sadoldgit

You just have to love modern day footballers. What a buch of *ankers. Remeber talking to Jim Steel about his transfer to Southampton. He was called in one day and told he had been signed to us. I said how did you feel about it and he said it was what happened and you just packed your things and went! Happy days!

Touchy!!! He plays for Plastic United now, why are you so bothered?

Like him or not he ran a Premiership football club for many years and does know what goes on. These points seem very reasonable.

The word at the time was that he was bought (for £1m I believe) to sell quickly for a profit. There was a lot of talk on here about how stupid that would be and indeed, it didnt happen and look what a great buy he turned out to be. Lowe should also take credit for brining in people like Niemi (Strachan wanted another keeper) and Killer previously so for a "hockey guy! he did bring in some quality (okey, I know we got some dross too). It wasnt so much the purchase of Schneiderlin. We were struggling to adjust to being out of the top flight and were not generating enough income. A number of players had been shipped out upon relegation to save wages and Lowe had a relegation clause in the contracts to help reduce the wage bill but the parachute money was not as huge as it is now and we just didnt cope with the drop financially.

He and the Board desreve a lot of credit for what they achieved with the academy. They also managed to keep us in the Premiership with crowds of 15k which was no mean feat in those days. There wasnt so much money sloshing around then and I remember Duncan saying that he didnt know where the next £ was coming from. Although he presided over the rapid downfall the nails were well and trully in the coffin from the actions of Wilde et al (which people conveniently forget now). When Lowe returned we were struggling financially and although he brought in the Dutch guys and steady the ship we just didnt have the qulaity we needed of the money to bring them in and the rest is history. I know it will sound funny now but he was seen as a visionary by some at the FA and should get credit for the bedding in of the academy and for trying to bring in sport science at a time when many footballing dinosaurs still didnt think it was necessary. For all of his faults he also had a number of pluses. Still, that is all history now and we have new people to slag off

It seems that he was prepared to sell Lambert so why not? The simple fact is we have no idea what would be happening if Cortese was still here.

Probably but then we are supposed to bringing others is and I'm sure we can do better.

Unless we brought in very high qulaity players (which would mean smashing our wage structure) I doubt very much if we could prevent people wanting to go to Man Utd, Liverpool or Arsenal. Whether we should LET them go is another issue. I am no happier about the situation than anyone else, but I would be far unhappier if players were leaving for the likes of Newcastle or Stoke.

I have a dream of living the life of luxury - sadly it also involves using someone elses money so my dream has also been destroyed.

I agree. A Delboy with better suits and a sexier accent but nothing to back it all up.

Susannah Hoffs

Borderline

Kim Basinger

Denise Richards

Phoebe Cates

Birds from Abba

Miss Lumley

I think he left because the owner expected more accountability from him.

Heather Locklear

I think that was Alexandra Paul CEC

Phoebe Cates

Bo Derek

Just for Art - starting with Kelly LeBrock

I think you are right. The comments from the Chairman were hardly a ringing endorsement of poor old Sam.