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It's easy to see how this guy got the job - looks like one of those ass kissers who spend more time sucking up to their employers than actually working. He must have took lessons from Dave Jones - he's the master of doing a **** job and getting away with it.

I still fail to understand this Wotte appointment. Poortvleit didn't work and he was considered the better candidate of the two a few months ago - why do we think another Dutch gamble is going to work now? Also internal appointments have proved completely disasterous for us in the past, surely there must be lessons to be learned from Grey, Wigley etc? If you were looking for a replacement, given the lack of experience in our squad, the most important attribute must surely be experience of the Championship. Someone who knows the league, knows the opposition and knows what is required to stay up. We have hired someone with zero experience in the Championship. It just goes against all logic, it is so hard to give it any support when you KNOW it's going to fail.

They are probably waiting for the club to go tits up so they can pick it up for a song. If that's the case we wont have to wait long.

Askham, Richards, Windsor-Clive & Withers - Am I right in thinking that Lowe promised these guys he would get them "X" amount for their shares in return for their loyalty during the Wilde takeover?

£2m a year is the same as about 4000 fans at £20 a head for each home game of the season. Even if we get 10,000 for each home game (which I doubt) we will have the same income as a team that averages 6,000 - so we will not even be a big boy finance wise in League 1.

Very managable or crippling? I doubt we would get crowds over 10k - someone do the maths...

I didn't say 'upsetting Lowe' should be what they should try to do, I just said they were scared to do anything in case of upsetting him. While the people of Southampton went on a march to try and help save the club they sat around having a meeting - they are a joke of Monty Python proportions.

They are pointless, while the last protest was going on they had a meeting at a pub. Illingsworth is scared of upsetting Lowe, at the moment he has a cosy meeting with him after every board meeting.

Excellent idea, march away from St Marys and have make very visible protest at a large pub like The Square. Lots of banners/colours etc. very simple message to the club's bank - We have money, we want to spend it on football - we don't want to spend it on Saints while Lowe and Wilde are in charge.

No one wishes for it, but it's a case of thinking practically. If relegation means administration is unavoidable, and if it looks like relegation is a certainty - the sensible thing to do is take the 10 point hit this season. -10 next year would make relegation to League 2 the next a very real possibility.

Sack Wotte, bring in a motivator (Dowie, Holloway or Boothroyd) and hope.

Yeah, Pearson was named on the 18th - quite late 5-6ish, we played Plymouth on the 19th.

I say don't give him the same breaks, Wotte's been scrotum deep in this pile of crap from day 1. Get him out now, get someone in who has a least a semi decent record in this country.

I would have him any day over this Wotte clown.

He was appointed the evening before the Plymouth match.

Makes sense, there is no point the bank demanding the sale of players that will mean certain relegation. If we were 10 points adrift or 10 points clear of relegation it would probably be a different story.

I think you will probably find Wilde mislead Crouch as much as us.

Compared to us they are rich. They are certainly not staring League 1 and administration in the face. Wilde, Lowe and Crouch rejected it because of their on selfish reasons, and the mongs on here all believed they were acting in the interests of the club.

that deal wasn't "right for us" remember. They were only going to invest £20mill or something over a few years. "right for Coventry but not for us" - you ****ing ****s

That means that soon the whole club will be worth less than what we paid for Rory Delap.

Exactly

Or maybe if Lowe had not been removed we would already be in League 1 - who knows?

I think playing in 8 inches of snow will be our best chance of 3 points.

There's nothing wrong with playing footie in snow - you just use an orange ball, didn't Matt Le Tiss bang in a hatrick against Liverpool when it was ****ing it down? It's **** easy to drive in it as well, this country is full of pussys, just get on with the game FFS.

Experience is absolutely vital in a relegation battle - anyone who knows anything about football knows this. It has taken the clowns in charge of our club 2/3rds of a season to realise.