Saint Billy

If there is little or no chance of a return why the hell did he buy the club?. Imo he thought he was purchasing a Jag and now realises he owns a Robin Reliant.

Self sustainability is all well and good if you have a squad good enough to achieve that, we don't!. Unless Gao is happy with relegation and seeing his investment lose value he will have to put his hands in his pockets. My take is that he thought he was buying into a club that had a history of nurturing young talent and making shed loads of money, unfortunately he overlooked the word ''had''. Now he owns a club overrun with mediocre players, no young prospects and discontent staff. I think the term he used '' The pig will not be fattened'' translated means. " I do not have a pot to p*ss in". With that being the case he needs to get out and sell the club to someone who does as investment is the only way of halting the downward spiral.

Yep in a nutshell. And added to that, transparency is worse than it has ever been at Sfc since he has taken over. All the signs are there that we are in for a rough ride whilst Gao owns the club.

It wasn't meaning financial hurt. Unless he is void of any senses it will hurt him to witness that the fanbase have turned against him, plus as mentioned, the negative publicity here and in China will shame him.

An empty stadium for a few games will hurt him but unfortunately it will hurt the team as well.

Don't you think we are rushing into this

And a sense of humour as well, I did chuckle I must admit

Notice, I haven't seen the game. Your insight and observations prove invaluable................ Always

I haven't seen the game so I will use Always synopsis to give me an indication

Are you behind Gao?.

Up to recently Ralph was the only one who had my support, but I am starting to doubt his ability mainly due to his player selections and strategies. Unless Gao invests and brings in some quality I haven’t got a clue where this will end up. I think the old expression used by your partner just before they are going to dump you comes to mind, “I love you but I’m not in love with you".

Not a good time to be a saints fan atm, totally depressing.

Ah, but you are forgetting that he runs about a lot and shows some passion which to some on here is all important, more important than the fact that he is feking hopeless.

I agree with most of that, he does show signs at times of being a good prospect, but some of his errors on Friday were schoolboy inexcusable.

I suspect eleven other people might be trying to use the same excuse.

Not a surprise. The ship has got a lot more sinking to do before it hits rock bottom.

More meaningless soundbites. How they have overlooked the blindingly obvious shortfalls in the squad for years is beyond belief and now they are going to put it right, really!, with what. Due to all their failings we have a squad worth very little and an owner not willing to spend or has nothing to spend. The damage has been done and if Ralph has any sense he should walk away from this pigs ear of a mess. I cannot see anything change whilst being owned by Gao and Kat.

It's only Always, the only true fan on here.

Thought he had something last season but yesterday was like his head had gone, a truly awful display.

I've had numerous messages, even from people I haven't seen for a very long time. All the content is similar as you can imagine. There is no way I can attempt to excuse that performance so I am just riding with it for now. Unfortunately that game will not be forgotten for a long time, if ever, and is now permanently in the record books, so thanks saints for dumping that on us. Pros and cons, the Saints involved in that carnage will move on eventually and that horror show will be a distant memory for them, but us mere fans will have to live with that stat forever. The pros is that the Saints involved would have moved on and out of this club. Good riddance.

Only part of a very big saints mess but how Romeu escapes critism on here defeats me, he is king of the plodders imo and plays a major part of what must be one of the weakest midfields in saints history.

Well the pig has definitely not been fattened, on the contrary it has been starved and is now very sick.

Thank god that was just a bad dream....................................... Oh!.

Please Gao, go and do one. This club was bad enough before you turned up but my god you have taken us to new depths.

This is sickening