Charlie Wayman

This whole saga is heading for the sort of conclusion that we all anticipated, feared and hoped would never happen taht nobody wants to buy Saints at anything like the money that Fry & Co seem to be asking for. So what comes next? Looks alarmingly like we will be passed into the hands of the receiver who will try to sell the bits off for as much as 'he' can get. Maybe Pinnacle will try to buy Saints FC without the overhang of the SMS and try to run the team at a local ground (Eastleigh / Staplewood?) unless or until somebody else buys SMS with the possibility of a rental deal being set up. Who would want it 'though apart from avaricious property speculators is anybody's guess, certainly Southampton City Council won't be spending public money on such frivolities in the wake of all that has gone before in the financial markets and expenses of public servants. If I was a non-footie fan, so would I say "Bugger that for a plate of chips" I am genuinely afraid guys, for the first time the thought of extinction looks very, very real indeed.

Pat the Postman?

Ince! Is that the Ince of Failed at Blackburn fame? I hope you are taking the urine because otherwise I will not be renewing, nor will I if that other Loonie Tunes idiot Dowie shows his ugly mug around here.

Let's be fair, it cannot have been easy managing for success with no money and a bunch of lazy Rrsoles cluttering up the training ground. Hopefully our new manager will bring with him a massive broom or a red-hot poker!

Time for a new avatar old boy? Poor girl must be feeling worn out by now.

You poor sod; I don't think the NHS can offer you a remedy either. What will you do if you oversleep next Friday and miss the announcement?

I hope none of the people are from this website forum but it wouldn't surprise me at all.

I C I must crown that somehow but artist not my forte

It would be a fair question if we were not still intent on selling every bugger we had last season, otherwise it's all pie-in-the-sky tosh. We'll be lucky to stay in Divsion 3 next year with the squad we are likely to have left. As one who endured it all before 50 years ago, I have to calm you youngsters down a bit and not expect too much. In my own view it will take us about seven years to get out of this sh*t hole and then we are back in the CCC if Coke are still sponsoring by then and then what, Premiership around 2025 if you are lucky. Whether I'll be around long enough to see it is anybody's guess.

The nub of the problem is that there is no one stereo-typical Saints fan; The Echo is being plain bloody lazy just to ring up their usual buddy for a quick quote. It is all quite irrelevant anyway as the e-mails they get on every issue gives them all the feedback they need. The only commonality amongst fans is that all want Saints to win and do well. For sure nobody, Mr Illingworth or anybody else can represent my views uness they bother to take the time to come and ask.

Is it me or are we all going to hell in a wheelbarrow? At least we got Stoke and West Ham last year, seems nobody wants to know us now. No way Jose, count me out of this load of codswallop. Hope Pinnacle have more ambition than the nerds who dreamed up these fixtures.

Why no just Saints FC

One R in Rrse, oops. sorry two!

Nobody wants us because of US. Surely the penny will drop soon. This forum makes us - without exception - look like a bunch of idiotic oiks, semi-literate, poorly informed, rumour-mongering miseries, finding fault with everything and everyone. Who would want us?

You are right; as everyone who knows something about gardening will know, once it's been properly fertilised, top dressing follows fairly quickly

I'm a cynical b*gg*r but didn't the Titanic sail from here with all it's deck chairs on the wrong decks? Presumably we will now have a website "that befits a League 1 (aka DIVISION THREE) side."

i suggested this at lunchtime so people read it THERE first

At least it does explain Gordon Strachan's decision to quit Celtic and return to Saints... You heard it here first!

So the OS has published a final list of Division 3 participants. My comments annotated; Brentford (WTFAT) Brighton & Hove Albion (WTFAT) Bristol Rovers (WTFAT) Carlisle (WTFAT) Charlton Athletic (ASOFWS) Colchester United (WTFAT) Exeter City (WTFAT) Gillingham (WTFAT) Hartlepool United (WTFAT) Huddersfield Town (WTFAT) Leeds United (ASOFWS) Leyton Orient (WTFAT) Millwall (WTFAT) MK Dons (WTFAT) Norwich City (ASOFWS) Oldham Athletic (WTFAT) Southend United (WTFAT) SOUTHAMPTON (ICFBI) Stockport County (WTFAT) Swindon Town (WTFAT) Tranmere Rovers (WTFAT) Walsall (WTFAT) Wycombe Wanderers (WTFAT) Yeovil Town (WTFAT)

Euell.. For F*** Sake! What do we want to sign that useless p***k for?

What a bunch of gloomy loonies you are.

The problem is that the sort of money being talked about as offers will leave us fit only to be a struggling Division 3 side, recovery from which will be a long drawn out affair lasting many years. Think in future of Exeter, Bristol Rovers or Brighton as our counterparts rather than Coventry, Spurs or Fulham

Perhaps you didn't know that Football League rules require a team to field 11 players for the start of a match even in Division 3.

You seem to have forgotten that Mr Fry has bosses who are pressurising him to come up with a solution, sooner rater than later, so 'extension of deadlines' and 'breakthrough' are the sort of socio-political gobble-de-gook that BIG suits like to hear to re-assure themselves that they are not actually bogged down in an impasse. If Mr Fry does not clinch a deal, I suspect his take home pay will be drasticaaly reduced later in the year. Just spare a thought for the poor luckless sod!

On BBC News at lunchtime. No hope! theme.