CHAPEL END CHARLIE

Employing all his extensive knowledge of the team and his vast football experience our new Left Back believes we'll be fine : http://www.football.virginmedia.com/page/Southampton/NewsDetail/0,,12555~1529409,00.html We're certainly going to 'get results' Lee - bad ones in all probability . :smt104

He won't - and don't call me shirley .

It would seem Kelvin wants to stay : [email=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/low/football/teams/s/southampton/7845804.stm]http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/low/football/teams/s/southampton/7845804.stm[/email]

Unsubstantiated but entirely likely IMO .

As whatever he's been doing patently hasn't been working perhaps he should consider working half as hard instead and then results might actually improve - they could hardly get any worse . Alternatively he could bu**er off back where he came from and do us all a favour .

This 'Guilt by association' Leon Crouch has been subject to on this thread I find both grossly unfair and without any foundation in fact . The record shows LC to be an astute businessman and a genuine Saints fan whom I would trust with the running of this football club unreservedly - the fact that he is not is a minor tragedy for SFC and all those who hold it's welfare close to their hearts .

Remember that line in the movie 'Titanic' : Whatever we think about Administration it's a mathematical certainty this club/business will fold at some point as Southampton Leisure Holdings will continue to generate significant losses year on year in perpetuity as far as I can see . We need to put SLH out of it's misery and start again with a restructured UNITED club living within it's means , less indebted and crucially free of the corrosive influence of Rupert Lowe and his cronies . This will be a painful and protracted business but I see little real alternative short of a major new investor arriving like the 7th Cavalry at the last moment , and let's face it that's just not going to happen .

Two words - Planning Permission . Football clubs never really die - however bad things get they always seem to survive one way or another rather like the monster in some horror film that just won't die . I can't think of a single example of a major British football club completely disappearing from the game , even Accrington Stanley made a comeback eventually . If/when we go into administration someone will buy the club - don't know who don't know when - but it will happen .

Two words - Planning Permission . Football clubs never really die - however bad things get they always seem to survive one way or another rather like the monster in some horror film that just won't die . I can't think of a single example of a major British football club completely disappearing from the game , even Accrington Stanley made a comeback eventually . If/when we go into administration someone will buy the club - don't know who don't know when - but it will happen .

Bad atmosphere so far ? - you ain't seen nothing yet .

What a shambles this club is : http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/saints/news/4056908.Chairman_the_targ What with this nonsense and the Dave Armstrong story it seems the stewards have decided to join in with everyone else at St Mary's and totally lose the plot

Signed on season long loan with a view to becoming a permanent transfer . I'm not entirely sure whether we can change our minds on keeping this player or not - you'd have to see the terms of the contract or wait for clarification from either club .

Can't totaly agree on that DD . Micheal Owen for instance you could well argue was at his best at 18/20 before too many injuries took their toll on the hamstrings . Most players peak by their mid twenties as far as I can see - the greater experience they gain with age often only partially compensating for the ravages of time and the fear of failure experience can bring . It's perfectly true modern sports science , improved medical treatments and good diets can prolong their careers into their mid 30's - but I'm far from convinced however that they really improve much after 24/26 though .

A part of the problem SFC is labouring under is that we've quite a few key players (Skacel BWP Euell Svensson Davis etc....) who are running down the last few months of their contracts here and have little or no chance of a new deal - this is unsettling and hardly encourages the less than totaly professional type of player to go out and sweat blood for the cause - although that's not an accusation I would ever level at Kelvin Davis I'd like to make clear . In a ideal world players should be offered a contract extension 12 months or so before said contracts expire or transferred out of the club if possible - the fact we have so many players in this unsatisfactory 'Limbo' situation this season (and last for that matter) is yet another example of the criminally inadequate management the club has suffered from in recent years . Kelvin Davis has done more than enough to earn a new contract with SFC in my opinion - but considering the calibre of the men running the club I harbour little real hope that he will actually be offered one .

We lost the game largely because we lost the midfield , Schneiderlin (and to a lesser degree Surman) must carry the responsibility for this . The original post is perfectly correct - this player's performance has deteriorated noticeably as the season has progressed and the time when he and Gillett looked like a promising combination seems long gone now to be honest . This is the fundamental problem with selecting so many young players , you don't know what you'll going to get and even when they do play well they often struggle to maintain that standard over a full season . He's still young and he may well turn out to be a good player in the long run but we shouldn't be surprised when youngsters don't turn out to be instant match-winners . We will ultimatly spend £1.2m (virtually our entire transfer budget) on this one player in the hope/gamble that we'd unearthed a star in the making who we could transfer in the future for a healthy profit . With not very much hindsight that money would have been better spent trying to persuade Safri to stay or on signing an experienced defensive midfielder - not some ageing journeyman such as Wotton on a 'free' but someone still good enough to be worth actual money that is .

The mods might as well lock this thread now - it won't get a more succinct or accurate contribution .

Sorry I really can't be bothered with this kind of thing anymore . Not only will SFC be relegated this season we deserve to be relegated and any meager points tally we pick up here and there from now on will only serve to postpone the inevitable . It's the irrational sense of hope that kills you with football - I've now reached the 'All hope abandoned' stage after today .

Before we start calling for this or that new manager to replace Poortvliet we'd do well to remember Rupert Lowe would actually make that decision - hands up who thinks he's going to get it right ? A new board and then a new manager would be the way to do it , but we'll probably get neither in the foreseeable future I'm sorry to say .

Same crap different game . I'm off to consider alcoholism , suicide or maybe just watching 'TV Burp' on ITV in an effort to cheer myself up .

With Man City sitting in 20th place in the Premier League table and only 2 points above the relegation zone it's not beyond the bounds of possibility that Kaka might be playing his football in the CCC next season . :smt044:smt044

LOL - It's funny because it's true :smt044

I guess we'd like him back but something like this looks far more likely IMO : http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/scottish/baird-is-now-on-rangers-list-14143100.html Just paper talk at the moment .

Kenwyne's going nowhere according to this : http://www.goal.com/en/news/746/sunderland/2009/01/15/1062384/sunderlands-sbragia-would-quit-rather-than-sell-kenwyne-jones

It would seem we're not the only club who don't really rate this young player : http://www.goal.com/en/news/699/tottenham/2009/01/13/1059199/tomas-pekhart-to-leave-tottenham-hotspur He'll probably score the winning goal in the 2012 Champions League final now . :yawinkle:

He's not great but I don't think he's as bad as some on here say . DMG can hardly be considered a prolific striker and he certainly misses plenty but he's still young and football's full of 10 or 12 goal a season strikers . I see that Louis Boa Morte's still playing in the Premier League and DMG can't be much worse than him .