Master Bates Posted 29 November, 2008 Share Posted 29 November, 2008 A picture of Lawrie McMenemy with the FA Cup has been removed from the Saints boardroom – to be replaced by a painting of a train. http://m6live.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/saints/news/3936097.Lawrie_s_picture_makes_way_for_train/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beatlesaint Posted 29 November, 2008 Share Posted 29 November, 2008 so in the boardroom we have the choice of a picture of Saints finest moment - the successful manager holding the FA Cup - or we have a picture of a steam train form Doncaster ? you couldnt make it up could you.............. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
INFLUENCED.COM Posted 29 November, 2008 Share Posted 29 November, 2008 so in the boardroom we have the choice of a picture of Saints finest moment Its not a picture of our finest moment, its of the manager of the time holding the cup, more personal to him than the club, the team holding up the cup would be entirely different had that been replaced. The picture has been given, given not sold or anything more sinister, so for me this is no great shakes and certainly no great suprise just part of an on going joust of ego's so who gives a fu ck, oh yeah, those who look for any stick to beat the club with and fuel division. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weston Super Saint Posted 29 November, 2008 Share Posted 29 November, 2008 LOL. Who said our boardroom is childish? Good job these people aren't in charge of the running of our club............Oh............ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thedelldays Posted 29 November, 2008 Share Posted 29 November, 2008 who actually gives a **** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Bad Bob Posted 29 November, 2008 Share Posted 29 November, 2008 who actually gives a **** LM and RL :rolleyes: Maybe Rupert is a clost Trainspotter?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thedelldays Posted 29 November, 2008 Share Posted 29 November, 2008 seriously...what next...we care what colour wall paper they have..? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faz Posted 29 November, 2008 Share Posted 29 November, 2008 seriously...what next...we care what colour wall paper they have..? "Your choice of wallcovering says a lot about you. Never underestimate the psychology of boardroom decor." Laurence Llewllyn-Bowen. April 2001 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plumstead_Saint Posted 29 November, 2008 Share Posted 29 November, 2008 seriously...what next...we care what colour wall paper they have..? Hmmm Comparing " the only mention of the club’s most successful ever manager in St Mary’s" with the colour of the wallpaper... good analogy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thedelldays Posted 29 November, 2008 Share Posted 29 November, 2008 Hmmm Comparing " the only mention of the club’s most successful ever manager in St Mary’s" with the colour of the wallpaper... good analogy but who cares what the board room has for decor... this is all getting boring..im all for lowe/wilde bashing but ffs people moan when they do the talking and yet...even the slightest thing gets people talking about them i cant wait till we debate the choice of sarnie...whether it was the same sarnie as 32 years ago Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wes Tender Posted 29 November, 2008 Share Posted 29 November, 2008 What next? The statue of Ted Bates will be handed back to his family because Crouch paid for it and replaced by a statue of a Klingon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faz Posted 29 November, 2008 Share Posted 29 November, 2008 What next? The statue of Ted Bates will be handed back to his family because Crouch paid for it and replaced by a statue of a Klingon. Is the original one still around then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaintRobbie Posted 29 November, 2008 Share Posted 29 November, 2008 Its not a picture of our finest moment, its of the manager of the time holding the cup, more personal to him than the club, the team holding up the cup would be entirely different had that been replaced. The picture has been given, given not sold or anything more sinister, so for me this is no great shakes and certainly no great suprise just part of an on going joust of ego's so who gives a fu ck, oh yeah, those who look for any stick to beat the club with and fuel division. It is another example of boardroom politics at its finest. God sake wake up. And you know what? EVEN if it wasnt, even if the board prefered a picture of a Doncaster Rovers train to inspire them to success - or to remind them of their new found friends who they will be dining with in League 1 next year... it matters not one iota. Why? Because the press are running it to make a political point and that's what matters. There are 2 predictions that I made back in the summer that have yet to be fulfilled but are due about now to come to fruition. So far so good (or bad unfortunately). The final 2 pieces of the negativity that comes with Lowe (and keeps fans away) are: 1. He's a media disaster and he will have Saints looking like a joke in both the local AND national media. 