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The council have stated that they will not bid against anybody and see themselves as a fallback position. In the event of nobody buying the club and the stadium then they would look at it.

Most of the players are out of contract on 1st July, there are very few with ongoing contracts. The sale of those like Surman and Lallana and any others with a value however small would virtually complete the job. Most of the more experienced players still in contract won't want to play in league one and will want to go anyway. Nobody I'm connected with made that statement, despite the parenthesis you made it up.

It's Princess Anne at the launch of an education initiative.

The Echo could print a howgozit panel with the address every day, Simon Carter said to me it was no problem. Haven't done it. Radio Hampshire covered it for a day did an interview for the brothers. Mike Osman put it out on his show. I asked the BBC to put it on their website and was knocked back. Kevin James did it one day said he would repeat it and talk to Roger Johnson about BBC South Tv putting it out, I've seen nothing since. Wave 105 covered it for a day. It's not as if it's money we are asking for at present, I think until the club is 48hrs from dead the bulk of the public except for the most committed fans aren't the least bit interested. In the end most of them will just shrug and say it's a pity the club collapsed.

We are trying to do this. It's like pushing a snowball uphill the media only see the one shot headline. The imbalance was what I expected so I personally wanted to see what the public actually felt, without the distortion of site members pledgeing twice. The Echo have run the website address once and despite their alleged Save Our Saints banner, are in reality not helping at all either us or the club. I am getting a lot of feedback, most of it negative. Arrogant management, overpaid players, football not worth watching, needs a reality check, Lowe, Wilde, Crouch etc, etc.

Isn't that what I said? The right coaching staff.

I was told the other day that there are three or four substantial interested parties but the problem is, nobody is firming things up until they know what division and the league announce their decision.

Apart from Bridge, Walcott and Bale who have their own natural talent, I'd struggle to name one who isn't a reserve or a lower division journeyman.

No chance of that, the league are on dodgy legal ground and if they were that stupid, it would open up a massive legal can of worms. In any event no football club can sue the football authorities they have waived that right to enter. If it's asset is damaged financially in contravention of league rules, as the club is not in administration, SLH could sue the pants off the league and the FA if they step in. This is dodgy for the league that is why lawyers and accountants are going through our books and records at the moment, to try and prove that the club and the public company are one and the same. Unless they prove that to the satisfaction of the lawyers there is no way the 10 point deduction will happen.

There is only one thing I would like to add to your absolutely spot on report. All decent teams score about 60% of their goals from tap ins in the box, a few long shots and the rest set pieces. We don't do pace, width, byelines, and tap ins, our set pieces are awful and don't start me on our defending, the useless diamond and a lack of football common sense and basic awareness from both the management and players puts us where we are. The board has been cleared out, now it is time to clear out the football side, from top to bottom. Kids are coming into the side with no football awareness and just follow instructions from the manager/coaches, most of them struggle to hit a dead ball, and show no tactical awareness. What have these kids been doing in the academy for the last eight years and what the hell are they being taught.

We have to clear out the dead wood, sell those that can be sold for whatever they fetch or swop where we can, then get in virtually a whole new squad, otherwise we are going nowhere with the flaky bunch we are currently saddled with. FFS they can't even take a decent corner or free kick and when did a forward last score from a header or a tap in, that says it all for me. We need more players with the character of Gillett.

Let's learn a lesson for once. If the club survives never again employ the sort of shallow characters we have in abundance at the club. All through the season we have had a load of inane b-ollocks quoted on the official website from this player or that, how much they care, what they are going to do next etc, etc. Character and intelligence has to be criteria no1, then pace AND strength, then ability, that rules out virtually every member of the current squad. I think the academy needs a big overhaul, the level of football knowledge and technique displayed by the graduates to the first team is appalling, FFS most of them can't even kick a dead ball or shoot accurately. What do they do there. It seems as long as they can trap a bag of cement and look pretty that's enough.

Another one trick pony, the diamond midfield is plan A-Z. I don't want to see another season with acres of space on the wings being exploited by the opposition. The formation we are currently playing is negative and limited with the lack of ability and imagination of most of our players. Our downfall this year is as much down to the management as any other reason. We have hardly scored a goal from play in the six yard box all season, yet decent teams score 50-60% of all their goals from general play in the six yard box. We have also conceded a high proportion of goals in our six yard box. We need a manager who believes in attacking football, who will play down the wings and get players concentrating on getting to the byeline and balls into the box. That doesn't mean relying on the fullback pumping in balls from just inside the opponents half being gobbled up by the defence. If the crowds are going to come back, it will only be through exciting attacking football producing goals and results. It is all very well employing technical coaches as managers but most of them fail because of it. We need a MANAGER not a bloody blown up coach. There is a hell of a difference.

You are wrong in one respect, the football club are not in administration therefore can buy who they like once the window opens. Having said that, we have no money and staying out of administration until we are hopefully sold is the only objective.

The team have no fear of the management. If they thought for one moment they would have been brought straight back to Staplewood for a two hour training session, then absolutely murdered in training this morning. They would have looked at things differently. There has to be a fear factor with the manager as the bottom line. The board has to be part of this too making the players realise the manager is fireproof, and it's 100% or pain and fines.

You are absolutely spot on, I suspect the average Sotonian/fan feels the same way. I have long felt that, but didn't voice the opinion, now I think it is the single biggest impediment. If there is going to be a club in the future it has to get back to basics and budget for no more than 50% of income on the playing side. Get the scouting network up and running at div 1/2 and non league level and concentrate on character/pace/strength/ability. Bring through the kids in conjunction and pay for a couple of first class (at this level) player coaches. It is looking likely that the locals won't back the club, who can blame them. It has been a centre of underachievement and arrogance for too long now.

We should look carefully at the staff and virtually release or sell if we can all of them and start again with a new squad and a clean slate. None of the present lot will cut it on a regular basis in div 1. We need character and a will to win.

In the end it's whether you honour it if cash is required. It doesn't matter where you pledged, it's the honouring of the pledge that counts.

You could well be right but the Echo despite making noises about support are turning out to be an apathetic dead loss. They obviously don't give a stuff about the club but are milking the situation on a random basis. They need to show the website address every day but it isn't going to happen. The thought of the club going out of business is sickening, but it is getting clearer by the day cynicism and apathy is the reality together with a great deal of criticism from people who make an artform of doing nothing except gobbing off. If people don't like the way things are done, there is nothing to stop them doing something themselves, we all know that isn't going to happen. Sitting at a keyboard sniping is a far easier thing to do than getting off one's backside and trying to do something.

Can't you read? If there is a match and it isn't definite, it's not Leicester. That information came from someone at the meeting.

It's been on Solent with Kevin James, Mike Osman, Stuart Dennis on Radio Hampshire, Wave 105, The Echo haven't delivered apart from the first two days, they are supposed to be doing a howgozit panel daily with the address. We need to see what is happening outside the site, pledges mean little until the administrator announces imminent closure, If that doesn't concentrate minds to contribute money nothing will. At that point the publicity and reaction should gee everybody to focus on saving the club. It may well be, there isn't real support outside the hardcore supporters to save the club. We are very much in the hands of the media.

No, to measure the level of support outside the site.

There has been a meeting, a game was put forward, it's not Leicester. The Dyer transfer fee may put it on ice or postpone it until after the season is over.

Simply because he felt it was in HIS interests to let it go.

Only realistic if it is all there is, pledges mean nothing. If push comes to shove and there are no buyers the club can only be saved by the public will or go under because not enough care.