CB Fry

Yawn. We're talking to 34 potential investors. We are not Aldershot or York City whose problems can be solved by a few buckets shaken round the bloody stadium. People have just lost their minds here, and seem to think that just because SLH have gone into administration we're all now part of an episode of Jossy's Giants where the players and the fans knock doors and wash people's cars to keep the club going. Its funny because in six months time the very same people that are currently prepared to auction off a kidney to pay off three days wages for Rudi Skacel will be screaming blue murder when the new owners start putting up marketing messages on the website, or stick fifty quid on the season ticket price. Micky Channon said exactly what I've been saying a couple of days ago. It's obscene. But Saints seem to have plenty of mug punters around to keep it going. Just remember that in a few months time when you all start moaning about being "taken for granted" again.

Don't you own a radio then? If you live in the Solent/Radio Hants area why bother spending money on Saints TV in the first place? Just buy a radio for five quid. I'm confused!

Err - a ten point penalty before the deadline would have GUARENTEED relegation as well. You really are an utter retard.

So there is there nowhere on the web playing this game?

LOL. The poll would be Lowe by an absolute landslide, it's ridiculous you're even making out you don't know what result it would return. And it won't be anything like a MORI poll, just a two day argument on a web forum. Seriously, move on.

Amen. The only time I wanted to actually hear the preamble, it's off. And Radio Hampshire listen live isn't working either. Sh i te. Fry out.

Not really. It wasn't "stock market listing" that appointed Steve Wigley and Jan Poortvliet. Just the crazed appointments of a lunatic and the architect of two (yes, two, deal with it) relegations. The first five, six, seven years of "stock market listing" we were more than fine and prospered where our peers went down. Perry and co haven't got a fu ck ing clue about anything and I wouldn't trust them with the proverbial whelk stall. Spare us from the rent-a-quote Scargillettes.

Ahh, that'll be it then. Didn't know that key piece of info.

Surprised no-one has started a thread about this, maybe it was just me that heard it. Jeff Stelling was on Five Live earlier talking about his new book, Soccer Saturday and Football in general and went out of his way to talk about Southampton as being one of the sad stories of the season. I'm pretty sure he described Saints as "pretty close to my heart". Mentioned that he was talking to Bobby Charlton about us (!) - how could a club so well run for so long have fallen so far, he said something about Bobby saying how Saints always pushed/battled well against the top clubs in the land and now look at them. And then Stelling said - all the fans are saying where has the money for Theo gone, where has the money for Beattie gone, where has the money for Kenwynne gone, where has the money for Wayne Bridge gone. It was pretty impassioned and I was quite surprised. And he didn't even mention Matty, which is where I thought he was coming from - it seems very much "his own" view if you like. Anyway, sounded nice to hear support from a relatively high profile figure, and genuinely unprompted too. If anyone wants to here it it was on Colin Murray standing in for Simon Mayo on Five Live today between 2:15 and 2:45, sorry can't quite remember precise time. http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/programmes/#s

No art gallery on earth shows their entire collection all at once, all the time. Some are in storage, some are on display. It's not about "effing room". It's called "curation". And secondly, the art gallery is one of the best provincial art galleries in the country - ie doing its job very well. SFC is not doing its job very well. Why on earth should a success story be forced to prop up a failure.

Correct, and Alpine is absolutely spot on here on this thread. You mongs going on about "who cares about paintings gathering dust" want to get yourselves an education. Southampton City Art gallery is ace, and better than is available in many cities, including Nottingham and Derby whose galleries are appalling. Although there is a new one in Nottingham coming later in the year which is shaping up to be very good. Not that you lot care - far better to spend a couple of million on a frigging left back. Hey, if we sold all the library books in the city for kindling maybe we'd make enough to buy a holding midfielder. Just a load of old books aint it? What about grinding the bargate into dust and selling it on as shingle. Might pay six weeks wages for Alan Pardew to take over. Just a load of old building aint it? Welcome to dinlow Britain. :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

I can see what you are saying but don't think you could do that in the real world, not least because the fans would go mad. Can you imagine MFI saying "these kitchens are dirt cheap, but that's because we can't guarantee you getting one if you buy one from us". Being in admin is a bit like being pregnant - you either are or you aren't and you can't suggest you might be nearly and use that to secure more cash from your customer base.

Correct. What affinity did Ferguson have for Utd, or Wenger for Arsenal, or Mourinho with Chelsea, or Moyes with Everton, O'Neill with Villa, or indeed Mccarthy with Wolves, Coppell with Reading, Mcleish with Brum, Dave Jones with Cardiff, Coyle with Burnley, or Mowbray with West Brom, Pulis with Stoke, Brown with Hull, or in the League we'll be in next season what affinity did Pearson have with Leicester, or Di Matteo with MK, or Ferguson with Peterborough? Their complete lack of affinity has seem to have done them alright. Is that a long enough list? I hope we appoint someone with absolutely no affinity to the club whatsoever. Affinity is a mug's game.