2. There will be a fan backlash against him, possibly as bad as the Branfoot days. The latter is why I will not be going to SMS until he leaves. Finally, as I have only one post... Leeds Utd announced a profit of £4m AFTER administration. Their shareholders like Lowe and Wilde lost all their money as a result of administration and are punished and gone. Leeds will rise again now. I would love to see a takeover, but after watching the Leeds example it occurs to me that Lowe and Wilde are purely looking after their personal shareholdings - which is why Surman, LLalana, Schnerderlain et al WILL be sold. Ultimately - it strikes me that unless there is a takeover we shall continue to slide down the table. Ultimately Wilde and Lowe dont give a **** about it above the value of their shares. Branfoot style tactics will reemerge I fear... I am not going to SMS to watch it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solentstars Posted 29 November, 2008 Share Posted 29 November, 2008 madness removing a picture of our greatest ever manager ,to be replaced by a train. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Rover Posted 29 November, 2008 Share Posted 29 November, 2008 madness removing a picture of our greatest ever manager ,to be replaced by a train. The picture wasn't of Ted Bates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leicestersaint Posted 29 November, 2008 Share Posted 29 November, 2008 Of course this matters because it speaks volumes about the sort of people running the club. Winning the FA Cup is Saints greatest moment - bar none. I was there when we came second in the top division but winning the Cup was the best we have got. To replace a picture symbolising that with the picture of a train (and I like steam trains) - well you could not make it up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thedelldays Posted 29 November, 2008 Share Posted 29 November, 2008 how does anyone know where the picture is going..??? this thread is a bit of a joke over a picture...excuse me whilst I pick myself off the floor with laughter....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
INFLUENCED.COM Posted 29 November, 2008 Share Posted 29 November, 2008 You must look at the bigger picture. What, there is a bigger one than that one ? well thats just vain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lordswoodsaints Posted 29 November, 2008 Share Posted 29 November, 2008 yeah that will really affect the performances on the pitch. it must be a slow news day in southampton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
INFLUENCED.COM Posted 29 November, 2008 Share Posted 29 November, 2008 winning the Cup was the best we have got. To replace a picture symbolising that I am sure there are pictures which express directly the image of our winning the cup, this is an indirect image and more personal to the man in the picture than to our club, I do not see saints colours draped over the cup Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lordswoodsaints Posted 29 November, 2008 Share Posted 29 November, 2008 imo the train hasnt been such a drain on the club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minsk Posted 29 November, 2008 Share Posted 29 November, 2008 I think all those who gather in the boardroom at SMS are loco! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickG Posted 29 November, 2008 Share Posted 29 November, 2008 who actually gives a **** totally agree - really could not care less, totally irrevant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickG Posted 29 November, 2008 Share Posted 29 November, 2008 Hmmm Comparing " the only mention of the club’s most successful ever manager in St Mary’s" with the colour of the wallpaper... good analogy no -a picture of a manager -its not him hanging on the wall! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wade Garrett Posted 29 November, 2008 Share Posted 29 November, 2008 I detest Lowe. But this is irrelevant. I actually agree with NickG on something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Bad Bob Posted 29 November, 2008 Share Posted 29 November, 2008 What next? The statue of Ted Bates will be handed back to his family because Crouch paid for it and replaced by a statue of a Klingon. Heaven's sake Wes get some perspective.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Bad Bob Posted 29 November, 2008 Share Posted 29 November, 2008 .. Robbie, I amended your post and kept the interesting bits... Thanks the lords that you only have 3 posts a day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastleighSoulBoy Posted 29 November, 2008 Share Posted 29 November, 2008 LOL. Who said our boardroom is childish? Good job these people aren't in charge of the running of our club............Oh............ More childish than us lot on here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastleighSoulBoy Posted 29 November, 2008 Share Posted 29 November, 2008 The picture wasn't of Ted Bates. You're not wrong there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delmary Posted 29 November, 2008 Share Posted 29 November, 2008 Childish behaviour from grown men. Pathetic! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldNick Posted 29 November, 2008 Share Posted 29 November, 2008 Im glad they have given it back to LM and that it was not disrespected. I have always wished that there was some suite etc named after him but it is all internal politics and it is obvious RL and Lm dont get on.We have to accept it is the biardroom and I doubt if any of us would ever have know it was there or had the opportunity to see it anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronCitySaint Posted 29 November, 2008 Share Posted 29 November, 2008 If true, the story is not a surprise to me at all. What would surprise me is that the picture was not replaced with something more appropriate to the current regime, i.e. a picture of the great man himself, Rupert Lowe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delmary Posted 29 November, 2008 Share Posted 29 November, 2008 Im glad they have given it back to LM and that it was not disrespected. I have always wished that there was some suite etc named after him but it is all internal politics and it is obvious RL and Lm dont get on.We have to accept it is the biardroom and I doubt if any of us would ever have know it was there or had the opportunity to see it anyway.Agree. Like him or hate him, our most successful manager should be honoured. