saint1977

Exactly, think someone's just slipped up there. You'd think the club would have learned after S4E wouldn't you?

If true - and it's possible - the person is a moron and is not helping anyone. Please may they be nicked asap. However, like Warsash Saint, I smell a rat 2 days before the biggest organised protest since Branfoot. Let's show everyone what a PEACEFUL and targeted protest looks like on Saturday and those targets include Mr Wilde.

The top two is fair enough OB but sadly we will never know with regard to Frost as Guy Askham chose his own pocket over the club in 1996.

Thirded, name both or neither I say. Still, no chance of any such legislation with any Government that contains the likes of Harriet Harman. That isn't anti-Labour or pro-Tory by the way, don't like any of the main parties. I've no idea who is guilty or not but frankly footballers should be a bit more careful by now. I've been to loads of nightspots - before I settled down and got bored of them - where well-known footballers were present and young women flock around them like wasps around a jam jar in August. Players must realise that they could be a trophy but they just don't seem to get it.

I do agree, he needs that kind of coaching even if he is tracking back. I still think he is no more suitable for RB than BWP or McGoldrick or even Bart would be!

Good news and Saga tends to score in runs when his confidence is up - which got damaged badly under Beerley. 10 in 10 again like 06/07 might just creep us out of the bottom 3.

Totally agree. The hype did get daft in 2006 but Rudi has been one of the better performers since he joined. He hasn't got as many goals as I'd hoped but some of the stuff said about him on here is plain silly. Yes, he is one of the few high earners left but compared to many of them, he's not been bad VFM. The left-hand side looks a heck of a lot weaker with him not in the side than when he is.

LOL! Love the Vultures.

Same here. I have many friends that also went into trades in their late teens and did really well post-apprenticeships/training periods as one-man-bands but you don't earn a lot under the age of 21 unless you go it alone with an amazing idea and the ability to sell like a genius and such people are rare. The commercial employment market is a tough place for an 18 year old and even at the age of 21/22, you are better placed and more mature to enter it, notwithstanding your qualifications and what you can offer. Paid work in your holidays which I took helps you to understand work politics and how organisations work. Degrees tend to make more impact on earnings in your late 20s, 30s and 40s as the experience and niche knowledge and contacts grow with your career.

True, but then he is no more a RB than you or I. His delivery for our equaliser last night is yet more proof that he should be at RM.

This confirms a number of things we've known for a while: - Saints players only feel comfortable with 4-4-2. Hoddle tried to change the formation as well with proper Southampton-calibre players and couldn't do it so JP had no chance with out squad of 2 or 3 promising kids with pass-me-down rejects of other academies (Smith) - Start with Saga as a 2-up front - James should be playing at RM ahead of Smith - James has much more ability - and we should have got a RB in August and anyone who can't see that, shouldn't be allowed near a football game. Whose bright idea was it to sign Smith - he wasn't anywhere near getting a game at Millwall and is an early candidate for RM in the worst ever Saints XI - B@llocks to the tippy tappy stuff. Don't want us to go long ball either but we need 2 animals in the centre of the park who win it and get it wide at the earliest opportuntity where 2 strikers are ready for a good quality delivery. Not rocket science. - McLaggon, like Gobern, is a fine young prospect but we should resist the temptation to start him and use him as an impact player from the bench

I agree, all very strange. Still, great to see the club forced out of the bunker to respond.

Whilst I'm sure Lowe and Wilde took over to avoid administration, I think they have run out of ideas and are trying to have one last roll of the dice before March and the administration cut off. I don't think Wilde or Lowe have the energy to plot a different course, even if it takes the whole ship down with them.

Too right. Trouble is, I think that the staff at the club are fed this rubbish within the bunker so often that they start to believe it themselves. We've already heard plenty of stories on here about staff who don't toe the party line and I feel really sorry for people lower down the food chain than Wotte at the club who have to work in that "Bleak House" environment. Not that the Execs behaved any better either. I love the club as a fan but would NEVER consider working for them. Tells me that we are well on the way to victory as a set of fans and Mike Wilde and Guy Askham's house of cards is getting nearer to collapse. They (Wilde, Lowe and chums) have disappeared from public view bar the odd ghost-written piece on the OS.

