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The organiser is called Mike Fenner, a ST holder, email at mikefenner@saveoursaints (presumably .co.uk or .com) It's the address in the Echo. A shareholders association to collect all anti Lowe shareholdings is a good idea. I think more than 50% is owned by non Lowe axis shareholders.

Shareholders.

I think they are trying to get something moving now, It's all shareholders invited, email mikefenner@saveoursaints ( presumably .co.uk or .com).

Apologies, it's tomorrow night at 7pm 23/1/09. A lapse in concentration I'm afraid.

Sorry, the date is 23/1/09 @ 7pm.

In the Echo tonight also Email: mikefenner@saveoursaints. This article was critical of Lowe and is to try and start to unite shareholders to try and get him out. The meeting is at 7pm and all are invited. This for me is the way to go, form a shareholders association and draw together all the anti Lowe shareholders, hopefully including Leon Crouch, Mary Corbett, Patrick Trant, Lawrie McMenemy etc eventually.

No comment.

Still on here using a new name.

Well now Ron, that really is a surprise.

We wouldn't go into administration.

So the club is going into administration. I'm sure Rupert and Michael have the clubs interest and future at heart. We know that they can't invest to save the club, but there is something else they could do. The shares in the club would be worthless if we go into administration. That means that they would be in a good position to help the club. They should donate their and their supporters shares, and ask every shareholder to donate theirs to Leon Crouch, who will pay £2m off the bank debt in receipt. Crouch will then own the club and the rest can exit stage left, and we don't go into administration. So come on Rupert, Michael for the good of the club, how about it?

Talk of demonstrations, Echo/radio, Armstrong,etc, then a rumour of imminent adminisration to take the eye off the ball. Cross that bridge when we come to it. If it happens, it will be about the first rumour that came true. For me wait and see.

Bloody amazing in the Echo tonight, two double pages and everybody talking about Lowe/Portvliet and nobody talking about football.

No, avoid at all cost.

I'm really only interested in using the squad we have and getting the best out of them. Outside players would be great but I'm only talking about where we are at, at this moment.

We have, but they don't discipline themselves to do the job, Lallana, McLaggon, BWP, James, I'm not sure whether Smith is natural right/left, could all make a go of the right side, Holmes is fine, but Skacel could do a good job as well. Probably Smith, but it's how they play that counts.

Quite so, and now the faggots have to play wide, hit the byeline, get in crosses, and everybody has to bust a gut and cut out the strolling back.

The end result, of what I said.

Agreed. As Lowe won't do this, in the meantime we need to do better and play more efficiently.

It's not systems, it's using the full width, and stopping the opposition when moves break down.

Precisely, I'm just simplifying it, his 4 backs, 2 not so wide men, 2 CM, then 1/1 is pretty much it, except the wide men have to play wide attacking, delay and track back aggressively. The area outside the opponents far post is targeted, by the idle winger loitering back for an unmarked/un noticed blindside run attacking the overhit ball/far post.

Two wingers wide, by tracking back help the full backs defend, it reduces the space for the opposition to break. TP and JS put a lot of crosses hanging up on the far post, Ron got a lot of goals from the a line joining the back corner of the penalty area (where he started his run in ) with the far post. We don't have anybody in that area, when the ball misses the middle out, there is nobody there.

That's maybe the place where they have to work twice as hard. I've always maintained that fitness buys you the right to compete, and if you compete well enough, that buys you the right to play your football against a tiring side.

I would like to see that myself, but it may well be Gillett and Schneiderlin with Skacel at left back.

For sure, Man Utd is an example but they are so fluid and versatile we couldn't hope to replicate them, but we can learn the lesson of width over narrow, delay from the front and busting a gut to get back. Men on the far post and Utd do it better than anyone, rather than everybody in a melee outnumbered and blocked on the near post and nobody coming in unmarked on the far post.