I think we'd have a decent selection to chose from. All the names on here, except Hoddle and Keegan are realistic if we are in reasonable financial shape. Holloway, Lawrie Sanchez, Tisdale, Cotterill, Adams, Boothroyd, Pardew. Any of them, and I think most of them would give us a go if offered. Wotte will be long gone.

15 potential will probably throw up 2 or 3 genuine contenders. ie real investors/business people with serious plans and maybe some serious money. This is what the club needs, and this is what I have been saying. What we don't need is people shaking buckets, running charity fun-runs and all that guff. We are not Weymouth even though reading some posts on here that's what some people seem to want us to be: as if being some tinpot nothing club in the bottom division or the conference is somehow more noble than than being the top-two division club we've been for decades. Put your buckets away, spend your money on your families. Just pack the stadium. That's all that's needed at the moment.

I'm with Rattlehead. "Every little" is barely going to "help", and buckets and auctions and all that is not really going to make a blind bit of difference. We need genuine investment. You lot can sit in baths of baked beans and go on sponsored swims if you like but I think its a waste of time. Sorry.

If you need to track down Gavyn Davies, your best bet will be to pitch up at the Emirates Stadium, Islington at around three o'clock tomorrow where Mr Davies and his family have season tickets for some considerable time. If I were you, I'd grab him at half time, so you don't take him away from his beloved Arsenal.

How many Industrial and Provident Societies do you expect to be promoted to the Premier League in the next ten years? This is fantasy land stuff. If you want Saints to be bumming about the bottom two divisions for ever, then go down this route. If the self satisfied smugness of being part of Kibbutz FC is your prime motivation, then this is the solution for you. Who's volunteering the home made cakes for the stall at half time? It's hilarious that when people rant about "greed" and "raw capitalism" then they always infer that the "suits" that are the problem. Bradley Wright Phillips will walk off with £1m for the course of his contract. Rudi Skacel is on nigh on £1m a year, every year, as was Rasiak and others. Do you think they are going to play for a club who uses the pitch to grow lettuce in the close season to make ends meet? Footballers are as "raw" and as "capitalist" as you could get yet its those in the ties that get all the stick. PS - why has Zero been removed as an option?

What part of "£5,000 would pay the wages of one of our worst and over paid players for one week" don't you understand. We're not Mansfield or Accrington so passing the bucket round the stands isn't going to make a blind bit of difference no matter how "good" it makes people feel. And secondly expected ordinary working class people to chuck £5k to cover the wages of the likes of BWP in the middle of a recession and mass unemployment in the south and nationally is obscene and don't appreciate your tone.

Zero. Don't believe in the principle of fan ownership on this kind of scale, and especially as, say, £5k would pay the wages of Bradley Wright Phillips for one week. Any normal wage earner like me would have to be mental to put £5k in and it just shows how insignificant £500 would be.

Rubbish. The appointment of Wigley is where the demise began. What demise was there between Woodford handing over to Askham and before the appointment of Wigley? Show me the league finishes and tell me how it equates to a demise. If anything its a slight upward curve. We'd finished twelfth in the Prem only two league games (and six months) before the appointment of Wigley. Twelfth in the Prem is pretty bloody good, isn't it?

Harsh. See below for the York notes study guide GCSE explanation of my first line*. I'm glad you liked it, at whatever level! *The point I was trying to distill was if we have to go through this turmoil, doing it before the Charlton home game and the Watford game in hand is as good a time as I could think of, because at best, it will galvanise us. On the other hand, going through this kind of thing is obviously rubbish. Hope that helps.

I think this is actually quite well timed, if these things can be, which of course they can't. Lowe going will galvanise the fans if nothing else - any doubts or fears the players have will allayed on Saturday by the fans getting their club back (excuse that dread phrase) from that man. It should be a cracking atmosphere on Saturday - a bit of siege mentality and pure support. And I think we are allowed to hope, just for now: someone will save us, and we will love them for it. Come on!!

What about the road to Cardiff and the road to eighth in the Prem? Was it Super Guy Askham's red and white army then? We are where we are because of the effects of relegation. Nothing to do, whatsoever with what happened in 1997. Nothing. Even if the 1997 events were bad, wrong, corrupt etc, its all too long ago and none of us can predict what could have happened differently. And being the likes of you would swallow Madaric's or Gaydamak's co c k whole for them to get involved in Saints, you getting all moral and uppity about people how people make money doesn't wash.

Fu c k all chance, he says . Christ, I'm pessimistic but we beat the worst team in the div at home on Sat, and then win our game in hand against a team with not much to play for and we're well on the way to surviving. Charlton have **** all chance. We have a chance. You are an utter moron.