hypochondriac

I wanted Billy Davies. He was exactly what we needed.

Erm. I think you'll find that was Hone and Hoos' doing.

Well done for taking it like a good sport. I won't rub it in too much

Tony Adams?

Cough cough. I predict Pompey will be 14th by tomorrow!

Is it still too early to say I told you so?

I would disagree with that. It's a bit sad to care that much IMO.

Exactly. It's not just Pompey though, I like to see Derby lose and Bournemouth as well as hoping for wins for Villa, Hull and Brighton. Is that a bad thing?

No problem with taking some pleasure in watching them lose. Doesn't make you care about saints less.

Or town.

Again we have no idea. The signs from the end of last season showed that we appeared to be turning the corner. As I have previously said, team spirit and grit can go a long way in this division. Pearson would have received full support and backing from the fans, something which I believe to be important (morale was high at the start of the season when we played our best football.) Pearson is also top of the league with Leicester. You simply have no idea what you are talking about and state opinion as fact.

No improvement over DMG and Robertson? Are you having a laugh?

Unbelievable that you would promote Lowe's way of utilising the youth as our only way. We have brought in the likes of Pulis, Smith, Schneiderlin, Holmes, Robertson and Perkhart and prioritised them over other signings because of their youth. Could we not have bought in other players, perhaps older ones? Could this not have changed the position we are in? Could we not have kept our british manager who knew this league?

Come on now don't be ridiculous. He was one of our best players before his injury. The club can hardly be blamed for what happened at Sheffield Wednesday.

As Wilde is a reclusive figure it is difficult to know what he wants. Is it carte blanche to do what he wants? Or is it the biggest return on his "investment"? If a real alternative is proposed which has fans backing and which involves development then I think he could be persuaded to sign up. After all, he has written in detail about his development plans for the club on here. I thought it was a very unusual way to go at the time but desperate times may call for desperate measures. Obviously I would prefer that they all sold up and left but this is the real world and that isn't going to happen.

I would partially agree with that. You only have to look at the AGM to see this manipulation that you describe (certainly easier for Lowe to dismiss people as the lunatic fringe.) It's why the balanced views of someone like Duncan would be welcome. It is clear that he is respected by both sides of the divide and has strong ties to the club as the historian without being seen as a controversial figure (Lawrie and Chorley spring to mind.) Of course if he believes it is not the right thing to do then maybe someone else in a similar mould would be best. It is my view that something needs to be done.

Unfortunately he is the club's majority shareholder. Getting him involved in something like this is vastly preferable to the current situation where both him and Lowe have carte blanche to do what they want

So is there anything you would propose? Some sort of initiative to achieve our aims or at least to bring them closer to reality? The recent poll on here shows there is an awful lot who would be prepared to get involved. Supporters groups do not always work, but they certainly helped remove Branfoot. Why can we not do something similar here? It will be very difficult to just sit here and wait till we get relegated and into admin. Do we have an alternative???

I wouldn't bring Jan into it. None of this is his fault ad he is a nice guy. This should concentrate on Lowe and the direction that the club is taking which is clearly the wrong strategy.

Someone like Duncan would be able to make it happen and I would hope he would have the time to put something together.

Saint Robbie you live in a fantasy land. Nothing that you propose will happen. There is no chance in the present financial climate that we will be taken over. I liked CB Fry's suggestion yesterday. We need to propose some form of protest AND show that there is a viable real alternative to Lowe. It may be that we would have to put up with Lowe till next season and then have an EGM should we get enough support to guarantee victory.

I think Duncan would be the ideal person to lead any sort of campaign. Save our saints didn't work, so perhaps it could just be rebranded.

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If you bothered to read this thread you would see that I retracted that statement about a month ago.