Lord Duckhunter

He played well for Pearson I seem to remember. He did well for Brum today as well.

Jan seemed decent bloke, totally out of his depth,but he's hardly going to turn the job down. I spoke to a Dutch Bar owner in Spain during the summer and he said JP is well respected in Holland for being a very good player. He also told me that Wotte has a bad reputation and has an overrated opinion of himself. It was a round the time he was reportedly off to Egypt, and the Bar owner said "you've had a lucky escape". I was glad he got fired and can well beleive JP's account of him being stabbed in the back. They came as a duo and should have left as a duo. As for Lowe, this just confirms everything I've ever thought about the Bloke. Dont forget there were people on this site prepared to run down and slander Lawrie Mac, Mike Osman and others on the basis they were against Lowe .

At least it's not spouting rubbish about our "total football" and fawning all over the Chairman. When Lambert signed it made a nice change to read about it without silly quotes about how he signed because of our revolutionary set up.

Oh please let it happen, I dont prey, I'm not relegious, but if this happened I'd go to church every Sunday for the rest of my days.

Whilst it was obvious that the structure of the Club was not set up to aviod any deductions I still think the whole thing is worthy of debate, as we are -10 this season because of it. Surely Lowe knew we were close to the edge and that cheques he/PLC wrote would take us over our overdraft limit. I would like to know when Lowe realised admin was inevitable and whether he believed our structure would render any points deduction unenforceable.The cut off date is in place because teams will manipulate the timings of admin if it was not. It is therefore possible to enter admin at the best time for a club,and the best time for us would have been a few days earlier. Personally I've no doubt that had Lowe been interested in buying the Club post admin, he'd have gone into admin earlier. My personal belief is that Lowe, whilst knowing the game was 99% up, ploughed on because he thought the league were unable to issue any deductions, and he had no intention of wanting any part of the Club post admin. The decision to plough on and bluff it out is the reason we're sitting here on -9, because without it, we'd have a great chance of promotion this season. I dont suppose we'll ever get the answer, but those few days really cost us dear.

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My mate's Dad played for them in the 60's, I just texted him taking the P(My Mate, not his dad) and he reckons the staff were told today, that the deal's off.

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/Reports-Al-Fahim-takeover-on.5536802.jp

According to breaking reports their takeover has gone down the pan today.

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I cant believe it, what has the new owner done for the Club, apart from saving it, clearing the debts,sacking a hopeless manager, appointing a new Manager, resigning our player of the season and offering reasonable priced season tickets? He needs to get his finger out, why haven't we signed 10 more players on mega long term contracts, after all he's been in charge 6 weeks and Pardew's been here nearly a month. The blokes worse than Rupert Lowe, he needs to go............

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/s/southampton/7873058.stm

That was in October,and Lowe agreed the new figure.Instead of breaching it why didn't he sell someone in the Jan transfer window? The only thing that caught him cold was his ego, he never thought they'd pull the plug on the great Rupert Lowe............

WGS got us to one Cup Final, which we lost, 8th in the League and yet he's considered untouchable and Saints legend. 8th in the League would have been a very average season for Lawrie, and his style of football was far and away better than anything we've seen since. The fact that other Club's supporters hold Lawrie in higher regard, than some Saints supporters is very sad. What's the great man done to deserve this poison spread about him? Speak out against Rupert Lowe (who let's not forget was Chairman during 2 relegations and led us into admin) thats what. Clough, Revie, Bobby Robson, Bill Shankley were fantastic footballers, like Jose, Lawrie had to get the buy in from players on the strength of his personality as his football ability was limited. The fact he managed to get World Class footballers to sign for a provincial club playing at The Dell, is testiment to his personality and ability to get the best out of people. Where he differes from other similar Managers Like "Big Ron" and Redknapp, was the young players he also devolped and brought on during his regin at the Club. He was not in the same league as Sir Bobby or Cloughie, but was the nearest we'll ever have to them. There will never be another Lawrie Mac at this Club and he should be treated with respect.

