Saint Billy

Also, because of the Wembly locality, I should imagine that many Arsenal fans go to the England games and Arsenal fans cannot abide AC because of the way he dumped them, which then leads to the money aspect which was the overiding reason why he left.

Agreed !

It´s one thing buying em, it´s another thing being able to afford their wages. At this time of night and slightly the worse for the golden nectar, but I would buy the guy who NP loaned at the end of last season from Sheff U to help steady the defence, (can´t remember his name). Probably would cost less than a million with the rest left to pay his and Skacels wages.

I'm not so sure! Just like the Charlton investment possibility, the news got out there. At games people were talking about it, local councillors where talking about it, Sky sports news, Sky news, BBC News and Talk sport covered it. Remember the quote from Leon Crouch "Very exciting times for sfc". The daily's ran editorial and the web was awash with it. Just google Paul Allen and Southampton fc and endless pages are still there. Most if not all saints followers knew about the Paul Allen link.

Since the supposed interest from Paul Allen, along with the heady plans to plough millions into the club along with re-development of the area, there has been much speculation regarding numerous other investment links, from the Arabs to the Chinese, Canadian Ice hockey club owner, Everton chairman, US football club owner, loads more than I can care to remember. I believe the above has had a lot to do with the falling gates and general apathy, not all by any means, but surely it has not helped. The excitement kicked up by the Paul Allen link was immense, not just on this forum, but in the tabloids, media, radio etc. It was being spouted that we could rival the top four in the prem with the amount of spends we would have. Not all, but many of us were taken in and started to dream of the impossible. Yes, the boardroom politics, the power struggles, the financial meltdown and the poor results and numerous managers hold the biggest blame for the dwindling gates, but I also feel that all this endless and fruitless speculation has done the fanbase more damage than good and has played it´s part in ripping the heart and soul out of many fans who now see no hope for the future. Ironically, we are now in a situation where we cannot survive without investment, nor can we without the fanbase.

Oh my god! are you really happy with yourself for saying that? Although HR really p*ssed me off for dumping us and going back to poopsmouth, I am sure he thought he had jumped from the frying pan into the fire when he started working with Lowe. Lets face it, once relegated, half the squad left despite Lowe stating that that would not happen, along with no real cash made available to strengthen the squad despite Lowes promises. Its a real shame because he had the sort of character that fans could have warmed to, but it was obvious he was really unhappy here and finally made the criminal sin of 1, being photographed holding a poopey shirt whilst at saints. 2, Going back there and calling it his spiritual home.

Until our sunday league defence is sorted I will not comment on JP´s performance. If our defence is not improved then we will definately be relegation material. Its all very well playing pretty and entertaining football, but I personally do not find it entertaining watching our defenders run about like blind cats chasing as mouse, not exactly my idea of total football.

In the back of the net!!

Whoooosh!

Prepare for the backlash from those who think the sun shines out of his golden arse.

Get it into your head, even sides like Man U and Chelsea would see falling gates if they started hovering round the bottom of the league consistently. Stop endlessly banging on that it is the fans fault. Over the last few years, Lowe and the fans have never seen eye to eye, even the media largely dislike him. There is no smoke without fire, and Lowe is extremely fortunate to be given a second go at wrecking this club. At a time when survival is paramount, it is extremely wreckless to start gambling by placing relatively unkown management in control with no experience of this league. The fans have every right to question this and you have no right to blame them.

Do you ever contribute anything other than ridiculing other peoples post's.

Told you so!

The problem is that at least 19 other sides, and probably more are better than us in this division!

Agreed!, we all understand the financial mess we are in, but at least we could have been given a fighting chance by having a manager with a bit of knowledge about this league. I am sure NP would have stayed on and worked with these kids, but no, in his wisdom, Lowe decides to gamble lock ,stock and barrel at a time when the club is already in a vulnerable state. This is not a situation forced on us by finances, this is a situation forced on us by a guy who has a history of making almighty blunders, and that is a pill many of us do not want or have to swallow.

Might be a league below but they would **** us. Mandaric probably coud'nt believe his luck when Lowe made NP go. Lowe's first decision back in charge and once again a major c*ck up.

At least Nigel pearson is having a shocker in league 1. Not! Well done Lowe, another one of your well planned and trusted decisions based on stability and youth. At least you kept you merry band of followers pleased.

We are a sorry outfit in defence!

"Do I really look like Sean Connery!"

Scrub that, I've just seen the article.

Well done saints! Two on the trot, whats going on! Keep it going boys.

Yeh your right, how I get drawn into these type of ridiculous threads I don´t know.

And yet you accept GM´s analogy :-k.

I am not saying they did, but one thing is for sure, Lowe has!

What a bl**dy stupid analogy. But if we are going down that idiotic road, I bet if the people found out that the King and Queen were selling all their best weaponery, leaving them with nothing to fight with, there would have been a mass revolt on their hands. Very easy to say that they could look the east end in the eye from the relative safety of Buckingham Palace whilst the common man was hiding in his Anderson bunker or under the kitchen table, starving to boot. Actually, the analogy gets better.