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Somehow I doubt he is listening and if he was he will not be phased by the rants of Mark Dennis. Crouch was sincere and passionate.

I must be on a delay. You are reporting what is said before I am hearing it.

Bet Lowe is quotes only. Doubt he will be live.

Bet it is Crouch

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I am quite encouraged by his comments as I know the likes of Surman and Lallana do not want to go. I know Lowe wants to keep the young team together, he has said it enough.

Simple answer Nick, no. Sorry.

Mark, if you have any contact with the present "rulers" of the club go and ask them about a recent event concerning someone wanting to put cash into the club and having that rejected.

Right, just before Lowe stood down then. So Wilde had 16% and Crouch would have had about 19%. What Leon forgot at that time was he might have been considered part of the "concert party" holding over 30% and would have been forced to make a full bid for the company. I know it does not change to fact that Lowe rejected it but when Leon received advice from those who knew the rules, would he have backed off anyway?

I would like to know when that offer was made.

Why? It was Crouch's comment. Lowe agreed with the comment. We have unity Let's not take sides here. There is only one side we should support and it plays 46 league games on the pitch every season.

I have no take on Wilde.

Crouch Well he has been very consistant in his comments to friendly groups behind the scenes. There is nothing new here. Why has he decided to go more public now? Well I know he was upset by comments when the Accounts were released. I do not expect him to get into a further slanging match. He has said his piece and will continue to support Saints from the "terraces". Let us not forget he is asking for the supporters to unite and get behind the team by attending. That has to benefit the football club. Is that not what we all want? Lowe He is in the driving seat now. He has been remarkable quiet until the accounts were released and I fully expect he to continue quietly working behind the scenes to stabilise our financial position. Whatever the rights and wrongs he is passionate to develop a side of young talented and motivated players who want to play for Southampton. However, he has to balance that with the more pressing problem of our finances. No matter who is in charge, without investment and income we cannot go forward. We all have to play our part where we can Administration For those that are staying away hoping for Administration in the near future, think again. With careful management of finances and with the continued support of the loan holder, Bank and creditors it is not the expected or the intended path being taken. All that will happen is that some of our younger players will have to be sold resulting in a weaker team and the possibility of relegation and more cutbacks.

We get £75,000 prize money for beating MU so a win please.

Thanks Steve.

Needs updating and future game predictions added please.

I bumped into Adam Lallana's father at a function on Friday. Adam wants to remain at Saints and his father wants and fully expects him to, despite the January transfer window. He also confirmed Adam is unaware of any attempt to sell him or gain a pre transfer window contract agreement with any other team. So this fits in with what JP has said.

Absolutely. I will be buying mine on Tuesday.

Hope so, I need 2 for me and my Brother Mike

Such a difficult choice as we had some excellent ones over the years. My first reaction to this thread was McGrath and Gabriel in the long past, Svensson and Lundekvam in the modern era. But when push comes to shove Mark Wright and Dave Watson just shade it for me.

Decent result but I am worried. If Lowe intends pursuing his youth policy, and it seems from many sources that is the case then he will not want to sell Lallana or Surman and quite right too. However, if he cannot offload at least 2 of John, Saganowski, Euell and Skacel (Rasiak is on a full year loan I believe) then he is going to have to look at our only other high earning saleable assett and that is Davis. That will leave us with and inexperienced and so far uninspiring Bialkowski and Forecast the rookie who is not yet, and by some accounts never will make the grade. It is Davis that is helping keeping the goals against down. So my fear is there for all to see.

I have just had a text. Webster did indeed leave after the Wolves game as I was told by one of my media friends just before the game.

Let's get this thread back on track, well onto a different track really Most of us would have seen the recent suggestion in the press that Pompey are up for sale for £1. That part needs no further comment. BUT I am hearing whispers from people close to the action that for that £1 you get £92m worth of debt!! And we thought we were in a mess!!!! It is understood that they have only paid a small part of Defoe's and Crouch's transfer fee and the next big installment is up in January and they don't have the money. The Sky money has already been spent on other projects Unless Gaydamak senior and junior put their hands in their pocket they will not be able to pay off the football debts let alone the others. So what will they do? Well the obvious way to extract themselves with the minumum of loss is to put the club into Administration. Will they beat us to it?

Steve, it should all be about delegation. Lowe is CEO but he has a football board to report to him on day to day football matters and coaches reporting to the footbal board. One of the worries about Lowe is that he is too involved downstream. Operations Managers take reports from Line Managers and line that up with data. Wilde and others on the football board are the Line Managers in a crude sort of way.

Funny really. The stay away fans who put nothing in want Administration. Those contributing to Saints want success. I know which camp I am in. I am not a supporter of Lowe. I can see his staying here is dividing the "support" I cannot see a better alternative at present, that is to say someone who would come in and pick up the debt etc.