Charlie Wayman

Probably because they are not good enough for the premiership and will only attract interest from CCC teams. Nearly all clubs in the CCC will be seeking to REDUCE their wages bills in Jan with much off-loading and not much new buying so bids very unlikely. No doubt Lowe has already sounded out his pals and got stone-walled; (£2M laddie, do me a favour, **** off!) hence no money coming in January; hence banks force foreclosure; hence the rumours.

Total Clueless Thicko P***k

Seats in good positions were becoming hard to find at lunchtime today (Friday). Could be 20000?

Yes, I was there at lunch time as well and was frankly amazed to be told that 4500 will go on general sale on Monday. This is Man U after all.. things ain't what they used to be and Man U are not so great to watch since the golden generation retired and you just know Looney, Thicko Ron & Tevez won't be muddying their precious boots on our cowpats.

The pity is he seems like a nice fella. On the other hand incey wincey has been shown the door on the end of a boot so Time to go Portalowe

There are no winnable games left all season. We've done them all once, they all know how crap we play and they'll slaughter us next time around. We are up s***e creek good and proper.

I thought it was total ballacks since day 1. Why would anybody who lived through Lowe's first disastrous reign ending in ignominious relegation ever believe that things would be different the second time round? Hyperbole and spin is about all he is good for, oh! and insulting the intelligence of fans. The Smarmy Little Twerp has to understand that if he takes Saints down to Division 3 he is very much on his own. He will not deserve our support and let's stick together lads and say AND he will not get it! It may be time to set up Saints United even if we play in the lower leagues for a few years, like Wimbledon and the new Manchester Fans United?

Why foist your imbecile opinions on everyone else? If you think Ince is good, sod off and live in Blackburn and fall down one of all those Beatle holes...

All I can say is "Crap opinion". Why d'ya think nobody else wants to employ him? 'Cos he's forgotten, 'cos he's history.

Is he still here, then?

Get Dave Merrington back, at least he never says never.

He was effing useless in The Netherlands and he is effing useless here.

Lowe F*** O** Wilde F*** O** Poortvliet F*** O** What a load of B******s. This is unbearable.

Precisely and because we have experienced all season a drip, drip, drip of messages from Lowe and his cohorts about how wonderful it all is, many have started to believe it thus compounding their frustration when they discover in fact that they have been brain-washed by hyper-bullsh*t aimed at deflecting thetruth... That we are a bankrupt club, bankrupt of ideas, bankrupt of skills and bankrupt of the guile and know-how to survive even in this SECOND DIVISION. Time to Go Rupert Lowe!!!

I guess all of us would like him to stay on. At the moment even a struggling premiership side would use him only as a back-up, which clearly he does not want. Saints probably suit Chelsea as it's an easy commute for the lad so they don't incur additional expense etc. On the other hand if QPR went calling? Usually, one London club will not entertain the idea of helping another so maybe all will turn out well.

What is the number of your ticket that got sold to another ST holder? I'll check the extra one given to me and if it is one of your regular seats I will happily do a swap with one of yours as long as the one offered isn't crap. Other forum users might also agree to this... We'd hate to break up families wouldn't we guys?

I think a point that it is being missed is that this bloke Dean has valuable English league experience at Liverpool & Man U... Oh! Sh** i misread the OS, he has valuable experience etc. at Huddersfield, Barnsley... oh! and Blackpool. Could you make this up? Give me strength, please give me strength. How many more days of The Long March Chairman LayO?

I'm surprised you hadn't noticed that the rich list guys are trying to off-load football clubs in a panic. Surely this can only be because they know what's coming next. The reason they are rich and we are not is because they have bloody good intelligence on what is happening and being discussed in City corridors. If they are panicking to get out there must be a VERY BIG reason. Ergo, nobody but nobody of any substance will be looking to invest in football clubs. I'm afraid it is not official yet but the football bubble has burst. To his credit, I think Lowe is aware of that. He looks glum 'cos he has realised that there is no easy way out for him and more importantly all the money he invested in shares, that has gone down the swannee. Hence his comment about the 'bonfire of the vanities' (£5 & £10 notes etc. in your language). As always these people are subject to Fruedian-isms when they quote examples. Alas, even our 'working class' heroes like Patrick Trant & Leon Crouch are financial victims but at least their reputations will be relatively intact when we go into administration whereas the captain will go down with the ship in City terms... "Whasaat old Boy, failed to stop your little shebang going into administartion? Hrumph!.... we'll let you know"

I thought and I still think we will go down. After last night's display, it is difficult to see how the kids will ever pick themselves up again. Some of the blokes in our pub last night before th e game thought we'd surprise and beat Man U in the Cup. After this load of rubbish, they had all changed their tune to "Are they this bad every week?"

Are there any polite words to describe this dross? Passing the ball around without purpose IS NOT FOOTBALL, it is the sort of ball juggling circus act that we witnessed at half-time's at the beginning of the season. This was by far our worse performance so far. The kids have run out of ideas and one is bound to come to the conclusion that most of them are not stars in the making but the sort of also-rans nonentities like Baird, Dyer, Blackstock and Best. Now we don't really know if our failueres are because of Jan's ineptitude or the lack of football intelligence amongst our players. Surely they must think furtehr ahead than Step 1 "Must trap the ball cleanly" Step 2 "Must now do a dodge-your-opponent-in-one-neat-move manouevre" Step 3 "Run forward like hell with the ball" Step 4 "Avoid that oppo bloke ahead by offloading the ball to the nearest bloke in Red 7 white" Step 5 " Switch off, forget about the ball and run back to position" Step 6 " Protest 'Who Me?" when Kev picks another one out of the net Step 7 " Shout abuse at the forward(s) ' why didn't you do something with it?"

I'm certain you are not allowed to say much of what you have written here. It is certainly offensive to me and I am a rabid Lowe hater. Much of what he is doing has been forced on him by the banks

What an absolutely useless, lazy, clueless tit. Why on earth was Robertson taken off, Jan? Jan, are you listening? Do you ever listen?

Never was so much (energy and huffing and puffing) spent by so few in front of so many for so little... Best not to start booking your trips to Villa Park, Goodison Park and St James' just yet. On this showing losing Surman and Lallana in January will be no great loss, you could permutate any 8 of 15 or 16 of our youngsters and still get the same dross and the same outcome. I fear for the Man U match so much that it probably won't be worth watching. At this rate we will be turned over by their third team. Surely even in Dutch total football, teams score goals occasionally? The only good news is that if we keep drawing another 23 times we should reach 45 points and avoid relegation.

The pound is not falling against all currencies, only the $ and the E pricipally but most cheap Prem players come from Africa and South America, continents in Freefall + economically. Don't expect much to change.

The problem would seem to be that our creditors are calling the shots and are calling in extraordinary loans like the £4.7 million loss we made last year. Don't forget the banks are in trouble deep and nowhere near out of the woods yet so their own survival is at stake. Their survival must rank above ours and in that context selling a few players to reduce our unsecured loan is a no brainer. Who at the Bank gives a sh** about Saints except that it is not in their interest for us to end up in administration so selling any decent assets helps them and helps them help us to stay afloat. There may be no end to this viscous downward spiral; with only 14000 people really interested it is hard for Chairman Lowe to convince the bank that salvation is just around the corner when evidently it is not.