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wopper Posted 29 November, 2008 Share Posted 29 November, 2008 If true, the story is not a surprise to me at all. What would surprise me is that the picture was not replaced with something more appropriate to the current regime, i.e. a picture of the great man himself, Rupert Lowe. Sucking a dummy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldNick Posted 29 November, 2008 Share Posted 29 November, 2008 Sucking a dummy.has the club got a picture of you then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wadesmith Posted 29 November, 2008 Share Posted 29 November, 2008 They should stick a poster up a Bob Marley smoking a bifta....or that tennis girl scratching her arse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Wayman Posted 29 November, 2008 Share Posted 29 November, 2008 I hope it is irony but I for one cannot see it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Under Weststand Posted 29 November, 2008 Share Posted 29 November, 2008 It really is a sad indictment of the childishness & politics around the people who are supposed to be running the club in a professional manner. if they had removed it to another part of the stadium, maybe one of the hospitality suite's or a corridor or main entrance it wouldn't be a story. What next remove from the stadium all picture's of that glorious day as they are all tainted by association with LM. The board room of a club should represent the heart & soul (most importantly its fine History) not a picture of a F**king train. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polaroid Saint Posted 29 November, 2008 Share Posted 29 November, 2008 ...the club is going off the rails... ...petty squabbles stoking the fire and fueling the flames... ...but it's full steam ahead... ...as there's light at the end of the tunnel... etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stockportsaint Posted 29 November, 2008 Share Posted 29 November, 2008 I'm almost speechless at the pettiness (for that's what it is) of the current board. Given Rupert's preference for shooting, shouldn't they have replaced the Lawrie Mac picture with this: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St Paul Posted 29 November, 2008 Share Posted 29 November, 2008 Sucking a dummy. In Scooby's dreams........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rpb Posted 29 November, 2008 Share Posted 29 November, 2008 I'm not that bothered but it was not the cleverest thing to do considering how many people love finding fault with anything related to Lowe. On a slightly related topic, why doesn't LMcM ever comment on Jan and the young team in his Echo column? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
um pahars Posted 29 November, 2008 Share Posted 29 November, 2008 In the grand scheme of things, you would have to argue that changing pictures in the Boardroom is pretty irrelevant. But when it comes down to the context and situation with which this Club finds itself in, with all these egos fighting each other, it takes on an altogether different perspective. In this case, it is just another sympton of the pettiness, maliase and in fighting (by all parties) which is plaguing the Club at the present time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickG Posted 29 November, 2008 Share Posted 29 November, 2008 is it? Do we know what other pictures are up elsewhere? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rpb Posted 29 November, 2008 Share Posted 29 November, 2008 I wonder what pictures they have on the wall of the Birmingham board room... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Master Bates Posted 29 November, 2008 Author Share Posted 29 November, 2008 I've been told by people who built the stadium that there's two skates shirts in between the walls of the boardroom. Who on earth decided to give the contract to a skate company? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
um pahars Posted 29 November, 2008 Share Posted 29 November, 2008 I wonder what pictures they have on the wall of the Birmingham board room... A photo of their League Cup win in the 60's??? Their play off winning team from a few years back??? Picture of Gil Merrick (England international & I think their manager)??? Or maybe Trevor Francis??? Who do I associate with Birmingham??? Jasper Carrot, Noel Blake, Bob Latchford, Karen Brady, so maybe a combination of those!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rpb Posted 29 November, 2008 Share Posted 29 November, 2008 A photo of their League Cup win in the 60's??? Their play off winning team from a few years back??? Picture of Gil Merrick (England international & I think their manager)??? Or maybe Trevor Francis??? Who do I associate with Birmingham??? Jasper Carrot, Noel Blake, Bob Latchford, Karen Brady, so maybe a combination of those!!!! Ah - I was thinking of the porn money that is subsidising them... Sorry about that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
um pahars Posted 29 November, 2008 Share Posted 29 November, 2008 Ah - I was thinking of the porn money that is subsidising them... Sorry about that. So was I!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Jasper Carrot, Noel Blake, Bob Latchford, Karen Brady, so maybe a combination of those!!!! i.e. Karen Brady getting it from all angles;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil Monkey Posted 29 November, 2008 Share Posted 29 November, 2008 The painting of the train is probably really nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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