John B

If he was in Charge of a big club with lots of resources I would agree with you but we are talking about SFC with limited resources.

Well although you appear to be an intelligent poster you do not seem to accept others considered opinions if they differ from yours In fact you are rather rude and sometimes offensive . I am not Pro or Anti Lowe but somebody open hinded to analyse the facts and come to my own conclusions

I dont think that is the point although things have gone badly wrong he is not totally responsible. The time he was not involved appears to me the time when the most damage was done I dont think it was Crouch's fault either but he does not seem to have much respect from other board members

Yes good start with no Overseas Player and Dimi away

107 for 3 a win Lumb got a pair twice out seven balls faced

A ridiculous concept I would have thought.

Yes and Ted Bates dont forget him it was Ted that got us on our way to Div 1 over forty years ago

or Richard Wright perhaps

Who knows but I think my scenario is better than yours. Selling players is only possible if someone wants to buy them Selling season tickets when administration and relegation is on the cards is not very honest.

Surely there is a possible explanation that Crouch could be playing games to make himself look good to the fans knowing full well that Lowe and Wilde could not raise £2 million

I dont think any of the shareholders like it as SISU were going to dilute their holdings I think. In retrospect they may have wished they had agreed to SISU as their shares are well and truly diluted now With regard to Crouch's investors he was saying that investment was round the corner this time last year well after Wilde's fantasies

Yes a very interesting question as I always felt that Crouch was expecting investment any moment but from whom?

What like Alpine you mean

I may try that tactic in future it is probably better than my current tactic of being abusive to Tory people

I once met Harold Macmillan in Basingstoke

Depends what the offer was.

Yes you are right but why would Swansea buy him as they had him on loan It is easy to say sell but not if there is no one to buy at at a sensible price...

I thought Crouch would helped us to avoid administration but in the end he did not. Barclay's did suggest there were problems with the main shareholders if I recall

Surely you are being a little critical with the help of hindsight. If an agreement with Barclays was made for £5 Million overdraft when Lowe/Wilde took over it would be very difficult to reduce the overdraft in October when the Transfer window had closed. The problem was compounded by the inability to raise any money from Transfer sales which I think Lowe was aware of as he hinted that the cupboard was bare I would have thought it was very unlikely that administration could be avoided after Barclay's had moved the goal post apparently in October. If the overdraft facilities had not changed we currently may not be in administration

Fulham may have paid them more I dont know but surely it was not a foregone conclusion that would come as their wage demands may have caused serious problems within the Squad. To non Saint's Fans it was unlikely that the club would be in Europe regularly as it was our first venture in over twenty years

There are a couple of points I would like to raise in this debate. Firstly I think spending money on the Academy was a good idea as one of the reasons we had to buy lots of second rate players was that Apart from Bridge none of our home produced players were coming through like they were in the past are were perceived as likely to be more loyal. The second point is how do we know Saha and Malbranque wanted to come to SFC anyway and how were their wages to be paid

Surely then the football club will be in administration too if we dont get somebody to buy

I think you are quite correct Rover Alpine appears to be a complete and utter whinger

You would have thought so but as I said I doubt there is any planning for next season because that would probably inter with parties currently bidding They know we have no income from ticket sales so they will be making an estimate on how many they will sell Anyway if we get any money in it will be used to pay off ciurrent debts or Euells wages

You seem to forget that nobody is really running the club The administrators are just trying to py off the debts not planning for next season