Lord Duckhunter

Ronnie Moore

This ties in with a post I read last week, regarding Redknapp on the golf course. Something along the lines of "Saints will be ok, someone I know is buying them".

I set my watch for the injury time and it was about 1 minute short. The Ref was a disgrace, however by running on the pitch our "supporters" have given the FA/Ref's assesor a get out. I'm surprised there was not more of a fuss made about the lack of time. One thing's for sure, he'll not make the Premiership and Old Trafford with time keeping like that.

I was sick to death of Lowe doing the media rounds and I'm sick to death of Crouch doing the same (although at least he didn't whine "it's not my fault) I thought Lawrie came accros pretty well and seemed very upset and passionate about the situation. Obviously media outlets are going to ask Lawrie, as like it or not, the media view him as some sort of Mr Southampton. I also thought Mawhinney came accros well on Talksport this morning, although Brazil went pretty easy on him.

The Premier League dont have rules around Admin and points deduction, so it makes no difference either way.

Bang on the money. We need to move on and try to stay up so the 10 points are deducted this season. It would give us a small glimmer of pride and would help future generations of supporters to claim, we were only relegated by events and rules off the pitch. Unfortunatly I cant see the players having enough fight and belief to win the remaining 2. People talk about 6 point games, but these are 10 point games for us.

Why can't the Lowe Luvvies accept Pearson's done very well at Leicester, certainly better than Jan or Wotte would have done, and it was a massive mistake not keeping him. This constant sniping and "kept us up by 20 mins" line, is getting boring. He obviously got the job at Leicester on the back of what he did at saints, so must have impressed some people. Supporters of WBA and Newcastle speak very highly of him, following his caretaker roles there, and obviously Leicester fans are happy with him. It seems to me that the only set of supporters who seem to run him down are Rupert Lowe's fan Club .

Ronnie Moore would be my choice, followed by Mark McGhee, I think we need someone whose been around the block once or twice.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/s/southampton/7865139.stm Southampton head coach Mark Wotte has said he has rejected several offers for some of his players. http://www.thisishampshire.net/sport/4254557.Ex_chairman_blames_bank_for_Saints_position/ The Daily Echo understands that Saints had breached the overdraft limit agreed with Barclays of £4m – but by not much more than £110,000. Barclays said it had made “ongoing efforts to find a suitable solution” at Southampton, which required “substantial further investment”. http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/article-23670913-details/Southampton+FC+fury+over+Barclays+'death+sentence'/article.do?expand=true It is believed Barclays had wanted Southampton to find a new owner or raise money through a rights issue or player sales.

The Club had an overdraft limit and we went over it. That is down to Lowe, nobody else. He turned down offers for players in Jan despite the bank pushing for player sales. The bank just didn't withdraw the Overdraft for no reason, Lowe went over it and the Bank pulled the plug. He didn't go into admin after the deadline out of spite, it was incompetance. He thought he could bluff the bank, he didn't believe the bank would pull the carpet from under him.He made a stunning misjudgement and totally misjudged Barclay's position.

This talk of Crouch investing £2mil to save us from admin is nonsense. Once Barclays bounced Cheques they were making a statement. "The game was up". Put it like this, we have Season Ticket renewals coming up(which is gate money up front), we have a transfer window coming up (we could sell, sell, sell). We had contracts coming to an end. Why would the bank put us into admin at this stage of the season, over a small amount? The answer clearly is, they lost faith in Lowe. Instead of asking why Crouch didn't invest his £2mil, questions should be asked as to why offers for Lallana and Surman were turned down in Jan. barclays statement clearly states they asked for player's to be sold. WHY WERE'NT THEY.

There's no way we'll get this near the end of the season and we wont fulfill our fixtures. Our results will be struck from the record and someone could be relegated or not promoted because of that, the League/FA will not want to deal with the fall out of that. Between them the League, FA, and PFA will find a way to pay the players and finish the season.

You can hardly compare Barry Horne's goal (which the keeper should have saved IMO) to the goal which won a tricky away tie, and set up an all English Champions League Semi Final. Le Tiss scored some great goals, but Ronaldo, Like him or hate him, has scored important goals and given some fantastic performances at a much higher level. Although admiring Matt's loyalty, the real shame is he didn't get a chance to shine(as I've no doubt he would have, if managed properly) at the same sort of level.

We needed Lowe? For what? To keep us out of admin-Failed To keep us in the CCC-Failed. 8 Months down the line, we're a complete and utter shambles.Perhaps you could enlighten us as to Lowe's sucsess second time round.Because it's hard to see how it could be any worse.

My understanding was Leeds appeal was to the other FL Clubs, they could not resort to the courts, as this right was signed away.

If we aren't deducted the 10 points, then the League will not be able to withhold the Golden Share, as the Club would not have been in Admin. However, If the League proved the Club went into Admin and we can not exit with a CVA, we have to accept any terms the League impose on us to get it back. It could be payback time for Lowe's loophole.To receive their share the Club have to sign their right of legal action away.

I agree with this line in yesterday's Mail "Rupert Lowe, Southampton’s former chairman and chief executive, may have made a career of getting relegated and pointing fingers"

The rules were set up to prevent teams gaining an advantage by going into Admin and having debts written off ala Leicester and Pompey. Derby's holding Company did go into admin, however the new owners then paid off the debt in full, within days. This meant Derby did not gain an advantage from other Clubs with debt, that stayed out of admin. As the League can not know at this early stage whether our debts will be paid off in full, I fail to see how they can make a decision tomorrow. Personally I think they'll go for the points deduction and await legal action, or will delay the decision. Either way I can not see an annoucement that we're off the hook coming tomorrow. It's either bad news or a delay.

I think the league will try and deduct the points and then leave it for us to take legal action to get them back. That way they will have all the other Clubs onboard and will seen to have been acting consistantly. Personally I cant see them coming out and admitting they'd left a loophole open. The issue then becomes who'll take legal action on our before. It will require plenty of money and fight to get this points back. ken Bates went all the way with Leeds -15 (unsucsessfully as it happened) because he knew he was going to be the new owner and it'll effect him. Who is going to fight our cause? The Administrator? Not likely, Lowe and Wilde? Not a chance. Leon Crouch? Maybe. Legally the FL could be on dodgey ground deducting the points, but who'll defend our interests? New owners will proberly want to but, If we go down as a result of the -10, the Sheff Utd senerio has shown, that it'll be too late to reinstate us. The best we can hope for is starting next season in League 1 with nil points.

If the banks had as much faith in Lowe as some seem to have, and they were telling Lowe to reduce costs, which his supporters claim he has. Why on earth did they pull the plug now? Why did they bounce 3 cheques after he claims they agreed to honour them. Surely if Lowe was doing such a good job it would have been in their interests to hold out for another couple of months. In those 2 months Seson Ticket (which is gate money upfront) money would come in. Some high wage earners were out of contract and others could be sold early summer. Surely they would have waited to see what league we'd be in before pulling the plug. Personally it looks to me like they lost faith in Lowe, didn't think he'd kept his promises, or thought he was a block to investment and any chance of them getting their money back.

And beating up his pregnant girlfriend, an offence he aceptted a Police Caution for.

But he was rubbish when he was fit. Look at his record. This signing tells you everything you need to know about Rupert Lowe and his running of our Club. Totally and utterly clueless.

He should have scored.

He missed a sitter 5 minutes before he scored.