miserableoldgit

If I remember correctly, Saints signed Fred Kemp from Wolves. Hmmmmmm.... I can feel another conspiracy theory coming on!

A play in two acts. Nothing happens - twice.

Are we going to change ends at half time?

I think that the high-lighted bit is the telling bit and I am sure applies to quite a few people on here.

You are probably right but the point I was trying to make is that people didn`t come back when Lowe went last, so what make anybody think that the missing thousand will come back when he is gone again? Surely it is performances on the pitch that will bring them back, not just because Rupes is gone, and one doesn`t necessarily guarantee the other.

Oh! ******!:smt022

I am not a Lowe supporter at all, but how do you explain the fact that crowds did not rise after he went in 2006 when everyone said they would?

I am going to hazzard a guess. Is it .........TORBAY???

For many years Southampton Football Club was one of the best run clubs (financially) in the country. How many people moaned that our biggest transfer outlay was 4M for Delap when other clubs were spending a lot more? E.G. I remember Wimbledon paying 8M for somebody (Hartson?) and look where they are now. It was relegation from the "Financial Promised-Land" and the scurry to try and get back that has caused the problem. As I said on another thread, if Mr Lowe confined himself to the financial side, allowing real football people to deal with the "product", things could have been so different. There is not a lot fans can do about a club that is run in a dictatorial manner by someone with a minor share-holding but we all feel that we must do something - whatever is in our power to do (boycott, non- renewal of ST`s, prostest, march) and some times all anyone can do is stand up and say something. Crouch and MC have been very quiet (publically) since Lowe came back, but obviously, as fans, like us they have had enough. Who can blame them for that?

He might say that but he would be wrong. The ground was full because people wanted to see the World, European and Premiership Champions. Some top class footballers at SMS for a change. A break from the dross that we are having to put up with.

Why? In the little time that he has had in the first team he has come across (to me)as lightweight and lazy. He may be one for the future, but he is not what we need ATM.

I consider myself a die-hard fan, having been watching the team for over 50 years, and I accept that RL did do some good things for the club in his first few years. I also accept that prior 2003 there was no great groundswell of feeling against him, although it was probably just bubbling under the surface ( I remember a few mutterings when he turn out to play in a testimonial match). The basic problem is that once he got his place at the FA he seemed to suddenly see himself as some sort of football visionary. His (alleged) tinkering in team selection, signing of players, the appointment and subsequent involvement of SCW, Simon Clifford, right through to the current "Dutch Experiment" (and I,m sure others could add to this list!), have proved,to say the least, contentious! This coupled with his apparent belief that he is never wrong has resulted in him being the most divisive figure in the clubs history. Whilst I would say that there are a number of fans who desert a club (any club) after relegation, most fans will accept the bad times when they happen provided the club concerned appears to give it their best shot. What fans find it diffucult to accept is when a club moves close to extinction through self inflicted wounds, whoever inflicts them. In most fans eyes, Mr Lowe is responsible for most of these wounds and is why they want him to goand never come back.

Jam-packed?

Neil Young, Stephen Stills and Richie Furay on Buffalo Springfield's Dewey Martin 11:20 AM PT, Feb 8 2009 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame members Stephen Stills, Neil Young and Richie Furay have issued a statement on their former Buffalo Springfield band mate Dewey Martin, the group's drummer, who died last week at age 68 at his home in Van Nuys. "Dewey wasn't intimidated by any of us; he was the older guy in the group and helped glue the band together," said the statement issued Sunday and signed by all three musicians. "He had that strength. The rest of us were all still babies, and just starting out in a band. We had a lot to figure out. But Dewey had been around, playing on sessions and working with a lot of great singers. Plus he was one hell of a drummer." The fifth original member of the band behind such '60s-rock standards as "Mr. Soul," "For What It's Worth ("Stop, Hey What's That Sound") and "Rock 'n' Roll Woman," bassist Bruce Palmer, died in 2004. Martin and the other members of the group were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997.

The Willy Nelson Band?

Ladies and Gentlemen - we have a winner!

And you just added Post No. 238 to it!

We`ve already got The Fun Boy Three there (MW, RL and AC).

You just never know. That is one of the beauties of football. Who would have predicted that Chelsea would sack Scholari after just a few months when he was first appointed??

Will THEY still be there?

You may well be right, but, out of interest, do you think that you would have felt more confident at the beginning of this season with NP there rather than JP/MW?

Is there a swarm of bees on this forum today??

Much be true then!