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Indeed it is. So IMHO you have to start looking at the manager and the coachign squad and ask why they are not getting the best out of the team????? On paper we are much better than our current position.

Did I see him driving into Staplewood on Tuesday monrning around 10:00?????

If Norwich win, then I think it is game over. They will be 5 points better off, but with a better goal difference we will need 6 points to overhaul them and I can't see us clawing back 6 points on them in 4 games. The only positive is that they are away at Swansea (they then have Watford at home on Monday. Barnsley then come into play but with two games in hand they only need one point from those two to be in the same position as Norwich. Forest could win today and pull 4 points ahead of us, but the fact we have them last game of the season means we just need to stay within three points of them. Norwich must not win today!!!!!!!!!!

I think you're getting your knickers in a twist here. A very small minority have been campaigning for administration, and it probably would have been easier for you to have PM'd them and asked them their thoughts directly. Succinctly missing the point and failing to grasp that the fans not going to matches is not the issue. It's why they weren't going that is the key point. You can stamp your feet as much as you like, you can shout until you're red in the face, but you can't force people to do anything. If they don't see a reason to go (and there are a myriad of reasons for not going), then they won't go. Short of press ganging or making it compulsory, then attendances will ebb and flow, primarily due to success or failure. It happens at every club (with the odd one off exception). I would have thought that an erudite busunessman such as yourself would appreciate the elasticity of demand. Every Club has a loyal following up to a point, after that you have to make people want to come along. Which goes back to the first point in that I think very few people actually wished for administration. I personally think it is the worst thing that could have happened and I can't help but think we should have done everythign and anything to avoid it. Although Barclay's changed the rules half way through the game I just don't think we have covered ourselves in glory by just blindly allowing it to happen (that's not the ridiculous appointment of the Revolutionary Coaching Set Up BTW, more to do with our later failure to comply with Barclay's demands e.g. someo one off cash rasing in the Jan transfer window, other sale of asset etc etc etc). Whether we come out the other side stringer remains to be seen, but I fear the legacy of administration will hang over us for a while yet.

Only two interesting pints in something that almost makes Frank's posts readable. And that should be it with regards Lowe. Am I the only one who thinks this word is used too often. It's a Lowe/beancounters word, which IMHO conjures up everything wrong in our recent history. I'm not one for overstretching ourselves and living within our means, but the concept of hoping we get someone prudent just sends out all the wrong messages and is looking at football from the wrong perspective. Success on the pitch underpins everything, you have to get that right. It should simply be replaced with successfully, as that covers everything (on and off the pirth).

I think ego and Lowe having some unfinished business and wanting to prove himself were the overiding factors.

Divided intimates a split down the middle, and I don't anything could be further from the truth. Feel free to start a list of those who you know would have preferred Poortvliet/Wotte to Pearson for this season.

That squad is not worthy of a promotion push, but I also don't believe it's the second worst in the division. Put us up against a few of those teams down the bottom and man for man I reckon we're better in many positions. IMHO I'm afraid the Revolutionary Coaching Set Up have a lot to answer for. We have seen in patches that this team can perform, it's just that the managers this season have not managed to get any consistency from them. Players must of course take their share of responsibility, but IMHO the manager is the most important person at any club and he can make the most impact on the team and on results. Get that appointment wrong and you struggle.

Gallows humour fella!!!!! Walking to the Charlton match, a few of us were discussing this possibility and tried to imagine what an away game at Cowes or Newport would be like!!! We reckoned 500 away tickets, but a couple of thousand just going over for the pss up and fun. Couldn't believe we would still be playing at SMS in that division, so imagined we'd be groundsharing with Eastleigh or maybe someone on the outskirts of the city like VT, Queens Keep or Totton. Or maybe develop something at Test Park, Five Acres, Green Park, the Veracity Ground LOL, etc etc etc

Fair is not the right word, "impossible" to compare/prove might be more appropriate. That said, it didn't stop you wittering on about it a few weeks back when Wotte had his purple patch, so please spare us the "It is not a fair comparison" when things aren't as rosey.

