CB Fry

I stopped wanting Spurs to fail the minute they worked out what a ****e manager Glenda was and sacked him. I always quite liked Spurs before and do again, especially in the Jol era. There are plenty of Northern Clubs I dislike above Spurs. I don't think there is any collective anti spurs feeling these days - some individual dislike, but I don't think you could say "saints fans hate spurs" any more. Could you?

I think most people are finally understanding the bigger picture I have been banging on about, and been shot down over, since the start of this affair. We don't need charity matches, bucket collections or people doing sponsored swims. We need the administrator to sort a deal out in as short a timescale as possible, ie with the tightest deadline possible. And that is finally what is happening, and I happen to think that the bucket collections have been a negative thing because it has elongated the whole process. And all that happened is ordinary fans subsidised the £5k a week wages of Bradley Wright Phillips. Well done you. The big picture is we will be taken over by a group of businessmen. I said that on day one and I will be proved right, despite being acccused of "not getting the big picture" by various delusionals on this forum telling me "some of us have a club to save". Yeah, right. No more charity, thanks - let busines take on business debt.

I'd like to see you name 50 football stadiums in the last twelve years that are significantly better than SMS if we are so terribly average out of the 100 that have been built. In fact, just name 50 stadiums that have been built over the last 12 years in this country. What exactly is wrong with it, apart from "Lowe was involved so therefore it was rubbish"?

Stoneham would have been ****ing awful. Souless dealthless stadium in the middle of absolutely nowhere and you'd have to drive or get the bus. Great. The people moaning about it like Stoneham would have been the Bernabeu and The Old Den rolled into one would be moaning a hell of a lot more if Lowe had secured Stoneham with his Hotel/Cinema/Shopping complex bolted on the side of it. Or do you 'tards really think the true spirit of Southampton football club would be best captured by commercial leisure facilities a retail park and a branch of Subway? Just what Ted Bates would have wanted Stop moaning you dinlows. St Mary's is a very good city centre stadium built at the heart of our city and you can stroll to it from the city centre. Boo hoo, what a ****ing outrage We want a hotel, we want a hotel

I thought you were the bloody club historian. "The shields are up and the Klingons are shooting at us and every time they land a punch they are sapping our power" Quite a famous quote in Lowe's pantheon, I'd say. Accuse him of what you like but not sure not having something of a sense of humour/the ridiculous could be one of them, especially when laughing at some pikey Saints fan, which frankly is the source of a hell of a lot of humour on this forum. And quite right too, if you've ever read the contributions from our blessed yoof.

You have heard the Star Trek speech?

I think the quality of the rumour should be judged on fruit. And the quality/wealth of the bidder should be judged on the animal kingdom. So Paul Allen would be a Fig Wilderbeest. Matt Le Tissier would be a Watermelon Lemur. Dave Merrington would be the dreaded Double Kiwi. No hope and no money either.

Errr - no they weren't, they all bought by George Burley who had been the manager for the previous season and a half, meaning about as far away from "managerial turmoil" as you could have got. And they were all bought in the same close season as well, so not at "different times" and not by "different managers". So it was actually exactly the same as the Strachan situation, just a division below.

This is a quite bizarre post. Who hates us? We've had more laments about our downfall in the national media than I can remember for any other comparable club.

Bit early for that. What is true is that Joe Royle did a better job than Magilton with no additional resources and Magilton did appallingly this season. He had the magic ingredient everyone drones on about - time - and he had pots of cash last summer. And got nowhere. Not sure I'd want Jim at Saints - below average in the CCC does not equate to "really good in L1". Chances are he'd be below average again.

We don't agree on much, but christ we agree on this. In fact I agree with everyone that has heard of this lunatic (apart from Bazza the briefcase) because we all agree - NO NO NO NO NO NO PLEASE GOD NO.

You what? Go and research the job he did on Bournemouth including his interview broadcast on Meridian. Delusional, arrogant, clueless, lying, fantastist run out of town by AFCB and its fans. ie real events caused by real people, affecting real people, at a real business (AFCB) in real time in a real place. Not an internet forum in sight. That is enough for people to say this man should not be let anywhere near our club. To dismiss it all as cyber bullying is just laughable, and reminds me of Longlifemilk/Jackson's (and others) most favourite refrain - "the attitude of people on this forum has stopped a multimillion pound take over, honest it has, it's all your fault"

I knew there would be a conspiracy reply to my post. Thanks for being so prompt.

Well he was a Lowe defender, for sure, but the point also missed by many who scream "Lowe never ever wanted to sell up" was Jackson was tasked with selling Lowe and co's shares. That's what he was touting about to all and sundry. And that's what turned him into the ranting delusional ego maniacal clueless ****flap we all loved to hate on these forums. Jackson that is. Not Lowe. Actually, Lowe as well.

Someone put the manifesto up. It was brilliant, especially all the bits with no capital letters or the rong spelings.

Get ready for someone to call you a cretin for suggesting such a thing.

But Hansen and Gray are A-list (ie the best paid and most highly valued commentators in the industry) so their "expertise" must be at the kind of level that..... oh forget it. You're clearly off your head.

I look forward to Alan Hansen and Andy Gray leading a team to the Champions League title any year now.

First run of the Echo prints overnight so the decision of what to run I am sure would already have been taken, probably written in the usual evening paper phraseology of "it is expected that this will have happened". If Um's source is the Echo sports or newsdesk then we're off and running! Good old "tomorrow" :smt041

Sorry, that is outrageous. What exactly is Matt's considerable expertise relevent to being the club manager and when has he demonstrated it? And yes, in the running of Southampton Football Club I want Matthew Le Tissier to have as little power as possible. With a manager selecting, coaching, managing and developing the playing squad free of interference. And a chief exec running the club on a budget relative to the income we generate. But do I want MLT involved? Yes, yes, yes. As manager? No, no, no. That is called "sense" sunshine.

He doesn't have "considerable footballing expertise". David Moyes does. MLT was simply the greatest player in our history. And no one, absolutely no one on earth, wants Matthew Le Tissier to "run" Southampton "as a business". Most of us just want him on the board, and being around. Figurehead, inspiration, hero.

He has got "no knowledge whatsoever" of managing anything football related, ever. He has been running businesses, including his now closed nightclub and other ventures, since the nineties. So he actually has more business knowledge than applicable football knowledge.

What the hell are you on about?

Sorry it was "as normal". Brum were yo-yoing between the divisions, as were Reading. Neither were anything like as used to Premier League status as we were. It was normal because Leeds, Cov, Sheff Weds, Forest and lots of others have suffered similarly and most, like us, haven't managed to scrape back yet. For example, I back West Brom to be in better shape to come straight back up than Middlesbrough who have a big shock coming. Don't kid yourself that Southampton Football Club have some monopoly on mismanagment. Tell that to a Sheffield Wednesday fan, or a Forest fan, or a Derby fan, or a Leicester fan. Don't disagree with your other points though.

No surprise Alpine swallows it whole.