Eyes k8

This touches on the main area that I found puzzling about saints finances either side of the Kenwyne Jones transfer. Once Wilde disappeared to the channel islands the execs left in charge spent very large sums of money and awarded unfeasible contracts. It was obvious that the club was significantly overspending and that there would be serious consequences. Only a couple of people on here pointed it out at the time, but there were that couple and it was obvious and simple maths. Given that why did the main shareholders Wilde, Lowe Crouch etc leave them in charge for so long? If you like why didn't any of them get btogether earlier to save their investments. It was really obvious that the spending would have a traumatic end. Fans can be forgiven because they want spending on players and are unlikely to say Can we actually afford this? But why did the fighting factions just watch their money being blown by the execs? Is it as simple as they hated each other so much that they did nothing or is there nmore to it than that? Anyone know?

Possible link with saints? Glad your situation is not quite as dire as reported by BBC yesterday afternoon. Before our match yesterday PFC officials were showing four arab looking men around and took them into one of our well appointed hospitality suites (this is what you call a "tent".) It smacks of being a preliminary visit and entertains four posibilities. 1) They are just interested in us. 2) They are interested in us but whilst they're in the area they might look at you. 3) They were interested in you but whilst they were in the area they thought they'd take a look at us and get to see a thoroughly entertaining premiership match culminating in a Pompey victory whilst experiencing the warm friendly atmosphere featuring the two sets of fans singing to each other about Shearer and applauding each other. 4) they were just trying to arrange a booze up. I have no knowledge of anything to link them with you but stranger things have happened and i thought you'd be interested in the mega rich within 17 miles of Southampton

That sounds seriously bad. If the assets are to be split and sold I suggest one of you puts in a bid for the copywtite of the name Southampton Football Club, shouldn't be too much. Anyrate I'll be passing over Southampton going east tonight so I'll say a prayer for you. A lot of deals really are last minute things.

So if your debts are about £30m that makes ours about £300m. Should i worry? Of course someone would buy us if we went into administration we don't have a mortgage. Perfectly possible for someone to make money out of development or simply milking us in a lower division. saints problem is that they have already been developed so that's not an option and come with a huge mortgage in terms of milking the fans in a lower league. We are therefore far less of a risk

You have to make a distinction between outside debts and internal debts. Your debts are external which is why you're bust. A lot of our debts are internal in the form of loans from Sacha. This doesn't mean were bust but it does mean that sacha will have to sell at a loss with only his pictures of the FA cup to show for it. So we are not about to go under and we will balance the books this year (this will be a concept unfamiliar to some of your past chairmen). Our problem is more long term, not having the money to build a new ground and having a ground that can't support premier league status long term. Just in case you find two billionaires can you pass one on. Thanks in advance. Eyes k8

Let me assure you there is far more mould on the ground than there is on the pies. Sorry to disappoint some but we are due to balance the books this year, selling Johnson will reduce our debt and we already have a replacement in Younis Kaboul who has kept Johnson out of his place. Also got a star player coming through the youth ranks. So please don't lose any sleep worrying about us.

This may be very positive thinking but as an alternative to League one, a demoralising 10 or 25 point penalty, liabilities to contracted players who you might not even want and paying off football related debts which have no value to anyone why not let the club with its liabilities and penalties fold, instead Just buy the stadium at whatever the minimum price is. Then form a new club Southampton 2009, no debts, penalty points or unwanted players, get a place in the blue square (which of course is not the FL)where there will be a vacancy anyway. New club is now set to rise up the leagues in the same way as Exeter has done. Surely what you guys want is the stadium for a team in stripes, do any of you want the present squad minus a few good ones that will be sold off? So just buying the stadium doesn't necessarily mean no team. You could even be called The New Saints-Damn somebody's nicked that already

I hope you get some brillo news

So as they can't 'unravel the exact state of Portsmouth's finances' that means they don't know.

4) Keeping the books balanced- This is not entirely a positive, there is a down side to this as well. The positive side is that lowe was always a cost cutter, book balancer. He would never have sanctioned the spending levels seen under Wilde, Dulieu, Hone etc which have bankrupted the club. However this has to be tempered with the appointment of Wigley as a cost cutting exercise which went a long way towards relegating the club, and having Redknapp without money was pretty bizarre. It also has to be said that the books were balanced in order to gradually milk the club. Clearly this would have some detrimental effect on the clubs spending power and consequently competitiveness

Thanks Ponty, it was probably my own incompetence with posting. You know how difficult that can be with webbed fingers...oh I suppose you wouldn't, Cheers anyway. I;m sure we can manage to go down a division in the next four seasons so if you can sort yourselves out and come back up in four years, here's to renewing hostilities in 2013 at Notarf Krap and the Aviva Gift to Southampton Ground.

Haven't been able to post for months. Just to say I hope you lot make it. From our experience in the great historic city it was very late when Milan came in with a bid. Indeed some other consortium were in the paper first as about to complete. So no news isn't necessarily bad.

can i post?

Haven't you guys organised a poll yet? Both teams for the drop Both teams to survive Derby game next year Bye Bye Saints Could be an interesting result.

Not another mission, I expect he'll be back within the year.

I never mind answering a serious equestrian. I only know a bit. He was found guilty, but the judge said he was unstable so instead of sending him to a ponitentiary, he sent him to a horspital furlong time under the Mental Health Act.

Thanks. I think he also hung a judge for replacing three jury members who voted not guilty with three others who voted guilty so that the accused got hung.

Before i ring my lawyer hamster could you clarify if you are talking about ALL skates or just some and further can you define what you mean by the use of "similar". I have to say at the outset we are unwilling to accept any defence that you said these things tongue in pouch as it were.

Mug! How did that get past the word filter. I would guess the last time an untethered pony was seen in Southampton was just before the court case about the Southampton man sexually assaulting the horse because of his unbridled lust. I'm not one to bring up ancient agricultural traditions but I'm sure you'll find the news report if you google.

I feel that whilst Magna has been given her due not enough has been said about the contribution of Alfred the Great. As this seems to be your bag DSM can you sum it up for us?

I wouldn't say habitually, we have all sorts of pet names for you from stripes through to pony fiddlers, shire people, turnip crunchers, the lost, yokels, those without hope, Rupert's victims, Fratton's furtive visitors, next year's champions, seats to spare and the memory people. Admittedly xy's red army is off the menu but only because we don't know who picks your team. Rarely the scum. Even then it's meant affectionately as Glen Close once said.

You are a tease Nick, we all know this is why you posted it. The report says we are a miracle but I'm sure you can offer a more down to earth assessment. In your opinion is the miracle down to the Great Harry Redknapp, Marvelous Milan, Sensational Sacha, the fantastic fans, the worrying Westwood or simply Rupes?

No he's in Wales Ok I've gone.

Yes it is strange Redknapp makes the logical leap that just because they were making chants aimed at him before, after and at the time; that the coin was also aimed at him surely he must have thought it was meant as a tip for the linesman from the Villa fans in appreciation of a superb performance with the flag.