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It was only a matter of time before the golden axe fell, it always happens when a club is taken over like this. I'm surprised its taken so long and there will be a foreign manager there within a week, he is probably packing his bags as we speak.

Failed is a hard way of putting it. He has a average record with average teams, won more than he lost and has managed for 6 years. I would have thought for someone who played over 150 games for us you may have choosen a better turn of phrase. But having respect for ex-players is just something 'flat caps' do in these days of hard nosed business approach to football.

I'm sorry, its Hollywood disgrace that Catcher hasn't been transferred to the big screen, an absolute disgrace. I've heard there is a Bollywood version coming soon. There back on topic now.

So by this reckoning we should have shipped Beattie out on a number of occasions.

I would be there to greet him if mooneying wasn't an arrestable offence.

Ive just been reading about it on the net, it does sound amazing. The man who stopped England, lets hope this other fella isn't the boy who stopped Southampton.

He's just a circus clown in gloves.

In years to come this will be cited as the reason for the death of club football.

That says to me that the morale inside the club is at a low.

I jolly well agree with these good fellows. Berris Yes Rass, is Sparrow ..yuh eh see yuh like **** ...S'hampton really good oui !! The man saved they MC from relegation last year ,he was they leading goal scorer ,now they say he wages to high and they cyar afford to keep him and yet still they ketching they arse tuh stay outta the bottom 3, but willing to loan out they top goal scorer ? Like is maturana running dah team or wha Sando prince BUSS DE NET BRAVO !!!..Tell dem anywhere yuh go de net will get buss

Did you not read his post he wasn't disagreeing with you just saying what the punishment would have been.

You seemed to have turned into the internet police today. He has backed his opinion up, I think he's got it wrong but it’s a valid opinion. You are so intolerant of people who think differently to you.

We weren’t punching above our weight, we were sustainable in the top flight, were for 27 years. Selling players in what all teams outside the big clubs does to make ends meet, it doesn't invalidate our stay in division one. If as you say there are only 6 teams then there are 14 more that have to find a different way to be sustainable, our way was full houses and cashing in on a player every now and then. A player that was going to leave anyway, when did we force a player out for the cash. You question the fact that people are looking for someone to blame whilst laying the blame squarely with Wilde and Crouch. I’m not bothered that we were relegated, what I’m bothered about is the lack of hope for our future. Don’t be fooled our present hopelessness is not due the size of our club but due our s**t governance.

From where you normally raise funds; sell a player, extend the overdraft, internally funded. We are not in administration yet we can still act like a proper football club.

It’s the same old speech Sundance, bad anti Lowe fans if only they could see what Lowe is doing we would all be grateful blah blah blah blah blah blah. There isn’t one single situation on this planet where there isn’t an alternative, yet the situation at Southampton is so unique so special that there is only one course of action. Ok then what’s next, what the plan next season and the season after. What happens next under Lowes blueprint, continual survival, relegation until we reach ‘our level’, revival, champion’s league in five years, world cup winners, what please enlighten me?

Stop Lowe and Wilde acting without precedent and taking us further down this road to destruction. Yes get in a new manager is a good idea, now you are thinking and new players would be good too and coach the kids some basics as well, f**k me you're on a roll. The only way to reverse this disaster is to get a manager in who knows our league on a short term contract, raise some funds, get some old heads in the Jan window and blend a team together. Its not so difficult.

You are well into the skunk as well.

It doesn't need anyone to buy us, just for the majority shareholders to pull their support of Lowe and Wilde.

I don’t get this punching above our weight nonsense, what do people mean by this, that our natural state is the second division. We are a smallish club but not one that isn’t capable of sustaining life in the top flight, every year we were there we deserved to be there and did it with our own cash, we developed players, built a new ground, built a decent infrastructure and pulled in good crowds. That to me suggest we punched our own weight, to think otherwise is to accept defeat and believe the **** we are experiencing now is all we deserve. There’s a better existence for our club and we need someone with the vision to take us back there. It doesn’t need a big take over, just a united share ownership backing one man with a rebuilding vision. Its got to be better than this second rate strategy of Lowe and Wilde. Do you really think we need to be going through this to make amends for a bit of an overspend, we are just Lowes experiment. Its time for a change.

This is very true. I saw Sheffield United get out classed by Arsenals kids, so we should be alright.

Well yes it was, we resembled a football club and it almost delivered a return to the premiership. It all went a bit wonky when the executives were in charge but stabilised under Crouch and I would have preferred Crouch/Person to Lowe/Lowe. Its funny that you guys have been arguing the case for Lowe and his marvellous strategy all the way until now; realising that backing the flawed Lowe roadmap is hopeless its back to the last defence from the bottom of the barrel 'name an alternative'. We had this as well last time, right at the very end when Lowe could no longer be defended. Well this time there is an alternative in waiting, Crouch. Surely those shareholders who believed the hype from Lowe and Wilde can see what a shambles we are in and change sides again and deliver us from this mess.

Very funny

thats not homophobic

I see the 'name an alternative' argument is now being trotted out; the last stand of the deluded.

Probably but just from this thread alone you can gauge the dislike of Cole and the Arsenal fans wouldn't have been on their own booing him.