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Nice dodge. It's not a question of being heartless, it's a question of core human nature. In a position of live or die, people will subconsciously choose to live. There is no real choice, people of sound mind will automatically and instinctively act to survive and save themselves. This is a subtext to all aspects of life. Humanity is a fundamentally selfish thing. There will always be those that prioritise themselves over others. So, what to do? Work with it or look to change genetic pre-sets? We are animals, albeit animals with a sense of sentience. Socialism is diametrically opposed to our own nature.... It asks all people to think of the greater good. Selfishness is a preset, it's incompatible. Regardless of emotion, of morality; It's there. A core facet of human history is man's inhumanity to man, just because it is undesirable it doesn't mean it's untrue. Humanity is just awful.

Is it wrong? I admire idealism, but it's naive to try and deny something's nature. Socialism to me has always seemed like the girl trying to change the bloke who is almost right for her, she's still sure it's the right thing to do...... but he is still a c**t.

Lovely guy. Always worth catching at the Wykeham Arms in Winchester after a game.

No, they are not required. A complete bypass of human nature is however a pre-requisite. If impossible, refer back to plan B.... Money tree.

Taking that on face value, certainly sounds as though he regretted leaving. I remember seeing his celebration when scoring for Stoke v The Skates at the Brittania and it clearly meant to more to him then a simple late equaliser.

Personally, if you pay up front that amount of money the fringe benefit of getting a certain priority on other tickets makes sense to me. But equally, if you take just them buying a seat, their seat as the only stipulation then your view also has merit. There doesn't seem to be a right answer.

Seriously? Hadn't heard that before. I would echo Hassan Kachloul and Rickie. Even if I can understand Rickie's desire to play for his home club. David Prutton seemed to go into full journeyman mode after departing us too.

In fairness, the first game of the season at home rarely sells out. Holidays, etc.

I was. So assume so. Incidentally, looks as though there will be membership cards on their way. The tickets are said to be 'uploaded' when purchased. So that would I assume be to the card.

Excellent work Saints. A great player for at most 0.71 $hlongs.

Drumroll........

'Rumours' that he asked whether we still had a radio station remain just that.....

Until it's carved in Granite I believe nothing.

Wasn't that bad 25 minutes ago.

It's the #ahem "Clasie" thing to do.

I would certainly be very interested in that!!

I find it quite funny seeing some people demonise Lowe as some kind of evil malevolent entity who existed solely to f**k up our club. It's easy to forget that he lost a fair amount of money too when the club went into administration, yes he was paid handsomely I'm sure to run the show but he put his own money on the line to get involved. He was of course a victim through his own decisions so hopefully I havn't come across as too sympathetic. We all suffered through Lowe's errors, yet at the end of it he was just a businessman trying to keep a self sustaining tight ship. Sadly, that notion was incompatible with running a Premier League club. He didn't have enough clout to push us on, or even to remain competitive. This led to him trying creative approaches with coaching, which ultimately led to further complication and failure. He wasn't all bad and did at least give us St Mary's and a strong academy, but he just was not the right fit. There is only one way to make a small fortune out of football, start with a large one... Rupert Lowe is one of many to learn this the hard way.

They never miss and opportunity to show off their $hlongs.

1.75 Shlongs.

My money is on Grzegorz Krychowiak, for what little it's worth.

Let's try. Everton - Leighton Baines Aston Villa - Fabian Delph Tricky game this.....

That analogy is better applied to Portsmouth F.C. circa 2010.

He was not our player in the first place, so how could Spurs raid 'us' for him? Aside from that, if a club has a bigger wallet and reputation we will be vulnerable to losing our players. Possibly even more so then Everton/Villa based on the fact we only recently were in League 1. Given time our star will continue to rise. Time.

Higginbotham and Prutton, Jan 2003?

Michael Wilde signed him I believe, after Rupert was ousted the first time.