SaintRichmond

NOPE ... there's only one of me, and this is he ...... Tp prove it ... Lowe got rid of Pearson because :- A) He didn't appoint him in the first place B) Pearson can in no way be classed as a YES man PS ...... Who's TOP of Div 1 at present ???? As regards the Finance issue ..... yes, of course it had to be addressed, but, purely on BUSINESS terms, (at which Lowe is supposed to excel) ......... who gets rid of a Company's BEST assets, ( ie, players that could have BLENDED in with the Youth strategy and stabilised us mid table) ... and leaves a Team of virtual novices to do the best they can ? .... answer .... Lowe In addition, it will be shown, that we will have NOT in any way reduced our overal DEBT, with Interest on it accumalating all the time. We are at best Standing still ......... Come January, Lowe's Fire Sale of some of the promising Team will be sold off, and we will face the second half of the season with a Team EVEN WEAKER than the one we have at present Finally, re the "raspberry's" .... could well be. People seem to forget that Lowe is on record as stating that he works for the PLC, NOT Saints Football Team ......... a very vital distinction There ..... I hope this proves I am Saint Richmond ....... Best Regards

Literal interpretation really ........ .. " Lowe did not pick the team " ....... OK, the Team consists of eleven + subs ......... So, OK Lowe did not pick ALL of them, ie "the team" But he certainly interfered, and insisted on SOME that would play and SOME that would not It matters not if Bassett now " retracts " ....... Pandora's Box has already been opened ......... " Something is rotten in the state of Denmark " ...... Too right Shakespeare, too right ....... He's still the wriigly Red Faced Worm he has always been

And THAT is why Lowe is disliked so much ....... "Customers" KNOW who really has hold of the reins ......... and that is why I think that attendances WOULD improve, ahead of results, if Lowe were no longer there. I am sure that whoever replaced Lowe WOULD sanction a few "loans" of EXPERIENCED Pros, to stady the ship, and to GUIDE the Youngsters. The Team we have at present DOES have potential, but they have been asked to do TOO MUCH, too soon, thanks to Lowe's Foolhardy doctrine. Incidently, Dutch men are not normally YES men ..... it's out of character

I don't thjink you can use the WGS era as a yardstick For a start we had a Balanced Team, whereas now we have a Lowe imposed Youth Team ........ and are you seriously comparing WGS and JP as "like for like" ... " Lowe would soon be forgotten if results change " ...... we'll never know ...... I really cannot see any dramatic change in results, the die has been cast ... this is LOWE'S BABY, HIS Bloody minded doctrine Many people ( myself included ) are against Lowe because he went against ALL advice, including much from respected Football People, who told him that a Total Football Youth Policy WOULD NOT WORK It hasn't, and we are already seeing changes from the "Total Football" of early matches .......... Jan may have realised that the Young Team needs a backbone of EXPERIENCE ........... but we have been stripped of all such players

I agree .... no one WANTS to watch CCC Football ...... but we are in the CCC Currently, the CCC is headed by Wolves Birmingham and Reading, and they are attracting Decent gates ..... BECAUSE THEY ARE WINNING IF Saints were able to string a few wins together on the bounce, then OUR Gates would improve Another factor in "non attendance " is sheer Apathy .... not many people I know can see any Good Times ahead as long as Lowe is involved with us All Lowe brings is a " Feel Bad Factor " .......... ........ thank God he doesn't arrange Christmas ...........The Reindeers would be sold to Sainsbury's, and Santa would have to walk .............

