Alain Perrin

I haven't read the article, but to be frank I don't need to. I have absolutely no doubt there is no blame in there, just a plea for support - but I don't let prejudice get in the way of reality.

I don't know. What excuse will you give if the reverse is true?

God you're a miserable bunch. Yes, we've had some shocking performances this year on both sides - some shockingly good and more shockingly bad. You lot seem to have given up after a couple of knocks, that's the kind of spirit that let Paris fall to the Nazis.

No but collectively the attendees do. My assumption is that the group empowered him (RL) to speak to the bankers prior to the meeting, otherwise there would be a similar question minuted to the one you're raising.

I agree, but they're not clubs that spent 23 years suckling from the Premiership honeypot. Player wages, the stadium and everything else started at a high cost base which most (even yo-yo) clubs don't have around their neck. Very, very few clubs have individuals who would sustain losses like we have.

They weren't, they were talking to shareholders with a controlling interest.

Lol - naive.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. It is easy to predict failure and too often on here people spend their time saying "oh this is ****, that is ****" etc. without offering alternatives. i.e. Lowe out, then what. Say what you like about Lowe and Wilde and whether they want what's best for them or the club. The fact is that we are in such a dire position that what is good for the club is good for them as well. It suits no one to go down, it suits no one to be in administration. The difference between Lowe and everyone else is he has to make the decisions and be judged by them. If we had kept Pearson and results had been broadly the same, there would be an equal number on here criticising Lowe for not taking decisive action in the summer. The chairman is damned either way. The sooner the fans quit concentrating on boardroom and support whoever is there then the quicker Saints will heal.

I;d be interested to know what a 1000 extra fans brings the club. It's not simple maths because there are costs/away games to deduct too. I'd suspect that you'd need c.3000 to cover SJ's salary. So stay away fans..... still think you're keeping money out of Lowe's pocket

Not sure I agree with this. He clearly is a good player but for me has the tendency to score the spectacular and miss the simple.

I heard it was £10million

What you say may well be the truth. But if you get don't rid of our highest earners and replace them with players who will be paid less,then expect 1-Administration, 2-A points deduction, 3-A firesale, 4-Lower league football. Not an easy decision is it?

Very naive if you think we could lose the players we had to and still achieve top half. Pearson / JP / Ferguson would make no difference, it was always going to be bottom half.

I'm not questioning your integrity, but what are the facts that you refer to?

Jesus you're a negative ****er!

When exactly do managers get to do this though? The best they can hope for is to catch a midweek game now and again and, based on the fact we pay peanuts, I doubt he's got Sky or Setanta! So the manager HAS to rely on scouts to spot talent. Good managers will develop a team they trust around them and themselves identify weaknesses in their current team to be patched by new recruits spotted by their scouts. I agree though it should always be their final say. Scheiderlin and Holmes are two reasons why I think it's working however it is set up.

No I don't, but neither are my expectations unrealistic as yours appear to be. I expected us to struggle this year and we are struggling. Excuse me for not giving up in October though. The accounts said we were losing money like water and had to chop the wage bill. That leaves you a choice between 2 unproven managers (one of whom has some experience working on a tight budget with youth players, the other who has had a handful of games in charge as a caretaker but little experience of youth). A choice had to be made and Lowe had to make a decision. In your world "tested" players come to play on youth player wages, but it is just a dream matey. If we still had the players that NP had last season we'd be in administration by now. Personally I think Schiederlin and Holmes (and Ryan Smith) seem like good players but if you'd rather have some of the journeymen who got us into the position of needing Leicester not to score to stay up then feel free.

If Saints win will you lot shut the **** up for a week? If so, COYR! We have a team full of youth and no money to change that situation. The only thing we have is sweat, hope and enthusiasm - sometimes that is enough, sometimes it isn't. One thing is for certain though, if you go thinking you are going to lose, you will. Get busy living or get busy dying (or **** off and support Pompey).

Sad isn't it really. No one has mentioned the opposition. That's the problem with fan line ups, they are based on favorites, not on the players they seek to counteract. If Morgan/Euell weren't injured I'd play one of them in CM instead of Cork and play Cork at right back. I'd stick with Wotten at CB to counteract Beattie's strength and Lancashire to counteract Sharp's pace. As it is I think he'll stay broadly as is (options are limited) but I agree that RB is a problem for us defensively.

And what, pray tell will Crouch do differently? Sack JP and get in a new manager (with what money?), buy new players (even though the transfer window is shut) or magically get our inexperienced players to defend corners. The alternative argument is a good one, but only because we've been there before and jumped on the first horse that came along (and that took us to the brink of administration). I must say though that it is a pity if the experiment fails. We've played some great football this year, often without the rewards. Naive defending and a smidgen of bad luck will derail what could be a great team.

It would obviously have been far better. By the way, can you tell me the lottery numbers next week?

So have you actually heard it, or have you heard about it. TBH, if you have only heard about it, then it really is no better than many of the takeover rumours to which we have been treated on this site.

So still no evidence of this then. Does it exist or is it 'idle gossip'?

I'm sure it would, but I doubt it will make any difference to the result....

where is it then? have you heard it? or have you heard someone say his brother's best mate heard it?