After Ted stepped down, had the Directors run the club in the same manner as Lowe, and all Ted's achievements were swept under the carpet. Had the Club slipped back to the league Ted took us from with the directors poisioning the Club, and trashing everything the Club stood for, I've no doubt Ted would have said something. You have to have a big ego to Manage people like Bally and KK, and Lawrie's was as big as anyone's.We would not have signed the players we did, or played in the style we did, without Lawrie's ego. To have Lowe luvvies on here complaining about someone's ego, strikes me as a bit ironic. At least Lawrie's ego brought us Keegan, Ball, Osgood and Shilton. Lowe's brought us Wiggley, Portfliet, Woodward and Clifford.

Coventry fans were saying the same thing about WGS

The Pulis deal stinks to high heaven. Had Harry Redknapp signed another managers son, when he was injured. If that managers son was totally hopeless, then people would be calling it corrupt and asking what was in it for Redknapp. I dont believe Jan or Wotte had anything to do with this deal, so who did? During a time we were counting every penny and ended up in administration why did our PLC Chairman (the same guy who embarked on a media round blaming others for "wasting money") agree to this deal. No other CCC would have signed Pulis, why did we?

Spot on, living here in Poole I meet plenty of Boscombe supporters and they're all "Scummers this" and "Scummers that". Personally I couldn't give a monkeys if they went out of business. With Eddie Mitchell at the helm, there's a good chance of that happening.

Duncan Fletcher won the ashes in 2005,and is evidently a good man manger. If ML brings him in now behind the scenes, we'd think he'd gone bonkers. The SCW thing was just Lowe showing the football world how clever and visionary he was. With all the money sloshing around in the Premiership, why hasn't any other Club approached SCW or Clifford?

Lawrie Mac's total football.

For a non football person Adams proberly ticks all the boxs. He could make his CV look very good. Ex England Captain, good leader of men, won the lot with Arsenal, will have Arsene Wenger's backing, was Harrys number 2 when they won the cup and has coached abroad. However lots of people have looked like they'd make good Managers from Bobby Moore to David Platt, but they never actually were. Hopefully ML will be taking advise from football people and his results at Wycombe and Pompey just dont merit him being given a chance. This along with his Pompey past will make his appointment a massive dissapointment and again split the fan base. Personally, I cant see it happening, however if it does, lets hope we all get behind him and judge him by results alone.

Is this the same Lowe, that took us over our agreed overdraft limit, plunging us into administration and nearly costing us our Club?

Leicester have just waltzed the League we're going to be in. Other teams of comaprable size and history have struggled to get out of this League, but Leicester walked it. If they had any other Manager, and that Manager was linked to our Club, everybody would be 100% behind the appointment. The fact they are not is solely down to the divisions Lowe brought to this Club, and how hard it's going to be to get over these splits. This just shows how poisonous Lowe was for our Club, and just how hard it's going to be to get over his legacy. Victims of this have included Lawrie Mc and Dave Armstrong and now seem to include a good young English Manager in Nigel Pearson. I will be delighted if we can get in the man who won League 1 last year .

Adams record speaks for itself, which is why he wont get the job. The fact he's a Skate makes no difference to me, look at the job Bally did for them. I just want the best man for the job, and if he's a Skate, then so be it.

Alan Pardew's got a pretty decent record at Reading and then West Ham. Ok, it didn't work out too well at Charlton, but then WGS got Coventry relegated.I think it's good to employ Managers with a point to prove.Paul Jewell is another one, got Bradford and Wigan up, with a point to prove after what heppened at Derby. If we want a solid sustainable rise, then Peter Taylor fits the bill. One out of left field would be Lawrie Sanchez, who I think could get us out of this league even with the -10. Whether the fan base would accept him is another matter. Pardew or Taylor would be ok in my opinion.