So...

[Dibden Purlieu Saint]

...the end is nigh for Southampton football club. After 24 months of scrimping and saving, fighting in the boardroom and in the stands, we have gone into administration. It's a sad look at a club that 6 years ago finished 8th in the Premiership and got into an FA Cup Final. We stayed in the top division for 27 years. It now seems we'll drop outside the top 2 divisions for the first time in 50. The fall of my club, a club that was seen to be well run, has been dramatic, and now we hope to tie up a buyer in the current financial climate. Not likely.

 

Blame will be apportioned to those responsible, namely the vulgar, pompous and smug Rupert Lowe, the fantastical and downright laughable Michael Wilde, the self righteous, ignorant and proud Leon Crouch, and also the Chuckle Brothers, Messrs Hone and Dulieu. Thanks must to go to all of you for mismanaging a club to it's knees. Special mention must also go to George Burley, who managed to blow £8m on poor players. But overall, I don't know who to blame. Perhaps this bunch of mercenaries, perhaps Richard Scudamore and the over-commercialisation of the Premier League, putting clubs in massive danger once relegated. Or perhaps it's a cycle, that you have to take the rough with the smooth, that it happens to everyone. After all, '...it's only a game'.

 

I don't know what I feel this morning, I feel kind of empty. I'm glad that the previous regime(s) will now lose there money, no-one deserves it more. I would worry about us, but after the last 4 years I am apathetic to the pain my club brings me. It's just another day.

 

I would not wish this on anybody, but it will happen to many more over the years.

 

And I thought this could be an April Fools Joke. It turns out no-one is that cruel.

[hypochondriac]

I blame Red**** and whiskey George.

[saint_bert]

I knid of feel the same. Im still a tad confused on the whole situation.

[miserableoldgit]

...the end is nigh for Southampton football club. After 24 months of scrimping and saving, fighting in the boardroom and in the stands, we have gone into administration. It's a sad look at a club that 6 years ago finished 8th in the Premiership and got into an FA Cup Final. We stayed in the top division for 27 years. It now seems we'll drop outside the top 2 divisions for the first time in 50. The fall of my club, a club that was seen to be well run, has been dramatic, and now we hope to tie up a buyer in the current financial climate. Not likely.

 

Blame will be apportioned to those responsible, namely the vulgar, pompous and smug Rupert Lowe, the fantastical and downright laughable Michael Wilde, the self righteous, ignorant and proud Leon Crouch, and also the Chuckle Brothers, Messrs Hone and Dulieu. Thanks must to go to all of you for mismanaging a club to it's knees. Special mention must also go to George Burley, who managed to blow £8m on poor players. But overall, I don't know who to blame. Perhaps this bunch of mercenaries, perhaps Richard Scudamore and the over-commercialisation of the Premier League, putting clubs in massive danger once relegated. Or perhaps it's a cycle, that you have to take the rough with the smooth, that it happens to everyone. After all, '...it's only a game'.

 

I don't know what I feel this morning, I feel kind of empty. I'm glad that the previous regime(s) will now lose there money, no-one deserves it more. I would worry about us, but after the last 4 years I am apathetic to the pain my club brings me. It's just another day.

 

I would not wish this on anybody, but it will happen to many more over the years.

 

And I thought this could be an April Fools Joke. It turns out no-one is that cruel.

 

Have we??:confused:

[John B]

I blame Red**** and whiskey George.

 

I blame my Mum and Dad for living in Southampton otherwise I would not care a toss but I do

 

 

But being long in the tooth I am not as upset as the youngsters as we were in Div 3 South when I first started taking an Interest in the Saints and have seen some great Saints games

[Scummer]

Have we??:confused:

 

No.

[miserableoldgit]

No.

My point exactly.

[Pancake]

Indeed. Can we keep the discussions to be smallest amount of threads possible please people?