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Yep. No brainer. I will be paying cash as usual. Stuff the council tax bill, football comes first.

Good riddance to a bunch of time-wasting muppets. (mlt excused)

who would you rather have own the club... 1. A billionaire with acres of business experience who is in for the 'long term' 2. A bloke who lives with his mum and earns 30k per year

Thank you Mr Liebherr! You are a true Saint!

p!ss off!

Yes. Give him a chance. Give him a secure future (done), some cash (done), a loyal fan base (done) and a new season (done). He has stuck by the club, let's stick by him

This is a thread to arrange local celebrations tonight: I am in Brighton, anyone else want to sink a few cold ones to celebrate?

HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! There's only one Club on the South Coast!! See you on the way down Pompey... as we are going up!!

come on you saints!! Markus Liebherr you are a true saint!! Welcome to Southampton football club!! Up the saints!!

Should cows be allowed to eat bananas? Personally, I think they should not.

I'll be there, RED AND WHITE, RED AND WHITE! WE ARE GOING UP, WE ARE GOING UP....

The administrator's job is to get the best possible deal for the creditors as they can. So, given that SFC is still a going concern in that there are still 20-25 thousand fans willing to pay to watch football, given that all the facilities are still there what is to stop the administrators installing a management team to run the business until a buyer can be found? The only reason the creditors would not be prepared to accept such a deal would be if they genuinely thought that the club's assets (well SLH's assets) were worth more in a firesale than in a proper takeover. In the mean time there would be ticket sales, the squad will be on much less wages now (I assume, if not then they can be sold like Drew and McG). Plus I reckon if the adminstrators asked us fans to get to the home matches in order to pay the creditors i reckon we could fill the ground. Football clubs are not like normal businesses in that regard: we aren't customers, it is our club so the income stream will hold steady. Is there some technical FL rule about this? Didn't Leicester play a whole season in administration?

yup. just finished it. average. not bad, but not great.

I bought a frozen fish the other day from Sainsbury's called a 'Bassa'. Thought it looked ok. Just popped it in the oven and read the back of the box and it appears it was caught in waters off Vietnam. All I can say is it had better taste bloody good to make up for the **stonking** carbon footprint of shipping a frozen fish half way round the world. In case anyone was wondering what potatoe based product I shall be munching on too, it will be the humble Newbie tonight. With peas. Yum.

any news on any of us fans ever returning to St Mary's?

http://www.godalmingtownfc.co.uk/Site/groundguide.html Now that is a proper football ground!

Very good!

if the club is wound up what - or who - exactly would use the stadium? As a stadium it has value but as a plot of land it has practically no value to a potentail buyer in a firesale auction as they would need to spend a few million bulldozing it before building again. There is value on the land, but my point is that Fry ain't going to get much for it unless some other large sporting team plans to use it for its intended purpose. So... knowing that the Swiss could come a long and offer Fry a deal which he would be daft not to take, and the Mortgage company would also be daft not to take. I just can't imagine SMS being bulldozed. Doesn't make financial sense to me. So in the event of liquidation the only thing I could see it used for is Rugby. And are there any homeless premiership rugby clubs around about? No. So we are back to the original question, what will it be used for???

And how come the bear and/or lion didn't eat the pig before he had a chance to speak?

Oh yeah. so quite a few then.

or "Southampton Rupert-Lowe-****ed-Us-Up-Royally FC"

To be honest, so long as they don't take away the beer and replace it with their sh!te tasting caffeine-esque vomit inducing crud of a drink I couldn't care less. If it means our survival I'll settle for being called "Southampton Tampax FC" or "Southampton Pampers FC".

Are there any other cities/large town without a football club in the top four divisions? Trying to think of one, but can't.

Perhaps they would settle for "Southampton Red and White Bull"

So long as there is still FC in the title somewhere I couldn't give a flying monkey's. "Southampton Red Bull FC" sounds ****ing naff for sure, but it sounds a lot better than: " "