CB Fry

I take it everyone realises this is a wind up. That is not an article from a local newspaper. Read it, and then read a real article in the Echo or any newspaper. It's an appalling fake. Why would the Express and Star, a local paper for the Black Country need to make no reference to Southampton (just "St Mary's" and "the club") but go into extreme precise detail about how Morgan bought Wolves a couple of years ago (I think their local paper would assume Wolves fans would know). Our Echo doesn't talk about Secure Retirement everytime they mention Lowe, do they? If Wolverhampton Wanderers had made a "club statement" about how them and Southampton would be fighting to get into Premier League together then that would have been picked up by every newspaper in the land. If Lowe had announced he was going to buy (say) Bournemouth and work on them together, don't you think there would be a few threads on it here? So what do the Wolves fans think on their messageboards? Or if Gaydamak said he was going to buy Ipswich as well, don't you think it might be on South Today? And on SSN? Slightly big news, eh? And how come our own Echo have decided not to bother to carry a story in another local paper about how another club in our league wants to buy us? You've been proper done there, Torbay. Happy Facebooking chaps.

You only need to be an average manager to keep that squad in the Premier League. Adams wasn't average, he was awful.

Curbishley. Who will keep them up easily.

I think he had trials for Forest at one point, but I think he may be an Arse fan these days (I think media types can be quite loose when it comes to football teams - just look at Fiona "Saints till they are relegated...Chelsea till I die" Phillips. What a sl ag.) Anyway, we agree on the main point - Frost and Davies as die hard Saints saviours - poppy****!

Did these Arab and Iraeli consortiums line up bids for any other middling to small Prem league teams at the time - Coventry or Forest or Leicester or Derby or Ipswich or Norwich or Bolton? Surely they wouldn't have just had their heart set on little old Saints? Just interested in what happened to them. As for for Frost/Davis I think that is the single biggest urban myth in Southampton Football club history. Being that Davies is now a season ticket holder at the Emirates and he has had over a decade to realise his "dream" of owning Saints - it never was going to happen, and never will.

The big difference is when wolves were for sale Jack Hayward let the buyers (presumably this Morgan chap) have the club for a pound just as long as they commited to investing x million into the team. I think it would take more than a pound and some nice football-team related investment promises to prise the shares out of Rupert's cold, dead hand.

Oh dear, you won't fit in around here. You seem to be labouring under the assumption that going into administration is a bad thing, and does no good whatsoever for the club going into admin. Frankly you're wrong. Administration is a fantastic empowering experience that makes all clubs fifty times stronger than ever before and shooting back up through the leagues like Apollo 11. It will be the single greatest thing that ever happens to us and I for one will be dancing on the streets when we go into admin as it is second only to winning the Euromillions on a quadruple rollover. Or something. Well it must be that for the number of fans on here screaming for us to "take the plunge" and ranting on about how brilliant it will be to have "a clean slate".

Who from? Nineteen canteen who is just SomeDunce reincarnated? You're seeing some gigantic pro Lowe movement to rail against that simply isn't there.

Manager of team says he is pleased that some of his best players were not sold in the transfer window.....and then gets absolutely ripped apart by some fans for saying such a thing. Read it again and ask yourself - what are you actually getting upset about? What the f uc k is wrong with some people.

Now that is a bit of a strange wish. The funny thing is Nicholl never did anything of note at any other club, which for a man who had five years top flight experience and was pretty successful against anyone's standards, was quite odd. He was at Walsall for about five minutes, disappeared, came back to Walsall as Ray Graydon's assistant and now he does something for the pools panel or press association or something where he counts how many corners are taken at matches in the midlands. I'm sure he'd jump at the chance to finish what he started in 1991

Do remind us what you're "doing" again? You've said many times you have no desire to do anything, which is fair enough, but that means you can't spout rubbish like that last line. You're proving my point. The fact is no-one except for a couple of people on this forum (on a wind up IMO) want Lowe to remain. But that's too difficult for you and others to grasp so you have to rail against anyone who doesn't take up the extreme view of wanting him dead and his guts dragged up Western Esplanade, and make out there's a huge swell of pro Lowe people you have to go into battle against. And bang on, and on, and on about the same old stuff. We got relegated did we? £90,000 in the first season down, eh? Dutch morons in charge? No. shi t. The people you think you are locked in a 100 years war with? They don't exist. And don't make out you are at war "against Lowe" because you have admitted in the past to doing nothing (again, fair enough, I'm with you).

