miserableoldgit

I really think that this is going to give me nightmares tonight!!

I will be there come hell or high water. Whether it is Lowe, Branfoot or whatever. If you really think that giving current ST holder a preference is a negative thing, then I really can`t be bothered to argue. I am Saints through and through. I will live and die a Saints fan and find this argument pathetic. We all want the same thing and shouldn`t be falling out about crap like this.

I really want to argue with you but I can`t be bothered. I have been supporting Saints for over 50 years and a ST holder for 30-odd years. You are talking ****.

Next week-end I will be at the Big Session Festival in Leicester. Providing everything goes as we hope, I will stand up in the beer tent and loudly propose a toast to a new era! Come on you Saints!! Bugger the consequences!!!!

It`s good but it`s not right.

Watched "Dean Spanley" last night. Very interesting film set just after the Boer War, involving reincarnation and the Dean, who was a dog in a previous life but only remembers it after drinking Tokay! Very good performances from Peter O`Toole, Sam Neill, and Jeremy Northam. Different but well worth a watch

Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull??

I think that most people with a business brain would look after regular customers and not alienate them.

Totally different and you know it! ST holders pay a lot of money in advance for a product and we have no idea what sort of product that we are going to get. Anyone who is prepared to take this gamble year after year deserves some small preferencial treatment (NOT reward). Why shouldn`t people who renew year after year be treated the same as someone who might or might not buy an ST because he bases his decision just on whether the team is successful or not?

Or a bigger increase in commitment from fans? A lot of businessess treat "loyal" customer differently. How many supermarkets have loyalty cards. I have been a ST holder for 34 years. Why shouldn`t I have a bit little bit of preferencial treatment?

A Poopey council official said on Radio Solent yesterday afternoon that they were the only club south of London that were approached because part of the conditions in staging WC games is that the stadium must be a 40,000 seater which presumably any Skates proposed new pit would be.

You missed this one!

The big difference is that we are all sat around waiting for/expecting something positive to happen, with a definite date given as to when it should. I can`t remember waiting for anything positive to happen when Lowe/Wilde were around.Just waiting for the inevitable. "Nero Fiddling Whilst Rome Burned" comes to mind in that case.

TBH, this is a bit of a daft question. A couple of weeks ago we were all crying into our beers because it looked likely that we wouldn`t even have a team to support. It now looks (hopefully) as if not only will we be taken over by a team with constructive plans, but it also includes Le God, possibly as Chairman. What more could we have asked for? IF the new people running the club choose to keep Wotte, then I for one will give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that they know what they are doing.

What`s going on Ottery? This was almost coherent!

I do enjoy Cornwells books. They are, of course, fiction built around good history. I have met him a couple of times and the man does know his history! Azincourt is a very good read but if you a good readable account of the Battle of Agincourt try this:- http://www.amazon.co.uk/Agincourt-Campaign-Battle-Juliet-Barker/dp/034911918X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1244742333&sr=1-1

Not sure that this is THE St David - yet!

Being generally a "glass half full" kind of person, I am prepared to place more reliance on the stuff that is coming from Pinnacle/TL/Farmer/Doggface/Echo than stories eminating from some strange website that people know very little about. The ITK`s are TL and Farmer. They assure us that all is going to plan and that such stories are BS. You make up your own mind.

No. The e-mails came from different people amongst all the other "frivolous" ones.

For all I know it may be. Do you know for a fact that it is incorrect?

No agenda here, but a curious bit of trivia - if true. Who is the odd man out in this list - and more importantly, why ? Lord Stevenson: Former chairman, HBOS. Andy Hornby: Former chief executive, HBOS. Sir Fred Goodwin: Former chief executive, RBS. Sir Tom McKillop: Former chairman, RBS. John McFall MP: Chairman of Treasury select committee. Alistair Darling: Chancellor of the Exchequer. Gordon Brown: Prime Minister and former Chancellor. Sir Terry Wogan: Presenter of Radio 2's 'Breakfast Show'. You're probably thinking .. "Terry Wogan" You're right. However, the actual reason might surprise you ................... Terry Wogan is the only one out of this motley crew who actually holds any formal banking qualification !!

No. It makes you TIK.

TBF people like Tony Lynham can`t win. People are desperate for info. TL was (if I remember correctly) asked to post an update on here and did so. He also posted again in the wake of the Ted Rogers "affair" to reassure everyone that things were progressing well. I am not aware of any other postings from him unless they were so subtle that I missed them. "Damned if you do - damned if you don`t!"

From todays Daily Mail:- Saints like Swiss timing Southampton have another option if the Pinnacle Group consortium, who have paid £500,000 to the administrators for an exclusive negotiating period, fail to complete the deal. A bluechip Swiss pharmaceutical company are also keen on buying the League One club — once described as Chelsea-on-Sea by the late Stamford Bridge benefactor Matthew Harding — and would have put down a deposit if property consultants Pinnacle hadn’t beaten them to it. Doubts remain about Pinnacle’s resources but consortium leader Tony Lynam says they have 10 times the necessary money while administrator Mark Fry says Pinnacle have satisfied his checks.

Well if it`s of any significance, I am just going to have one.