Cabrone

We're all going to have to be patient on this one. It's going to be brown trousers all round as it goes down to the wire. If I was a buyer I'd want to hang back on any offer until I knew where this club will be next season. Once I knew I would then adjust my bid accordingly. Jumping in now could cost a lot of money.

2nd game I ever saw at the Dell was against Luton, we won 2-0 if I remember. Mark Wight and Dave Armstrong?? getting the goals. Used to be a decent little club. They have been treated very badly IMO.

Another question - if we cease to exist before the Forest game would 3 pts be automatically awarded to them?

I like KK but can't see it. He likes bit of cash and I doubt he's too bothered about going into league 1 TBH. How about a young ambitious manager with good experience at successfully managing in the lower leagues and with a bit of a name to bring in some decent players. How about Paul Ince? All this assumes we'll survive the next few weeks of course.

....and how much has the worm taken out over the years?

Go back to sleep NickH.

Barclays didn't get us relegated from the prem - Lowe did. Barclays didn't alienate the fan base - Lowe did. Barclays didn't appoint the Gray, Wigley and Portaloo - Lowe did. Barclays didn't tell SFC to get rid of a great manager in Pearson - Lowe did. Barclays didn't tell SFC to blow a load of cash on catering and radio stations - Lowe did. Barclays didn't tell SFC to loan out Rasiak, John and Saga and spend the much needed cash on some untried French kid - Lowe did. I could go on even further but he's now gone so what's the point. Lowe totally failed and the fact that he's lashing out at everyone else except himself leads me to believe that he is becoming mentally unstable. If we do get a decent buyer and Lowe is banished for ever then I will raise a quiet glass to Barclays for finally ridding us of this idiot. Someone finally had the guts to stand up to him and call him out for his utter lack of business acumen.

Probably watch my local club a bit more but my heart will be lost to football. I can't even begin to get my head around a world without SFC. Just got my Charlton ticket and am off to Watford - going to give the boys my full support now that we have our club back.

It's exactly as I expected it would be, Lowe is such a stubborn ass he was always going to cling on till the bitter end. Like a cancer he could not be removed without major surgery and I'm still not sure whether he will go for good even after this. Indeed it is a really sad state of affairs.

Bye bye Rupert.

Although I expected this nothing has changed for me. Whilst Lowe is there my boycott remains. As soon as he has crawled away from the club then I will go back.

The 3 wins have given me heart but if I had to put money on it I'd back us to go down. Just as it was in the prem, Lowes madness has left us with too much to do I fear (but I live in hope).

A wildly optimistic 2-2.

Rasiak for me. Goals win games and the big Pole has proven to me that he knows where the net is. Sure, we may have to adjust our playing style but its worth it for a 20+ goal haul. That kind of scoring rate really takes the pressure off the rest of the team. Euell has played well recently and has his merits but he isn't a 20 goals a season striker.

Another superb result and performance by the sounds of it. Well done the players and Wotte for finally getting them going. Still early days but fingers crossed that we can avoid the drop. However its so frustrating to wonder how this season could have been if we had started out with a competent chairman in the first place......

Lowe just can't help putting his ill informed beak into football matters even though he knows nothing about football management. Redknapp couldn't pull us out of the mire when his experiments dropped us right in it and now it remains to be seen if Wotte can undo the damage his experiments have caused in this league. Whatever division we find ourselves in, whilst Lowe is around we will always be at the whim of Lowe and his mad schemes.

Well done to the team, 3 vital points and some much needed hope. Fair play to Wotte to who so far has done a great job. Very early doors yet but keep up this form and hopefully we can still pull away. If someone could just stop Rupert 'Ball and Chain' Lowe from conducting his mad experiments then who knows, we might even be able to be a half decent club.

If your Dad has a NCFC ST I guess he's a big fan? Would that not mean that he probably would get heated up over NCFC matters way more than SFC? When Chase was getting (rightly) hounded I had sympathy but was pretty phlegmatic about the whole affair. Moving back to the ball and chain currently ensconced in our boardroom, Lowe's latest experiment may send us down a 2nd time (would that make him the worst chairman in Saints history?) and although I don't hate the man I can't believe he's been allowed to get away with it for so long. On grounds of competence he should never have been allowed back.

I was a student in Norwich for a few years when the anti Chase feeling was running high and I'd say the feelings against Lowe is about the same as the feelings were against Chase.

Great victory yesterday but even if we manage to pull ourselves out of this hole whilst Lowe is here you can expect more incompetence in future. SFC won't move on until he has been sacked.

Indeed, it's not rocket science. As for interviewers, well isn't that where non-exec directors come into it?

Looking at that list you'd think that if Lowe had a shred of decency he'd do the honorable thing and resign. Unfortunately he has no honor.

If I was him I'd keep quiet, all this hot air is just making him look stupid and ineffectual.

Talking of reality checks you seem to think it's a piece of cake to take over a nosediving club and get it to instantly turn around. Well in the real world I'm afraid it's not. By the time Redknapp arrived the damage had been done, we were spiralling downwards and better managers than Redknapp would have struggled to pull us out of the Lowe orchestated mess we found ourselves in. Morale was really low, confidence was low, results were poor (anyone remember seeing us get stuffed at Watford in the Carling cup? I do and it was humiliating) and there (to me at least) appeared to be an air of resigned apathy about the whole place. I remember seeing his 1st game in charge at White Hart Lane and we were hammered, it was embarrasing to watch. Even at that stage of the season I can remember thinking to myself that our prem status was touch and go and as it turned out it was 'go'. When he actually had a close season to get his team together I thought he did a really good job considering Lowe had completely tied his hands behind his back. IMO all we needed was the striker to bag us 15-20 goals, someone like Rasiak or Nugent would have cost 2-3M and would have made the difference. But you-know-who couldn't see this and refused to sanction funds. We then collapsed half way through the season, never to recover. It was at this point that my patience with Lowe snapped.

Coming back a 2nd time to finish off his demolition of SFC. After that his refusal to provide Redknapp with sufficient funds in the first relegation season. I saw us batter teams in the 1st half of that season (Reading (h), Ipswich (a) to name but 2) without ever scoring the crucial goals. Not surprising when all Lowe was willing to spend was 90k on Fuller. If Lowe had sanctioned funds for a decent striker having lost BT, Crouch and Phillips (and trousered a heap of cash) then I believe we would have been promoted at the first attempt and things would have been very different. Once again the useless fool thought we could function on the cheap and in the process made a disastrous strategic decision.