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not on goal difference they ain't...

Looking forward to Leyton Orient. Always wanted to go to the Orient. And it will be nice to have an away day at home here in Brighton too. Which other grounds in League One are going to be good away days for us next season?

Lowe out.

there's me and my big mouth. F\/ck. As of this moment we are rock solid bottom of the table. Doncaster 2 - 0

Gooooners!!!! 1 - 0 skates

Come on Doncaster. You can do it. Send us bottom... dare you....

yes. they are all gay.

boom boom !

Tchell-C back in charge at Craven cottage. ******. Was hoping for an upset.

SSN blokey just said we were playing really good MATURE football? Crumbs.... keep it up lads.....

4 quid? is that because of the exchange rate? I thought it was twenty quid and thought better of it seeing as there is a recession on and all that...

sad really. I'm sure surman would have wanted to start against Man U

thanks guys. so no lama or surman. well they are both off to greener pastures then.

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can someone pls post the team....

Not sure you understand them actually. Crouch was voted to the Chairmanship by the shareholders. At which point, the shareholders then do not get to vote on how the football club/plc is run. That is then down to the Chairman. Sorry, mate. You are wrong.

can't for the life of me see us winning this one. Reading are going to be wanting revenge and we are playing at home. One win at home this season. Enough said. I reckon we are going to be stuffed royally today. 0-6 is very likely. Hope it is the other way around but not holding my breathe.

To tie up a few replies saying that Crouch was out voted or that last season's decisions were not his, all I can say is that Crouch was the Chairman FFS. The chairman is the BIG BOSS. It is his ship, and he is the captain. If there is one thing I can not abide, in any area of life, it is when the people who are ultimately responsible for poor performance and/or mistakes are not prepared to take the responsibility: to stand up and say "the buck stops with me". Crouch was the ultimate man in charge of our football club when the finances went off the edge of a cliff. Sure, RL is to blame for other crap decisions in earlier years but Crouch was the one wearing the captain's hat last season and it was on his watch that the **** hit the fan. Please stop this nonsense about him not agreeing to the players' wages. He was the chairman aka Big Honcho. If he WAS such a great leader he would have slammed his fist down on the board room table and said NO! He didn't and the rest is history.

Does Sir CW even have his manager's badges yet?

As far as a takeover bid goes, there are a lot of clubs up for sale at the minute including Pompey and West Ham. Ashley has just announced that he has taken Newcastle Utd off the market. He has failed to find a buyer even after being prepared to take a loss on his investment. If a premiership club of the sort of pedigree and fan-base as Newcastle can not be sold in the current financial environment there is little hope for a soon-to-be div one club which is only getting gates of 14K or so and an almost worthless (in transfer fee terms) squad like SFC. The original poster is absolutely correct. If we go bankrupt then the likely hood of the administrators being able to find a quick buyer are not good even if the club is sold for £1 plus debt. The club could be kept open and run in administration but only if it was deemed to be a going concern (ie profitable), and that would mean that there would have to be serious cutbacks first - serious as in it would make Lowe look like the fairy godmother on a shopping spree. However, the loudest voices around the liquidation table would be Barclays and the Loan Note holder (Norwich Union?). Employees are also first to be paid off under insolvency law, all though there might be something in the players' contracts negating that. All in all, bankruptcy is not a good option. Five years ago may be there would be a white knight waiting in the wings to snap up a bargain but i doubt it could be found quickly these days. That said, I wouldn't expect SFC to simply vanish. After all, SFC is a brand owned by SLH plc, and therefore an asset of the plc. The administrators could always sell the brand 'SFC' to someone for a nominal amount, ay £100,000 who could then find a barren piece of land for the club to regroup around and play football on. Anyway, enough doom and gloom. Up the Saints. Let's get a win today eh?

totally irrelevant. He could and should have seen the writing on the wall and done something about it when he was in charge. He didn't. That is not strong leadership. That is business ineptitude. And the ratio of turnover to player wages did increase under his tenure as attendance dropped. Nothing will ever convince me that Crouch is the way forward for this club. None of the amigos should have anything to do with the club.

Strong leader? eh? Are you talking about the man who, last season, practically bankrupted the club? 81% of revenue being spent on a lacklustre, journey-man squad who only JUST - in the 83rd minute of the last game of the season - managed to keep us in the CCC. In wasting time after Burley went Leon Crouch dithered in a way which makes Gordon Brown look pro-active. That is not strong leadership. Leon Crouch is not a strong leader. He is the reason we are in this mess. RL , Wilde and Crouch are all as bad as each other.

I am not going to today's game against Reading. I have a streaming cold and cough and do not fancy a four hour round trip. The club already has my money for this game due to ST and I wouldn't be cheering very loudly due to sore throat. I don't feel guilty as I will be subscribing to Saints TV for the first time to listen to the game on line. So sorry to the team but I am not up to it. Get stuck in and chalk up the second home win of the season. And if there are any anti-lowe chants from the Northam will some one else please shout extra loud to cover my absence. Thanks.

nah. sorry mate, that is just nonsense. The whole aim of the game is to score more goals than the other team. if you do then you have played better football. You shouldn't confuse having better skills, or putting more passes together in a more elegant (total?) fashion as the same thing as scoring more goals. In your scenario if the team which was hit on the break really had been playing better football how come they did not make the break and score the goal. It is precisely this sort of Prizes For All mentality which is sucking standards out of almost every competitive activity. The ONLY standard which matters in football is the number of times the football is put into the goal. Perhaps when SFC starts to realise this we might stop playing "pretty" football and start winning games.

Sorry Jan but that second comment is perhaps the most daft thing I have ever heard a football manager say. They did NOT have what it takes to get a result because they LOST the football game. That really does take the biscuit. Its like someone who says that their team played the better football even though they lost two-nil. No. The team which plays the better football is the one which scores the most goals. End of story. Come on Jan. Please don't insult our intelligence.