OK, even if your point re the 3000 ST holders that did not renew holds up, there are still circa 7000 Fans who are no longer going Even under Branfoot, Saints Supporters still went to cheer their Team on ....... but not this season. .... but I say that IF Branfoot had the Young Team that we have now, the Supporters WOULD STILL GO to cheer them on I maintain that a large percentage of "No Go's" are down to the fact of Lowe's presence at the Club ......... you cannot attribute everything down to the Credit Crunch and World Finance

Er... on one hand you say that it's results on the pitch that matter to bring back the faith, and then on the other you say just having people in the ground would automatically bring results... There's not a cat in hell's chance 10,000 people will instantly rush through the turnstiles if/when Lowe leaves. We are 4th from bottom in the Championship. These days, too many people just simply don't want to watch football at that level, particularly not for the going rate of £24, regardless of who's sat in the boardroom. 140000 ..... a Freudian slip ....... I obviously did not put my point clearly At present, we get 14000, to watch a struggling Team try very hard, with little success ( at Home) All I am saying is WHEN Lowe goes, there will be a Feel Good factor. OK, the Team may be basically the same, but I am saying that there WOULD be an influx of "missing" Fans for the first match "after Lowe" Under those circumstances, as with most other Teams with a Big crowd, and cheering Fans, I am convinced that the Eleven on the pitch WOULD respond, and raise their game I do NOT believe that the "Credit Crunch " has accounted for 10000 Saints supporters .......... the Lowe factor, and general apathy with anything associated with the present Board has had a major influence on that

OK .... Clear the overdraft of £8M ............ HOW ???? We CANNOT exist on gates of circa 140000 and falling ......... it is the head chasing the tail situation ......... we NEED results on the pitch to give back even a glimmer of FAITH that the present regime has knocked out of us I firmly believe that there are MANY MANY Saints Fans, who simply will not go to St Mary's as long as Lowe is in charge ....... ( I myself know of at least 15 ) Lowe has caused havoc as regards Support, or "Customers" as he calls us, and it will not go away until he does I cannot prove this, but I would bet that IF Lowe went, the first Match at St Mary's would have some 24000 at least ............. and the atmosphere would be such that our Team would respond on the park with a victory. One day ...... One day .........

OK, we are curently circa £24 M in debt ..... and rising Now if YOU were a Business in that state, with less and less Revenue coming INTO the business ... how long would you survive ??? Forget about the points penalty ... that is the LEAST of our worries at the moment The way we are being led at the moment, it will not be long before we go into Liquidation, let alone Administration Makes me laugh, people saying Administration is a bad thing and must be avoided at all costs ...... How much worse could it be than the mess we are curently in ??? If we were riding high in the Prem, still getting circa 30000 crowds, in Europe, with an attractive Team to get you to go to St Mary's, then yes, we might be able to reduce the debt .... but we arn't .... we are a struggling CCC Team, with a bunch of youngsters lacking the experience to even keep us there. ......... We have a Chairman who has (again) split the Fanbase .... we have diminishing crowds ...... we do NOT have enough INCOME to even pay off the Interest on our loans We have no future with Lowe .... simply spiralling Debts, that soon will be completely out of control. HOW MUCH DEBT are you prepared to tolerate before you see the wood from the trees ???? You say that I don't have a clue .......... Really ??? ....... I think it is others who do not have a clue my friend

You say Administration is NOT the answer ....... OK, so what is ????? Carry on blindly like we are .... with every transfer window just selling enough to keep the Bank happy for a few months more ... YET the overal DEBT rising by the month due to Interest etc,etc ..... It is ALREADY circa £24M Just ask yourself ... HOW can we ever pay that off in the forseeable future, whilst maintaining a viable Football Team .... Answer WE CANNOT THE EVER INCREASING DEBT SCENARIO CANNOT BE SUSTAINED INDEFINITELY

In Administration, without the "Albatros" of Lowe round our necks, even in this so called global Financial turmoil, there would be more than one "Buyer" to snap us up, and take us forward With Lowe, and the state we are in at present, we have NO WAY of breaking the circle Whether I want Admin or not is beside the point .... IMHO, it is inevitable. Lowe's rearguard action of selling everything that moves is NOT reducing our overal DEBT, and therefore is pointless, and very very damaging to what you and I go to St Mary's for THE SAINTS

How he can claim to be working for the BENEFIT of the Saints Team on the pitch defies belief .. Without a doubt LOWE OUT .........

