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If we want Gao out, ie to sell up to someone with more interest in the club try embarrassing the Chinese state. Nothing happens in China without the approval of the State, and one thing the Chinese state hates is protest and a spotlight shone on their governance. 32k Saints fans waving Tebitan flags live on TV would see Gaos operation closed down faster than a buttered bullet.

I'm not getting behind the team, they are sh1t. There is no evidence that continually getting behind something that is st1t makes it better. You have to think of the team (as opposed to the club) like a small child. Sometimes you need to encourage, sometimes you need to scold; and sometimes you need to sit back and say "go on then, prove me wrong". As responsible parents we should be at the latter stage.

The current board is: Gao, Gao's Daughter (London based apparently), Kat, and the CEO who is some fella from a crappy little ad agency. The football 'wisdom' on the board is staggering.

There is so much wrong at SMS and Staplewood it's hard to know where to begin. Suffice to say maintaining the status quo ain't good enough. Any manager needs a good coaching staff. Ralph has lost his right hand man and needs to be replaced. The evidence suggests Kelvin and co. aren't good enough.

Aguero for o e will be surprised hes in the second XI

Gao has no money and doesn't know a football from a spring roll Kat wanted out and no signs she wants in again. God knows who the CEO is but dont think he has any experience of running football clubs. Ralph needed Rohl and is lost without him, and a pair of goalkeepers as coaches is proving to be as ridiculous as it sounds. And are squad is probably good for League One. All I can suggest is save yourself.

We might avoid relegation this year, but it will only postpone the inevitable. No money, and a business model based on buying young players and if their any good sell them quick, and if their not loan them out to anyone who'll pay a small percentage of their wages, is not working. The sooner we take the medicine, ie. Relegation, the sooner we can be shot of Gao, and the sooner we can get back on track.

Not to them it isn't. As I pointed out before they can be fined a weeks wages for being late. Amateurs playing for Saints 100+ years ago, knee deep in mud, with a ball that could crack your head open had more backbone than to ever lose by that margin.

They can be fined one WEEKS wages for being late!!!!!! PATHETIC

Not a chance. We dont have good enough players, and thus we do have are spineless. See you all in the Championship for better times.

One days wages adds insult to injury. Seriously just one effing days pay. Keep it you pathetic bunch of no marks. They just don't get it do they.

There is so much wrong with the club is hard to know where to begin but here goes... 1. Ownership. Gaos motives are unclear but creating a winning football club is not it. 2. Leadership. There is none, from the boardroom to the playing field. 3. Strategy. Buying young and cheap to sell onto competitors does not work and demoralised the fan base.

All of those players will have clauses in their contracts adjusting their pay downwards if we're relegated making it far easier to shift them on.

Having a policy of only buying younger players is the problem. Cahill was available on a free in the Summer and is looking like Palaces player of the season so far. Laurie Mac built his success of mixing cheap old players with young. We dont need to spend a fortune.

If Ralph is going to be sacked he needs help. A decent coaching team would do that. Kelvin Davies is not good enough and should be moved on.

We could crowd fund legal action against the FA. It is they who didn't follow their own rules when passing Gao a 'fir and proper' person to own a football club, on the second time of asking.

No. They are *****s. Anybody who hasn't had the dignity to either leave or boo every one of those poor excuses of players is no Saints fan

My heart says sack Ralph, my head says nobody could do any better with thus abysmal squad.

I can see nothing other than a Leicester win. I predict 0-2

All this talk of videos and youtube clips of potential signings is one thing, but I can't believe we can spend eight figure sums on a player without having someone very senior at the club watching that player at least half-a-dozen times. Surely!!!

Couldn't agree more. China is a human rights waste land, and our particular Chinaman allegedly has blood on his hands. Nothing good is going to come our way with Gao as owner.

Hes not to blame for such a poor squad. I understand the desire to bring on youth players, and I understand the need to sell before we buy but Cahill was available for free and doing brilliantly at CPFC and yet we have the worst centre halves in the Premiership. That's bad planning

Whether we mind relegation or not, I think we better get use to the idea. You can get away with having a sub standard squad only for so long and I fear our time is running out. On the plus side there will be clauses regarding relegation into the player contracts which means the dross we cant sell should be easier to shift

Good to see the Clotese myth is still alive and kicking.