The Farmer

Wasn't it Milos Drizic, signed to replace Nicholl but couldn't get a permit. Ended up with Ken Armstrong instead I seem ot remember.

First game at 4, season ticket at 6, went religiously until I was 30. Worked as a steward for 5 years in there somewhere as well, but quit to help the Lowe Out campaigns. I finally resigned myself to the fact we will never re-expereince the feeling of comraderie and belonging that I had in the Milton in my teens around. It sunk in about 3 years ago when my regular group of mates dwindled from 20 to 4, all citing Herr Lowe as the number one reason for the apathy. The screw was turned irreparably for me when Lowe ****ed of WGS, sorry, he didn't did he, WGS wanted a break ::rolling eyes:: It would take a lot to get me back through the turnstyle. The total removal of the cabal for starters, and some fresh enthusiastic faces on the bench and the pitch. Its the next generation of Saints fans I feel sorry for, there are hardly any Saints shirts in the local park compared to when I use to knock a ball about. They won;t believe us when we regale them stories of us turning over Man U and having the deadliest attacking midfielder in the world knocking them in for fun. Askham passed the piggy bank to Lowe and between them they have shafted the whole city of Southampton.

Bllcks, I gave my support, and thousands of pounds, what did Lowe do, chuck it all back in my face. Its a two way thing this supporting a team lark, Im no mindless sheep pumping money into a crooked empire to see Lowe treat us like mugs while pandering to his little boys club cabal. As long as mugs keep giving him money to syphon away from SFC ltd and into the evil PLC cash converter, he will laugh in the face of us, the lunatic fringe. We desreve a lot better than Lowe, the man is a monster.

I echo that sentiment, and thats from someone who watched Saints from 1979 to 2003, hardly missing a home game in all that time. Last 5 years have been hard to stomach, keeping my distance so not to fund Lowe's share buyback warchest. I got tickets for Eastleigh this weekend. Local club, Lowe nowhere to be seen, I'm looking forward to a nice afternoon drinking beer and watching some football.

I didnt say it was the norm, but it IS a viable method of recruiting if there is no-one in house or you havent got the money to head hunt someone. Lloyds TSB used the method twice while I was working for them between 1996 and 2003, so they would say you are talking out of somewhere the Sundance certainly don't shine.

Board sack Lowe Board draft advert for applicants Board place advert in FT Board interviews candidates Board hires most suitable interviewee Call me old fashioned but it works for every other PLC

The fight has been sucked out of us. With someone like Lowe you realise the fruitlessness of your toil to make a noise. We are the 'lunatic fringe' after all, to give in to people he sees beneath him would go against his inherent morals. I gave up a long, long time ago, but I did my best. I feel aggrieved so many have just sat idle for so long and let it end up like it has. Very sad for all Sotonians.

But 6% is a major shareholding when you consider the biggest single holding is what, only 10%. Plus the fact the club was fitted up at reverse takeover time so that the old boys network orchestrated things so they had 40% tied up and could manipulate any situation means that they will always try to keep things in house, and have one of them overseeing the PLC rather than the best man for the job. Total and utter stitch up which will bring the club to its knees. The club is so far removed from what I grew up watching it brings no joy to anyone's life anymore. There won't be any club soon if Lowe's position isn't staffed by a nei face, the only good I see coming out of it is that the parasites should see their ill gotten gains vanish into thin air.

The shadowy cabal has right royally shafted this club beyond repair. Any other PLC board would sack an underperfoming Chairman and placed an ad in the FT for a suitable new face, with a proven track record in the position and good city contacts. A new face galvanises the customer base with new ideas and a fresh start with renewed goals, and would be in a much better position to garner good PR by being able to come out and meet the fans face to face with the best intentions. We could employ a chairman who was not a shareholder and could make unbiased and informed business decisions for the good of the PLC which would at least get the fans back onside. We all know Lowe has a hidden agenda here to be the be all and end all of his little experiment. The fact Lowem is a major shareholder and oversess his investment is very detrimental in the overall scheme things. But at the end of the day he is just an employee of the PLC and should of been ousted if he wasn't the front for the leechers. Just bugger off Rupert.

I will be the first one back at the turnstyle the very next match after Lowe's departure. Until then, the shadowy cabal he represents will not be exercising their nefarious influence with my money.

