rallyboy

for a man of his 'skills' Lowe wasn't on a huge wage though I bet his expenses double the £100K. Another reminder of why the stayaway fans refused to finance his lifestyle as he let the club decline. The few who still accuse plastic protesters of putting the club into trouble should remember that the 'lunatic minority' didn't stop supporting the club, they just stopped paying Rupert, and that was the only way to stop him bleeding the club dry attempting to recoup his shares value. He came back to protect his own money, and like everything else he has attempted, he failed. Can we move on yet? Surely everyone must see him for what he is by now.

I think some people have missed the point, yes we would all want the wages we were due if our company was in trouble but this is about someone earning £17K a week watching working people putting a decent chunk of their cash into helping their club, people who may not be able to afford much but who have donated tickets, bought shirts etc. It's about guilt and that comes from within. I would like to think that most people would contribute if they were the high earners in that situation, rather than sitting quietly sqirrelling away every penny, bleeding the club dry. (and as an aside - not even earning it!!)

Barclays do seem to have panicked and their timing was very poor BUT if Lowe was treating them with the same arrogance he displayed to fans you can understand why they pulled the plug when he gave them the opportunity. The polite description is, he has an unfortunate manner about him - and if you treat people with disdain they will bear it in mind when you ignore their instructions and bounce cheques.

If this is a thread revival to show how people were wrong - I seem to remember us all being excited when Wilde appeared, and then even more so when Skacel appeared, I even recall thinking Lowe was doing a good job at one point - silly me. Anyway I have been away for a while, anything happened? Who have we got in the playoffs or did we get automatic promotion, has Lowe given the dutch anymore licence to raid youth acadamies to strengthen the team for the Prem?....hello....anyone there....

saw Monkou play for Chelsea old boys last year, he was the best player on the park and could do a job for us now.. he is as fit as he was when he left. (in the pre-Milliennium meaning of the word!)

anyone know if Ron Davies is nearing full fitness again yet? I presume he may have lost a little pace but we need him back.

In his day Hitler delivered a new stadium and he also sorted out the motor industry so by that you have to think he could have saved both the Transit factory and St Marys. Maybe we should try having a deluded lunatic in charge surrounded by yes men, blindly following a suicidal course of action....

addressing the question, personally I am still holding my nerve and hoping that a buyer justifies the pain of the last few weeks. If no buyer appears then maybe I was wrong and we may have been better with a club of some sort (with no unity, fanbase or funding) but at the moment I still feel lucky. I cannot see how we would have had any future as a going concern with the same people making decisions, they had a year back driving the bus and rather than parking it they crashed it through a crocodile of school children.

I caught my finger in the safety catch of a ground to air missile launcher at the Burnley game, I had forgotten I had it with me, I thought it was in my other coat. All that after I had made sure for health and safety reasons that I didn't take my water bottle in with the lid on though, silly me.

there were people on here telling them to go stick their sponsorship where the sun don't shine when they fell out with Rupert, but their return to the table is a positive move imo. If they are confident to stick with us and feel their relationship with the club has improved significantly with the obvious staff changes then the future looks brighter. They wouldn't do that at this stage if there was no buyer and we were on the rocks.

Can we have three stands named after Bates, MLT and Paine and have the Northam knocked down and replaced by a steam train?

didn't deliver regularly enough for an international striker on big money, so there is no reason to believe he would be more motivated in a lower league, his heart isn't in it. I would have thought a player with pride might want to go out with a bang for the fans and to show the coach what he is missing but if he would rather slip out sulking with his bottom lip quivering, that's the best way to show the Poland coach exactly what you are made of. We need players for the trenches now, have him and Skacel dig two graves and shoot them. Send the next one in.....

I am bored of slagging off Lowe, but to be the star guest at our opponents' survival party??!......he must be nuts. Why doesn't he abandon the pr and self-promotion, keep his head down and let the comments on here and his attachment to what is left of our club fade away? If I had crashed a train (twice) I wouldn't be hanging around the crematorium waving at the mourners.

Lowe ensured our relegation by just missing the deadline for administration with a company that could have gone at any point in the previous two months. He is now the guest of honour at one of the clubs who benefited from this rather odd move. Mmmmm.

Might be nice to survive first in some form before planning our trip to Wembley, that aside, the release of the fixtures will be a sobering moment, the club's status is there in black and white. Suddenly the nightmare about battling with Yeovil etc is a reality.

