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Wow, I have never felt so patronised to the point of anger on here before. So as such I will not respond straight away but will give myself time to calm down first.

And look at West Ham and Bournemouth too, he left them in a less then solvent position too.

If there was some intent shown to retain the core quality that there is in our young squad then yes. I would be inclined to return. If a player submits a transfer request and is sold, fine. But if a barely respectable bid is made and they leave in January I would be most dissapointed and continue to stay away. I want to support a club and football team, not a group of assetts.

Not that many in my experience, although to be fair, how a player can go as seemingly so far backwards as he has, speaks volumes about the lad.

It is laughable to consider that when Redcrapp was here he rated him as being the better long term prospect then Walcott. Always knew that man was really a comedian.

There was one in Glasgow where dad unknowingly joined the Orange order. He keeps receiving post from them now and then.

There are many in Coventry you should avoid. My personal favourite is the Cedars in Coundon. Looks nice on the outside but the locals make it f*cking unbearable, the worst kind of inbred Chav scum you can imagine. As a general sh*tty place to avoid is the Grapes on Radford road. Nothing particularly wrong with it it's just a bit run down and the beer is nothign special. But it is just down the end of the road, so sometimes have a pint there as it is convenient.

Salt n Pepper

Walker? As in Murray?

No spare, only a near useless puncture repair kit. Where do you put the patch/spray the resin when the tyre is scattered across the middle lane of the M1?

Friday: Suffered a tyre blowout on the M1 while driving home from head office. Got home after the lease company sent out a repair truck. Had to abandon football training and had a few down my local to calm down. Saturday: Had fry up, went to Stoke City FC and enjoyed the full hospitality treatment thanks to my Dad's work contacts. Utterly stunning afternoon, Stoke won (and played better then many give them credit for,) had a three course meal, complimentary alcohol and chilled out down the local and with match of the day in the evening. Sunday: Lads game called off due to rain. Played Xbox and spent evening with the missus. Overall 8/10, Would be a 10 had it not been for the tyre blowout.

Wolverhampton Wanderers Reading Birmingham City Bristol City Swansea Preston. Quite a few a stable compared to us.

Yes, it is true. But the terminology is key. 99% of customers in the home end at St Mary's ARE supporters. Yet they are only regarded as such away from St Mary's. That is completely dissrespectful.

Totally agree. That so many no longer feel the desire to go is a complex thing. But one I feel that Lowe has no concept or idea of how to solve. Does anyone? Maybe not, but the insistance of treating supporters as customers on home soil but then refering to them as supporters away from home is worrying to me.

Supporters who go to see matches are customers. But not all supporters are customers. And those supporters who are not customers, well. They are totally out of the loop as far as the club is concerned. That shouldn't be the case - There is no sense of 'we are in this together.' The only way Lowe can even begin to unite the club is to show that he understands the idea of what being a 'fan' is. It makes prudent business sense to try and deal purely with your core clientelle, but for those outside of it, well, they feel totally detached.

Support, or customers? Its funny when we are following the team away from home, where there is no financial impact on him that we are supporters, yet at home we are mere consumers.

I think you have a valid point Alpine, at least in terms of stability on the playing side. We will bring through players, see them develop, and then lose them to those who are willing to pay a good amount for another product of the high reputation Southampton academy. The only real hope is that we can get a team developed and held together long enough for a promotion push, something Forest tried to do in the early part of this decade. While the banks are effectively in charge though that won't be possible.

Outstanding! Losing 1 million pounds per month. You would have to be clinically insane to buy that club! Who was the last club to have debt and loses of this sort? Oh yes. Leeds United. Even taking assetts into account, it's only worth 50 million! Portsmouth Football Club is worth a grand total of -45 million pounds. What a wonderful, wonderful weekend.

The 4 wheel drive williams set a new lap record around Silverstone if I remember correctly. Then the FIA banned it....

Ha. Makes the Avantime look viable!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/p/portsmouth/7739528.stm The plot thickens....

What utter, utter nonsense.

Dear god! A ferrari testing mule from the ground effect era?

The Eifelland has always been a personal favourite. And look at the front of this Brabham....

Jackie Stewart's tartan trousers anyone?