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How can you say "lazy Guernsey man" about Le Tissier? He showed real loyalty to this Club.

Q: Would Rupert Lowe have stooped this low. "Now we are being told the ex-Saints, which is a charity that raises money for good causes and former players who have fallen on hard times, have been told they can’t use the club badge on any of its paraphernalia or literature." A: No, and we all know how bad he was. Cortese is making even worse decisions in his PR than Lowe. Who would have thought that possible? The reason this Club has such large attendances in L1 compared to most other teams is our recent heritage from the 60s to the 00s. That heritage was built by our former players and managers. Attacking our history damages the brand of Saints and will eventually poison it so badly that attendances will suffer. When Lowe came back attendances dropped by 5,000 and went up by a similar amount after he left even though we had then dropped to L1. Cortese is a juvenile learner in a Chairman's job and it shows. He has temper tantrums and throws around bans without caring for the consequences.

Clearly the Sports Editor does not know the real position. WAKE UPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!

This is from the Report. In other words the Club is very bad at PR and treated this customer very badly, just like it treated the press and photographers!

Frank, please read the report. Saints gave no explanation for their action to the IFO. They even offered to hear the Saints talk under "Chatham House rules". I have also never met Nick. he was treated appallingly by Saints and it seems clear it stems from Cortese who has made a number of PR mistakes. Just like Lowe did.

Can I believe anything the Echo tells me? Tonight's Echo on back page has a league table showing only 18 games played and Saints further down than the reality.....

6-0 a score that gives us the best Goal difference in the League and turns Oldham's GD (in 9th) negative. Amazing stuff.

How about Cortese and Pardew's picture on the front and Cortese saying "I dont know why Pardew did not like my Xmas present of a horses head?" or if Wotton goes to the skates someone asking Cortese "Where's Wotton" and Cortese saying "He sleeps with da fishes"

So that was why we had 30,000 oldsarum?

Why not try and get 3,000 to 5,000 more to the Boxing Day+2 game on the 28th? Make another move to reinforce our family image as a Club.

The "bank holiday" in lieu of Boxing Day is the 28th and we have Huddersfield at home that day.

It is not just the spine of the team but also the mental desire to win every tackle. To press and to challenge the opponents. That comes from the Manager and Coach.

Am I right in thinking that we have had fewer special offers for games this season to date than last season? Last season the Boxing Day game had various family friendly specials, this year none. Anyone share any light on it?

I think that it is unreasonable to expect Adkins to get us automatic promotion. But Cortese's judgment was that getting rid of Pardew, waiting to select a replacement and then having Adkins for the rest of the season was a better bet than sticking with Pardew. Cortese made an irrational decision which has probably cost us more points than the 10 point deduction last season.

I am not calling for his head, just observing that Cortese is likely to sack him based on current form.

Adkins is heading for the sack at the end of the season. He has only achieved a win ratio of 50% (League) and a PPG of 1.71. To get automatic promotion, his PPG for the rest of the season it usually needs to be for the remaining games in the range of 2.2. FYI Pardew's PPG for all games (League and cup) was 1.86. But we/Adkins may get lucky and if L2 has a freak season like 2005/6, then the PPG was as low as 1.72 for 2nd place.

In the December/Jan transfer window Lowe decided to make a profit on the transfer/loan dealings of several million (Beattie sale etc). It was the stupidest decision of all Lowe's many dumb financial decisions. By not allowing Redknapp to secure an experienced CB etc, Lowe handicapped our relegation fight. He raised £2m for the Club and then lost £50m+ following relegation.... What Club fighting relegation from the Prem, actually raises cash in that xfer window?

He has fallen out with; many people in the media, many ex-players, one team Manager and his staff, numerous internal staff, Chairmen at other Clubs and several Leaders of supporters groups..... Judge a man by his actions. Cortese has left a trail of bad relationships. But you love him.

Has she started wearing them these days?

He has experience of how cash should be invested such as in Property vs Shares. He had no experience in managing people or in handling relations with the media. Regarding the Echo vs Saints issue, Cortese is the one who keeps picking fights with people. He has form.

The best way to get favourable treatment in the media is to treat them nicely. No guarantee that this will always create positive reports but at least if you do not cause them irritation in doing their job, they are not going to go out of there way to trash you. Cortese just continues to behave as a child that inherited a sweet shop. That this chap with a background as an advisor on where the rich invest, has no grasp of such matters should be of no surprise. He had no experience in running anything prior to the Saints. That is why his external business relationships are so full of disputes and edicts. The real sadness is that he seems incapable of acknowledging his faults and learning from his mistakes. That takes a wise and brave person.

The right time for a large offer was December 2009 which was 6 months after the new ownership and with 18mths left on his contract. At this point Adam can force a sale through to a Club elsewhere simply because he can hold over us the threat of being free of any contract next summer with us then getting a development award. This delay will probably have lost us £2m to £5m.

Exactly right. Cortese reduced our chances of promotion. If we now get automatic promotion, Adkins will deserve a medal - or a statue. 66% win ratio for the remaining games?

It was only a loss away. But it was to a rival. That said Adkins needs to win 2 out of every 3 remaining games, draw 25% and only lose 3 more to be in the automatic promotion slots with 88 points. If its the average 84 points (last 5 seasons) then we could afford to lose 4. It looks like a tall order and is a higher set of targets than when he started. Any slump or a month of draws could finish his season off unless he sneaks through the playoffs.

The question is why no new contract deal was done last season? Or in the summer? Was one offered?