Charlie Wayman

Don't believe anything you read in the papers. Everything they do is designed to sell more copy. One brain-dead, spineless moron sends an anonymous e-mail to a sister paper in Jersey and it's worthy of headlines in the Echo? Do me a favour!

Dave Merrington got on my tits tonight, why does he have to make the same point one hundred times? Dave, if you're talking crap the first time it is still crap after one hundred times. Just shut up if you have nothing worthwhile to contribute and get a proper job. It's bad enough having to endure the commentary of the dross served up by Saints without having the overlay of dross served up by you.

Leon is too naive and it came across in spades in his interview. Short-term fixes will no more solve Saints problems than the national economy.

Usual load of garbage and a very lucky escape. Now it's pick any 11 from 20 time, b*gg*r having a plan or a best eleven. Relegation will be a blessed relief on this showing.

Wotte a load of old poppies! Poppies are a symbol of the fallen. The manager of The Poppies is the last thing we need. Where do these ideas come from, Kettering? Perhaps they just want rid of him and think SFC are the only people around gullible enough to swallow their bait.

van Nistleroy coming soon?

I am certain that Crouch would have been called in by Wilde to ask him to facilitate the return of Big Mac as Football Chief whilst Lowe concentrates on the business. ONe suspects that Wilde is at hear t a fan and has watched the dismal sage of Portvliet in exactly the same way as the rest of us. If as we do, he attributes Poortvliet's appointment and methods as being entirely a whim of Lowe than as far as Wilde is concerned his faith in Lowe as a football guru will be finished for good and he'll want as much distance as possible between the dressing room and Lowe. Big Mac is probably as far as Wilde can see for now so politically must be the best short-term, no cost option, provided Big Mac will swallow his Big Mac Ego and come back. Compromises all round is a good old British solution to a crises when the unthinkable becomes suddenly the most acceptable option in focus. Ah! politics!

After the Doncaster game following rumours of Wilde leaving early, I suggested that perhaps he had had enough and left in disgust and was ready to confront Low about Poortvliet. This is what has come to pass. After the Tuesday meeting Lowe more or less said that Poortvliet's job was not an issue 'TODAY' (i.e., at the Tuesday meeting). I took that to mean that Wilde HAD made it an issue of HIS support for Lowe. Well, well, so by Friday Poortvliet was out. It was in fact easily predictable from the facts to hand this week. What all you guys need to recognise is that Lowe is no less vulnerable to letting cats out of bags incautiously in interviews as anybody. He has no special gifts to avoid landmines and knows that, which is why he often stays silent. Damned if he speaks, damned if he doesn't. Given that we now have proof that Wilde has the puppets strings in his hands it is pertinent to ask what next from him. I do not expect him to change sides again and back Crouch but neither do I expect him from now on to cede control of the football side to Lowe. He will want Lowe to concentrate on the Business and my guess is he'll get MacMenemy back on the football side. rumours of Crouch at SMS could well be at the request of Wilde to mend a few fences and use crouch's good relationship with mac to try and persuade mac to come back and work alongside Lowe for Wilde. Remember Politics is the Art of the Possible This shows that Wilde does have internal power to change things but will still back Lowe over Crouch IMO.

So, nothing has changed at all, we will still be playing kissy-kissy ball and running around like headless chicken Dutch-style. We are most certainly further up sh*t* creek than anybody imagined and the tide has gone out so there's no way back. Wotte an Effing c**k-up

Who can we afford that could save us from the drop.. Curbs? We want curbs!

Not before time but when will Lowe follow him? The only way is up!

I'd love to attend but the heavies probably won' let me in as I sold my shares when Lowe returned. What d'ya think, just turn up and blag it out?

Going into Administration allows a period of time for the company to try to find a buyer whilst all other day-to-day business activities continue. A buyer would have to make arrangements to take over the company's debts as well as buy the club so it isn't just a case of (any one person) buying the company for a quid, the £27.5m debt is not written off at this stage. Only if a buyer is not found during the administration period does the company pass into the hands of a receiver when all creditors will form an orderly queue to gain what recompense they can from a sale of the company's assets, i.e., players, buildings etc. We st holders will be creditors and will have to join the queue. If a new company is then formed to buy and operate the football team even if they have to play at Millbrook recreation ground, we ST holders will be back to square one and have to pay all over again to watch the new team.

What would we say that could make a difference? They need wise opinion rather than abrasive rhetoric after all, all Football Club chairmen are self -serving bigots so there's nothing new there to say.