Shall we compare all your various posts under all your various guises?:smt119

HOT and CROSS How apt???? As for the due process, then I'm willing to give Mry Fry the benefit of the doubt, not least because even though Insolvency Practioners get a bad press, I actually think he will be professional throughout this. I'm hoping that he can quickly sort through the timewasters and bullshtters and then start to work with the interested parties. (PS Begbies Traynor also did Bournemouth's administration recently, so fingers crossed Krasner and his team have tipped him off about LongLifeCherry/Saint)

That's defintiely a Sundance mk I response.:smt119

It all depends what persona you've adopted though. When Nineteen Canteen first came on the scene it was a straight reincarnation of Sundance, getting stuck in to individuals from the start.:smt1198-[:smt119 Then came the other multiple personalities and wind ups you employ. So who was posting last night. It would appear to be Flashman with a dash of Nineteen canteen Mk III.

Didn't Tony Funnell go there after us and go down a storm???? I'm sure I saw poole Twon play at some point in the 80's and the were going places????

Itchen Bride FC are not on that list!!! Are they up for promotion or relegation???

If it really does go tts up next season, then if we follow AFC Wimbledon's experience and we start at Level 9 of the footballing pyramid, then we will be playing: Wessex League Premier Division 2008-09 v • d • e Alresford Town | Alton Town | Bemerton Heath Harlequins | Bournemouth | Brading Town | Brockenhurst | Christchurch | Cowes Sports | Fareham Town | Hamble ASSC | Hamworthy United | Hayling United | Horndean | Laverstock & Ford | Lymington Town | Moneyfields | New Milton Town | Newport (IW) | Poole Town | Romsey Town | VT F.C. | Wimborne Town There's some cracking derbies in there and I can't wait for away days at: Brading & Newport - Booze cruise there and back Fareham - another interesting walk to and from the train station Romsey - who will Stu support Hayling Utd - Getting back across that causeway could be interesting Poole - Do we get to watch Speedway as well Lymington - Crouch will be torn Alton & Horndean - Cheap beer I presume Bemerton - You won't have to pay, just sit on that bank

How's the spirit in Wotte's dressing room? (PS Only pulling your leg fella, I know you're hurting as much as the rest of us - ecept 19C with his multiple personalities of course)

Have to agree with that bit I've highlighted. Someone else said the side didn't look that bad beofre the game started and although this was always going to be a tough game, I didn't expect such a capitulation. Our squad is not worthy of a promotion push, but I really can't believe it's as bad as some of the other sht I have seen from other teams. I think the managerial set up this season has a lot to answer for as I think we have seriously underperformed, (although I also accept some of the players need to take a good look at themselves).

Chris Iwelumo recognises the value of a Revolutionary Coaching Set Up playing with style and steel.

To be fair if you're not a fan then I would want to get paid to watch that sht.

We paid a decent wedge up front for Schneiderlin. We also made other poor decisions regarding saving costs and selling assets. And on course on top of that, the false economy that was Jan Poortvliet and the Revolutionary Coaching Set Up proably cost us a seven fugure number due to falling attendances brought upon by serving up sht (particularly at home). This season has been a total disaster and it honestly need not have been. Tough, certainly, but not the disaster it turned out to be. I'm afraid writing it off as unsalvageable is rewriting history as Lowe came back with the belief that it could be saved. He failed. I don't remember anyone saying this season was over when they were waxing lyrically about the Revolutionary Coaching Set Up last June!!!!!!

Does the suit fit all of your personas???? Or do each of your personalities take on different physical personalities as well??? I've got Flashman down as the spiv. The Bear as a slightly rotund, overweight, sweating and hairy. Sundance as the balding, cardigan wearing, Barry The Briefcase type. Do you have female personas as well??

bingossomo!!!!!!!!!!!!!