Tamesaint

Don't get taken in by the PR spin or the weasel words. . The £3.5 million that we had on deposit conveniently did not include the amount at the same time that was in the overdraft. A good chunk of the £3.5 million that was in the bank had to be paid the day after Lowe and his cabal left to players as "loyalty bonuses" - ie The next instalment of their signing on fees. This would have been covered by contractual law. It would be a bit like you saying that you had x in the bank just after you got paid and just before you had to pay your mortgage, your rates and all the other bills. In theory you have the money ... but in practice you do not.

Does Rupert wear a Dutch cap when he watches Dutch football??? :-) :-)

Maybe someone other than Rupert doing the teamtalk is the reason that we won!!

Good point. According tio the Runnymede minutes the bank kept Lowe informed of the financial situation. I wonder why he didn't say something then.

Reading the annual accounts , I have a few questions for Lowe: 1. When Rupert left SMS,according to him, the club was financially strong. When he returned it was in a poor state. How can he therefore work with the catalyst for this change - Michael Wide? 2. Isn't it a little disingenous - nay, downright dishonest to compare the bank account on the day he left, 29 June 2006 , with the peak of the summer overdraft? Players are paid their "loyalty bonuses" / signing on fee instalments on 30 June. The bank balance would have been a lot lower two days after Lowe left. It is a bit like me comparing my bank balance the day after I was paid with the balance the day after I had paid my mortgage!! 3. Why does Rupert feel that he is unable to convert the "vocal,negative elements of our support base"? Why does it exist? Why even give them the oxygen of publicity in the annual accounts? 4. What are the "internal sources of finance" that the Directors may consider? Does this mean that Michael Wilde will cough up the long expected £2 million that he promised? Does this mean that Lowe and Cowen may repay some of the £600k they received when they resigned? 5. Do we have to pay that well known wit and raconteur Chris Iwelumo for quoting him in the accounts? I wonder whether he would answer these questions at the AGM??

Who do you have in mind Sundance??

What, pray,do you base this little gem on other than blind devotion to Lowe. The man had quite simply lost the plot in our last season in the Premiership. 3 managers by the start of December !!! No wonder we went down. Then in our first season down his "brilliant" masterstroke of cutting players wages by half meant that we missed our best chance of going back up. Instead of concentrating on doing what Birmingham seem to do so well of bouncing straight back up we spent most of the season getting rid of players who have subsequently shown that they could do a good job in the Premiership (Delap, Niemi etc ). 5 year rebuilding plan ??? You must be having a larff!!

... and there's the rub. Jan is only currently employed at a higher level because Nigel did such a good job last season!! If Nigel had bombed out and we had been relegated instead of Leicester he would now be at the higher level. You couldn't make it up!!!

So Crouch would have been a better bet in your eyes if he had blown agents fees , signing on fees etc on a couple of crocks. Hmmmmmm.

How on earth do the acquisitions of Pulis and Gasmi prove that Lowe is a good dealer in the transfer market ???? It would be nice to see them in a first team shirt!!!!

I need no lectures from anyone on supporting the Saints thank you very much. There was never a truer song than "Southampton till I die". That does not mean that supporting the team means that I have to give unquestioning obedience to everything that happens off the field. As a supporter of the club I can & will criticise what is going on off the field ... and still support the team. Nothing would give me greater pleasure than to say to the luvvies that they were right and I was wrong when we re enter the Premiership under JP and Rupert.

What a patronising post!!! PMSL !!! "Anyone know what Justin Fashanu is doing these days?" :-) :-)

I heard a Reading fan saying after the match that Southampton must be a poor team. Reading played so badly today that if Southampton were any good they would have beaten Reading by more than 2-1. I just PMSL

He did play well. Once or twice I thought he played our defence into trouble ... but if you twist my arm I could give him 9.5. I feel good tonight.

He was magnificent. The others were exceptional. For a time in the second half Reading's main tactic was to pump long balls behind Scacel. It worked for a time but Perry covered him well and in the end they tried different tactics.

10 - what do you think???

Brilliant. Makes supporting Saints all worthwhile. Player ratings : Davis - 10. James - 10 Cork - 10 Perry - 10 Scacel -9 (it would be silly to give them all 10) Surman - 10 Schneiderlin - 10 Mcgoldrick - 10 Lallana - 10 Robertson - 10 BWP - 10 Sub- Patterson - 9 Not on long enough to earn 10

I second that. This is good news.

Where is the Waterloo Arms? Is it Lymington - home of LC ???

I went to uni in Liverpool. One of the halls of residence was called Rathbone Hall. It was where they put the stuck up students.

Thats 35. There are 92 clubs in the Football league. There are 42 in Scotland. There are thousands in non league fooball (you have listed Torquay who play in the conference). There are many who play in wales. So really 35 is just a handful. I do not see your point. :-)

It is now 72 hours since the wolves game but the appalling refereeing that day (and the performance of the Kingsland linesman) is still annoying me. Does anyone have an address (email or snail mail) where the outraged supporter can write to vent his criticism and hopefully ensure that those 2 buffoons never set foot on a football field again? Is there someone at the FA who would listen? Is there such an address .... or is it down to the Five Live Rant line???

The Scacel decision was amazing. I didn't thin that he even touched the Wolves player when he went down.

It couldn't have been Sundance. The doctors don't let him near a telephone in the home where he lives ;-)

Wilde posts on here from time to tiime. I am sure that he would read a thread like this which mentions his name in the title. If he was an honourable man he could answer on here. If he is as spineless as people say he will not. Lets wait and see.