Green should be made by law to make an announcement at least once an hour.

Is Sammut being a bit disingenuous? He was knocked back by the Bulls a couple of times so maybe a bit of payback?

Agents are usually a savvy lot (Caisley being an exception) so allowing signings would go against looking after their Players interests if the Bulls were going down the admin route again.
The contradictory rumours going about aren't helping but I suspect the Club is saying nothing because saying something (just to placate those who think it's their right to know everything but contribute nothing) would just add petrol to the rumour bonfire!

It seems the latest furour is simply over Sammut's tweet and people taking a vague comment by an ex player as proof that the sky is falling.

Until something is officially announced either way, it's unconstructive to speculate.

I wouldn't read too much into what Sammutt says in his tweet, to be honest. Whilst I'm sure he's better place to pick up RL gossip than I am, he doesn't exactly come over as the sharpest knife in the drawer, though, that said, tweets rarely do, tbh.

Still not even sure that the club is actually at the heart of what's going on. The major problem seems to be Marc's security firm, with the Bulls being involved as an associate company. I guess this could still mean problems for the club, of course, if Marc is forced to make payments he doesn't have. Maybe he'd have to sell, and maybe to someone we'd not be too happy about. Everything on the public face is still going on as normal of course, so there's nothing to bother about...

I'm more relaxed about things this month. From what I hear so are the staff. I've no idea what's going on as regards takeovers/people coming onto the board but I think we're ok at the moment at least.

...cue reports of unpaid wages now.

I take comfort in that. If you say it's ok then I'm inclined to believe it. Let's wade past the rapids of speculation and cling to the life-raft of Bullseye.