Ooh, hypotheticals are fun...
Suppose someone provides a service to you that you benefit from. They then come to collect the money you agreed to pay them when you employed their services, but you find due to your poor budgeting, you have no money left. You do however, have a bunch of assets you could sell to others to raise the funds to pay what you owe. What would you do?
A second hypothetical. Rather than doing the right thing in the above situation, you keep your assets, they help you keep your business at an inflated level. You avoid the debt by using administration to wipe it out. Do you learn from this to budget accordingly so as to avoid cheating people and keeping your business at an inflated level, or do you learn from this that you can build up debt and just wipe it out when it reaches a tipping point?
A third hypothetical, after cheating people out of money you owe them, twice, retaining assets that inflate your business above the level it would otherwise be had you done the right thing and sold said assets to pay your bills, would you then shove it in other businesses face how you've been a business at this level for x years, then throw a wobbly dismissing the legitimate points raised about how you were able to retain such a level as if it was somehow noble, or do you show a bit of humility acknowledging the source of your business's level and accept that perhaps it shouldn't be something you throw in the faces of businesses who when they had debt sold assets, who suffered dropping through divisions, homelessness and have now worked their way back up to the same level?
I think we know your reaction to each hypothetical. For the record, if Brighton went into administration as a last resort I wouldn't troll a hereford board bragging about how we stayed up, and get angry if they suggested administration played part. If brighton went into administration rather than sell players to pay debts, I wouldn't brag about how we stayed up in the top two divisions thanks to the players we refused to sell.
It isn't administration that brighton fans have a problem with. It's the palace fans dismissal of it from the story of their "success" (staying in the top two divisions). You stayed in the top two divisions because of the administrations, not despite them. That is too quickly forgotten by many of your brethren.
