Charlie Wayman

Does anybody actually care about this any more? Just like the Titanic we are slipping very very slowly but inexorably under the waterline. I just wish the whole thing would explode with one giant Effing whizz-bang and have done with it. Put the poor sods - and us - out of our misery FL by pulling the plug. This crap week after week is just too much to bear. I hope I never have to listen to Bloody Dave Merrington and his gormless remarks ever again

As I see it the 10 point deduction is inevitable. What else did SLH do apart from pay blokes to kick footballs around for a living. Oh yes, they sold same blokes to balance their books and SAID SO publicly - out of their own mouths as it were. Unarguable surely?

I just hope it's not that devious b*gg*r Wise and his pals. Did nothing at Newcastle except cause mayhem. We are near London, he's played here, just missed out on the managership so he could be one of them up for it. We have to face it chaps, I've been coming here for nearly 60 years and crowds of 25K + at either The Dell or SMS have been the rare exception rather than the rule. 17/18K tops is all we ever get even when we are doing well in settled circumstances. In the unlikely event we'll ever see the BIG FOUR here again, even their presence will pall over time just 'cos people get fed up with having no chance and losing 4-0 or worse.

I thought Hodgson knew what he was about but Lallana? £650k will be over the odds for a useless t*ss*r like him.

That's true Nick but what about the "Leon & Lawrie" comedy routine before the match. They have no official status either so why were they not thrown off the pitch as you or I or any other member of Joe Public would have been? The trouble id they have big mouths and just can't keep them shut even when only hot air spills forth.

Totally gutless performance. You get the impression they are mor e interested in finding new jobs elsewhere for next season raher than get Saints out of the hole they have pt us in. As far as I'm concerned they all can b*gger off with the exception of Davis

Saints FC IS NOT in Administration, so it's either Wilde or Lowe and of course Crouchie is in there as well. We haven't rid ourselves of them yet. By the way who will switch out the lights?

Worse still, the Football Board contiue to run Saints so we haven't got rid of Lowe after all?

I'm warming the engine up right now ready for the off. At Last! I can use my ST for 3 games THIS season. Roll on Saturday. Hope the pigeons haven't Sh*t all over my seat. Rejoice! Rejoice! Rejoice!

The one good thing to come out of all this is that ST holders wee not lured into buying tickets for next season before the announcement. Had they paid up they would have lost all.

Well if that is true it just goes to show what a Mickey Mouse outfit the Football league must be. It's the biggest load of B*ll*cks and hubris I have every heard. I would think that could be challenged easily in the courts by clubs such as Leeds & Luton and what a can of worms that could turn out to be, wit a 'final' decision stretched out over several years and us not knowing whether we are up or down or... Did you notice the common link between ourselves and Derby County going into Administration? George Burley!

As observed last week on another thread, had it not occurred to you that maybe with interest rates close to Zero, SFC may only be paying back the capital part of the mortgage on SMS. As the mortgage is still in the early days of it's lifetime, probably 25 years, most of the monthly payments would be interest at this stage, so our monthly outgoings on the stadium may have dropped to only 10 or 20% of what it was when we started the season. Consequently we may not be operating at a monthly loss at the moment.

Guaranteed my friend, who wants to watch Third Divison football when they've seen it all before.. expensive late night trips to Chesterfield? I don't think so.

This is a disaster. Without him we are doomed. It is almost as if fate is conspiring against us to ensure we go down.

If a bit of creative accounting is goin gon then we need tio thank the author, if somebody has injected some cash without the ballyhoo! then whoever 'they' are need our thanks. Something is going on that's for sure. Of course the interest on our stadium payments will/should be 0% under present circumstances so meeting the capital payments only could be a temporary doddle. So long as the club is saving the payment reductions for when interest rates start rising again, then I agree it could be very fortuitous indeed that the credit crunch struck when it did.

If he was any good, he wouldn't be out on loan so forget it, he's crap.

Just shows how thin on the ground we are. Would we be able to compete even in the Third Division if half the first team squad sod off in July?

NO! Your understanding is wrong. If we go into Administartion, the board are granted an inter-regnum period of 3 months to solicit offers from potential buyers. If a buyer came forward, then depending upon the settlement price, Lowe & Co would get some money back based on their shareholding and the effective share price attributable to the takeover price. If NO buyer came forward within the Administration period, then the club would enter Receivership in which the board would be dismissed and the club would be in the hands of the Official Receiver who would run the club on a day-to-daybasis whilst it was being wund-up. Acting on behalf of all creditors the Official receiver would dispose of the assets to retrieve as much money as possible for creditors. Inevitably in a fire sale the amount of cash generated by disposing of assets would fall short of the outstanding liabilities so creditors would not get all their money back and of course shareholders are left with worthless shares, in this case Lowe & Co are quids OUT!

Odds on staying up are about 8.5 %, simply because only four teams are left in the fight for two safe places. Odds on the two who will survive staying up are 100%, odds on the two going down staying up are 0

We are what we are, a poor side with no stomach for the fight. We are dying with a whimper. How sad to see us slipping away almost unnoticed... R.I.P. At least SMS can be rented out to Pompey now that they've run out of dosh. Totton's new ground should be adequate for our needs for a year or two.

My friend, you are living in cloud cuckoo land. We are already down if you do the math. Even Barnsley won last night so who are we supposed to catch? http://www.football-league.co.uk/page/DivisionalLeagueTable/0,,10794~20087,00.html We need two from three to do worse than us and we haven't even won the game in hand yet! Let's be sensible, goal difference won't be playing any part in this year's run-in so it's down to wins and that's down to scoring goals and we can't do either very well this year. The fiasco's against Derby & QPR sealed our fate

The filter didn't work guys???

Politics aye? An elected parliament will speak for ALL the people so we can ignore all those other opinionated bastards can we not, oh, except destabilising extremists whose views are inflammatory and undemocratic and therefoe not valid Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil.

Another Day, more points away. So why am I so disappointed when it was odds on they would not rise to the occasion? 2 from 6 at home, even worse than our worst nightmare. Now need 1.63 points from every game left. The quicker this whole bloody fiasco is over the better. Surely it can be only a matter of days, when all hope of survival is lost (in my view it is already) that Rupert will announce Administration. Bet the delay in making an announcement was purely to see if we could stay up. Sadly we can't. Now the numbers using the forum has dried up, down to 40 right now, what does that tell you. It must be a record low?

Perhaps the loser will get him? Only, kidding Drew we all love you really and no doubt you'll be the star tomorrow. In fairness to our players, if they are not good enough collectively to stay in the CCC why should they expect to jump ship when we go down. All those deserters who fled at the first sound of gunfire, i.e., when we dropped out of the Prem are now very busy trying to drag Stoke City back down. I don't get Pullis, on air he seems to have half a brain but why did he sign a load of washed-up old farts from a failed Southampton team that couldn't stay up, if his ambition is to keep Stoke City up?