Guided Missile

Let's not go where? I'm proud of the club's roots and even more proud that the Stadium as now located in a multi-cultural and multi-faith area of the City, where there has been none of the problems with our fans, that were predicted by many. The founders of our club would also be proud as I am sure will our new owner. Feel uneasy? Nowhere near as uneasy as I would have felt, with Fialka in charge....

I suspected as much and it make you wonder whether he would have been inspired to spend £13-15M if the stadium would have been located in the middle of a retail park at Stoneham...

I wonder if Markus Liebherr was motivated by the history of our club to complete the deal, in competition against other bidders that may have not had that recognition in mind, but may have been more interested in the investment potential. I also wonder whether this will also drive him forward, to return the club to it's "family club" image. The Times reported: The Times understands that part of the attraction of the club to Liebherr, a deeply religious man, was that they were formed in 1885 by members of the St Mary’s Church of England Young Men’s Association, hence the “Saints” nickname. His background, IMHO, will form the basis of many of the decisions he makes with regard to the club and I would have thought that would extend to the choice of manager and behaviour of the players. I also re-read the forum rules and can see no issue with discussing Herr Liebherr's religious belief's and the way it influence(d) the way he has/will run our club but I must admit I won't be suprised if this one gets locked as well, given the attraction many so-called liberal commentators have in restricting free-speech and the expression of opinions opposite to their's...

I just wonder if the tipping point for the Swiss bid was the prospect of a Jewish owner of our football club. Things seemed to rapidly accelerate as soon as Fialka was revealed and his background became known. The money was also reported to be sourced from the North London Jewish community. We also know that Markus Liebherr is deeply religious and a committed Christian and one of the attractions of the club was/is the origin of the club being from the St Mary's Church of England Young Men's Association. I hope that people reading this don't get the impression that this is any way an anti-Semitic accusation against our new owner, because it is not. I just happen to think that the Christian roots of our great club, its history, our nickname and the location of the stadium so close to Southampton's mother church, may have been a large factor and that Markus Liebherr may have wanted to preserve this. I can see a return to our "family club image" with Markus Liebherr in charge and I hope he looks at the ground from an engineer's background and all he sees is the ease with which he could expand the capacity! I am sure that the fans will give him and his family a great welcome next Saturday and that he will one day understand what a fantastic club and set of fans he has been lucky enough to become involved with...

Cheers, although I can't see him doing much about it. I'm currently on hold to the ticket office and have been for 15 minutes. F***ing useless and was the same last season.... Update, just renewed the old fashioned way, by a pleasant girl who informed me they weren't doing renewals online this season! She seemed surprised when I told her that they were, but I couldn't renew linked seats nor get the free Ajax tickets. Still, got them now and Saints should get a new IT person ASAP....

Same problem for me. They have to do something about it.

Try to be objective and avoid misquoting what was written, FFS. I read the Times story as follows: "Meanwhile, Begbies Traynor, the firm that handled the club’s 98 days in administration, yesterday reported a 29 per cent rise in revenues to £62.1 million in the year ending April 2009, and no wonder, some will say. Although its fee was originally estimated at £500,000, it has risen to three times that amount for a performance that has impressed few. One rival consortium was especially unhappy that it was unable to succeed with a bid that was higher than that of Liebherr." You seem remarkably sanquine about the fees, seeing as you posted this not too long ago: Just stick this one in, for good measure:

Why does the phrase "As thick as thieves" comes into my mind...?

Let's just call it a pre-season, parting shot, Paddy...

I'll be celebrating by purchasing my two season tickets today, while you're knocking one off, over your keyboard... (sh !t, why did I take you off ignore...)

What you are saying is that it was good that he only raped the creditors, when he could have murdered them as well...

Spout ****** and spread fear to gullible losers like you and Crouch, to grab money for a wage bill that was paid by the sale of two players in the end, and trouser the cash, more like....

By charging three times more than they should have, by wasting their time with people like Pinnacle, despite having no evidence of funds and taking Crouch's million for fees rather than the salary bill they claimed it was for. The waste of time meant that we were forced to sell our two best players and at the end of the day, they had a higher offer from another consortium with money on deposit. Steve, they did a cr @p job and if I was a creditor, I would be very p! $$ed off. I assume the bucket collectors must be pleased with what happened to the donations Fry was begging for. F***ing bullsh !tting wide-boy...

You obviously weren't a creditor, eg a small local business owed money....nor do you have a clue what their responsibility was. Just to help...it wasn't to find a new, rich owner, for a selfish and clueless fan like you....

Read it again: MARK Fry’s bill for being in charge of selling Saints could be close to half a million pounds.

Good news for the partners of Begbies Traynor. Their revenues have risen by 29% to £62.1 million in the year ending April 2009, The Times reports today. That figure doesn't include the £1.5M they have taken from Southampton Leisure Holdings plc, three times the estimated cost of the administration. That figure must be in inverse relation to their competence. They wasted weeks with a total bunch of time wasters in Pinnacle and at the end, managed to p!$$ off a rival consortium who had offered MORE than Liebherr. Regular readers of my posts will recall what I think of this profession and they haven't failed to live up to my opinion. Snatched £1M more than they should have from the creditors while doing a cr @p job.

I expect him to sit in the Directors Box AND pay for a season ticket. A few home defeats and the resulting death threats from a couple of our fans will be enough reason to convince him of the need to surround himself with the prawn salad brigade.

THREE BILLION EUROS....

Spot-on...

I think the word "thieves" is a bit strong, TBH. I prefer the term "crooks"...

I'm devastated that none of you homo's have thought about apologising for the abuse I got.....I haven't slept since Ed Rooney called me an asterisk...

Broken hearted by being dumped by his girlfriend, the main character goes home to rearrange his record collection. Nerd that works at his store pops round and asks what our hero is doing and is told he is....rearranging his record collection. "Chronologically?", nerd asks. "Autobiographically", he is told...... Nerd says "......Cool....."

You really had to watch/read "High Fidelity", to get it, TBF...

I waited until 8:30PM and then decided to go home and re-arrange my Saints programme collection, autobiographically, instead....

I think it may be worth someone starting a new thread, in appreciation of Mrs. Slocum's dead pussy....