We got between 50 and 60 responses ,there were probally twelve thet were note worthy or credible.The first was calum and he had responded within a couple of days.
We gave him all the information in terms of letting himlook a the books and we told him what the annual dficit could be.He went away andcame back and said he'd like to be invovled,his view when he came on was that he could fund the club for three years,we did our due diligence on him and it was that he was -a very rich man.On march 16th calums appointment was confirmed,as was his finacial commitment to the club while we were in the first divison.After the last game of the season ,a defeat to clyde, ithink that defeat pretty much galvanised calums thoughts and hence the new strategy,we would front load hisfinancial commitment and he would invest in getting us promoted,looking back Knight accepts that was the point that the board should have put a stop to the melville plan.
When we played rangers in the cup he(melville)had spok abot how we'd outspent them in the summer,but that was part of a sunstainable plan that he had comitted to,on the same day he emailed us to say he was resigning,within a couple of weeks he he was giving his support to us atleast ,ccosting plans of atraining facilities at west pitkerro.The thing was he always came upwith the money in the eleventh hour,and althogh he would threaten to resign four or five times he never would.
It was only when one of his offers to go was made public because it ld to him not attending jockys tribunal that the fans learned there was something amiss,by that time Knight admits that the board felt that going public would only see melville departing, a situation they knew would lead to administration and possible liquidation,and the feeling was that until the last few weeks was that his support would still be forthcomming.One of the reasons we went with calum was that he wasnt promising the earth,he wasnt making silly promises,he was talking about making it to the spl,trying to hold down a top six place and maybe getting to the odd cup final.