Guided Missile

Steve, as you know, the managers/players got us promoted and Sky/BT "put £££££s on the top line and £££££££s on its valuation." I would bet that the club is still sucking in Liebherr's money in both investment and covering ongoing losses. We don't know the management accounts, but I think we are still losing money hand over fist, until they sell a couple of youngsters at the end of the season. My advice to Katherina is to sell to an eccentric billionaire for £150M and get the hell out of Dodge. The owners rarely see a return and the downsides are massive.

Long term, I think Lowe's influence on the club was more fundamental and given the money available to NC, Lowe and Cowen could have achieved as much, but that won't sit well with the class warriors on this site. By the way, you never met NC, or encountered him in any dealings. I can tell you that the main reason he was canned was that apart from screwing suppliers, other clubs and past players, he also screwed customers and sponsors, which is probably why the Liebherr's had to try and reign him in. NC treated the lot like sh !t most of the time and forced at least one local company into administration. Good riddance and it feels good to get that off my chest at long last...

I wonder if you would sympathise with NC if you knew that he upset a major sponsor in hospitality so much that they told the club they would never sponsor the club again, while he was in charge. It only amounted to the loss of £200K a year, but considering the global brand involved, Jeez. Let's put it this way, NC will not be getting a PS4 as a leaving present. Tip to the iceberg...

The problem Cortese had is that he knew, to the last penny, what the club cost, including the money invested since the takeover. He feels that any increase in value since that date is due to his skills as a Chairman. It is apparent he has been working behind the scenes since Markus passed away, to raise the finance to buy the club, but he just doesn't have the resources and probably resents any price over the amount invested. Football's a billionaires club now and let's hope Cortese stays the hell away. We know from the past, that large egos and small bank accounts is a mixture that leads to financial disaster. The best outcome is a large corporate or sovereign wealth fund steps in and runs Saints like a normal professional business, not a small empire for a self-preening Italian, who treats people like sh! t.

I see no reason to change what I posted in May, when he last threatened to resign...

I think the problems Cortese has are more to do with his plans to buy the club and its price. The Liebherrs want top dollar and he thought he could do a management buy-out at a discount with some investors he could pull together. His ego could only be satisfied if he was the capo di tutti capi....

Explain this quote from your messiah, then... Starving a few Ethiopians should do the trick..... A certified mental case, IMHO and you have the nerve to call me disingenuous and emotive...

Anyone who wants to understand why America has the lowest energy costs in the world, without environmental damage, read this.

Not exactly:

This is a dangerous and obnoxious organisation. It is a very small step from its stated aims of government influence over personal fertility, which is bad enough, to that of immigration control and eugenics. It's political offshoot in Australia, the Stable Population Party (SPP), is already aligning with anti-immigration political figures. No wonder Friends of the Earth and the Green Party won't have anything to do with this awful charity. As far as Chris Packham, what an absolute sh!te he is, as this quote shows: Governments around the world should start “regulating the population”??? How the f*** have we got to this point, where people are even debating this....?

Nope, missed your point entirely and I'm slightly unsettled by your total lack of any ability to communicate facts.... Have a nice day...

I think you mean, how we we make any progress if we all had the same opinion as me...

Rather than stoop to your never ending ad hominem method of debating, I will clarify my feelings about David Attenborough. He works for a left wing organisation, perpetuating the same claptrap regarding AGW that you have swallowed hook line and sinker and is a misanthropic dinosaur with bizarre views on our race. It is no surprise that David Bellamy never gets asked to make programs for the BBC anymore. He doesn't fit the agenda...David Attenborough? Establishment and soon to be replaced by Bitterne's own Chris Packham, who would probably also like to cull a few Africans, just so he could carbon offset the business class flights, he will get the license payer to fund, to film exotic animals having sex and killing each other...

I think his points, with which you appear to agree are that population control is obscene, China's policy was not formulated by a Chinese aerospace statistician, I'm a fool and he is clever. I see no evidence for the above, but respect yours and his right to be ignorant and wrong. These facts help make my posts look clever and witty, like roses in a pile of horse manure...

My source regarding China's population control policy, based on the same type of failed computer modelling followed by the Club of Rome, who predicted in 1972 that oil would run out in 1992 and more latterly by the IPCC, who predicted the Himalayan Glaciers would melt by 2035: Still, what do I know. I'm a fool.

I've got an idea, Minty. You engage with Polaroid. I find it impossible to follow what he is posting and what his point is...

I must be foolish, because I haven't got a clue what your point is and have a real problem following your strange posts. I think I'll leave it there...

Boo hoo... Calls to a U.K. bullying helpline have almost doubled in a year.

I was thinking of David Attenborough, actually. The IPCC are a bunch of idiots, but not necessarily left-wing and have not promoted population control, the last time I read any of their myths. You really need to read my posts more carefully. You might learn something...

Obviously you didn't read the article online or in print. Educate yourself, on me: Additionally, read this obscene article from a rag you may have more sympathy with and realise the evil planned in the name of "global warming", by a bunch of left wing idiots we are blessed with in this country. Oh, and count the number of white babies in the photo accompanying the article. I'll be holding a quiz later...

...so nuclear power generation is OK, now?

Great article from Matt Ridley on the damage computer modelling, in the hands of politically motivated Greens has done, here , in todays Times. No wonder the Chinese have done the sensible thing and kicked the West's carbon policy into touch and embarked on the construction of coal fired power plants to continue to lift, 500 million of their population out of poverty. Meanwhile, the French and Chinese are building us nuclear power plants because our well meaning NGO lefties thought nuclear power was evil. Same has happened to GMO's and it will happen to fracking. These anarchists will not rest until we are back to the dark ages....

As I was working on my computer until late, last night, I thought I should inform those interested, about what I discovered while running a complex, bit-mapped, global climate simulation program. The results of my research will have a devastating effect on the way we view the future of the human race. Unless we take heed of the predicted outcome of my extensive work, the human race will be overrun by wave upon wave of alien life forms, which are bent on our destruction and no weapons currently in our possession will prevent total destruction. We need to develop means of defending ourselves as it is apparent from my research that there is a greater than 99% chance of our world being overrun in hours.

Pity your remedial English tutor doesn't mark the IPCC's assignments. They'd be as f***ed as you are in your course.

Just to settle the debate, I can now release a brand new set of graphs which indicate that the degree of global warming that is 97% likely to occur between now and 2050 is approximately 0.15oC. Although the model has not yet been peer reviewed, the author, Guided Missile, has a degree in Chemistry and many years experience in environmental modelling. I am sure we can all agree that the projected increase conforms well with the global data collected over the last 25 years and that the projected increase in temperature spells the end for the human race. Despite my confidence in the projections my research has shown, a grant of £100,000 a year would be needed to predict exact figures on the global death toll from the dangers that carbon emissions will cause.