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Wotte: 1.125 points per game = 52 per season (borderline safety?) NP: 1.23 points per game = 57 per season (safety) JP: 0.93 points per game = 43 per season (down) Lowe's Revolutionary Coaching set up: 1 point per game = 46 per season (down) HTH

Isn't that like saying I'd rather buy a Rolls missing its wheels, doors, seats and engine, so I can get it for a few thousand less?

Nice goal. This one's better though. :cool: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn3OtbMmaC4

I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.

Unfortunately, the operation to remove the cancer will probably kill the patient.

Amen to that. In fact, that act of madness by Lowe effectively has docked us at least 10 points this season already, even before God-knows-how-many-more the FL are going dock us this season or next.

Indeed. Actually, I'm wondering if the danger of the wrath of the FL as you describe may the reason why Lowe and company are trying this scam now, rather than just before the administration deadline of about a week ago? If I'm right (which I'm probably not), Saints didn't want to do this just before the 26/4/09 deadline, because if it goes tits up, this may be the FL's reaction: FL: So you are trying a trick of having only your parent company going into administration?? AND you're doing it at 4 p.m. on Thursday 26th, just in case you don't get away with it?? You ****ing bastards. Well here's your -10 points for this season, and for the parent company trick, here's -80 for next season in League 1. And, by the way, if you're still on negative points when you finish bottom of League 1, you'll carry those negative points into League 2.

Well if Paul Allen has been waiting to make his move, I think he'd better get his skates on.

Oh, from the title I thought this thread was about sacking Pearson.

There is a 1/35 chance of having all 4 English teams being drawn in one half of the quarter-finals (guaranteeing only two English semifinalists, and only one English finalist). Platini would absolutely love to have that happen, but he would have a hard time convincing people the draw wasn't rigged (especially after last year's quarter-final draw was apparently leaked on a Liverpool forum). So if Platini could choose the draw (which of course he can't ), what do you reckon he would do? I think he might consider this: Man Utd. v. Liverpool Chelsea v. Villareal Barcelona v. Porto Arsenal v. Bayern This gives Barcelona the easiest match, and puts the weakest (on paper) English team with 3 non-English teams. But that would perhaps be too similar to last year's draw (so again may look very suspicious), so I think this is how he would like it come out: Man Utd. v. Liverpool Chelsea v. Villareal Barcelona v. Arsenal Porto v. Bayern Porto and Villareal could be switched, but Villareal may have a better chance of an upset or two against the English teams, and he wouldn't want to jeopardize Barcelona's passage to the final with a potential all-Spanish semi-final.

.... provided we can get Nige back as manager. :cool:

And kept the proper manager we already had.

Sigh, here we go again. Um Pahars, could you set him straight, please? Ta.

Not to mention that Crouch doesn't sack perfectly good managers and replace them with incompetent buffoons.

Don't worry, nobody's going to laugh ...... ........until we know how many you bought. :smt004

You conveniently omit that the first and second choice goalies were out injured, and the only one left (Poke) had to play with an injury.

You were wrong, Lowe was wrong, but most of us who condemned this hare-brained scheme from the very beginning as being foolhardy and almost destined to failure, were right.

That's what Lowe would like you to believe. But most of us can see through that nonsense, and know Lowe got rid of Pearson because he (NP) was a Crouch appointee. And most of us knew that this was a disastrous decision the moment Lowe got rid of NP.

Great post 1965. But you forgot these gems: - We couldn't afford him. - He was asking for ridiculous wages. - His contract expired in June. - He's going to leave Leicester for the Premiership, so if he'd stayed at Saints he would do the same and leave us in the lurch. - Leicester are only doing well (currently top with 2.27 points per game) because they are rich, and/or L1 is shîte. - Saints are skint so any manager would also be averaging less than a point per game. - Pearson had a much stronger squad to play with than the Dutch duo. Good question. It's because when relegation becomes a reality Lowe will almost certainly blame Crouch, whereas the primary reason was Lowe (for egotistical reasons ) getting rid of, and replacing, a competent manager with a couple of clowns.

Great post, as usual UP. One comment though regarding "inserting a get out clause if things went pear shaped": but "pear shaped" seems to be missing in Pearson's contract. Crouch should've made the June bi-party break clause exerciseable by either party contingent upon relegation. i.e. no relegation, no June break in contract. Spot on. Choice 1: Get rid of Pearson, replace him with a couple of Dutch amateurs, get relegated; at the same time NP does a great job at Leicester, then leaves them for a Premiership team. Choice 2: Keep Pearson, he then does a great job at Saints (mid table or higher), then leaves us "in the lurch" for a Premiership team. Hmm, tough choice that.

Speak for yourself.

Exactly what I've been predicting. And he'll add that there is no evidence that Pearson would've done a better job than his "revolutionary coaching set up".