Charlie Wayman

I don't think anybody cares enough any more.

I don't believe a word of it. If it turns out to be true than really we are in all kinds of trouble. It would be last ditch defiance to suspend administration but with Saints bleeding cash by the hundreds of thousands per week it would be a futile attempt to stave off the inevitable. Like basically peeing on a forest fire. More and more people will stay away simply because they will no longer believe there is anything left worth supporting. What would be the point of surviving by playing 16 year olds on a makeshift pitch at Millbrook Recreation Ground in front of 2,843 diehards? Will the last man out please switch off the floodlights?

It would be a miracle for Michael to make a full recovery. I fear it is another Michael owen story, in for a week out for 4 etc.

This is a 4-0 drubbing minimum.

The chance was missed about 10 years ago and there isn't any chance of turning back the clock. A shared ground near Fareham (Solent City) was mooted if you remember. It would have made more sense then and would have been on neutral territory, so that both sets of fans could effectively forget about the others on their match days. Not sure waht colours the seats would have been? Possibly mauve?

It would be a great shame and a very bad move. Simon Gillett is a natural covering midfielder, tigerish in the tackle with a huge engine - jut like Paul Scholes in fact

Idiot, what's any of it to do with fans? All we can do is either stay silent or complain. If we stay silent Lowe assumes he's in the clear so we get nowhere, if we complain we get nowhere because people like you think moaners are negative! Those ugly scenes in the Northam last Saturday heralds what happens when frustration boils over. Is that waht you want? As I said last week, "Disenfranchise the people at you peril".

Why would anybody appeal this, it was a dangerous two-footed studs-up tackle.. ? End of Story! The bloke's an Ffing Tit!

That's why he's called Rudi

We cannot wait for ever for this team to click. 'Promise' must one day have it's 'delivery'. Nearly 20 games in with no change in fortunes is stretching the learning curve hypothesis to its credible limit. Time for Jan to buck the smokey's and get his feet planted.

I am a stayaway. However, I am also a fully paid up ST holder. My protest is costing me money not the club. As for standing outside SMS and joining a mob screaming for Lowe's life, forget it. I've got better things to do with my time, he just isn't that important to me. For those of you who will say "what's the point?", the point is that my seat in an expensive part of te stadium is left empty at every match and come March when Lowe sends out his ST renewal forms, if he is still in office I won't be renewing. They conned me this year by changing the deckchairs around after the early offers were made, they can't pull that trick off again!

Stop moaning about the referee, that idiot Euell went flying in from behind, foot raised and studded the Wolves player right down his shin. Accept it for what it was. It doesn't have to be a deliberate foul to be effing dangerous and this tackle was evidently dangerous as it injured the Wolves palyer quite badly and could have broken his leg. It is NOT the Ref's fault that we are complete crap and it sickened me to hear the Northam lot howling abuse at the bloke when it is Euell who should have got abuse rather than cheers when he left the field : " There are none so BLIND as those that don't WANT to SEE!"

Phew! Lucky to get away with 2-1. I think they were kind to us and eased off once they were 2-0 up and we had that F idiot sent off. After that Wolves seemed content just to sit back and let us run around as usual like headless chickens getting nowhere Their midfield player Mancienne was immense, a world class star in the making if ever there was one. he seemed to be great mates with Jack Cork, what was that all about?

I wonder what the others were saying about Wilde!

The answer to your rhetorical headline is:- 'Build a brand new £32 million stadium that you cannot afford, the mortgage for which will be funded entirely from future earnings... " Rather similar don't you think to the national economic disaster now engulfing this once prosperous country of ours. So the plight of Saints is really only an allegory of the plight of UK plc, engineered by the same group of greedy people who have all but bled the banks to death. Don't expect the selfish oafs who got us into this mess in the first place to have the knowledge or skills to get us out of it, they don't and they won't.

It will depend upon the value ascribed to the Club by the administrator. Although the club might be technically bankrupt it will still have a long list of creditors including the bank who will demand a high price of any buyer, to allow the club to be relaunched as AFC Southampton (2009) Ltd or whatever. They won't be getting it for £5 that's for sure. It is not at all certain that Lowe will have that sort of money having taken a huge hit on his worthless shareholding and you can be certain that Leon Crouch would also consider himself a very interested party.

