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Wins it for me.

None of them. There is no good goal if it is scored against Saints so there cannot be a best one. Rephrase: What was the least bad goal

He has to get international clearance first

Agree Duncan. It was really posted as an antidote to those who just knock Lowe for Lowe knocking sake. Lowe is not going so we have to wish for success with him in charge of the club.

I go along with that. Good post imo

Good luck with your attempt to stabilise our finances. Good luck with your experiement with the Dutch coaches and the style of football Good luck with the plan to continue to use home grown players from the Academy. Success in all three will mean success for SFC and that means so much to us all......doesn't it????

I am worried we have not heard already. Suggests Chelsea may be looking at a loan to a lower Premiership club. Hope he comes back but if not we can deal with it.

Appointed Captain of England's Under 19 tour of South Africa. Also in the squad from Hampshire Academy are Hamza Riazuddin and Chris Wood.

Problem is that the club is only a small part of Fulthorpe's investors vision for investment. There are many parts that have to come together and that takes time, months not weeks. That is why Fulthorpe/Cousins saying to close friends and others that it will happen any day meets with cynicism and in some cases disbelief. For me, and a few I know, it is cloud cuckoo land but we still live in hope.

If we compare this with the FTSE AIM All Share index rebased over the past 6 months they should be about 12.5p. So the movement is nothing much to write home about.

I asked Drew Surman about this but the only answer he was aware of was that the winter sun is lower in the second half and is less troublesome to those kicking towards the Chapel end.

Sundance Beast post is not a discussion item but an antogonistic one and should be ignored. In my opinion of course. SB is capable of contructive and sometimes intellegent posts but his attempts go goad posters into replying to some on his more controversial views puts him in the same camp as..................no, I will not go there

Agree with that

Unless I have misunderstood, it is not the Shareholders who elect a Chairman! Shareholders elect a board. It is the board who appoint the Chairman. Crouch had been on the plc from the time Lowe stood down the first time as a non exec director. He was briefly Chairman of the toothless football board. He was also toothless on the plc board whilst the execs were there. He was continually outvoted. When the Executives resigned he took control of the football board as Chairman with Wiseman chairing the AGM. That was the time Crouch had the power to make and be supported on decisions. Euell and many others had been purchased before then. He had to start trying to sort out the financial mess.

That was the point of my

But if they delist they are less accountable. Lowe accountable.....now there is a thought or is it a naive dream

One more worth a mention, John Hoskins 220 games 64 goals.

I will put John Sydenham into the pot.

Thinking this through a bit more there is a fly in the ointment. IF we could get a "board in waiting" and IF they could persuade the Bank and Loan Note Holder to put pressure on Lowe and the board to resign I doubt, without clear evidence of investment, they would step down. I suspect under such pressure Lowe would threaten to place the club in voluntary liquidation and that might frighten the creditors into continuing their support. An alternative would be another costly and damaging EGM. With the Lowe Group and Wilde holding such a large tranch of voting shares there is no guarantee of success. All very depressing or there flaws in my views I have not seen?

As I used the deck chairs analogy I thought I would just say I agree with the alternative "board in waiting" idea. That might just steer us away from the "iceberg" Salz as Chairman would be a positive and would no doubt, with a carefully chosen board of "supporters" such as Davies and other local businessment with no previous "taint" and with a CEO with football background, unite the supporters. The problem is persuading a group like that to take on a failing company when they have nothing to prove other than their "love" for our club.

Robbie, if the Fulthorpe deal, as I understand it, is put on the table Lowe will have no difficulty accepting it. The offer has to be made first and no supporter pressure is going to make that happen!!

A difficult situation Steve and you may well be right. However I hang onto the hope that Lowe's main priority is the financial situation and if he suceeds on that front there is a way forward in the future. With that view he may be forced to change direction on the football front. May be I am being a little naive or perhaps grasping at straws! I have respect for Crouch and know he was trying to do his best. He is still passionate for Saints but I fear his passion may colour his financial decision making even with the likes of Salz and Co behind him. In business he must have been ruthless to succeed but put a recreational aspect into the equation and it is a different matter for someone with his passion. I cannot see anyone else on the horizon at the present time (Fulthorpe "fantasy" excepted)

Unfortunately that is not going to happen. Crouch has tried an approach to SLH (will not go into details as Mr Crouch does not want it publicised) and it was rejected.

It has nothing to do with share value. It has nothing to do with Lowe rejecting any offer. No offer has been made yet.

I contacted someone yesterday with all the suggestions that the dressing room had been lost. The answer I got was no it has not. I asked why such a bizzare team choice The answer I got was 2 games in 2 days is a killer Lallana injured himself in training on Christmas day. His ankle came up like a balloon and on crutches. McGoldrick was going to be rested.