benjii

It's a good point. You would like to think that if Lowe was hounded out for a second time some of the old dribblers that prop-up his position might have a change of heart. This would inevitably involve some sort of courtship from Lowe's successors though, which is why it would be best if an impartial board was in control IMO.

Normally happens after about 65 / 70 mins when the second goal sails in

Contracts are not voided if a party to them enters administration. That includes employment contracts, commercial contracts, any kind of contract. A commercial contract will have a clause allowing the solvent party to terminate it if the other becomes insolvent. The difficulty for football clubs is that they have to comply with FA rules (if they want to retain their league registration) in addition to complying with the law. I'm not sure what the FA rules say about player contracts.

ps. if fans want to boycott without hurting the club then we could just have a mass walk-out at half-time in a match.

As we all know Rupert couldn't care less and possibly has mental health problems in any event, any protest must be targeted at Wilde IMO. Fortunately, Wilde appears to be spineless and terrified so I think there is some potential to achieve results on that front. The impetus behind this whole sorry saga must surely be that Wilde was terrified that Crouch would do what is best for SFC even if that meant taking an option which was not for the biggest direct financial benefit to the shareholders. The publically available information suggests that Wilde's finances are very much in a slump at the moment and, it is my conclusion, that the buddying up with Lowe was simply a last ditch attempt at self-preservation. If the club is insolvent then it takes Wilde's £1,500,000 share investment with it (surely one of THE most ridiculous speculative punts ever witnessed?). Now, a one-off boycott can be easily dismissed as a spot of fan belt-tightening or as a response to a bad result. We all know the official attendance will be 12,000 + away fans in any event so any boycott only has the potential to decrease the official gate figure by a couple of thousand anyway (although admittedly tv pictures of an empty ground would be hard to airbrush). In my experience, what you need is a boycott plus something for the media to hang it on.... the problem is that this hanger will usually involve some sort of sacrifice. For example, on 17 Jan we play Donny at home. Leicester play Yeovil away. Not too far. If a load of fans went to Yeovil in support of Nigel Pearson instead of St Mary's that would underline the strength of feeling against Lowe.... but how many would actually bother? Couple of hundred? Unfortunately, I think by the time the anger levels are high enough for a mass protest it will be too late

I would expect action against Lowe to increase over the coming games as a result of yesterday. Only time will tell if that has an effect....

He's going on loan. I heard this last week.

FFS All you've done is wasted a bunch of your bandwidth with this guff. I hope we don't all have to pay extra to buy some more...

Defeats against Plymouth and Reading and the Man U game will be nasty IMO (outside the ground and in)

Err, actually I think you'll find we play like this: -------------------------GK----------------------- ------CB---------- ---------------------CB----------------------- -----------------------------------------------LB -RB----------------------------------------------- -------------------CM CM------------------------ --------------------------------------------CF ---------IR------ITH -------------------------------------------------------------------LW

Actually, on reflection, I think there's a lot to be said for sending Rupert on a US and A scouting mission. They'd love him over there.

Monty Python: Rupert Lowe:

The Academy played 4-4-2 anyway. The Academy 4-3-3 story is a complete lie.

I do think it's a shame that the dissenters walked out and didn't register their votes. I have to say though, that if I had been there I may have thought it a wise decision to leave. We can add "Lowe's letter" to "Chris Iwelumo" "picturegate" and the "tracksuit" (amongst others) in his ridiculous Pythonic catalogue of absurdity.

I don't know, but there wasn't when I looked at it. In fact, I see it has now been moved altogether. Nice emoticon though. Very gutting.

Firstly, Man U and Chelsea play nothing like the same system we do. Secondly, he has just admitted that it is a crock of **** anyway without proper wingers and has implied that Holmes, Dyer and Smith are the only people likely to do that job.... makes you wonder why we've been playing it recently then.

Bloody lovely stuff. First stumbled upon this by chance in a small hotel bar in the Loire valley. Happy to see Tesco and Asda sell it now. I plan to drink some over Christmas

I'm not sure if this has escaped you but most people can't afford to do that. If you're referring to Crouch then it is one thing to say "buy some shares" it's another to actually do that. Even if he bought out every share apart from Lowe, his cronies and Wilde he would only have 54% ish. Enough to control the board but not enough to stop the pathetic squabbling.

Do you not remember him trying to broker a consensus before Wilde's initial coup? You really do come out with some gash and using phrases like "pikey", "hedgehog muncher" (WTF?!) and "one brain cell" make you look like a prize imbecile.

Fine. But why does that deserve its own article when the key issues discussed at the meeting are ignored?

Absolutely. How anyone can deny that we needed to appoint Poortvliet and sign Pulis, Gasmi, Pekhart, Forecast, Smith, Robertson is beyond me.

Bizarre isn't it?! Can we expect an OS article every time a fan gets nicked?

Clearly Crouch didn't vote then. Bit odd IMO.

Yeah, that's just what you need when you're knackered isn't it! We're actually witnessing something pretty sad in many respects this season. I just hope he manages to get himself a nice comfy job back in Holland when this is all over.