On balance, I doubt that these stories have any substance. We are in peril as a club, we are in peril as an economy; the Club might be facing an impossible task trying to keep afloat if national economic woes continue to gain momentum. If the banks start calling in their loans as they are very likely to do if things do not start improving next year, football clubs will be amongst early casualties simply because HMG will pressure banks not to make PEOPLE HOMELESS. Football clubs such as Saints have assets such as their stadia which could be sold off to settle at least part of the debt owed to the banks, with some loss to society but surely better than hundreds of thousands homeless. If that is anywhere near a view of a bleak future who would have the money to, or give a monkey's about, paying to watch football. No, now is not the time for panic sales in an attempt to shore up a rusting ship with a coat of bitumen. Against this backdrop, the last thing the Board can afford to do is devalue the club even further by ensuring relegation, which is what will happen if the best players are sold off prematurely. Next summer is more likely once it is clear where our destiny lies and the state of the UK economy has been more fully revealed.

What is it with Stoke, always raiding us for players? Already, three of their regulars are ex-Saints, Hoofingbottom, Deflap and Fu**er. maybe we forgot too that Stoke played us pre-season in a friendly thus amking the link even more weird. Weird because the type of prehistoric crap that Stoke play is the polar opposite of everything that Saints stand for. Stoke obviously like talentless, thick-as-sh** hoofers and clatterers, so why try to unsettle our total football youngsters? My response to any Stoke approach for any of our team is "YOU WISH!" "FO!" Now, if Arsenal come calling that's a different matter altogether. Even if we have to sell just to stay afloat, one must hope that The Smarmy Little Twerp will at least do the decent thing and only entertain offers from decent teams that try to play football our way. I wouldn't wish Stoke and Pulis on my worst enemy let alone soem of our favoured sons!

I would have thought that any remaining apologists for Billy Davies would have perished long ago on the embers of the former Derby County. It took Paul Jewell and a lot of patience y the DC Board to get that particular juggernaut back on track!

I agree with the originator of this thread, not a snowball's chance of even scoring against these two. Will lose 4-0 to Wolves and 2-1 to Reading

We'll need to order yet another supply of nappies

Poortvliet is finished. The angry look on the face of The Smarmy Little Twerp after the match on Saturday said it all. Expect an announcement this week, I'd guess about Wednesday. As for a cheap manager, Nicky Holmes comes to mind - he's done about all he can do at salisbury and is probably ready for a step up to the Third Division.

There was a total lack of purpose all over the pitch, everyone with the notable exceptions of Kelvin Davies and Andrew Surman were Effing useless and totally disinterested. As an example, why didn't Skacel ever run to the by-line instead of crossing from 20 yds out every time; always the ball ending up in front of their back four? He just couldn't be Rrsed and nor could any of the others. Who was the tactical genius that selected Gobern to start instead of BWP? Who decides that 4-5-1 actually makes sense in a home game? And so on.... I no longer fear the R word having come to terms with the absolute certainty that this team cannot stay up. As we have no means at our disposal to improve things RELEGATION IS CERTAIN. I had hoped against hope that suddenly everything would click into place one day suddenly and that our youngsters would turn out to be the NEW ManU of 1997. Now with our unbalanced mix of raw youngsters of dubious talent and worn out has-beens like Wootton, Euell and Skacel, we are up sh*** creek, paddle-less, rudder-less and cox-less. Add to that that Poortvliet has proved himself clueless and impotent pitch-side and there you have it. Gentlefolks we are finished, done up like a turkey for Christmas!

There is no way to count the number of people attending matches to satisfy a bookie as the club insists on counting all ST holders as being present. It was obvious to everyone on Saturday including THE Smarmy Little Twerp from the TV pictures, that about 30% or even more of the ST's were absent because of the weather/TV Telecast. As the published attendance was about 14000, i.e., 10000 ST's + 4000 casuals including Bristol City fans, and if we take the figure of 30% of ST's being missing, there were only about 11000 in there on Saturday - which looked about right from the TV and what my mates said, they attended the match. On a roughly soimilar proportional turnout that means if we drop below a published figure of around 13000 we are in fact getting less than 10000 through the turnstiles.

I'm amazed that Le Tiss was paid that much even! Seriously, somebody's taking the **** somewhere along the line.