It's not as easy as some of you guys imagine. SMS Gates in the Third Division will average 8000 tops and usually less. No good looking at Leicester as an example, that kind of wishful thinking inflicted us for two years when we came down from the Prem and look where reality has landed us.

I'm not quite sure what we have done in our lives that has been so unforgivable as to have had Lowe foisted upon us not just once but twice?

It may be that Wilde has told Lowe that he no longer has his backing and Cowan has whispered in Lowe's ear. Will Wilde force another EGM or will Lowe go quietly once he realises that he could no longer win a majority vote - but, and it's a BIG BUT do we want Crouch back either? Wilde certainly wouldn't back him. Maybe with Lowe out, Cowan would be a good compromise chairman?

Well, considering that Portaloo thought taking off a central defender when we were 1-0 down was a brilliant strategic move, it is only logical to conclude that he will be very comfortable without a goalkeeper. I am absolutely amazed that Poortaloo is still in the UK, I thought he'd have Effed off back to Holland after the excruciating embarrassment of Saturday's inept fiasco. Obviously the bloke is bereft of pride, moral fibre or ideas on how to succeed in English football.

Not impressive for sure, a typical Northern big boot, small brain job like Rooney, Gerrard. Ah Well! Total Football was always a fantasy anyway.

I am amazed that we have gotten this far into such a disastrous season before the anti-Lowe singing has started up. I was delighted that fans had found at last their voices and Dunkerque spirit. To me, prior to Saturday, for all the world it looked like fans have been so demoralised by events in the boardroom and on the pitch that they had given up totally on saints and were so indifferent to their plight that they found it easier to stay away and forget that SMS and Lowe even existed - and who can blame them in this deepening economic crises in which many have uncertainty over their own job and financial security gnawing away at their emotions? The last thing we want are SILENT FANS at soccer matches. I want rid of Lowe but have no way of bringing this about except by ramming home the message of the deep and irrecoverable antipathy towards him and his cronies. The only other option for me is to tear up my ST once and for all, ignore all future please for early-bird discounts and stop watching football at SMS as an entertainment fro ever - and this is waht it comes down to after 60 years.

In many ways Crouch and Lowe are cut from similar cloth, they are both egotistical, self-serving bigots who have their own interests very much at the forefront of their thinking rather than what is good for Southampton Football Club. As it happens the majority on here seem to find it easier to empathise with Crouch. Unfortunately, this may just be down to the old hatreds and "anybody but Lowe" prejudice, which is understandable given Lowe's evident inability and unwillingness to recognise that supporters are not just customers and Supporters are as much Stakeholders in SFC as he. Since there has been no recorded evidence of a single Leopard ever transforming itself into a Cheetah through some miracle of nature that so far has not been explained, it must be concluded that we have seen the best and worst of both Lowe and Crouch and both have been found wanting as far as providing leadership and vision for our club is concerned. We need to rid ourselves of both and their acolytes and embrace a new regime and a root and branch overhaul of the entire business before there is any hope at all of re-uniting the supporter base

Players don't return to their old clubs, period! There's too much ignominy involved on all sides. Anyway, if he's crap at Fulham why would he be less than crap here?

Obviously Redkrapp doesn't want him around so the money we got for him is beginning to look like a good deal. He could never defend even when here, I think people were fooled into thinking he was great 'cos he was good at stroming up the left side to the bye-line, but little ever came of it and the result nearly always was to leave his side of defence completely exposed. It probably also serves to remind other clubs that despite all the bull**** rhetoric coming down from SMS towers about the quality of our youngsters, they probably aren't all that great and certainly not stars of tomorrow, which is why nobody is being suckered into paying daft wedges for Lallana and Surman who at best are good journey men

Well, one theory of what is happening economically is that everyhting is unravelling irreversibly so everyone will lose their jobs within three years and everyone with a mortgage will be repossessed and nobody will be able to keep themselves warm or pay their council tax and only the government will have any money and not very much of it and the only food we'll get will be from soup kitchens on every street corner. It is possible that the whole global financial system has been illusory from the start, has suddenly reached a tipping point and is now collapsing like a pack of cards simply because it was never sustainable at any level. It only stayed balanced upright by the act of constantly maintaining instability by feeding in more and more credit and now there is more world debt than world resource so credit has become meaningless as it is unsecured. Oh sh*t, I think I'll give Doncaster a miss!

When Stoke come down next year they'll all be ex-Saints, ex-Stoke