Well, we haven't finished seventh in the top division since Nicholl.

He was definitely sacked, I remember the Echo reports at the time described him as the first Saints manager ever to be sacked (fancy that, these days!). I think Nicholl finished fifteenth or so in his last season, but you're right apart from the brilliant season of finishing seventh we tended to be about 12th in his time with us. He put together a great little team and is responsible for me loving Saints to this day.

He might own shares still, but he'll be gone from the front line. For one Wilde will turn tail and hang him out to dry and probably end up back in bed with Crouch. He's not the Terminator T1000, he's just a tw at with a suit. He won't hang around for re-promotion this time.

Not everyone missed it, it must have been certain TV regions that missed it, I live in the East Midlands and I saw the goal. There was a two second cut out but it came back well before the goal.

I saw the goal. I fuc king hate liverpool so it was brilliant.

I think I'll enjoy a long glass of something cold, sat on the patio, drinking in the mid August sunshine thinking "well, they won't all be as easy as Walsall at home".

What a plank. Mandaric got through countless managers at Fratton - Ball, Claridge, Pulis and Rix before he got Arry in and still managed to lose him before going through a couple more managers. And he "learnt his lesson" at Leicester by getting through Kelly, Worthington, Allen, Megson, Taggart and Holloway in just over a season and relegating the club to league one. What a f uc king hero. Saints fans wetting themselves over someone who relegated his team to the lowest position they have ever been through chopping and changing the manager left right and centre. And he hasn't yet sacked his manager who has been at the top of the league all season. What a "brave" decision to stick with Pearson so far..... You really could not make this up.

You do realise apart from two wind up merchants on here no-one supports Lowe anymore. So you can stop frothing at the mouth about stuff that happened ten years ago because christ its been done to death.

This is 100% correct. The original post on this thread is ******** and yet more evidence of the club "historian" turning into a club "speculator", club "assumer" and heaven forbid club "stooge" for good old Leon. Lowe will be responsible for our relegation and then will be gone, I'm sure. These kind of threads speed up Lowe's departure not a jot more and they certainly don't help us get any more points on the table. But if Leon and his pet historian are happy with their efforts, fair play to you both.

I think the plan was to be doing that last season

If we do go down, and I think that is the most likely scenario, then the damage has already been done. You're taking three massive leaps - one that we would have got huge amounts of cash for Surman and Lallana, and two that the money we'd got in for those two would have been spent on better replacements and three those better replacements would have slotted into the team and played with the kind of conviction and spirit that for all their faults Adam and Drew do display. Last year's team was chock full of well paid "big name" players and where did that get us? Relegation out of our hands on the final day. You can get all upset about how we've missed an opportunity this transfer window by not buying many players, but I don't remember seeing that much on here about our lack of purchases during January itself. The rumour angst mill was all about who was being sold. So few of us realists ever expected a recruitment drive, and very few of the extremists expected one either. Most of us realists expected one two or three departures. The first happened as expected, but the second didn't, which is a small mercy. Be thankful for it, instead of getting worked up about a scenario that frankly was never, ever on the cards.

I don't really see the connection. If you are really saying "it wouldn't have mattered if Davies and Surman had been flogged" then fair enough, that's your opinion. But you and I know that had those players been sold on Monday you and plenty like you would not have shrugged and said "oh, well, they were rubbish anyway". You would have wanted Lowe's head on a stick.

Look out Premier League here come the super managers Martinez - maybe manage in the Prem one day Nigel Adkins - well... Steve Tilson - um.... Mike Newell - currently at Grimsby.... Paul Sturrock - well I like him but unlikely to trouble the Prem any time soon. Paul Jewell - okay, we have one. Peter Taylor - cast iron Premier League fu ck up. Dennis Wise - arf. Let's not expect any of these managers to be sweeping into White Hart Lane or Eastlands any time soon..... Let's not get carried away that winning League one is some passport to managerial mega stardom.

Sorry, where did I say he didn't? I know exactly what he did at Carlisle, you're the one making out he'd never managed before.