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Check out todays echo for update "Everything going to plan"

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Lips..

I was there and remember the incident well talk about balls,a big space cleared around him the Saints nutter had arrived ....

I'll give you all a tip ,your'e not obliged to respond to any of the comments that people post on here so stop taking the bait silence is golden and it's my believe that it speaks louder than words....

Bien Bien let's hope we can keep running it..

Lets just hope it goes through and the nightmare ends..

Baloise. Making you safer. Headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, the Baloise Group is a European provider of insurance and pension solutions. It positions itself as an insurer with a smart prevention concept, the "Safety World". In Switzerland, the Group operates as a focused financial services provider, offering a combination of insurance and banking services. The Group also has a market presence in Germany, Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Croatia and Serbia. The sales network spans the Group's own sales organization, plus brokers and other partners. Baloise operates its innovative pension plan products business for private customers throughout Europe with its competence centres in Luxembourg and Liechtenstein. Bâloise-Holding shares are included in the Swiss Market Index (SMI), comprising the 20 leading Swiss companies, and are listed in the main segment of SIX Swiss Exchange. The Baloise Group employs some 9,200 people. What we achieved in 2008. * Profit of CHF 386.7 million, thanks to strong operational performance. * Return on equity of 9.0 %. Excellent solvency of 196 %. * Business volume growth of 0.7 % in local currencies to CHF 7,858.3 million. * Outstanding combined ratio of 88.1 %. * Decrease of embedded value of life insurance due to the financial crisis from CHF 3,230.6 million to CHF 2,446.2 million. This corresponds to a return on embedded value of – 20.1 %. * Unchanged dividend per share of CHF 4.50; this equates to a return on dividends of 5.7 % on the price at year-end of CHF 78.50. * Earnings accretion through continuation of share buy-backs.

From BBC606 >> Baloise Holding is a Swiss insurance holding company. It employs over 7000 employees across europe. It generates just under 10 billion pounds worth of revenue and its average profit margin is just under 1 billion pounds. Martin Strobel the CEO expressed an interest into domestic football but was recommended to look abroad to foregin leagues for the best potential. Although the company is capable of funding a premier league club the CFO, German Egloff , was introduced to the football league and regarded clubs such as Saints, Coventry and Derby as having the right set-up to produce a reasonable amount of profit year after year without requiring millions of pounds to be pumped into the club. So Martin Strobel gave the green light along with the rest of the board to declare an interest in saints now that the right opportunity has arisen. Roger Salvetti, the UK embassador for Baloise, has formed a team of British legal personnel to work alongside their own accountants in order to enter negotiations with Mark Fry and produce a good deal. Roger Salvetti considers Southampton, as well as much of the South Coast, to have the best financial district outside of London due to its history and the companies already based there. So, it seems we could well be under Swiss protection very soon!!

Tick Tock..

Planning for the new stables...

And yet another distraction from work Thanks ..... Irish eyes are smiling *I hope...

No thanks...

"Beggers can't be choosers"

Dear Mr Jackson , If you are about to save our club from going under please do ignore this post from Saint ed . Thanks , Concerned supporter.

Very nicely put....

None at all just neads someone to bash it's a mush thing ,the jugements on this site are just incredible like a bunch of old fish wifes at times nah nnah nah... ...

I just hope a deal is done sooner rather than later,holding out for the best deal sounds good to me ,the most important thing is having a team to support next season (SFC) let's all try and reserve our jujements until then .. >Oh by the way being dyslexic doesn't mean you can't be succesful....

Your a Very happy chappie ...

Thanks Leon (if true) Very much appreciated..

Paul Ince..

Boff good effort ,can't really knock it's for a vey good cause ...6/10....

Can you explain the yacht in harbour at least..

There's a big yacht in the harbour today.....

I like what he's saying....