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LTC is right, time is running out. But Lowe and his backers seem to have a death wish for their investment and are plowing on into relegation, administration, a points deduction and L2. Was there ever a more incompetent bunch of businessmen? They rival Northern Crock's ex-Board. We lose the Club and they lose their shares.

re Fitzhugh fella, thanks, the Trust needs a Leader with the vision and the time. A retired person maybe best. There are thousands of those amongst the supporters. re influenced.com, the issue is that it should be the role of the Trust to grow in influence and evolve to the point that it owns the Club. We are where we are becuase of who owns the Club. The Trust should gear itself up to be ready to buy the Club (when we go into admin) or buy a large chunk of shares if we avoid that horror.

The Club is on the verge of relegation, administration, docking of points and dropping to L2. Washsaint writes as if this is not imminent and we just have a little local difficulty, a mere bump in the road. Yes washsaint in your eyes it is "only a mere flesh wound" and not a decapitation. Unbelievable.

Judge people by their actions. Where has the Trust been in the worst year for Saints (so far)? Answer Missing from the Action. They went to sleep and failed to provide any Leadership. They are not to blame for the dire state of the Club. But most of the Trust's Board are to blame for failing to represent their Members and failing to communicate. The Trust has shown no sign of any coherent alternative proposals for a better run Saints. When Lowe returned they did not set the SLH Board any clear targets against which they should be measured. They failed to warn about 5,000 fewer attendees due to Lowe. Nick Illingsworth should resign for failing to lead at a time when the Trust desperately needed an able Leader. He has become almost an apologist for Lowe saying that others need to share the blame. No they do not, all others have done is to back the idiot. Misguided they maybe, but Lowe took the decision to remove Pearson, shed experience, select a dutch experiment and squander wages on some very duff players.

To spend money to get rid of Rupert and then to back him and remove a decent Manager for another Lowelife experiment beggars belief. You could have sold your shares for half what you paid for them back in the summer. Today they are almost worthless. Backing lowelife has caused that and you were the mug who switched sides. Are you just a cr*p businessman with no spine?

Lowe has made a tough situation worse through his appalling management decisions. Ending Lowe today could bring in £2m more from 5,000 more supporters for the 11 CCC home games left. Ending Lowe now has the bigger gain of bringing back support to help keep the team up. Crouch did very well with his first football Manager hire after the mistakes of supporting the internal appointments of D&G. However what I fear is that we will continue with Lowe and will be relegated. We will then go into admin, be docked points and then get relegated from L1 to L2.

Is it true that Lowe has sacked JP and appointed as a new cunning plan the top coach from the Arsenal womens team as they are the best in their League? The rumour is that we can also expect as part of the experiment the use of females in the first team as Lowe says this is an untapped source of talent?

The only benefit of administration is that Lowe will have lost his "pals" many hundreds of thousands of pounds. That will serve them right for backing him.

The real cause of this is Lowe and we have yet another one of Lowe's experiments unravelling. Yet Lowe will then pick the next coach and continue to hand the limited pick n mix squad for that poor coach to choose from. Barclays need to act and tell the Board that any continued support is dependent upon the removal of Lowe as an Executive Director.

The problem with removing Jan is that the Chairman with the worst track record in appointing Managers will decide who is Jan's replacement. Will Barclays finally act and tell the Lowe consortium that Lowe has to go?

Wilde is clearly an inadequate businessman and he has helped bring back the architect of our relegation from the Premiership. The quickest way of throwing away the couple of millions he paid for shares in Saints was to reduce attendances by 5,000 and get relegated to L1. Maybe Barclays can talk the Saints Board into removing Lowe and attracting back supporters. PS Who picked Jan Portaloo....? Answer: Rupert Lowe. A person who gets 80% of his Managerial appointments wrong. He would be better using dice to choose them.

I said at the start of the season that since we had; no defence, no leadership in the team and an ill-equipped coach, that relegation was a high probability. I also said I hoped (prayed) that I was wrong. Halfway through the season and we still have all 3 of these problems. After January we will have an even weaker team. Exit2 makes the right call with "I feel the remaining 50% of the season will be more dire then the first". Again, I hope that we are wrong, somehow I doubt it.

More like an old uncle who squanders the family fortune through their inept decisions and bankrupts us. The estate workers then have no homes and no pensions.

OK GM what substances are you on?

No not unbelieveable when it might keep us out of administration and provide cash to progress. Better to share a ground than to see the Club die.

I would rather he spent his time focused on creating a team that goes out and wins. I do not need him spending time with people in pubs, we tried that with Burley.

CHAPEL END CHARLIE, thanks. As to others views, it sadly look like we are entering the dangerous stage before our collapse. I hope that someone at Barclays with half a business brain cell makes a business decision that recovery is impossible under Rupert Lowe. Watching a sick relative dying IMHO. Correct. If only Barclays realised it. Yes you have from previous sites. Do not blame yourself, this was created by Lowe and his supporters.

Is his injury his age in that he is too old to play in our innovative setup? Or is his appearance money too high for Lowe's wonderful approach to team selection?

I hope that you are right, however it maybe far far worse than that. To set this in context, with internal surveys of employees there is an end phase in employee morale which comes after the anger phase. It is the point where participation dramatically falls and the people are in a state of immobile catalepsy. They just do not care anymore. Death for that company is usually the next step. The bad sign for us is the dramatic fall of about 50% in the non-ST Saints supporters since last season. When most people cease to care the organisation dies. Lowe and Wilde may not understand this. Their business experience is not founded on the need to nurture and bring large groups of people (staff and customers) with them to win in the market place.

I actually agree with GM, now there is a first. Pompey cannot afford their new ground so why not share? It would halve our stadium costs and maybe free up cash for an expansion. Might even keep us out of administration. £2m extra for players wages a year would be very handy.

Wan*er: A person who is always brown nosing Rupert.

Gobern? Go somewhere else?

Many people have written on this site that Barclays have to give their approval to major decisions. That being the case the role of Chairman/CEO is a major decision and that is why I expect Barclays to have a say about Lowe continuing. Lowe chose and appointed JP. The appointment of JP is a failure. Whether because of JP or because of Lowe's meddling, the fault is Lowe's. Lowe has one of the worst track records in appointing Managers/Coaches why trust Lowe with appointing JPs replacement? Barclays can also see the adverse impact that Lowe has on the attendances and revenue. Barclays has to act and act soon.

Some say that attendances were already in decline last season....... Looking at the last 3 home games before Sheff utd. Burnley = 21,762 Bristol City = 22,890 Coventry =22,014

Is it April 1st already?