VectisSaint

Very odd that it is almost word for word what is in the Southampton FC Wiki page, except that they changed this date and the number of years before the next final from 2 to 3. Those 2 first half goals from Jasper McLuckie, and the others from Wood and Plant still haunt me To be fair to Bury they were bound to win with a player called Jasper McLuckie weren't they.

Good stuff. Actually going to nealry every game and not buying a season ticket is far better for the finances than buying a season ticket in the long term. I know clubs like to have money in from season tickets so that they can make financial forecasts and so on, but overall revenue is decreased by STs. Of course if you are financially stretched then buy a ST, but otherwise while we do not have anything like a sell out then regularly pay as you go is a much better option.

LOL. Must have been a complete freak if anyone ever picked it up in Marlborough. The town is at the bottom of a bllody great hill to the south, and its difficult enough to pick up anything local. Hampshire Radio faded anywhere near Winchester on most receivers, which is exactly how it was designed. You couldn't even get it on the Isle of Wight FFS. That doesn't mean it was bad, but with huge amounts of supporters outside the direct Southampton area it was never goign to work. As for listening online, great, I tend not to do such things when driving. The idea of a radio station for a club is nowadays completely laughable, even the top stations in the country are struggling and only surviving by merging. Next someone will suggest Saints TV back on Sky. Hello, we are in Division 3!!!!!

Not so sure, it may be that only the corners will be open...

Perhaps his name is Michael.

But Lowe did not like his attitude, probably because he tried to head butt him. Sadly he failed, perfected the technique later...

Simple answer: No The radio station lost money even when we were in the Premier League. We are now bottom of League 1. What possible justification is there for owning a radio station that cannot even be heard by a sizeable number of the supporters. This was one of many mistakes made by previous regimes and to repeat the mistake would be absolutely stupid. Clearly the business is not viable, thats why it has gone bust. Sorry for the employees but sentiment does not make a successful football club.

Robson only ever got Middlesbro promoted (so not clubs) and once he kept a club up on the last day of the season, thanks to Pompey and at our expense. An abject failure, time and again apart from the time he was bankrolled at Boro. Cotterill has been promoted in 2 different divisions on a shoestring budget, and has never been sacked as a manager. He left Burnley by mutual consent with the club in a good position in the Championship. He lives fairly locally and is just the sort of manager we could do with. Much as I like Tisdale, the chances of him leaving Exeter to join a team below them in the league is about as likely as me playing CF for Saints. He is also not the type of manager we really need, he is a slow (good) cautious builder of teams, whereas what we need is someone who can give promotion a go at the first attempt, even with a 10 point deduction.

You mean Michael Tabor the well known West Ham fan? Haven't we had a West Ham fan in charge before.. gulp...

Can't see how season tickets can be sold until a deal is finalised. We have only entered a period of exclusivity. Maybe that is a good sign, but too many people are jumping the gun.

But enjoy what? 3 weeks wasting the close season waiting for a deal to possibly go through, while our rivals appoint new managers, get deals in place for new players and so on. 3 weeks time, new owners hopefully start to put plans in place, so once again for the umpteenth season in a row we start behind the pack (not forgetting the 10 points deduction) and our pre-season is ****ed up again. Still cannot be argued that this is better than the alternative, no club, but afraid I cannot get excited, at least not yet

I feel some peops are getting ahead of themselves. I'm very happy that entering a period of exclusivity and the non-refundable deposit means that the staff, and to a lesser extent the players will get paid, but this does not mean a deal is complete. It could still all fall apart. Thats what 43 years of supporting Saints has done for me, cynic.

Carry On Up **** Creek Without a Paddle

Nice sentiments Docker, but some of us have boycotted Barclays since the 60s when they propped up the racist government in South Africa and prolonged apartheid. However, they are not the villains in this case, the real villains of the piece are Lowe and Wilde. They are the ones who should be putting their hands in their pocket to help out the staff they employed (not the players) as Leon Crouch apparently has already done. But oh no, they walk away and get away with it scott free, bastards.

No, its the Stewart, Collins, Mann, Townsend, Daltry and Wonder consortium...

It depends, as long as this forum keeps running I don't think it will make much difference Most of my life is taken up reading the drivel on here, going to a game is a brief, welcome distraction.

Pete Townsend? Roger Daltrey? Stevie Wonder? The Rod Stewart, Phil Collins and Manfred Mann consortium is spreading its wings...

Maybe not, but might have paid his wages for a few weeks, or even paid for his agents fees. In the end throwing money down the drain does not help the club progress, and also distracts those in charge form the primary aim of a football club.

We couldn't afford it in the first place, it lost money, thats why it was sold. Another silly idea that ended up costing us money that should have been invested in players to improve the football club.

Do we actually know they were paying rent? Maybe Fry asked them to pay rent or get out and that pushed them over the edge. It was always a dodgy organisation anyway (I mean dodgy in terms of being viable, not illegal or something). It cost us when we owned it, so could never really see how it would make money when sold off, especially with advertising revenue seriously reduced in the recession. Sounds to me like this is probably just a coincidence and nothing to do with SFC/SLH.

Thought that was the whole point. We exceeded our agreed overdraft limit and hence Barclays did the necessary. In other words Lowe and Wilde had increased our debt beyond that which they had agreed with Barclays Bank. Quite clear who is responsible for that, and of course none of Lowe, Wilde or their cronies put any money in to help. Yet somehow Crouch gets the blame (sorry not getting at you Mike). You couldn't make up some of the twaddle that gets written on here by some.

People really do talk some nonsense. The situation with us and Pompey is completely different. We are not simply being taken over, with one guy paying another one the necessary. We are in Administration where our creditors call the shots. This is what happens when you have all the baggage of a plc, it is not simple, and to try to blame Fry for the mess is completely laughable. He has a job to do, get the best deal possible for the creditors, nothing more, nothing less. He is not responsible to the supporters, and sadly only slightly more so to the staff. He cannot just make the potential buyers hand over the money, there are lots of negotiations. It is only because some simplistic people on here think it can all be done in 5 minutes that we are worrying about it. Complex deals take time, and ultimately may not happen. We have to wait and see, I don't believe there is anything more Fry could do.

Sailing was a cover of the Sutherland Brothers' song.

Bloody hell, Manfred as well !!!! So thats Rod Stewart, Phill Collins, Jackson 5 and Manfred Mann. Who's next to join the consortium? Ronnie Wood? Peter Gabriel? Rick Wakeman? We could have some good concerts even if the football is crap

The opening hours have been reduced. M-F was 8-4, now 9-5 (same hours but shifted by 1 hour), and not opening Saturdays.