John B

But it is someting to talk about This is A Saints Forum and DELLDAYS has every right to post his comments.

I would prefer Didier Drogba to sign tomorrow it would make the team better and increase the gate.

I think JP and Wotte are in a better position to decide on what to do with White in the short time. Seems a good move to me

Could be true but I cannot see where all this so called investment money was coming from although we did bring in Crouch But I do agree we were getting in too many second rate players I would have thought this was not all down to Lowe.

Surely Wilde and Lowe know how fans feel Wilde even posts here. Look at the Previous Independant Board run but Hone etc they we acceptable and in fact caused the problem we are in at the moment. I think Lowe and Wilde should be given time to resolve the problem.

Another Mindless Anti Lowe Rant Try and be constructive and say why the Anti Lowe Hatred is not harming the club. If we only have a limited budget for Players wages we can only pay for young and relatively inexperienced players. If we were not in debt we would not have this problem

Ok you can blame Lowe but where was the money to come from to pay for Transfers and Wages. We also had no one coming in from the Academy to supplement the team or sell to bring in extra Revenue

Yes I agree with you in some ways unfortunately we started going down after Christmas as we never really had any money to buy high quality players. I dont think that team had really top class players apart from Niemi the others were pretty ordinary I think the team over achieved Beattie certainly did we had no real stategy on going forward except for getting Hoddle back . Strachan was getting in second rate players and the defence was getting old or in Svensson's case injured.

97 for 5 Better than earlier in the week

This sort of thread is not helping the situation. Fortunately we are in a free society and anybody can buy shares in the club. The fact is Lowe and Wilde hold most shares so they run the club that is the way it is. Boycotting the club will achieve little as no one will want to buy shares to oust Lowe and Wilde. The better the club does there is more chance somebody will buy into it. Hating Lowe is really hurting the club

You raise an interesting point which I have often wondered about. How much affect does a manager have on a team and how long does it take for him to make a positive contribution and the team to gell. Take Dowie why has he been at so many clubs for such a short amount of time why will anybody employ him

Yes I agree but we have no money to buy in some quality players and that is our real problem. Realistically we need a RB CB RM and a Striker but we cannot afford them

Because that is the strategy I think Lowe wants in the long term A first team with a number of homegrown players plus other quality players from outside Like Rasiak Safri Davis I think that is a reasonable approach which as worked before. Buying a whole team is costly and with our finances has proved not to work both in the Premiership and now in the Championship. But in the meantime we have to survive the best we can

Say we kept Mills and Cranie and did not recruit Powell and Makin. Suppose we kept Blackstock and Best and did not recruit Saga and BWP Would we not be in a better position both financially and on the pitch.

Because we had no players coming through from the Academy we had to spend the tranfer budget on getting in the whole team as oppossed to getting in 60 percent of the team.

how many days per week does lowe work at sfc

We dont know if he has one son who plays football

I think it is ridiculous to suggest that the board who have a long term strategy of producing youngsters should not be telling the manager what the strategy was it is not intereference. That is the reason we now have JP and Wotte as I have said and others too it is because unlike the past when we had players like Hollywood Paine Chivers Dean Holmes Stokes Andruszewski Agboola Williams Hebberd Waldron Channon Moran Dodd Benali Le Tissier Shearer Danny Wallace Rod Wallace etc we did not apart from Bridge and to some extent Baird have any young players coming through which caused our decline

There were less teams in the league during Lowes time

v Leyton Orient May 9 1966 Forsyth Webb Hollywood White Knapp Walker Paine Chivers Dean Melia Sydenham - Five v Man Utd 1 May 1976 Turner Rodriques Peach Holmes Blyth Steele Gilchrist Channon Osgood McCalliog Stokes -Three v Leyton Orient 25 April 1978 Wells Andruszewski Peach Williams Nicholl Pickering (Hebberd) Ball Boyer MacDougall Holmes Funnell - Five v Liverpool 28 Nov 1981 Katalinic Golac Holmes Williams Nicholl Waldron Keegan Channon Moran Armstrong Ball - Five v Liverpool 21 October 1989 Flowers Dodd Benali Case Ruddock Osman Le Tissier ****erill Shearer Rideout Wallace - Four By having very good players from our youth system allowed us to bring in a few top players whilst in the 2000s we had to virtually buy in a whole team of mostly second rate players. That is why I think it is important that our youngsters are given a chance. Channon was not that good when he first played but that of course soon changed

Yes you maybe right but who actually knows. No never met Lowe but I do agree with his strategy - The Best Saints Teams mostly had a number of players brought up through the ranks . I think Lowe looks at the long term but most managers think of the short term they are not bothered about what happens in next season. I am not certain that Crouch was planning for the future when he was in charge but Hone was as he was possibly expecting lots of dosh from SISU

Unprofessional Poster who probably has no idea of the true facts.

Success will be if we stay up and dont go into administration because we then should be able to improve. As I fully expected us to struggle I am not surprised to find us in the relegation zone but we need to change tactics and get in new personnel not complete youngsters

Probably only Pearson knows the true answer I certainly dont

I think Nick G is saying that some of your comments may not be correct they maybe how you interpret things and may not be real facts We are all Saints fans but have differing views