Here is an interesting article just published in the states – particularly of interest for those who still view Mr Hicks through rose-tinted spectacles.

http://www.dallasobserver.com/2008-01-31/news/tom-hicks-is-now-a-global-billionaire-bozo

P.S.This group needs a figure head we can all trust and a guarantee that if it doesn’t come off we get our money back!! e.g. a bank guarantee and public records of all contributors.

First, if there are no dividends paid on the club’s share at all, the value of a share is exactly 0, and will not raise in price at all, regardless of what happens to the value of the club as the value of a share is its discounted stream of dividends for the foreseeable future. The only reward anyone will get from this is the certainty, that the club is in the right hands. Its like buying consumption goods, we all would buy us a club we love together. But the money will be gone once the share is bought

Second: The lines about how 500m do not even cover their loans AND the new stadium do not make sense. The stadium is not yet build, so there is no need to pay for it to get the yanks out. They bought the club for around 220m last year. That is still more or less the figure I would rate the club at, given the level of debt that it is supposed to serve right now. 300m should be enough to buy out the americans. Put another 200m on the stadium and find the rest somewhere else, but 500m but we surely enough to solve the biggest problem: Getting rid of g&h.

I offically wake away from this club after 40 years, because of self-centred individuals like the editor of this site!

Our club will not achieve as long as we have fans such as YOU!!!!!

Leave the team to perform, but NO … that would be easy especially when you have so much built up anger and need to off-load it … the yanks will do! I thought this type of action towards other human beings was against the law!!! yet again Im wrong!

No more!!!

and when the club does continue to fail, Im going to point a finger at the people who really did bring us down, cause they couldn’t get what they wanted!!
Shame on you!

“disruption to their other business interests”

So, are you telling me that Liverpool fans would be willing to boycott or disrupt the interests of Gillett Evernham Motorsports and/or the Montreal Canadiens? For crying out loud, don’t get fans of other franchises from different sports involved. I can’t speak for the Canadiens, but for the time being, the Gillett family has been like a god-send for the race team. After the bottom-less pit that was last season, GEM-fans, Evernham fans, Kasey Kahne, Elliott Sadler, and Patrick Carpentier fans do not need more of a headache.

It’s not that I don’t sympathize with you fans, but you have to understand. I have nothing against Gillett. From what I can see, he made a mistake and looks to be trying to get out of the deal because of the PR hell he’s getting. However, he is not a bad person. The Canadiens are now one of the stronger teams in the NHL and the NASCAR team is showing some positives in preseason testing.

So please, don’t get the other Gillett (or Hicks, for that matter) franchises involved. Some fans, like me, have dealt with too many headaches already (not related to Gillett).

Note: And if I took that quote out of context, I’m sorry.

SAVE OUR CLUB!