miserableoldgit

Interesting to see how many people are now calling for Billy Davies. Wasn`t quite like that a few months ago. Everyone wanted attractive, passing football, not "route-one" 1-0 wins!!

Yeah. They`re s**t! Oh sorry, that`s not really news is it!

Whilst I would agree with most of the sentiments of this post I disagree that Crouch is the reason that we are in this mess. He certainly is PART of the reason. We are where we are because of a series of BAD DECISIONS, starting with (IMHO) a failure to support WGS after the Cup Final. Before that because Saints were (comparitively) successful there was no real anti-Lowe campaign, although because of the plc thing and Lowes percieved "toffee - nosed" lack of football knowledge, it was always a firework waiting to go off! Since then the whole thing has been a tragedy of soap-opera proportions in which Lowe, Wilde and Crouch are all villains to some degree or another.

TBF to Leon - what was Lowes majority in getting re-elected? How do you fight that?

Of course an EFFECTIVE boycott would be a fantastic tool in the fight against Lowe and Co but you haven`t addressed my original point. How do you get 15000 people to boycott? How do you actually organise it?

I understand your cynicism and I know nothing, but never say never. I work in a "Luxury Environment" and there are still plenty of people out there with good money. There are still more billionaires out there than millionaires!

I think that I ought to say that I am VERY ANGRY at what has happened to the club that I have loved for all of these years and will not just sit back and accept things as they are. I am prepared to act but it must be organised and effective.

Let me start by saying that I and my daughter are both ST holders. We would both be willing to boycott a game if we thought that it would have an effect on the state of affairs at SMS. The problem is that the normal gate is around 15K. If you could manage to get all 15k to boycott - brilliant!! Realistically, how many of those 15k can TSW get to and get them to act? As much as I love this forum (my wife will tell you that!!) we are just an active minority. There are 12K plus who do not care as much as we do. How do we energise those people. I am prepared to take whatever action that it takes to rid SFC of the parasites and egotists who are killing the club that I have LOVED for well over 50 years, but the action has to be well organised and effective. Is vague talk of "boycott" the right way?:(

Exactly!

I had a similar situation a few months ago. I was driving along a narrow country lane when I saw a van coming in the opposite direction at a great rate of knots. I could see that he was not going to slow down or pull into one of the "passing pull-ins" so I just pulled into the bank and stopped. The van came through (without slowing) and took the side of my car out. As there were no independant witnesses the insurance companies put it down as 50-50. I did not accept this and made quite a fuss and eventually the insurance company came back and said that the other party had admitted responsibilty. It is worth doing as most insurance companies are part of the same group and sort things out amongst themselves.

Might be too late. Looks like he`s going to Forest.

Really good to have you back and with a good post.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=txvSiszUrBo Is this Homer Simpson or JP making the same mistakes over and over again?

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I don`t quite understand this. Are you suggesting that Lowe is, in fact, a unifying figure and that it is just a very small amount of people with axes to grind that are causing unrest for no reason?

O.K. heres mine. A few years ago I was at a company do at New Place near Shedfield. At the end of the evening I went to the toilet before leaving. I had not been drinking as I was driving. I was stood at the urinal "doing the business" and there was nobody else in there with me. I heard the door of the toilets open and I heard and "felt" footsteps walk through the toilets,past the basins and round behind me, but there was nobody there. I didn`t feel scared. It was just a feeling of, I suppose, "wonder" that something unusual was happening.

Black Armbands.

Firstly, I am no fan of Lowe, Wilde or Crouch. As far as I am concerned they are all killing the club or allowing the club to die in their own ways. Secondly, I have been supporting this club through thick and thin for over 50 years and have been (and still am) a ST holder for 35 years so I like to think that I do have a brain when it comes to SFC. My grouse is with the decision making that The Chairman makes. He is only too happy to take credit when things go well but not so forthcoming when it all goes wrong. I can accept things that happen on the pitch inluding injuries are part of what football is all about. What I cannot accept is the repetition of bad decisions. The loss of Souness, the appointments of Gray, (esp) Wigley and Sturrock, and possibly (time will tell) the dismissal of Pearson. Had Lowe appointed a suitable replacement for Strachan, the results against Middlesbrough and Everton (and Villa??) would probably have been irrelevant. We should never have been in the position that we were when Redknapp arrived.

The damage was really done with the appointment of Wigley. Athough Redknapp had time to keep us up, the rot had set in. At the beginning of the relegation season, Mr Lowe said that we had the strongest squad that we ever had. Did you believe that? Lack of investment in the team after the Cup Final, the subsequent loss of WGS and non-appointment of a suitable replacement are real causes of the current problems. Was Redknapp a good appointment?? Who made that appointment?

Probably not but it is possible that the players talk to each other and both Surman and Lallana MAY have some idea already regarding their own future.

Good question, but what can we honestly do to change things? We have had low crowds and we have large crowds (yesterday) and it`s made no difference. All the while that Rupert has control and a pig-headedness that he is right we are powerless.

I am a real sucker for Christmas and love every minute of it. To me, music is an important part of it and I normally end up buying a Christmas CD or two every year. My favourite is "James Taylor at Christmas" which is a wonderful collection of songs, as warming as a shot of Napoleon brandy on a cold night, closely followed by this years "Sweet Bells" by Kate Rusby. Does anyone else have any Christmas music favourites?

Oh please grow up!! Can you ever post anything without Hoddles name in it? Firstly he is not the Messiah, he is a very average manager (please by all means post his "Roll of Honour"). Secondly our current problems started when RL failed to loosen the purse strings after the FA Cup Final and WGS left. IMHO Strachan was/is a far better manager than the "Sainted" Hoddle and much more of a loss. In the back of my mind, however, I have the feeling that you are just a WUM in the mould of scooby with your apparent GH fixation. I hope that for your sake you are because if you are not you do have a problem!

Sadly we have already had the Second Coming so we may have to wait another 2000 years.

And that one being McG....:mad: