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a) Strachan was still with us b) Skate-napp was still with us c) Burley was still with us d) Nigel was still with us I'll answer my own question: a) No-brainer, absolutely yes. b) No-brainer, we would have already been relegated to Div 1 and he would have skulked off back to farton. c) possibly d) I honestly reckon we would be doing ok with NP at the helm.

I got to say BWP was excellent on the wing against Farnborough at the start of the pre-season. Ok, Ok, so it was farnborough and he only got half a game and he had just come out of court so had something to prove but he was much better out wide. And young oscar gobben looked fiery as well. How old is gobben? When's he going to get a start?

that was kinda my point! The club goes into administration and the bank needs to raise its collateral against the mortgage - which is the stadium. They will sell it to an investment company, probably in a firesale at a knock-down price. The club will then have to rent the stadium back from the investment company. It has happened before in other clubs. In fact i am pretty sure it happend at Stanford Bridge in the 90s. sorry to be the bringing of bad news but if the club goes into administration - which is looking ever likely without a buyer - then the PLC's assets WILL be sold to pay the debt. It would also be totally legal for the administrator to not honour the existing season tickets as they are a contractual agreement between the PLC and the ST holder, not the administrator and the ST holder. so we could all find our ST worthless. There would be a riot for sure but there is nothing stopping the administrator from doing it.

sure we season ticket holders would be naffed off if the price was cut but it strikes me a bit wet to say that there is nothing to be done. How about giving ST holders a free Cup game? Or just give them a refund. And I always thought the gig was "kids for a quid" not "kids for two quid" !! Something needs to be done because there is a recession on its way, wages aren't going up but inflation is and we are not winning football games. The net effect is that SMS is more than half empty and the club is teetering on the brink of administration where we would see our stadium being sold off, and probably Marchwood as well. The lads will be training on the common soon. In any other business is the 'product' is not selling you would always try innovative ways to move it. Why not with footie tickets?

Oh when the Lowe! Oh when the Lowe! Oh when the Lowe goes swaggering in He wants to big up his profits to make as much dosh as he can. -------- but my favourite: Swing Lowe...etc.

I guess they will both be barred from playing against their real club?

Sorry if this has already been discussed but does anyone have an up to date figure as to the gate needed to breakeven each home game? I think season before last it was about 23,000 for each home game but what with all the cost cutting that figure must have dropped. i can't imagine gates of 15,000 are enough to cover costs?

well for a start we need to be playing at Molineux....

good original post. at the barnsley game the gate was only 14,300 odd. I made the trek from brighton and there were a few of us on the train on the way home. but the club's fan base IS still there. just remember the last game of the last season it was packed to the rafters and i truly believe our combined support urged Stern on to score that third goal and secure our place in the championship. So we do have the ability to fill SMS. (and I watched the Pompey european game on tele the other day and they didn't even fill farton for that!!). That all said, it must be remembered that for a father and son to go to a game costs £40 in tickets and a minimum of a tenner worth of extras on top. And they would be the lucky ones if they lived in Southampton center. Any travelling and you are looking at a mimum of £70 total. That is a lot of cash to spend to watch crap footie played against crap oposition (and by Gad barnsley were sh!te). What I don't understand is why Lowe hasn't done his sums, done a bit of market research and worked out that by dropping the ticket price he would get more in and actually make more money for the club and have the benifit of a fuller (no pun intended) stadium. Or how about have an open day? Choose a good fixture, advertise it in the press and radio and South Today for a couple of weeks before hand and then have let all and sundry in for a quid - paid on the turnstile. Season ticket holders could be given a free ticket to a Cup game to compensate. Not rocket science is it.

yep, i will. but i have to ask: could this thread not have waited until a tad later in the season?!

we will stuff them by only losing 3-0. ..but i still going to the game

if he is off can we assume he has completed his 60 hours community service? And does any one know what he was made to do?

"tut Millers"

I'm still just awake to ask: 'were you there, sir?' If you was one of us very small band of brothers who was there tonight then fair play, but otherwise don't shout abuse at our boys from a far. We are one club - players, fans and all. Let's all get behind our lads for the Donny game and for ever more. UP THE SAINTS

Left Brighton at 13:30. Drove for five and a half hours (230 miles - stuck in traffic on M1) Got to Don Valley Stadium. Very pleasantly surprised to find free parking. Bought ticket. Bought coffee. Bought what parsed for a burger/pastie/something hot. Went into stadium/athletics ground. Watched football. Watched Rotherham Utd take us to pieces. Watched our lot lose the game. Watched our lot lose a lot of face. Left stadium/athletics ground. Walked back to 'pleasantly surprisingly free car parking' Got into car. Programmed Sat-Nav to direct me back to Brighton. Got 100 miles or so back to Brighton when eyes began to shut. Found Travel Lodge on M1. Powered up laptop, plugged in Mobile Web dongle. Surfed to 'www.saintsweb.co.uk' Wrote the above. Fell asleep thinking it can only get better...... UP THE SAINTS.

very well said. The football-is-a-gold-mine bubble is soon to burst. Did anyone else see MOTD this weekend? Can't remember which game it was but the stadium - a premiership stadium - was only half full. Clubs up and down the country are feeling the pinch. On that note, I am now off for a 450 mile round trip to Rotherham. And they had better entertain me!

next time I'd love a trip to Paris! When we get to Europe!

we will stuff them 1-0

Hey all, I will be leaving central Brighton at about 2 o'clock this afternoon for the mammoth trek up to Rotherham. I have three spaces in the car free and would welcome the company. Tickets for the game are only available at the ground and cost £10. If you want a lift then I might ask for a tenner to help out with petrol. Will be leaving Rotherham directly after the game and hope to be back in Brighton at about 2am PM me if you want a lift and we can arrange it. If I haven't heard from you by 1 o'clock then I have gone already. Up the Saints.

sorry... just seeing how many i can wind up! F@ck Phillips, F@ck his missus and most importantly f@ck the c-u-nt who thought it a wise move to buy a camel!!! ((((((( HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA ))))))))) !!!! UP THE SAINTS!

well said. absolutely..

rocknrollman: embarassed? No mate. **** you. do you know how it feels to have a few people slag you off for having an extra-marital affair? do you? well how about a ****ing stadium?? oh! no! ... F@ck off. FATHERS FOR JUSTICE UP THE SAINTS

so if I **** your missus does that give you the right to let 18,000 people (and the tele audiance) know? really? ?

oh ****ing jolly good. there's me thinking it was not fate....

I didn't sing neither but the abuse is ****e. How would you like some one singing crap like that if you had an infidelity?