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So therefore all this Saints Aid stuff and All Star footy match will carry on covering players' wages? I just can't be having that, all prepared to buy a ST but to donate (albeit you are getting something in return... Craig David!) to pay (here comes the cliche), BWP's five grand a week is not on IMO. Worse still, putting bloody money in a bucket. Not once as Mark Fry said, "right, we actually need x amount in x number of days to stay solvent or the club has gone", not once, if that was the case then maybe I would feel differently. If 13K has been raided (as reported) the I fail to see who that has made the slightest bit of relative difference to the solvency of SFC, and with that in mind... "I'm Out".

You couldn't beat Reading away, could you? Well, we did.

God, does anyone care anymore, what difference does it make. They were on the **** the day we got relegated, so what! They were on the **** all ****ing season! Most of em will be long gone soon so who the **** cares about them now?

I'd have to agree, he is wasted at Saints, playing in an inexperienced side losing most of the time. I have watched him and to be honest, Div 1 will not make him better, a spell in the Prem will. I accept that the best players work there socks off, ala Gerrard, Lampard and Fabregas but did Matt? Not comparing him to MLT but like a lot of players, he's more class surrounded by class, who thought Shearer was nothing 'too' special when he left The Dell?

As we have no reason to cheer on The Saints, can we sing "Swing Lowe" throughout the whole game, surely we have got to that point where it now doesn't matter to "Support the team, not anti-Lowe chanting" rheteric that we had while the team still needed points?? Small minded and pathetic maybe but given the fact that he is there would at the least make him slightly embarrassed, in fact, we have proabably missed the boat in having the traditional fancy dress theme now, tweed jackets and plastic ducks anyone?

£21,500 for me, she even gave me a card at the counter, theres me thinking it was house insurance etc (Your postcode has been selected for an extra special deal...), but no, you can borrow ..... this! Now where's Nick's bucket.

One of the most bestest things I have ever read on this treadmill of tosh.

and VERY special guests... Coldplay?

is there any point to this thread anymore?

what, he's balck and from Sowth London?

Just didn';t really get the point of it, didn't think Burnley were really that arsed. Saying all of that, a lot of people on here are well over the top, it was just a few kids egged on by a few hundred (those behind the front lines) and a bit of water bottle lobbing, dont think anyone died did they?

He's not interested, he's seen the books!!

Oi!, Thats my line.

You know it seems like we can't even run a fan's forum without sniping, backstabbing and general abuse, God knows how fans would run The Club? (I take nothing away from those who are genuinely trying to rescue the club, its just not going to work though) As for donations, until The Administrator (and only him) says that basically we need £x...K to actually keep going i won't be contributing cash, will buy tickets, would even renew my season ticket (use a credit card for insurance!) today but there is no point in giving cash, it pays wages and Beggbies and if the club gets taken over (and i think it will) then you'd have to say we woukld have donated for nothing. You know, maybe we should arrange to buy the kit and balls etc. and just restart the club, playing at The Sports Centre on Saturdays, we could get some decent players together. Isn't that new Man Utd team doing okay now?

I'd go for number 3, took over a pile of **** and made it a successful pile of ****, HCDAJFU

Sold out alrready

er, presuming we stay in touch with Forest until the last day, and that is a big ask!

I think the great JC had a soft spot for Saints, he's dead know but (apparently) moves in mysterious ways and his Dad has a few connections too...

Apparently there is going to be an announcement on Friday.....Fact!

Just to put the record straight, there was a firm/crew in with The Charlton lot, you couldn't miss em. This is pretty unusual for these guys to make themselves so prominent. Usually there is trouble away from the ground and most people don't even get to hear about it. There has been a recent nasty history between Charlton and Saints and obviously these boys were here for some action, as i said its very unusual for these type of guys to be so obvious. Anyway the old bill knew who they were thats why they had them cordoned off and they were letting all the other Charlton fans go as they wished. Anyone who reckons those Charlton boys were scared is very mistaken, these guys aren't scared. As for the Saints, well a lot of huffing and puffing with the OB and shouting etc but it was at The Albert that the real Southampton boys were waiting, but to be fair to the police they had it all in control. I left it at Six Dials but didn't hear anything licking off after. So thats the way it is, Football Factory in your face.

Put in 5 grand, could be more though it would probabaly go from my business and that depends on my business partner and my accountant. Disappointing response when someone asked about dividends, maybe he was taking the **** but there should be an element of it being a loan rather than a gift, especially when you are talking about serious investors. Before you all shoot me down it comes down to business and money, i love this club but I;m not stupid enough to just donate money willy nilly, there are certainly more deserving causes in the world for charity. But I'm not saying that I would neccessary want to see a return, but it has to be accountable because if I'd had shares in SLH after RL went i would have soon sold them once he returned to SFC. To put money in without an escape clause in that some muppet decides that RL or MW or Askham or Cowen etc should come back on board is pure folly.

Why do you care? If you're not going then fine, leave it to the people that are. But please don't come on here with this sacrificial bull**** propoganda.

Chap 4: Best buys during Administration

If I have said it once, I have said it a million times, marching will not work, we are not trying to oust a Manager, thats simple and we even did it before we even got one! But to oust a chairman, well, that takes something else. Like a Michael Wilde to ride in and save us, but we all know what happened there. Leon hasn't got the money or bottle and realistically there is absolutely no one else out there, and if there are one or two other interested parties they are probably sitting in the same boat as Leon Crouch. So that leaves the only other option, which is to effectively force the board to restructure, i.e. create no confidence in the two main adverseries (of the fans') so that their positions become untenable, but then what are we left with? The rest of our board, who frankly have got us into this abysmal mess in the first place. Otherwise, we as fans force this club into receivership, because Barclays (or whoever it is we owe) run scared that the majority of the fanbase i.e. customers, i.e. revenue totally collapse, so Barclays pull the plug. And thats assuming that we are that skint, I mean does anyone actually know or is it the great RL propoganda machine in full throttle? We are hardly Man City, thats for sure, but are we that skint? For Wilde to team up with Lowe certainly suggests that they are worried deeply about their investments but did they get back in time to steady the ship and now its tight but okay, unless the fans don't come and tip the club over the edge that is? Then what happens? We get relegated certainly, but by the time this all happens we are down anyway and so we lose 10 points next season, which by the looks of this season could actually condemn us to the bottom division. In the meantime the administrators do a deal with Rupert and suddenly he owns 100% of SFC, and that is the scariest scenerio of all! So whats the answer? I really believe our best hope is LC, it won't be perfect but really, how could it be any worse than now? I mean how could it? I would personally rather go down with LC than RL (so to speak!), at least he is a Saints fan and has at one time or another commited his own cash to this club (directors loan account i am sure, but he's done it!). Otherwise, the board voting out (or the shareholders) the current chairmen and seeing where Askham and co go from there? I am worried about the fans denting the club too much by walkouts etc but at the same time we need to demonstrate an ability of power and unfortunately the most effective way of doing this is by affecting the revenue of SFC (and I still maintain that matchday sales of beer, programmes and pies is ultimately the most effective way of doing so and can be properly organised and supported by many more than the few who (and a big fair play to them) are willing to walk out and miss the match through protest, but we have to be careful, otherwise as well as destroying Lowe and Wilde we will also destroy this club too.

Is she collectimg for our players or management?