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My answerr to the poll is "it depends". For example, if I was to attend a "local Derby" (e.g. vs Bournemouth ;-) ) with a friend then I'd prefer to stand up and soak up the atmospjere whereas if I'm going to watch Brentford with my 9 year old son (for example) then I'd prefer to sit. Perhaps the poll should be phrased more generically along the lines of whether we'd like to see standing return as an option or keep all seater stadiums rather than as a personal preference question. I suspect you'd gt a different result eitehr way.

"About to change....." Code for "new signings"?

So, we spend in January at a level to GUARANTEE promotion?

Please can someone ask Mr Cortese tonight if he knows the source of the small piece in The Sun about the club being up for sale. Or indeed whether there is no source and that it was completely made up. Thanks :-)

It should appear here: Dan Roan's blog page: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/danroan/dan_roan/

Ask him if he reads the forum....or gets to hear about what is posted via Jordan.... cheers :-)

Come Dine With Me?

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Cue forum meltdown a bit later....

danroan Southampton fans: News Alert-Chairman Nicola Cortese has today broken his silence. Stand by for exclusive BBC interview.

Put some tinsel and fairy lights around Lambert....he stands pretty still these days..... ;-) (joke......of sorts)

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Ok. Let's assume for a moment that the Sun made up a 3 line story about a 3rd Division club being up for sale and found space for said story in a fairly prominent place in their multi-million circulation 'Goals' supplement. One question: why on earth would they make up a story as insignificant as that? The fact that 99% of their readership would find this story somewhat mundane would suggest to me that it wasn't made up. That said, whether it came from a 'reliable source' is not so clear cut Just a hunch

Smoke and mirrors? Nah, that would never happen in the world of business and high finance...silly me... ;-)

"The estate of Markus Liebherr"....at which point does someone's "estate" not exist anymore after one's death? Surely, the minute someone else is bequeathed "the estate" it is no longer exists as an estate per se but now belongs to whoever inherited it? Unless of course ML's entire estate was preserved 'in trust' (i.e. as a separate stand alone entity) and as such hasn't actually passed onto anyone? Or it could just mean that the 'company details' section of the website is out of date....

No, it's not distasteful at all. Although no doubt there are a few professional offendees out there who will take offence. As someone else has mooted, there must be different laws in Switzerland as this sort of info is public domain in the UK (i.e. anyone can request anyone's birth/death/marriage certificate within reason)

Picture?

I see the first consortium meeting has already convened....

Or, it could mean the opposite....i.e. it's easier to sell a 'property' that comes with planning permission for an 'extension' than one that doesn't....

Or, maybe, a Cortese/Liebherr 'leak' to the newspaper to arouse interest in the investor community...? Or, maybe not....

SWF Poster: "Hello, is that Southampton Football Club" SFC: "Yes, how may we help?" SWF Poster: "Is the club up for sale?" SFC: "No" SWF Poster: "Ok, thank you very much"

This. Cortese's bankground is investmanet banking (isn't it?) SFC is still a good investment therefore I'm sure he'd be interested in heading up a consortium to take it off the Liebherr's hands, should they ever decide to sell.

We know very little about Markus's day-to-day relationship with the rest of his family. For example, we don't know the reasons why he left the family business, do we? From the anecdotal evidence I suspect you're right but there could be underlying scenarios in the past we don't know about.

Isn't this sort of thing normally published in the Echo first....?

COAST are playing at the Soul Cellar this Friday. Living proof that the best bands do play Southampton ;-)