OldNick

i agree Mike but you cannot guarentee an improvement of income on the basis that the first team may string some wins together. Yes had we kept NP and some of the high ly paid players we may have won a few more games and perhaps more fans would have come in through the gates.By making definite cuts the bank would have been eased and so supported us(HIndsight shows differently) To me I think the only way forward for clubs in the lower leagues is that you have to start at very low cost base and then develop from there. Lowe did that job well but his decision to employ the wrong man of the 2 was our downfall.Again in hindsight , had he put Wotte in charge we may have won more games and so the crowds would have improved.I agree there are some who wouldnt go whatever but you cant spend your life in business just appeasing a few, as you then would have to appease those who were not going for other reasons.The core business waws to get the club on a sound footing and it surprises me that he had shown the bank that he had slashed costs.I can only assume he got up one of the bank managers noses(no surprise) and so they pulled the plug.It still was not a clever thing to do.I wish my business was with them as id move banks in protest.

Rebel if you read the bit in the Times that has been posted up they would have made us goners quicker if we had not taken the correct measures straight away.Unlike some fans on here barclays dont care that we worship a managerwho only won 3 in 17 games they worry if they are going to get their money back.To them we are a little zit on a face full of acne, they squeezed us when the boil was receeding.

It is only a small lapel badge but with a picture of the 1901-1902 ?(from memory)team that would have been worn by a fan then at games.To most it may be of little interest as just an old badge but as a historic collectors piece it is very rare as there wouldnt have been many made and also most would have been lost in time. Gary Chalk did some research for me for an item on this site regarding the RAF dog team incident and so I would like him to have first chance of it.

Im sure he will be delighted that his confidence has been broken. I doubt the Monkou bit (although fairly common knopwledge) will make him popular there either.

I think that is fair CS.Perhaps LC would have but Im a little unsure whether he would have liked to be that unpopular to do those unsavoury thigns that would have had the fans on his back.The point is we are now seeing a clearer picture and SOMEof Lowes strategy can be seen to be correct. To me it was in a financial sense a very good effort cutting those overheads to such a degree. I dont expect the more rabid antis to take it in but at least now we can see why it was all happening.

Well done to both of them Richards strikes me as a very worthy man to still be involved.

Couldnt we try quantative easing, thats the buzz word at the moment.Who owns a photocopier on here and then we only need to go to Staples to get the paper to print the notes on.Problem solved. Why didnt anyone think of it before

but Ron it was never cashed and so never a loan. As for the strings attached they might have been punituive.He didnt write one out for 110k to stop the bank pulling the rug.Not that he should but if it was there a while ago Id have thought it was paramount this week.

how about red and white. That has been sung a few times during games recently and the whole grund has joined in.Lets make it easy for everyone.

Until we are privvy to waht went on it is difficult to really understand the decisions made.

your judgement is under question BTF a Pompey fan as your other half and meeting Brown and listening to Benn. You do know how to pick them, what did you do bad in your last life????

You're a good lad keep it up.

Gary Chalk if you read this you recall that piece of rare memoribilia you wanted, i will let you have it and donate the money to the cause.

Richard Smith of Paris Smith and Randall used to sit the row in front of me at the Dell and a massive Saints fan as were his family.I would expect he would do the best he could for us without hesitation.

Thankyou.

I have heard nothing from my friends and it is eerily quiet.I just hope that there is real interest. Morph has shown up on here again but he was here when the tyrekickers were around last time.

I do hope your confidence is well founded Wade, if not then you may yurself go and kick down Barclays doors

The ticket office have posted on here before, so suggest to them to give us an update rather than you having to keep calling in.

I wouldnt condone any attacks on Barclays. I would move from that bank if my business was with though. They will try and play the innocents as they would realise they could have upwards of 30000 accounts who were saints fans, if it upset the peole of Southampton a lot more of course.That would be a lot of business to lose.

not if he's dealing with Lowe.

How about that the League dock us points as they know that we havent the rfunds to take them to law when the others who are complaining do.

Thats the spirit, you will never be top dogs just in a better league position MackRill. You have been fortunate enough to have had a couple of sugar daddies that have bankrolled you.Iwish we had the same of course, you will enjoy a little spel in the sun and then fade away, we may just die, the world will be a poorer place for it but thats life.We will be the first really major club to fold big time but knowing you lot wanting to outdo us and jealous will probably go into bankrupcy just to try to be the first club to do so.

Administration is down to the boards of the last 5 years I would suggest.The boards for the last 20or so have let us fans down. It is funny how we are customers when the quality is not right. I myself am a fan although I do understand Im looked upon as a customer. I fully agree that we have been let down but i can see how the circumstances have unfolded.The first time i wanted Lowe gone as long as he was replaced by a vialble alternative.I didnt trust the Wilde bunch, sadlt I was proved right.Lowe returned as a last desperate act and it has failed. Iwill be more than content if a buyer appears and the sorry episode of the last 5 years is erased from our memory but as I and others have warned this scenario is brinkmanship of the highest order and the fans who in the poll voted for administration will see it is no picnic and what we had just a few weeks ago may one day be seen as the 'good old days' I want to believe that we will come from the ashes but whilst the fans who have been at the club this season we will still be there whatever, I doubt a lot of the returns will be there unless we start being successful again,I hope they prove me wrong.

As i said you get all girly. The German , Chinese , South African consortiums all still fighting it out and that's forgetting the Middle Eastern lot. Now when is the stadium to be unveiled. I suspect we will have to wait until Pompey get another win for you to come back and tell us. Only 24 posts from you in the whole of this year so far, wheras in half of september when you were on a roll you posted 22 times (I could only put the latter half of september as the records stop mid sept) Of course you return on here as you have the upper hand, only time you do. i have some froiends who are Pompey fans and i was expecting them to contact me and rub it in, but no they haven't as they are decent , as for you well you are just as i would have imagined , gone when things are hard to defend back when you can gloat.