No,i just dont see how any of that logically leads to "give us money NZF"
The comms manager made statements that were made into a bigger story than it is. TonyP and terry s responded by saying we lose 1million a year and this is normal for an A league club (also that terry knew this when he took the license),and also that anything on late payments is just normal banking issues,if some of the players were with another bank etc.
So how does their followup comments,stating that we arent in financial crisis and saying that the newspaper article blew innocent comments out of proportion equate to asking NZF for money...?
and yes i have read the article/s and my attention span didnt peter out. Dont make me out to be an idiot. cheers.
If I wanted to make you out to be an idiot, I'd have said that you read the articles and didn't understand them, even down to being able to tell who was being quoted at which point and which paper the article came from. By saying that you didn't bother reading, I meant to avoid that conclusion.
It's interesting to note that your synopsis of the follow-up comments by Pignata and Serepisos includes the claim that SST "blew innocent comments out of proportion". I am not as careful a reader as you, but I can't find that claim or an equivalent in the articles. But perhaps you are so wedded to this "media attack" theory that you have started to assume that everyone believes it?
For those following the competing "Mitchell is an idiot" theory, the hard question is, "Why hasn't he been sacked?" (There is an easy answer, to be fair: you can just say that he'll be sacked soon. Though I predict that this will wear thin.)
My reasoning is simply that: I don't buy the media attack theory and the idiot theory leans on the future. That leads to asking what WPFC intended to achieve, and a hand-out from NZF is at least one contender. (In answer to "Why didn't they approach directly?": it's at least plausible that this would be interpreted by Serepisos' bankers as a sign of desperation.)
I suppose there are people here who would rather go with a "it just falls from the sky" explanation. But even rain falls from the sky for a reason.