.......... I think one's allegiance should remain private ........:rolleyes:

You mean you are quite happy with the way he interfers and undermines whatever Manager is there .......... that he insists that HIS policy of playing a Team of Ypungsters at the expense of at least SOME experienced Street Wise Pro's ........ He COULD do something else ..... for a start he COULD at last realise that he is dealing with what us "Customers" go to St Mary's for ... TO WATCH SAINTS, OUR FOOTBALL TEAM Lowe is 1000% PLC, is on record of stating that THAT is his job, working for the PLC ... NOT the Football side of things Come EVERY transfer window, he will SELL SELL SELL any player he can .... just like a production line he thinks the Academy is Are you telling me you are happy with that ???

By which time Lowelife will have sold off all the Young Guns that are playing well in our so called First Team ......... and thus satisfy the Banking requirements ......... ........ that fact that that action only goes to weaken an already weak CCC Team matters not one iota to Mr Football.

The "potential" Wilde has spotted is easy to understand ...... all he has got, is an instant "Cheapo" replacement for one of Lowelife's " PLC Firesale" in the January transfer window ......... ....... Any chance of the FOTTBALL Team ever getting a settled side again goes out of the window Lowe came back to ruin the "irratant" Football side of things .... and he's doing a very fine completely unoposed job of it. ........

You mean Wilde gave him the Plague ???

Maybe so, maybe not ..... I think you underestimate the effect of continued Public Opinion ...... However, I DO think there are TWO things that WILL effect a change in Boardroom Smugness 1) If results continue to be negative, and we remain in the botom three 2) Attendances at St Mary's ...... like it or not, Lowe is currently facing a mass of Red Seats at home matches ...... if (1) persists, even the 14000 Faithful are going to diminish further, making it seem like a Morgue Are ALL the Board Members STILL going to sit around and do nothing when Gates drop to circa 10000 ??? Time for those Leeches Lowe & Wilde to RESIGN FORTHWITH ..... All they have managed is to destroy the Football Team ... AND Alienate the Supporters ( Customers to Lowelife )

To even the most diehars Lowe Luvvies, this must make them cringe. Bassett has only said what I, and many many others have known for a very long time Not all TEN or so Lowe's Managers were bad ......... and it is common to most people in the Football world, that the GOOD one's eventually bailed out simply because of LOWE'S PERPETUAL INTERFERENCE And that "Hands On, it is MY Club" approach by Lowe, demonstrates to a large extent why Lowe has NEVER EVER bothered to attract a Multi Money Type Takeover of HIS Club, because it would mean he would no longer be in CHARGE Thanks to Judas Wilde, Lowe is back ...... it is time for JUDAS WILDE to crumble and fall again ..... Administration is beckoning with every passing day ......... I'm sure Lowelife even has a plan to enable him to come out of even that with a healthily enhanced Bank Balance GET THOSE LEECHES OUT OF OUR CLUB ..... THIS TIME FOREVER

When are those same Shareholders going to wake up and realise that Lowe is back on a mission, a complete Vendetta against all those that Ousted him from his Kingdom He cares NOTHING for Football, never has and never will, and has all but said as much .... His Mission simply is simply to look after Rupert Lowe and the PLC WHEN are people going to realise that the PLC can STILL be making money, even though the Football side of the PLC can be diminishing by the season There are PLC's at a far lower level than the CCC that are well in the Black

Even if the commente are retracted ...... THE TRUTH IS OUT ....... us Non Legal CUSTOMERS do know the truth when we hear it ...... Be honest ..... anyone who is a FAN of Saints, going to St Mary's Matchday after Matchday is aware of such things ........ The only thing that has amazed me, is not being able to see the strings attached to Poortvliet from Lord Lowe in the Directing Box

Not any more ...... They have a MANAGER worthy of the name, and the results have started to come. But I do not think the England Manager could turn things around at St Mary's .... Lowe has let the available Standard drop too far.

Hope not .......... could end up in Court doing that sort of thing .....