Good article re Saints:

[SO16_Saint]

http://www.insidefutbol.com/2009/07/14/liebherrs-takeover-to-transform-southampton/

[St Chalet]

Apart from Redknapp not having resources. 3x England stikers, Finnish international keeper, Sweedish World Cup star + Henri Camera.

[VectisSaint]

The author should do some research. The suggestion is that Poortvliet was in charge for the 2008 season when we "just avoided relegation". Apart form rehashing some of what occurred the article itself says very little of substance.

 

Oldfield should stick to Tubular Bells

[eelpie]

The author should do some research. The suggestion is that Poortvliet was in charge for the 2008 season when we "just avoided relegation". Apart form rehashing some of what occurred the article itself says very little of substance.

 

Oldfield should stick to Tubular Bells

 

He didn't actually write that. It is just that Poortvliet was mentioned in the previous sentences.

[Fowllyd]

Don't think his description of George Burley as "the impressive Scottish boss" would find much favour on here! Other than that, it reads rather oddly - are we safe and, if we are, is it in the short or long term? Do we have to rely on academy players or will there be money to spend? Is our purchase by Markus Liebherr a new beginning, or is it all too late? He seems to suggest all of these at the same time.

[Frank's cousin]

Poorly researched ..sadly, rumour and opinion stated as facts , the usual garbage from the misinformed... I love the ease with which these 'journos' make such 'intelligent' statements that the 'club should have been investing heavily to get promoted rather than cutting costs' during the parachute period - talk about stating the bleedin obvious.... but like so many of these articale it fails to dig deeper and assess were this 'investment' would come from at a time of declining revenues and unlike some of the other clubs mentioned the benefit of these funds being underwritten by a sugar daddy... Its just bol lox. Investing what you cant afford on a do or die promotion push was what Wilde did - and its that risk that set the seeds for administration and further cost cutting ... Lowe, as anyone knows always put cost cutting ahead of spending what we didnt have... and thus we did not have a squad good enough to maintain our CCC status, that is certainly a fact - but I just cant see where the money was going to come from to do anything different... we can slag Wilde and lowe all we like for what were in fans eyes very poor footballing decisions, but it does not answer that question, how were the logical footballing decisions that required investment going to be funded against falling revenues? It was a vicious circle - as costs were cut, performaces declined, as performances declined fans stayed away, as fans stayed away revenues fell, which meant no further investment and further cost cutting until administration... its not rocket science..... We all know the other questions, would we have had better results even with the kids had Lowe kept Pearson? Would this have kept revenues high enough to avoid admin and would we have played well enough without additional players to avoid the drop? Some will say yes, others not so sure, but I do think these articals do no one any favours because they just recycle the standard blinkered view that all will be well if we just invest some cash... without ever asking where it was coming from...

 

 

Thankfully we bottomed out to such an extent that we were a bargain and were rescued by Saint Markus and we can move on. I just hope though that in future we try and ask ALL the questions, not just those whose answers support our opinions...

Edited 14 July, 2009 by Frank's cousin

[Danny]

It's not by a journalist. It's by a football fan who simply likes writing about the sport.

 

It's akin to getting any random poster from this forum who can string a coherent sentence together (that should narrow it down a bit ) and asking them to write 500 words of Hamilton Academical.

 

In short, it's akin to a Vital Football site, but less well known. To slate the author as if he was a fully qualified journalist, to expect him (or anyone else) for not knowing the intricacies of each of the last five seasons like us Saints fans is incredibly unfair. Sticking an article on the Internet does not a journalist make, just the same as me changing the oil in my car does not make me a mechanic!

Edited 14 July, 2009 by Danny