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Come on lads, give him some credit. He correctly predicted Charlton would go down.

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Relegated in 1974: Saints, Norwich Relegated in 2005: Saints, Norwich Relegated in 2009: Saints, Norwich

That's what we were saying when Wilde took over (the first time).

22 remaining games is not a "run in", it's more than half the bloody season. Lowe axed Smith after Saggy Chops had taken us down. I think Saggy Chops' thumbs up to Mad Milan after the Krap Nottarf 4-1 debacle may answer that question.

Oi, leave Luggy alone! Sturrock's record with Saints: P 13 W 5 D 2 L 6 (1.31 points per game = 50 points over a 38-game Premiership season). Not bad, a lot better than Wigley, Gray, JP, and Wotte. How about this: Pearson v JP PS v Wigley Same story, different league.

Hmm.... takeover on Friday then? So all those rumours over the last 2 years may have been correct after all. :cool:

It certainly makes sense that it would be easier to find a buyer with the Lowe and co. out of the picture. But then why didn't Barclays pull the plug BEFORE the last Thursday in March? Surely they could figure that it would be easier to find a buyer if Saints end up in League 1 starting with 0 points, as opposed to starting with -10 points? ](*,) Here's one possibility: Lowe and co. knew that Barclays were waiting for the $4 million threshold to be passed to oust them, but they (Lowe and co.) held off just long enough to pass the last Thursday of March deadline. Barclays would get the blame, but in reality it was a little parting gift from Lowe to the Saints fans?

How come no mention of the £165,203,664,287,896,340 in the letter itself?

Hammer. Nail. Head. Thank you SW11_Saint.

Wotte: 1.125 points per game = 52 per season (borderline safety?) NP: 1.23 points per game = 57 per season (safety) JP: 0.93 points per game = 43 per season (down) Lowe's Revolutionary Coaching set up: 1 point per game = 46 per season (down) HTH

Isn't that like saying I'd rather buy a Rolls missing its wheels, doors, seats and engine, so I can get it for a few thousand less?

Nice goal. This one's better though. :cool: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn3OtbMmaC4

I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.

Unfortunately, the operation to remove the cancer will probably kill the patient.

Amen to that. In fact, that act of madness by Lowe effectively has docked us at least 10 points this season already, even before God-knows-how-many-more the FL are going dock us this season or next.

Indeed. Actually, I'm wondering if the danger of the wrath of the FL as you describe may the reason why Lowe and company are trying this scam now, rather than just before the administration deadline of about a week ago? If I'm right (which I'm probably not), Saints didn't want to do this just before the 26/4/09 deadline, because if it goes tits up, this may be the FL's reaction: FL: So you are trying a trick of having only your parent company going into administration?? AND you're doing it at 4 p.m. on Thursday 26th, just in case you don't get away with it?? You ****ing bastards. Well here's your -10 points for this season, and for the parent company trick, here's -80 for next season in League 1. And, by the way, if you're still on negative points when you finish bottom of League 1, you'll carry those negative points into League 2.

Well if Paul Allen has been waiting to make his move, I think he'd better get his skates on.

Oh, from the title I thought this thread was about sacking Pearson.

There is a 1/35 chance of having all 4 English teams being drawn in one half of the quarter-finals (guaranteeing only two English semifinalists, and only one English finalist). Platini would absolutely love to have that happen, but he would have a hard time convincing people the draw wasn't rigged (especially after last year's quarter-final draw was apparently leaked on a Liverpool forum). So if Platini could choose the draw (which of course he can't ), what do you reckon he would do? I think he might consider this: Man Utd. v. Liverpool Chelsea v. Villareal Barcelona v. Porto Arsenal v. Bayern This gives Barcelona the easiest match, and puts the weakest (on paper) English team with 3 non-English teams. But that would perhaps be too similar to last year's draw (so again may look very suspicious), so I think this is how he would like it come out: Man Utd. v. Liverpool Chelsea v. Villareal Barcelona v. Arsenal Porto v. Bayern Porto and Villareal could be switched, but Villareal may have a better chance of an upset or two against the English teams, and he wouldn't want to jeopardize Barcelona's passage to the final with a potential all-Spanish semi-final.

.... provided we can get Nige back as manager. :cool:

And kept the proper manager we already had.

Sigh, here we go again. Um Pahars, could you set him straight, please? Ta.