Charlie Wayman

It will depend upon the value ascribed to the Club by the administrator. Although the club might be technically bankrupt it will still have a long list of creditors including the bank who will demand a high price of any buyer, to allow the club to be relaunched as AFC Southampton (2009) Ltd or whatever. They won't be getting it for £5 that's for sure. It is not at all certain that Lowe will have that sort of money having taken a huge hit on his worthless shareholding and you can be certain that Leon Crouch would also consider himself a very interested party.

On balance, I doubt that these stories have any substance. We are in peril as a club, we are in peril as an economy; the Club might be facing an impossible task trying to keep afloat if national economic woes continue to gain momentum. If the banks start calling in their loans as they are very likely to do if things do not start improving next year, football clubs will be amongst early casualties simply because HMG will pressure banks not to make PEOPLE HOMELESS. Football clubs such as Saints have assets such as their stadia which could be sold off to settle at least part of the debt owed to the banks, with some loss to society but surely better than hundreds of thousands homeless. If that is anywhere near a view of a bleak future who would have the money to, or give a monkey's about, paying to watch football. No, now is not the time for panic sales in an attempt to shore up a rusting ship with a coat of bitumen. Against this backdrop, the last thing the Board can afford to do is devalue the club even further by ensuring relegation, which is what will happen if the best players are sold off prematurely. Next summer is more likely once it is clear where our destiny lies and the state of the UK economy has been more fully revealed.

What is it with Stoke, always raiding us for players? Already, three of their regulars are ex-Saints, Hoofingbottom, Deflap and Fu**er. maybe we forgot too that Stoke played us pre-season in a friendly thus amking the link even more weird. Weird because the type of prehistoric crap that Stoke play is the polar opposite of everything that Saints stand for. Stoke obviously like talentless, thick-as-sh** hoofers and clatterers, so why try to unsettle our total football youngsters? My response to any Stoke approach for any of our team is "YOU WISH!" "FO!" Now, if Arsenal come calling that's a different matter altogether. Even if we have to sell just to stay afloat, one must hope that The Smarmy Little Twerp will at least do the decent thing and only entertain offers from decent teams that try to play football our way. I wouldn't wish Stoke and Pulis on my worst enemy let alone soem of our favoured sons!

I would have thought that any remaining apologists for Billy Davies would have perished long ago on the embers of the former Derby County. It took Paul Jewell and a lot of patience y the DC Board to get that particular juggernaut back on track!

I agree with the originator of this thread, not a snowball's chance of even scoring against these two. Will lose 4-0 to Wolves and 2-1 to Reading

We'll need to order yet another supply of nappies

Poortvliet is finished. The angry look on the face of The Smarmy Little Twerp after the match on Saturday said it all. Expect an announcement this week, I'd guess about Wednesday. As for a cheap manager, Nicky Holmes comes to mind - he's done about all he can do at salisbury and is probably ready for a step up to the Third Division.

There was a total lack of purpose all over the pitch, everyone with the notable exceptions of Kelvin Davies and Andrew Surman were Effing useless and totally disinterested. As an example, why didn't Skacel ever run to the by-line instead of crossing from 20 yds out every time; always the ball ending up in front of their back four? He just couldn't be Rrsed and nor could any of the others. Who was the tactical genius that selected Gobern to start instead of BWP? Who decides that 4-5-1 actually makes sense in a home game? And so on.... I no longer fear the R word having come to terms with the absolute certainty that this team cannot stay up. As we have no means at our disposal to improve things RELEGATION IS CERTAIN. I had hoped against hope that suddenly everything would click into place one day suddenly and that our youngsters would turn out to be the NEW ManU of 1997. Now with our unbalanced mix of raw youngsters of dubious talent and worn out has-beens like Wootton, Euell and Skacel, we are up sh*** creek, paddle-less, rudder-less and cox-less. Add to that that Poortvliet has proved himself clueless and impotent pitch-side and there you have it. Gentlefolks we are finished, done up like a turkey for Christmas!

