Alain Perrin

It was more a joke about Swedish freebies than anything else. I think what happened was inexcusable, I just doubt it is or will happen again.

Well seeing as I am Swindon based too, I choose to use a pseudonym :]

Getting behind the team doesn't win matches, the question is do you think a positive result is more likely with chants of support or chants about the board? Even if positive support only has a 0.1% positive impact it's more than you had before. Look at it a different way. If you went into work and each day all you heard was negativity would it give you faith in what you were doing? Vs. coming into work each day and getting positive feedback? There's absolutely nothing wrong with constructive criticism, but I happen to believe that a bad attitude on the terraces when there is still something to play for is destructive.

Errmmm wake up. With the exception of perhaps Richard Chorley, most people on here hide behind a pseudonym. I personally thing the PR plant paranoia is exactly that. Sure Lowe did try to pull a fast one back in ABL1, but that was in response to the tremendous amount of PR Keith Legg was giving Wilde (at least Lowe had the decency to pay for it ). The fact is that views on this board and in the fan base as a whole are so entrenched that no amount of posting is going to win over hearts and minds, the only thing that will do that is results (and even that is questionable for some). Lowe hasn't got the money to by triple ply bog roll for the boardroom toilet, he hasn't got the money to pay PR monkeys to spout guff for little end. The fact is people disagree. I happen to think Lowe is the only option we have to sort out the mess we're in (regardless of whose fault it is). That doesn't make me a plant, it just means I've got a different opinion to you. Accept it.

Not disagreeing, we need a clean broom. Just think that we need to be measured in any response. There's a danger that we throw the baby out with the bath water.

Excellent, and once we've done him we can do Richards. And when we've done him let's rip the seats up and burn the Stadium - anything that Lowe has touched should go. "We've got our club back" - oh, where is it?

And I fear it will be the later. For every uber-passionate fan, there are 10 take it as it comes fans. If the results are bad the ONLY thing that keeps people going to home games is the atmosphere. If the atmosphere is poisonous, then those fans will stop going. Fans that protest during the game are naive in my opinion. I am all for direct action but chanting Lowe out during the game is not going to help Kelvin save, Morgan tackle or Saga score. Yes it's your right, you've paid, but I'd ask you two questions: - If support counts for nothing why do we bother going, or rather why do we bother singing? Why don't we all watch in silence. - If you were in the stands thinking of buying the club, would you? So as I see it negativity during the game doesn't help the result, and won't help us get taken over either. Say one thing for Man City, when the going was tough at least they stuck together. I am a Lowe supporter (primarily because I don't think we have any options at the moment), but that stays at the turnstile for me. I'd favour a stay away, organised sit in, anything to improve the atmosphere. Hell I'd probably support getting rid of Lowe to stop the poisonous atmosphere - **** knows where that would leave us though.

FFS we're meant to support the same team.

Which is precisely why I agree with Nickh. Support the team through the match, boo Lowe at the end. Anything else is, in my opinion, self defeating. To throw a punch at a fellow Saints fan is despicable. Ever since Hoddle-gate this club has been turning in on itself, blame, counter-blame, anger, vitriol and now violence. Like the Roman Empire, the mob will destroy SFC, and I'm not sure how you solve it.

We keep hearing rumours about Leon Crouch offering £2m to the club but only if the others chip in too. Personally I think this is an empty offer, but let's assume it isn't. If LC is serious about it, he should go the Daily Echo and state it loud and proud. Better than just chucking £2m into the abyss, why not sponsor the wages for Lupoli or another signing? He would then force Rupert to put up or shut up, until then it is like me offering £2m (nice idea, but I'm struggling with the mortgage as it is!)

Keep up the positive comments on Radio Hampshire Tim, they're a breath of fresh air in a (often ill informed) gale force of negativity. I was thinking about the differences between fans who attend games regularly vs. occasional / radio vs. read the report fans. The fix that they require to keep them happy is very different. All get ****ed off when the team lose and perform badly. Attendees (like myself) are pacified if the football is good and exciting, but we lose. If you're a radio/report fan then the result is far more important than the experience. For example I would vehemently resist appointing a hoof and run manager, even if it meant winning a few more games, because my match day experience would be reduced. Even a great radio presenter will struggle to convey the difference between a hoof and run goal and a crafted goal. The issue this year has been that for EVERY televised game our team has failed to turn up. This means that the remote fan hasn't seen that there are positives to take away in the sea of negativity. I'm not trying to make out that all is great if you sit in the stadium, it isn't. Just that it is probably easier to be despondent if you are sat in your armchair/car listening or reading about the game. All in moderation though, we need to win more and that begins with today.

