Topcat

Will the administrators act quickly and remove Lowe and Wilde from SLH and SFC? If they do act quickly then attendances will rise and give a boost to the Club's finances and its chances of avoiding relegation. I have read that the Echo and the Saints Trust are calling for all supporters to come back. But Lowe and Wilde need to be removed to enable that to happen. Sad that the Trust do not understand that.

Is the real problem that these airhead presenters and their producers actually know very little about the area? One lady on earlier had an accent from miles away, so is the real problem that their are not enough sotonians involved at Solentless?

Each time I tune into Radio Solent its priorities are all about flim flam subjects on each show today. Not one has the Saints as its main priority. Clegg was focused on "what strange things you have found" the next chap was all about a steam car .... and next we have Charlie talking about pregnant brides dresses........ Nothing really local and Saints are a minor news item. It should be THE main item with call ins and experts etc etc. What is the point of BBC funding (from our tv licence fee) for a local radio show that does not fully focus on a major local news story?

BBC South said tune into Radio Solent for details . I did. Julian Clegg talked about the strange things that people have found and about G20 protests! WTF is that about? What is local about his show? Local Club near death and Clegg is wittering about finding 2p on the pavement and G20. Finally we get Merrington who does not know much..... Now we have a twerp wittering on asking about what people are doing in the sun and a charade about a steam car....

We had to win 3 games in a row just to stay in touch with the clubs above us. Even after that we were still in the bottom 3. That is why we are near certainties for relegation.

Is being arrested something BWP some monthly target he has? Has the CPS given him a season ticket?

They failed because of their timidity, at a time of the Club's darkest hour they went missing. Just like the TSA did. They failed because of their inability to have an effective discussion with their supporters. A discussion that would have included votes on what their priorities should be. In this age of online communication the Trust focused more on operating as a Committee that soaked up precious time. What a shower. They had no vision on how it should operate effectively. A 16 year old had more passion and drive than the lot of them. Shame.

If we have to discuss a lower league quality of football it follows we should pay less for it. How about half?

bj4mm ?

The average success rate in business of selecting top management (CEOs) is reckoned to be 1 in 2. Lowe has made at least 12 appointments and 3 wandered off of their own volition. Of the 3 only 1 WGS was a success. So of the 12, we can only count WGS as a success and 2 (HR and GB) could be excluded from a judgment. That leaves 9 that were canned. 9 failures and 1 success is an appalling record and one that would bankrupt most enterprises if the slot was a CEO.

I am a bit shocked at the realistic polling on display here. Gone is the blind optimism. 86% think we are doomed. Almost gone are the naive useful idiots that supported Lowe.

I had similar thoughts as Legod when I looked at Sky this evening, we are behind and some teams even have a game in hand. The only way I can see it turning is if the home supporters came back and pulled the team through. That would require crowds of more than 20k and ideally 25k. But as long as Lowe remains at the Club, many supporters just cannot go back and give their support. Lowe's backers and Barclays seem oblivious to these facts, which shows that there are some incredibly stupid people in Business.

Lowelife has driven away at least 5,000 off the gate. Why anyone denies this or is surprised by it is beyond understanding. They must be thick.

Wotte (from the Echo) "We need to win lots of matches" No s*** sherlock. Wot more brilliant insights is the man going to deliver?

Remember that Lord Lowelife said "we wont do a Leeds".

Wotte has a great record .... in getting teams relegated. Why the surprise?

The Trust should be using this period to recruit people. Instead it is choosing to go into hibernation. It should of course have been organising the march but chose instead to organise drinks at a pub.

We have in Lowe a Chief Executive who is barely spending one day a week in the job. That means that any discussions and decisions get delayed and squeezed into the day or put off for weeks on end. That is why JP's sacking took so long. You cannot effectively run a business with a couple of hundred staff and a turnover of £15m on one day a week.

Lowe has made at least 10 other bad appointments , this is just another one tagged onto a long list. Unfortunately his supporters and appeasers say "anyone can make a mistake...". But more than 10 mistakes = incompetence.

So we have gone from Portaloo to Wotthefuk let us pray that he has learned from all the relegations.

The Echo these days would struggle to find out anything about Saints. Just look at the Hockaday matter they did not notice he was not there on Saturday in their first reports. They have zero sources inside the Club and never break any news story. More chance on this web site of finding out what is going on.

As a key Director, Lowe's actions will be subject to scrutiny following any move into administration. That said what would be looked at is whether he was negligent i.e. did the company continue to trade after it was safe to do so. Delay is therefore a factor. Unfortunately decisions such as appointing an inexperienced coach and insisting on using kids would not feature in any report to BERR as those are more subjective factors. A pity as Lowe has one of the worst records in choosing Managers/Coaches in the entire Football League.

Sad that our local paper the Echo lacks the journalists to find out what is going on and explain our position as clearly as this Mail article does. It is clearly a leak from the Lowe camp. But Lowe has no chance of buying the Club out of admin and when we go into admin his shares become worthless. Something I have not read on this site is what is the main priority for Lowe's actions now that his shares are becoming worthless? All Lowe can do for himself is preserve his public name as a Director. If he fails to put the Club into admin at the right time then he (Cowen and Jones etc) put at risk their ability to be a Director elsewhere. That is something that the Department for B.E.R.R (ex DTI) Inspectors will decide. This will not be about saving Saints. It will be about saving Lowe etc ability to be a Director.

Maybe the staff think that we are a train company?

45% of what? The income was £10m higher due to 1) better crowds 2) final Prem payment