It's pretty clear - I think if we stayed up it would be pretty harsh not to keep Wotte on applying the logic that Pearson should have stayed. I don't think Wotte will be successful - in fact I can't see us winning many more games - but very happy to proven wrong. As in last summer though, new people will come in and remove him regardless of his performance and I think none of us would be surprised at that.

Both. That said, the parent company were rumoured to be looking at redundancies so perhaps none of the hacks want to put themselves on the line - I'm not saying that's right by the way.

They're also p!ss poor journalists that are too lazy to do any research. Solent have been quite happy to do a bit more digging.

Sensible in my view, making the IPL honeypot improve cricket everywhere. Having England players in the IPL will IMO improve ODI and 20/20 performances which SA apart (SA had won the Test series which was their goal) have been pathetic.

Nil. Zero. Zip. Nowt. Big fat nought.

Same here but Wotte would have to take a lot of credit if he turned this around but unless there is a hidden warchest of cash (very unlikely) or Denneboom the new striker is like Saganowski was in the second-half of 2006/7 I think it would take a miracle.

Swansea were even further in the mire and even more divided than we are now. The situation at Swansea was worse but by being proactive, look what was achieved and has been since. Things haven't got quite this bad at SFC yet but the Doncaster game and the appointment of Wotte are evidence that we should do something as fans BEFORE it does. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/s/swansea_city/7847562.stm

Yes and I'm still paying mine off! However, whoever said that you hit a degree barrier in certain professions if you don't have one or equivalent professional accreditation is spot on. Not everyone is a natural Sir Alan Sugar or Peter Jones and can/will/wants to sell widgets which you don't need a degree for and is a perfectly sensible way to make a living. Also, Universities bring a serious amount of money into their local economies. Southampton's economy is quite depressed judging by the number of boarded up units and businesses that seem to have gone kaput recently in the City Centre and IKEA won't be a panacea although it's welcome news. If you don't work in retail, financial services (and most of that is in Basingstoke now) or the public sector, Soton's economy offers skilled people very little sadly. That's why most of the locations of posters on this site are outside of Soton. So the Universities are a key source of investment, R&D, student spending and crucially, employment for the city, particularly Soton Uni with it's worldwide reputation. Lives are saved by the medical research link with the General and this includes one of my family, hence why I feel strongly about this. Also, there will be less 18-21 year olds going to University in the future and a lot more employers upskilling their staff and their ability to compete/survive in their given market. Southampton is fortunate to have 2 Universities to be able to drive this forward.

4-1 Norwich. Carrow is a bogey ground and although Delia's messed up by appointing Gunn - when will football clubs learn that the cheapie internal "old boy" option never works - they whacked Barnsley on Saturday and they've just ejected an unpopular manager in Roeder. I would like to think we'd compete better if we keep Norwich out for 30 mins, if we leak an early one it could be worse than 4-1!

Agree with your basic point on Crouch Nick but if LC doesn't have the right, nor does Lowe on 5.5%! Wilde is the key to all this, he and Askham need to grow some balls and get people around a table like Stthrobber suggests, however acrimonious it gets aka Runneymede. The club HAS TO COME FIRST! Unless Leon has a sugar daddy lined up, we're in for more of the same and administration by March. I'd personally prefer Leon as Chair as I think he's a better businessman than Mike Wilde ever was and he seems to have a better knowledge of English football but we'd be back to the Lowe crowd sniping and trying to get the steering wheel back and vice versa. It's akin to two sets of crews fighting over the control gear on a helicopter and the helicopter crashes because people were so busy fighting they didn't see a huge mountain!

Common sense - so as we're talking about SFC it won't happen! Seriously though, it does my head in that our major shareholders are squabbling whilst the club folds in front of us. This is where Askham should at last take some responsibility - he did nothing but line his filthy pockets whilst Chairman, oh, and bring us Ian Branfoot - and bring everyone around a table whether they like it or not! Even if it results in a lot of mud-slinging. The point is, Crouch may be more palatable for most of us than Lowe or Wilde but can he buy them out for say 30p a share? If he can't and this lot can't figure a way forward between them, administration is inevitable. All we've had since 2006 is the group that are outside the tent p!ssing back into the tent on those occupying it and both sides have been EQUALLY guilty. If that cycle doesn't end, we've had it.