2. Treats the people of Southampton with contempt.

Lowe has been hell bent from day one on making money out of Southampton. He sees one way to this and one way only, produce young talent and sell it on at a profit. He would love nothing more than a team of trainees in surviving in the CCC (the prem is far to a hazardous proposition with high fan expectation of good quality transfer) SMS being one big shop window for the big clubs to plunder, boosting SLH's P/E ratios and impressing the sinsiter cabal. One problem Rupert, everyone knows you need to A) attract half decent youngsters with a good club set up and B) blood them within the framework of a functioning and cohesive team, with a few good pro's to look upto. We have neither anymore, the youngsters are nowhere near as talented as a Shearer, Bridge or Walcott and when these yongters look up to find inspiration, they see Paul Wotton |

This http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=omGKN4xE32I

Tiss got a lot of nice big five figure 'signing on' fees whenever he signed a new contract though, which negated the fact his weekly wage was so low (and also help to remove the possibililty of any 'wages envy' with the any other so called 'stars' at the time). Saying that, for what he did for the club, and the fans, and the City of Southampton, he should of received 90% of the wages pot anyhow and the rest should of been thankful he wore the red and white of the once mighty Saints and kept them in all in designer Ray Ban sunglasses down at Los Marinos.

1 Kevin Moore 2 Steve Williams 3 Keith Cassells 4 Joe Jordan 5 Reuban Agboola 6 Mick Mills 7 Alan Curtis 8 Peter Wells 9 Steve Baker 10 Chris Nicholl 11 Mark Dennis 12 Eammon Collins 13 Ivan Golac 14 Steve Woods 15 Peter Shilton 16 Milos Drivic

I also heard a rumour Lowe is also chairman of a Golf Simulation company getting kick backs for every subliminal purchase as well.

I hate Lowe as much as the next McMenamy, but I saw the pic on the echo site (now removed) and it was a cheeky, albeit poor quality, photoshop TBF

In all honestly, JP might be a nice bloke but he never stood a chance in this league, in this country. Look at the level he coached at immediately before his appointment. It is one big sick joke overseen by egomaniac Lowe who cannot stand being dictated to. Look at what Pearson is achieiving with his style and home grown management nous and then think we spent money discarding him and getting the current pair of unproven second rate jokers in. LOWE JUST GTFO NOW

I would say a thousand is a conservative estimate. In my little group of fans that used to sit in the Northam, its dwindled from 25 to 0 in the last 2 seasons. A thousand fans is still 30k a week, enough for a decent player anyhow. LOWE GTFO.

I felt this the very day I found out that a takeover by credible business people was disregarded by Askham in favour of being 'hijacked' by tin pot Secure Retirement. Smelt fishy at the time and didnt take long to see the conspiracy was to keep the club in their clutches and feed the pockets of a few accountants by milking the Soton fans for all their worth. Surprised they got this far to be honest, quite a few pay cheques have gone their way and now, the pot has been bleed dry, and so have we, in money and spirit. I too have long championed the boycotting of anything overseen by Lowe. I would rather have no club than one with that modern day pirate in anywhere near it.

But he is merely an employee of the PLC, the PLC board must now vote him out. Admittedly he has a holding himself and garners support from the coffin dodgers of the old board who still hang onto their free lunches, but surely even they must see he is bringing the whole city down and the fans are deserting the club because of him. Thing is they won't advertise in the FT for a new, galvanising figure with proven nous and connections (as all other PLC with PR issues do) as any 'outsider' they could get in wouldn't be 'their' man and front the gameplan of the hidden hand. The whole thing stinks to the core and while the suits can all go about their business if the club goes under, we will suffer for the rest of our lives. And to think the fans put them where they are by loyally following the team through thick and thin - and this is what we are repaid with

Have been of this opinion for a decade now. Like Lowe, I don't change my opinions.

Lowe's plan from Day 1 was to buy low, sell high. Hence he cover story for the academy. He never had any intention of making the club a force, it was only ever about maintaining his fat salary and keeping the cabal happy with dividends and creating other avenues of income they can milk off the back of Southampton football club ltd. If we had a chairman that put football first, or at the very least used it as the main area of concern for re-investing profits, we would not be in this mess. Lowe was only ever going to placate the fans while pandering to the shareholders. But this second rate businessman's plans have come crashing down, leaving the fans to suffer for evermore while he saunters back to where he came from. Many fans now see we have been shafted left, right and centre forward.

No matter what anyone says, Lowe's was running scared after the Cup Final of Saints pushing into the top 8 where you need to keep spending good money to stay there. He would rather us make £1 in the CCC than break even in the top 8. That is why we are here now, he didn't invest the money we had in reserve wisely as he didn't want the hassle of us having to keep the fans happy with big buys and not being able to sell our prize assets at a profit. Reading between the lines this is the reason WGS said seeya, and thus started the slow, panful demise of the club.

So he and Mike are foregoing any wages then - nope, thought not.