Charlie Wayman

We owe a huge debt and vote of thanks to Leon Crouch "WELL DONE Leon and THANKS!" for sticking by our saints through thick and thin with unwavering support and importantly the investment of HIS money which he knows he will never get back, to keep our club afloat through the uncharted waters that we find our ship sailing in right now. Without his unswerving support in real terms as well as morally, Saints FC already would have been consigned to the litter bin of football history. Give it three BIG ONES for Leon! There's only ONE LEON CROUCH! There's only ONE LEON CROUCH! There's only ONE LEON CROUCH! As for Matt Le Tiss.. Go easy on the guy after all he is a footballer first and foremost so don't blame him for being a little bit naive and gullible when it came to dealing with investment sharks. He is after all a really honest guy who CARES about Saints and stuck with this Club through thick and thin and didn't jump ship when the rich and mighty came a calling. That sense of loyalty shines through even more today as our so-called 'loyal' players line up at the guardrail ready to step into the lifeboats with lifejackets around their necks so that they can sail safely to their next pay cheque. So give it three BIG ONES for Matt as well There's only ONE MATTY LE TISS! There's only ONE MATTY LE TISS! There's only ONE MATTY LE TISS!

Southampton - Full of Bull!

They also make rolls

Sigh... Maybe tomorrow, Jack?

Anything is possible following the astonishing and unbelievable comment of Mr Le Tissier on BBC South last evening that the nature of the business and resources of Mr Fialka were none of his business.. WHAT? Isn't he supposed to be The Chairman of this bid. It's his DUTY to know every detail of where the money is coming from to support a bid. FFS what wuld you do if the Captain of your airliner suddenly announced he didn't know how his plane wokrked and that it was none of his business what the Engineers did?!?!?! Chairman my Rrse, with his lack of understanding of what a Chairman is supposed to do we need to pray that he never becomes ours.

Endless speculation without a single fact to support it. What is the matter with you people. Do you have death wish or something. have you not heard of self fulfilling prophesies? My advice to all is leave it in the hands of the people who know bets how to resolve this thing. If Pinnacle are a bunch of chancers as many are suggesting on here now they will get booted into touch by Mr Fry and there is nothing we can do about it.

This whole saga is heading for the sort of conclusion that we all anticipated, feared and hoped would never happen taht nobody wants to buy Saints at anything like the money that Fry & Co seem to be asking for. So what comes next? Looks alarmingly like we will be passed into the hands of the receiver who will try to sell the bits off for as much as 'he' can get. Maybe Pinnacle will try to buy Saints FC without the overhang of the SMS and try to run the team at a local ground (Eastleigh / Staplewood?) unless or until somebody else buys SMS with the possibility of a rental deal being set up. Who would want it 'though apart from avaricious property speculators is anybody's guess, certainly Southampton City Council won't be spending public money on such frivolities in the wake of all that has gone before in the financial markets and expenses of public servants. If I was a non-footie fan, so would I say "Bugger that for a plate of chips" I am genuinely afraid guys, for the first time the thought of extinction looks very, very real indeed.

Pat the Postman?

Ince! Is that the Ince of Failed at Blackburn fame? I hope you are taking the urine because otherwise I will not be renewing, nor will I if that other Loonie Tunes idiot Dowie shows his ugly mug around here.

Let's be fair, it cannot have been easy managing for success with no money and a bunch of lazy Rrsoles cluttering up the training ground. Hopefully our new manager will bring with him a massive broom or a red-hot poker!

Time for a new avatar old boy? Poor girl must be feeling worn out by now.

You poor sod; I don't think the NHS can offer you a remedy either. What will you do if you oversleep next Friday and miss the announcement?

I hope none of the people are from this website forum but it wouldn't surprise me at all.

I C I must crown that somehow but artist not my forte

It would be a fair question if we were not still intent on selling every bugger we had last season, otherwise it's all pie-in-the-sky tosh. We'll be lucky to stay in Divsion 3 next year with the squad we are likely to have left. As one who endured it all before 50 years ago, I have to calm you youngsters down a bit and not expect too much. In my own view it will take us about seven years to get out of this sh*t hole and then we are back in the CCC if Coke are still sponsoring by then and then what, Premiership around 2025 if you are lucky. Whether I'll be around long enough to see it is anybody's guess.

The nub of the problem is that there is no one stereo-typical Saints fan; The Echo is being plain bloody lazy just to ring up their usual buddy for a quick quote. It is all quite irrelevant anyway as the e-mails they get on every issue gives them all the feedback they need. The only commonality amongst fans is that all want Saints to win and do well. For sure nobody, Mr Illingworth or anybody else can represent my views uness they bother to take the time to come and ask.

Is it me or are we all going to hell in a wheelbarrow? At least we got Stoke and West Ham last year, seems nobody wants to know us now. No way Jose, count me out of this load of codswallop. Hope Pinnacle have more ambition than the nerds who dreamed up these fixtures.

Why no just Saints FC

One R in Rrse, oops. sorry two!

Nobody wants us because of US. Surely the penny will drop soon. This forum makes us - without exception - look like a bunch of idiotic oiks, semi-literate, poorly informed, rumour-mongering miseries, finding fault with everything and everyone. Who would want us?

You are right; as everyone who knows something about gardening will know, once it's been properly fertilised, top dressing follows fairly quickly

I'm a cynical b*gg*r but didn't the Titanic sail from here with all it's deck chairs on the wrong decks? Presumably we will now have a website "that befits a League 1 (aka DIVISION THREE) side."

i suggested this at lunchtime so people read it THERE first

At least it does explain Gordon Strachan's decision to quit Celtic and return to Saints... You heard it here first!

So the OS has published a final list of Division 3 participants. My comments annotated; Brentford (WTFAT) Brighton & Hove Albion (WTFAT) Bristol Rovers (WTFAT) Carlisle (WTFAT) Charlton Athletic (ASOFWS) Colchester United (WTFAT) Exeter City (WTFAT) Gillingham (WTFAT) Hartlepool United (WTFAT) Huddersfield Town (WTFAT) Leeds United (ASOFWS) Leyton Orient (WTFAT) Millwall (WTFAT) MK Dons (WTFAT) Norwich City (ASOFWS) Oldham Athletic (WTFAT) Southend United (WTFAT) SOUTHAMPTON (ICFBI) Stockport County (WTFAT) Swindon Town (WTFAT) Tranmere Rovers (WTFAT) Walsall (WTFAT) Wycombe Wanderers (WTFAT) Yeovil Town (WTFAT)