There is no way to count the number of people attending matches to satisfy a bookie as the club insists on counting all ST holders as being present. It was obvious to everyone on Saturday including THE Smarmy Little Twerp from the TV pictures, that about 30% or even more of the ST's were absent because of the weather/TV Telecast. As the published attendance was about 14000, i.e., 10000 ST's + 4000 casuals including Bristol City fans, and if we take the figure of 30% of ST's being missing, there were only about 11000 in there on Saturday - which looked about right from the TV and what my mates said, they attended the match. On a roughly soimilar proportional turnout that means if we drop below a published figure of around 13000 we are in fact getting less than 10000 through the turnstiles.

I'm amazed that Le Tiss was paid that much even! Seriously, somebody's taking the **** somewhere along the line.

Keep him here, he played really well against Coventry the other night, especially linking with Lallana

I thought he had left us long ago?

Interest in the Saints has waned since Lowe returned. Having got rid of him and entered a new chapter, it was 'deja vu' all over again when the new order was unceremoniously dumped out of office. I think for many that was it, a recognition that their efforts and protests were in vain, that nobody of any import was listening to ordinary fans anymore. What's the point of expressing one's point of view in this climate? "Stuff Lowe, Stuff Saints let's get on with the things that really matter in life" is probably where we are with most fans right now. Only when that smarmy little twerp has gone will we get back to being united behind our beloved team and all the institutions that support it. When we can be heard we will find our voice!

Forget it. False sentiment anyway, nobody really gives a flying fig!

Boothroyd is just another clueless English failed manager. Why on earth would we want him here, so that we can play the Watford way? For Saints? I don't think so! They used to call it kick and rush, these days the very posh people at the FA aremore polite and call it 'direct' football.., to you and me that's up and under.

Yep!

We all know that footballers are as thick as s**t, most can't read or write hence all these meaningless scribbles. Who cares who they are, they helped get us into the mess we are in now.

This just shows what a Fffing scumbag Wigley is! Under the pretense of "watching" his old team affcetinately as widely reported, he was just really out on a spying mission for his new masters and trying to derail our attempts at resurrection. I hope he doesn't have the gall to show his face at SMS, the b*st*rd!

As events have turned out we ended up with Poortvleit and I prefer him to Gray any day. Any poort in a storm, aye!

PNE nowhere near so good this year, very frail at the back.

You've been at the beer again, naughty, naughty!

Scrapping for and scraping a win is not the same as winning by dominance and controlling the game. Let's just be grateful for 3 points today but not lose sight of reality. We are still not good enough to be sure of fighting our way out of trouble. By the law of averages we will occasionally come back from the dead to record a somewhat fortunate success as today whereas on other occasions we would just as easily let a winning lead slip away. Tony Husbands and Dave Merrington were absolutely sh*t* toady on RS and deserved to be suspended without play. Their so-called commentating was incomprehensible to those of us who were trying to form a mental picture of what was going on. We were not even told what colour shirts we were wearing and as for not spotting Gobern for 20 mins after his half-time entry... Bloody diabolical!

The petition is utter garbage! It is utterly derisable. There is not a semblance of correct grammatical expression in it; it will only confirm "our" rulers beliefs that those who protest are fresh out of the backwoods, Scrap it before all of us are made to look like laughing stocks.

Yet another baby in a pushchair. 19 years old, don't we ever get hold of somebody who has reached the ripe old age of 21 even? What is it with our fixation on youth?

The question is a non sequiter. A fourth division player is used to playing in front of A third division player is used to playing in front of A second division player is used to playing in front of A Prem division player is used to playing in front of 25000+ crowds The players we have now with only one or two exceptions have mostly only ever played in front of crowds of 5000-10000, so as far as they are concerned everything is normal. They might be intimidated and overwhelmed by crowds of 25000 each week but as it isn't going to happen anytime soon it's all a bit academic