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Supporting a 'bad' regime doesn't help the team one jot...IMHO

If any NDA (or other form of contract) says "I shalt not criticise the club when I leave" (or legal-esque words to that effect) then it doesn't really matter who was in charge when he left as the present incumbent could still use it against people if the wording is suitably generic. Why does everyone assume that a comment is anti-Lowe just because Lowe happens to be at the helm?

Hmmm....I wonder if the protest was a factor in their choice of match?

Maybe he's wary of breaking any NDA that he may have signed?

Is that in the Echo? So, if it's all innocent why not tell us about him in July/August last year? Surely if he's been as pivotal to the club's recruitment policy as the above article suggests then it's an important role (whether it's paid or not) and as such why not communicate someone with such an important role to the fans? Either he has an important/respected role or he doesn't? Once again, another situation that, given the information available, doesn't add up. Why, for example, would someone want to work on our behalf for nothing? (note: that is somewhat rhetorical as I can guess the answer)

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Can't Barclays loan him the other £4m now that they've announced to the LSE that they are in much better shape than the doom-mongers in the City were purporting? On second thoughts.....

You'd have thought someone would have left a copy of this script on the train by now....

This sounds like yet another half baked 'solution'. For this club to move forward 'afresh' it needs to be bought outright and de-listed. There is no half-way house IMO. That way there will be no 'undesirable' major shareholders forever lurking in the background ready to jerk their knees when the merry-go-round next stops. IMHO of course

A picture of a beaver would have naturally led to greater comical effect....but alas would have had less impat in depicting history repeating itself

No, posts 'coincidently' only go back to beginning of Aug 08. The Farnborough match at which said photo was taken (by Simon Richards I believe) was early July and thus is erased from the 'records'.....oh, and someone posted that Simon can't find the original photo either. All true and unsuspicious IMHO

These two 'sides' aren't mutually exclusive.

I'm sitting comfotably...fire away...

Give it time...

Why aren't the local media asking these questions?

Don't worry, you are not alone.... "Eets not rat, eets 'amster"

Still doesn't explain why the OS wouldn't even 'bother' mentioning it....as other's have posted: since when have the club/OS shirked from publishing 'clutch at straws' good news before? This is either: (a) very inconsistent in-house journalism or (b) there's "something significant" connected to the game taking place that they don't want to shout from the rooftops

erm...anything about Waals ? I'm sure the Echo and/or BBC South were asking all the pertinent questions....

Nah...the press conference....I can't wait to find out who this Waals character is....

Anyone know what time it starts?

Anyone?

For example: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RNS Number:2577O Southampton Leisure Holdings PLC 18 February 2008 Southampton Leisure Holdings plc ("the Company") Appointment of New Manager The Company announces that Nigel Pearson has today been appointed as the manager of Southampton Football Club. Enquiries: Southampton Leisure Holdings 0845 688 9448 Seymour Pierce Limited 020 7107 8000 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange END MSCDVLFFVLBXBBE http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS134665+18-Feb-2008+RNS20080218 Or, perhaps we only had to release these bulletins when we were in a 'bid situation' ??

:smt005..

Being a PLC aren't we legally bound to announce a change of manager (sorry, head coach) to the LSE the minute/second it happens? Am sure we've done this for every other team management appointment from memory. Curiouser and curiouser

It's true, I managed to catch this picture of him leaving...