Dark Munster

$50 for that exciting tour. What a bargain. All they need are 2 million suckers, and their debts are cleared. Sorted. :smt082 Here's an amusing possibility. P*mp*y go into administration at Christmas. After many fruitless months Fry (their administrator) gives up looking for a buyer (the only bidders, a Lynham/Fialka/Jackson consortium, comes up £999,999,998.50 short of the £100,000,000 needed to pay off the debts). The club is wound up, and drops to the blue square. Meanwhile, Saints just fail to make the playoffs, finishing a very respectable 7th. Just as they are preparing for the summer holidays, the football league decides that, to make up for only 2 PL teams dropping into the CCC, it will promote an extra team from the conference, L2 and L1. So the top 3 teams get automatic promotion from L1, and the playoffs go to the teams finishing 4th to 7th. So Saints qualify for the playoffs thanks to P*mp*y's demise, and go on to handsomely win the playoff semi, and also the final at Wembley. AP is interviewed and says things couldn't be better. But he's wrong. The FA decide, since P*mp*y no longer exists as a football league club, to use SMS as a World Cup venue, provided Saints extends its capacity to 48,000. ML readily agrees, and construction starts immediately. ML is interviewed and says things couldn't be better. But he's wrong. Portsmouth council condemn a rat-infested unused Krapp Notarf, stripped of anything of remaining value by previous owners before they did a runner, as a serious health hazard. Liebherr Construction wins the bid to bulldoze it and build council flats on top of it. Well, I can dream can't I?

My top 50 would be: 50 - 3. Anyone who has taken penalties for the German national team since 1976. 2. Peach 1. MLT

... or if the Duckhunter had timed the administration just a few days earlier.

This excellent idea wouldn't hold up play too often: http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/forum/showpost.php?p=502096&postcount=11 Me neither. Except, of course, when Saints are denied a perfectly good goal by an incorrect offside decision, or concede a goal that is incorrectly not ruled offside.

+1 And his distribution was excellent.

http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/forum/showpost.php?p=500027&postcount=6 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/27/schwarzenegger-sends-lawm_n_336319.html

This is what Lowe received. I think there may be a hidden message in it. Dear Mr. Lowe, Further to my appointment as joint administrator of the Company on 2 April 2009. Unfortunately, there are insufficient assets in this matter to enable any distribution to you. Claims to this affect are a waste of time. Keep in mind that this decision is final. You should contact Alex Stirling of the Begbies Traynor Office if you require any further information. Unfortunately, I will not be available to discuss this with you personally. Yours faithfully, for and on behalf of Southampton Leisure Holdings PLC. Mark R Fry

Apparently Lowe got a slightly different letter: Dear Mr. Lowe, Further to my appointment as joint administrator of the Company on 2 April 2009. Unfortunately, there are insufficient assets in this matter to enable any distribution to you. Claims to this affect are a waste of time. Keep in mind that this decision is final. You should contact Alex Stirling of the Begbies Traynor Office if you require any further information. Unfortunately, I will not be available to discuss this with you personally. Yours faithfully for and on behalf of Southampton Leisure Holdings PLC Mark R Fry

It has been well documented that Nige was more than willing to stay on. http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/saints/untoldstories/4350665.What_Saints_managers_were_paid/ Pearson signed a £300,000 a year deal when he arrived in mid-February 2008 with Saints nosediving down the Championship table and humiliated at lower division Bristol Rovers in the FA Cup. That was £100,000 less than Burley was on. But the chairman who appointed him, Leon Crouch, insists Pearson would have accepted a lower salary when the contract was due to be renegotiated last summer. Crouch was also happy to give Pearson an initial £300,000 contract as Saints had just received £250,000 compensation from the Scottish FA for Burley’s services at a time when Saints fans were getting increasingly restless with the former Ipswich manager’s results. Former PLC chairman Lowe told shareholders at last December’s stormy AGM at St Mary’s that “we couldn’t afford” the salary Crouch had been paying Pearson. But according to Crouch, Pearson would have accepted a lower salary to manage Saints in 2008/09 with a bonus to be paid if the club won promotion back to the Premiership. Other sources close to Pearson have confirmed that the former England under-21 coach was desperate to continue the job he had started.

Her shorts barely fit.

And to give Pinnacle permanent exclusivity.

c) NP was a Crouch hire, so no matter how good he may have been, Lowe wasn't going to let him stay on.

Indeed. There are a lot of bogus sites claiming to stream live football, with links that go round in circles to nowhere. I think their game is just to get as many visitors as possible (their advertisers pay them by the number of hits). Bloody annoying.

And most of us know better than the "professor', whose credibility is zero after his continuing defence of Lowe getting rid of NP, and replacing him with the two clowns. How's NP being doing since he left Saints, "professor'?

Swanson has been told by Portsmouth officials that the club remains "relaxed" about the transfer ban and they expect the issue to be resolved as quickly as possible. I wonder if it will be as quick as it took for the ice-cream doctor to complete his takeover from Gaymadman?

Yep, Lowe's little parting "gift" to Saints fans.

Yes, in there at number 33, I think. Nice chap, but I would put him a bit lower. At about number 10,000, or thereabouts.

I don't think NP had cult status with many (if any) fans. Most of us saw him for what he is: a good up and coming manager who wasn't given a chance by Lowe. And as for "just" keeping us up, don't forget Saints finished on 54 points, and Leicester went down on 52 points. No team anywhere, anytime, in any league in the entire history of the world has gone down with 53 points. It was not so much the case of Saints being lucky, but rather Leicester being very unlucky to go down with such a ridiculous number of points. NP only lost 3 of 13 matches, averaging a respectable 1.23 points per game. The Hull "debacle" was against a team who got promoted, and with Saints having their top 2 goalies out injured and their 3rd choice playing with an injury. Also, see above about "just" surviving. As for you believing Lowe making the right decision in getting rid of NP.... I agree! It fastened his (Lowe's) demise and the takeover by ML! Oh yes there were. I can name quite a few!

Reading 0 Leicester 1 So the "boot boy" has got Leicester up to 5th, 3 points behind first place. I wonder how high he'll have to go before the professor and other Lowe luvvies finally admit that he actually is a good manager, and that the duckhunter fucked up by getting rid of him and replacing him with the two clowns?

Oi, Pearson seems to know what he's doing too.

But selling the club to a wealthy investor is just what was needed to give WGS the cash he needed. Anyway, I don't think many fans were clamouring for the club to be sold because they knew that they would be just pissing in the wind.

There, I've corrected it for you FF. :cool:

That may have been true at some time, but I think it was no longer true when he came back the second time. Getting rid of Pearson showed that he cared more about getting back at his arch nemesis Crouch than he did about Saints. And I certainly don't buy the argument that he had no choice in the timing of administration. If he cared about Saints he would have clarified the situation with Barclays earlier (knowing we were on the brink), and then (knowing it was inevitable) ensured it happened a few days earlier. I have my theories why he let it happen after the deadline, but I don't want to be libelous. In an interview afterward Saints came out of administration, Fry said that RL and MW wanted to stay on during administration, and he (Fry) had difficulties convincing them otherwise. I wonder how long that took, and if these discussions started before the 10 point carry-over deadline?

+1

Doesn't this forum have about 8 skates registered?