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No, not at all, but how many people have we seen come on here with little to no posts, tell us 'today's the day' and then slink back off laughing at the biting fish? Unless we get a genuine source etc, don't believe a word I hear.

But the club is likely to run as a solvent company next season (hell, it did for 9 months this season), and with the loss of all our over-paid players I think we'll turn a small profit, so I disagree with the no return. Don't forget Leeds made a £4.5m profit last season.

Rubbish. We are doomed.

Sorry if I don't take an 11 poster's word for it.

IMO yes, but I've said this since we went into admin.

No buyer for the club, what a surprise!! Thank God we went into administration eh!

We will become United, but after our future is fully decided imho. After that we're all sorted though!

Beatts is much less of a ***t than people think, always been very friendly when I've been with him, bought me drinks etc, and seems interested in you (even if you're not female). Bridgey is a **** though.

Our rivalry with TH finished after we beat them 3-1 at WHL and got Hoddle sacked.

It's my birthday tomorrow (a whole quarter of a century old), so I hope it happens on my birthday, because then the rebirth of southampton will be synonymous with me...

I think it's difficult for devisive people like you to not look like a wind up mechant, and vice versa, so forgive me if I see anything you say as inflammatory and a wind up.

Agreed. All over ****ed up management of or club.

Agreed, they are, but what pushed us into administration was the 81% wage to turnover ratio, and the £7m spent badly by Burley. I just don't think we'd be in admin now if it weren't for that. 'Tis all I'm saying.

Not really, because the discussion I was having with others on this thread was purely based on the fiscal side of things, and just saying it's not black and white. As I said earlier, his football decisions have put us into League 1, but his financial control hasn't. And to be fair Alpine, it's your opinions that don't matter. You are a wind up merchant, similar to Sundance Beast and Scooby, and to be honest I can't really be bothered to bite any longer. Your ill-educated views and relentless tirades against Lowe are tiresome, and I don't think you've ever tried to put across a balanced argument, a 'devils advocate' view as it were. Anyway, hope all's well in Austria, muchos kisses to you... Peace and love, peace and love...

I don't think they did. It's common knowledge that there is no love lost between Lowe and McMenemy

Wotton will be on next to no money, and Rasiak, had he not been supplemented by Saga, Stern John, and Jason Euell (on similar wages) was sustainable.

And I agree, BUT he would have cut the cloth accordingly...

So you honestly believe that had Lowe not left the first time, we would be in administration at this point, if not sooner? You think he'd have run wages at 81% of turnover? You think he'd have spent £7m on a gamble to return to the Premiership(considering he never did that in the Prem, I find that laughable)? As said above, it's all hypothetical. I think you can level a lot of things at Lowe, bad footballing decisions, but I don't think he'd have risked the money he had tied up in the club by taking us into administration.

I do agree with that summation, and the decisions made by Lowe on his return were damaging. I think the issue is that it is all hypothetical. Personally, I'm looking at this in a purely fiscal way, not taking into account the disastrous football decisions that Lowe made.

Relegation from the Premiership does not mean administration though, and whatever happens I think most of us will agree that if Lowe had stayed around we would not be in administration. We may be in League 2, but not in admin!

I will send you the real reason via PM. Then you can make your mind up.

Unless someone has the time to go through the accounts for the last 5 years, and work out exactly where all the money has gone etc, the amount spent or lost in relation to turnover, the players signed, the managerial appointments etc, then it's very difficult to work out exactly who is most culpable. If he came back I'd imagine we'd hear a massive explosion coming from the region of Austria, as Alpine's head pops!

I agree that the way Lowe puts himself across in these situations doesn't help himself, but I also don't believe it is entirely his fault that we are in administration.

I have to say I agree, but the reason that Strachan left was not lack of money (and to be fair, with some of Strachan's signings you wouldn't let him go near any money).