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Funny that DD I seem to remember the reason Burley has some problems with the Scootish players because he was trying to sort out the drinking culture.

If he does go that will please a few on here.

Perish the thought that you should pass up the opportunity to have a pop at our manager.

Yeah, because we have had such a cr*p season.

Perhaps Mr Cortese would like to be the manager then? I am sure he could do so much better.

Petulant child? Something you would know something about Geoff. FFS, he wants promotion as badly as we all do and now you are slagging him off for showing some emotion when it is slipping away. You really are a nasty piece of work and give decent Southapmton supporters a bad name. Just go away and take C B Fry with you.

Are you Alpine and C B Fry one of the same person?

Nail, hammer, head. Thank f*ck Alpine has nothing to do with decisions made at the club otherwise a very good manager would be on his way out. Give him until Christmas? Very big of you Alpine. Frankly who gives flying f*ck what you think??? A poll perhaps?

No. I will qualify that if you like. If you read the thread and the posts from people who have a reasonable idea what they are talking about it is apparent that Barclays not Lowe determined when we went into administration. You obviously dodn't read my original reply about the yes or no issue. As for his "pithy" come back. Really? Alpine doing pithy is like Alpine supporting a manager. Still, it is nice that he is building up a small support group. Care in the community and all that Your another one who will never forgive me for not joining the hanging party. Interesting to see that even people like Duncan are reappraising their view of the old CEO. As for shades of grey, probably better than shades of black. Sorry, just trying to match Alpine's attempt trying to take the pith.

You do wonder where football in this country would be if every bank called in their debts. Murdoch was a great one for racking up huge debts and daring the banks to pull the plug. I think they were very close to doing that with SKY at one point but he fronted them out. He got away with it. In the big scheme of things our debt wasn't that huge. Perhaps that was Rupert's biggest mistake? Perhaps he should have racked up a bigger debt? It has worked out well for us so far but if ML ever jumps ship we could be back in the mire again. And of course we could have ended up with Pinnacle or some of the dodgy characters that have pitched up elsewhere.

Look for it on the normal stations rather than the movie channel. D'oh.

RIP Reginald. 96 eh? He saw so many changes in his life. It was nice that he passed at a time when his club was on the up again and had success at Wembley.

I can relate to what you are saying. As much as I love Le Tiss, everytime I pick my all time best Saints X1 I have trouble fitting him in the side as I have to have Davies, Channon, Paine, Williams, Armstrong etc. Mind you, I have an awesome bench (incl MLT, Shearer and Keegan!)

Right info, wrong country!

Don't sit on the fence Windmill, tell us what you really think! Seriously though, the cr*p might have been worthwhile if ML stays the course and rebuilds this club without debt and on solid foundations. Just think without "him" this would not have happened! To quote the dear departed Mr Dury, "Reasons to be cheeful"

When is the bloody thing on. I recorded it on Easter Monday but have missed every episode since!!! Grrrrrrr

After his run in with Willy and the BA big guns he probably sees Rupert as a pussycat now!

I think you are right. The only other alternative might be a break away European league (volcanos permitting) leaving behind a watered down Premiership.

Yep, I'm just off to root through the dirty Calvins looking for the irony (p.s. I am still waiting to hear how much it will cost us to buy promotion)

I understand that Burley is running the London Marathon, not bad for an alchy is it? Isn't this what we are talking about? The likes of Alpine seem to think that if Burley spends £7m in the CCC and Pardew £3m in Div 1 then it should guarantee promotion. Why should it?

Depends what you mean by success Mr Fry.

There were all sorts of worries over the hedge fund though weren't there?

Ron, thanks for this. I did have some recollection of Barclays pulling the rug out of the blue. Trouble is, as time passes and as more people put their interpretaion on what happened, or what they think happened, things get clouded. There is a fascinating book to be written about our decline and fall (and hopefully rise!). Duncan, you up for it?

If you can't be bothered to engage in a sensible discussion do us all a favour and go somewhere else will you? For someone who thinks he knows so much you actually know very, very little. Tell you what, go and draw up a list of all of the managers that you would like to replace Pardew and when you have a top three come and tell us who they are. That should keep you busy for a while. Then we can have a meaningful discussion about their merits and your reason for wanting them over Pardew. Ok?

I suppose where there is life there is hope - and stranger things have happened so maybe you can't blame him for hoping something would come out of the woodwork. As you say Duncan, we think we have had problems but when you look elsewhere it could have been worse. I'd rather be us than Portsmouth, Cup Final and all!