alpine_saint

I reckon it would be sad if some good propsects lose their confidence and are damaged because they've been thrown in too early in the name of "financial prudence"

Another good post, though it doesnt even touch on the effect on attendance of the "petering out" of the teams performance. The plan Lowe agreed with the bank is full of holes big enough to steer the Titanic (another sinking ship) through.

I think you are probably right, but consider the fact that the Brum game was the first of the season, where fans (esp. of SFC) are at their most optimistic. Also, does the fee from SKy compensate us for 4000+ missing fans ? It is essential that the team start delivering results to grind that attendance back up. I am pretty certain 19,000 is still below the figure used to base calculations on. Its all very well for certain individuals to whine on permanently about fickle fans, but that's the nature of the beast and they have to deal with it, especially in times of high inflation, high mortgages and job uncertainty. This experiment cannot be given almost open-ended time to come to fruition, whatever the optimists say...

And this set of guidelines accounts for attendances of only 15,000, does it ?

Yep, its bloody pathetic. If he doesnt want to read my posts so badly, he can put me on ignore. I will post as often as I wish if I feel I have something to say.

Reasonable post, but I am pretty certain that the budget and planning wasnt accounting for 15,000 gates..

So LGSC would like to see the inevitable administration come, just so long as he sees pretty tappy-tappy stuff for a few weeks by a bunch of over-excited kids, rather than bite the arm off an investor that might just save this club he professes to love. ???????????????

I reckon it is like this too. Lowe wouldnt appoint anyone he couldnt control. Probably another reason Pearson was shown the door.

Yep. There is something inherently child-like about some claiming they wouldnt want it any other way than it is now. Like a kid being told to give a toy back to another kid who he snatched it from - "didnt want it anyway"...

How "significant doubts that he has the long-term survival and success at heart" ? I couldn't give a shiny one if he's the bastard son of Little Lord Fauntleroy.

How about his worrying tendency to get through managers like he gets through underpants ?

I'd like to know where you think this "advice" might be coming from...

Do I ? I seem to recall calling him something along the lines of a "dullard City reject" a couple of weeks back Oh, and please tell me how he BOUGHT SFC. I missed that one............

Post of the Year... Agree completely.

Are you piissed, mate ?

The ghost of Robert Baden-Powell ??

Top notch post. Let's drop this faux-morality attitude. Look at the way Davies changed his tune, and you cant have a home-baked team when the twaat at the top only gives a shiny one about his asset value.

Aye you being paid by Lowe to spout spin 24/7 ???

Ron, I have two words for you : Augustin Delgado.

Maybe no bugger wants them, TDD ???

For what, exactly ? Reckon you are closer to that than me the way you carry on when you see my user name.

I reckon Lowe, Hockaday and Henderson picked JPs signings for him. I do wonder how much clout JP has. And how he can be happy about having no recognised full-backs, I'll never know. Do they play with narrow defences in Dutch Total Football ?

A friend of mine stopped by here last weekend on his way home from holiday in the Balkans. He used to be a member of London Saints. He reckons that certain investors were really willing to invest in SFC, once Lowe had sold up his shares following his resignation from SFC/SLH just over two years agao, but that the investment was conditional on Lowe selling his shares and having nothing more to do with the club. As we know, Lowe dug his foot in about Crouch's offer because he wanted it extended to his whole group of cronies, and Crouch was unwilling or unable, and no-one else would offer the price Lowe wanted. As a result, Mike Wilde's manifesto was left high-and-dry, Hone and Agent Orange got fooked off and booted him out with Crouch's help and the rest, as we know is history. So ask yourself the question: is the block to investment the same now, as it was then, as it was before that : Rupert Lowe ???

What's with the sneering and the abuse ? This explanation fits the few known facts as much as any other. And far from it being a depressive outlook, I would have argued that it is slightly more positive than continual claims that we are 2 weeks away from administration and need to get rid of all our recognised players.

Here's a theory to chew over, controversial as it may be... Maybe the "financial crisis" isnt quite as bad as we are led to believe, and Lowe is twisting it to make him look like the white knight that came in and rescued us ???