Give it to Ron

A) Wife has family at Hedge End and still has local ties. She used to work for British Gas Southampton. He may want to build a club his way rather than somewhere like Newcastle that will creat extra pressure. B) Good managers pay for themselves - ask Blackburn and Big Sam how much he has saved them since going there. Billy Davies at Forest....2 managers many on here said they wouldnt want here as no good!!! C) He undoubtedly has contacts in the game and would attract players to come and play for him. Again I state I dont want him here going by the games I have seen him manage.

Well they were abysmal, no support play, couldn't put a pass within 5 yards of their own players, no passion or commitment. Villa were light years ahead. Ok he has inherited a squad full of prima donnas but what about pattern to play and changing when its not working. If you looked at Martins and Viduka they didnt have anyone within 20 yards when they won the ball. He bought on Owen to play up front but why didnt he then tell Duff to stay wide and create space? Every time newcastle got forward there was no width and Villa just had to crowd out the middle. Shearer to Saints...no thanks.

Which again makes me wonder why they havnt joined up with another consortium who it sounds like would be greatly enhanced by their skill. Like Nick I am just baffled why its taking them so long when they were in far better position than anyone else given Crouchs knowledge.

So if Salz and co dont have the money to buy now ...why not join in with Pinnacle and be twice as strong? Unless Morph is spinning everyone a line on here and there is no money at all in either consortium and just spinning everyone along?

Why not have both?

So what you are saying is that the odd number of fans that stayed away because of Lowe was far greater than those that went? Because for me the 15k or so that kept going far more deserve a decent club than the few who stayed away. But I thought it only numbered a couple of hundred according the Lowe supporters on here? So why do a few deserve the club to go to the wall?

Of course what GM also chooses to ignore is the fact that once Lowe went and we knew we were in desperate ****e the gates went up - ok cheaper prices helped but if you were an investor you couldnt ignore the passion, support and feeling at those last few home games but you could if you wanted to ignore the real reasons why admin was happening and not just blaming the fans.

Morph Why doesn't Salz join up with the other bidders like Pinnacle? Too many cooks?

So where does that leave the 15k or so that did attend will they get the club they deserve? I love the constant threads that appear on here that attack the fans who didn't go yet disregard all those that did regardless of whether they supported Lowe or not! Why didn't Rupert ask gavyn for a loan as he is presumably the same class....as that seems important to some.

Prediction based on further information? Do we have enough time for them to complete the buyout?

Really .....personally I thought it rather childish but going by your posts on the main board lately can see why you think otherwise. Funnily enough Ian Botham...you may have heard of him perhaps has also suggested it was a stupid decision to play there today with all their drainage issues....still that may be too highbrow a conversation for you.

Yep thats what started with me....4 arthroscopies later finally just having bone on bone for the last 8 years have just had a uni-compartmental knee replacement!

Sorry I dont think there is that big a drop between the CCC and Div 1 in terms of revenue from TV money, we also have an extra cup competition to bring in more gate money! Shop revenue I can't see being much different and in fact if we have a new away kit will bring in more money than last year when I believe we didnt change kit? Do we not also have the ST money to come in to offset the lower wage bills etc perhaps I am being naive but I am clinging to the fact that a new board/manager with no baggage just may see more people renew than were going to by the end of the season if Lowe/Wilde were still here. A successful campaign will see bigger gates....we just need that initial investment and the correct choice of manager now the rest will follow.

Or the fact that the South's weather is far better in the early part of the summer than the North but then again that was far too obvious for you perhaps are you part of the ECB?

But most of the millions going out Nick were the wage bill, payments to sacked managers, gardening leave and compensation. Once we have the final cull and an income from ST's we should be in a far better place financially.

On a day when the Rosebowl is basked in glorious sunshine....Headingley and the ODI is abandoned due to waterlogged pitch. Yet another brilliant decision by the numpties!

Yeah its not as if the 150 takeover/non-takeover threads on here are enough to discuss that is there? Or the constant Lowe/Anti-Lowe threads that get posted every 2 minutes? Lets only have those threads over and over again.....

Perhaps the previous board did not want to sell at the price someone offered and try and fix the issues they had created?

I see the usual idiots infect this thread with their pathetic sexist jokes. Saints girls still have thriving academy and junior teams run by Peter Thorne a very good coach. The Saints have several teams that play in the Winchester and District Girls League and are quite successful. One of the girls that plays for my team on Saturdays has played for Saints last year and is off to them next is absolute quality and a match for most boys of her age. There is no comparison between skill level but the enjoyment, committment and team game is as strong and in many cases far better than the boys. I do not think any money should be diverted from the new owners if we have them as the priority must be to channell everything into the first team until we can get back to the Premiership and then possibly revisit this again.

It was not a stick to beat him with but to point out that Wilde/Hone/Wilde were not alone in bad transfer deals as pointed out in John B post. Wilde/Hone/Crouch also bought in Wright, Lucketti, Perry, Cork, Bennett.... I have championed the academy set up by Lowe for many years but this was ruined by Lowes obsession with seeing youth only and ruining and setting back many of the youngsters he bought through the academy.

Great post and exactly on the same wavelength as you. Lowe did not need to come back personally and could of employed a proper CEO who would of paid for himself with cost cuts and directing the money more wisely than he did. We employed 4 Dutchmen so the money was there.

Have a look through certain posters and use of the word Pikey!! Not 19C by the way.

That is just unbelievable..... Can you remind me who was chairman when we signed Delap, Delgado, Neil McCann, Van Damme?