He's a good lad who must have wanted to save us as much as we did, so no doubt took relegation badly as a result. Sadly he struggled in a crap team, but £700K is a fair price that could be vital to our survival - a good farewell present for a loyal player as he goes on to better things. We don't want to lose all the youngsters but let's be realistic, there isn't a lot of value in that team, and we need to prepare for future life in anything from League One to the Conference depending on further penalties. And if The Sun reckon they can get two bigs ones for him, we should be getting them to sell our players before it all goes tits up.

the deployment of the dogs to line up and face the Northam was a statement of intent, an aggressive move that was unwise in a volatile atmosphere and like others on here I do think it changed things for the worse. You can't blame the police for any offences BUT it escalated disorder when defusing it would have been the normal tactic. And if that doesn't make sense to you I think you had to be in there and faced by this obviously defiant act to understand how it changed things for those less disciplined members of society. And can we clear up this smoke bomb once and for all, I saw it come out of their section first and then returned from the pitch, but I don't know if I missed it going in there first....I have seen the report of it being lit in the Burnely section, any advance on that?

I didn't hear a whistle in the Northam, I thought he had let the challenge on Wotton go and then stopped the game when players pointed out the seriousness. The whistle was heard elsewhere and it was obviously early, but then again we had a ridiculous three mins in the first half so that balanced that out. He was a **** but he didn't effect the result, or our position in the table. Though my personal favourite was when he gave McGoldrick offside for running along with the ball....

Rumour and gossip aside, the figures have never stacked up. Look at the tranfer money coming in and the cost of the stadium and it doesn't make sense that we are in this state. I would welcome a good look at the accounts in detail - or at least having them explained by someone who understands them! I would like to know the costs of Woodward, manager payoffs, Redknapp, players, agents, and most specifically, dividends and directors' expenses. We can then have a top ten of financial blunders with a number one. After a couple of seasons of accusations it would be good to actually get to the facts and see if we are correct in thinking where the blame lies. We have all summer to fill....

well a couple of hundred quid from any source is welcome, a generous effort and kind of touching that they bothered. Did they have the same look on their faces as they did on the Fratton End when little Nathan popped back for community service and knocked them out of the cup? ''Shhhh'', I believe he said, and they did go quiet. As quiet as they did when Steve Moran scored.... And when Crouchie rolled the penalty in. And when Beattie invited them to be quiet. And when they got hammered in the cup at the Dell. And when Dodd put that corner in. And when Kevin Phillips headed that winner. Funny how they could do so much silence but couldn't manage it when it really mattered for Ted. Oh well. Thanks for the cash.

I know that if I put a few million into a business the first thing I would do is install someone who has proved that he is incapable of running it, and who would also alienate 90% of the customers....I don't think so. This is business at the sharp end, you don't put your money in and let Rupert anywhere near it, he is damaged goods, yesterday's man. They may have been 'associates' but you would have to be mentally ill to think he could be part of rebuilding Saints with your millions.

must say a special thank you to the Pompey fans who paid a few hundred quid to go in the Burnley section today. At a time when we can't afford to hire a coach to get to Forest, their financial support could make the difference between us having a club and not. When their hour of need comes I am not sure I could be as supportive as they have been and put money into the black hole that is the Fratton finances. They really are thick.

No gossip or rumour, just what I saw - Stupid behaviour by a small section of home fans, throwing missiles was pointless and did the club harm. I also saw aggressive policing that escalated events - you don't calm a situation by making the call to deploy officers en masse and dogs, lining them up facing the Northam, it was an aggressive action. I had no interest in invading and had no part in any of the crass activity that followed, I was with the majority who had a quiet walk around, but I was insulted by the way that the police laid down that marker, and in the current climate it was a poor decision. They already have enough cases to defend without looking for trouble. I saw a smoke bomb thrown from the Burnley section, and then returned. Whether it came from the pitch initially I don't know, I first saw it exit the away end, but who takes a smoke bomb to a match? Not a great day for the minority who couldn't find anyone relevant to aim their anger at, but there is no place for the lunatic few at our club and if this type of behaviour went on at away games next season our reputation would be shot to bits. Rather than 'proud Saints going down with massive support' it would be easy for the media to turn it into 'angry supporters fighting the police as Saints go down in shame' etc.

The only premiership ground with horse brasses, an awning and a towbar. Yes they are free of stadium debt but the place is falling down and their business plan is based on champions league income, not scraping through in 16th, so the old house of cards is a wobbling. Wonder how that water borne super stadium hotel complex is going in the harbour, maybe the complulsory purchase of the dockyard and waterfront is proving more complicated than they realised. But we shall see them again in May 2010, it's a date - not like the ones they have with their sisters though....

bloody brilliant! A positive response in a horrendous week. Well done to all concerned for getting off their arses and doing something that genuinely helps the club's predicament, great stuff. Lets be avin you!!! etc Now bring out that awful team for one last time, then we can get on with the rebuild.