Sorry that is ********. Whilst I agree that you have to look backwards to inform what you do going forwards, the 'picture in the boardroom' debacle is a complete irrelevance. If the picture scored goals on the pitch or cleared off the line then it would be worth worrying about. Other than that it is a pointless illustration of how irrelevant some of the arguments between those that run the club and those that want to run the club (and their supporters on here) are. You can add it to the colour of the boardroom chairs, carpet or type of biscuits served at for elevensies (who cares if they're made in Portsmouth). The sooner people realise there are bigger things to worry about (y'know, things that make a difference to whether we win or lose) the better. Most fans haven't ever been, and won't ever go, into the boardroom anyway, so they can have naked pictures of Rupert Lowe for all I care.

Poor Rupert. He is being slated for now is having the temerity to demand more shops etc. which would have - **** me - earned the club more money? The bastard. So the Stoneham project, sorry the non-viable Stoneham project, fell through. Shouldn't we be celebrating that? SMS is our home, Rupert helped deliver that at a fairly decent price (when you look at how much Wembley cost / Pompey's fairytale will cost) - deal with it. It is not easy to deliver a stadium, regardless of what some on here think (just ask Everton, Liverpool or Athens 2004). For all its faults, the reverse takeover enabled the rights issue that helped get the ball rolling on the stadium. It might not be right for us now, but SMS wouldn't exist without it.

See threads on Crouch, Kenwyne and many others to see how 'we' can be proved wrong. No doubt McGoldrick has potential, he's still young and has a lot to learn. For our sake and his I hope he does well.

Because I'm sure the fans would have harboured no malice towards Hoddle if RL hadn't stoked the fire...... how naive are you?

To be honest I think, bar the AGM (at which neither side covered themselves in glory), that RL has made the best of a bad job on his return. He was never going to be popular, and nothing was going to change the 'lunatic fringe' into card carrying 'lowe luvvies'. That said he's taken, in press terms a pretty anonymous back seat and that has reduced the amount of sticks he can be beaten with. If the accounts are to be believed, cuts needed to be made and RL has made them. If he cut too much, time will tell and we'll be relegated. If he has cut just enough and JP stays up then it will be job done. It's a ****ty job but someone had to do it, and whoever did it will be vilified for it. To be honest I think Wilde and even Crouch / Fulthorpe et. al are happily sitting back letting RL take the flak (afterall if you are already considered as Satan, how much worse can it get).

When you look at the crop we've turned out in the last few years that boast isn't too far from the truth though is it? Whatever the reasons (investment, our turn etc. etc.), any academy that can turn out Bridge, Bale and Walcott in quick succession has got to be respected.

Would prefer the thread to be about things you yourself have posted. Otherwise it'll turn into a "he said, she said" fight between people with small penises.

Seeing as we've posts using the benefit of hindsight to critique what Wilde and Lowe have said, I thought it would be useful to turn the mirror of history on us, the fans, the supporters, the lunatic fringe. What have you posted on this board that has later proven plain stupid? For example: "We will walk this league" "Dodd and Gorman should be given a chance" "We got our club back" etc. Mine would have to be (I paraphrase) "our squad is much stronger than last year" (before the relegation season )

No doubt he didn't work out, but it is not irrelevant. Out of the candidates available at the time (those asked or interested in to managing a recently relegated club which needed a major restructure), I am questioning whether George was, on paper, the best man for the job - or rather who were the alternatives you would rather have had at the time? Clearly no chairman appoints a manager expecting them to fail, why would they. That said, all you can do is look at is their CV and how they come over in the interview. On the CV alone (all we can go on) George was the winner by a country mile I'd have said.

Sorry to be a Lowe apologist but isn't that a fact. Burley may have turned out ****e, but I can't remember people complaining when he was appointed. It was almost viewed as a bit of a coup.

What do you expect? His first name is Um

I would be very surprised if there are PR plants on here, you won't change the minds of those on this board and it's not the opinion shaper it once was. I think it is, more often than not, a cheap jibe by someone who can't understand that someone could possibly disagree with them. To be honest there are some opinions on here that are so vile, bitter and one-sided that they do more for raising positive posts for Lowe than any PR would. I don't agree with everything RL does/is doing, and will say as much. However, there are times when I feel compelled to defend him from people who blame him for everything post WWII.

I think it'll be a great idea. We could get rid of all the miserable *****, plus it would be hilarious hearing the Solent FC fans argue about team selections. ("He's no better than a Sunday league player! Oh, hang on, we ARE Sunday league!")

Stupid statement. I assume you had similar comments on Crouch (before he came good), Bennett (before he came good), Williams (before he came good) etc. etc. Lancashire is not Sunday League standard and to suggest so says more about you than it does about him. There might be an argument that he is not yet ready for the Championship, week in week out, he's certainly no match for Man Utd's strikers, but I think he stands a chance of becoming a good footballer. Will he play for Arsenal or Chelsea, probably not - but are we Arsenal or Chelsea?