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Why does this issue affects my experience on a matchday, or Rickie's fitness, or the chances I'll see some nice football and hopefully a win? We support Southampton FOOTBALL Club. The football, then, should take up the vast majority of the posts on this forum because that is what we're (supposedly) interested in. Actually if you look at it there is far more coverage of the business operations and tit-for-tat rumours. What is the point?! I said it once before and I'll say it again... every Saints fan should watch this- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKJSDCcp6kE When Laporta and his crew took over Barca, there were factions trying to oust them out as they were changing the culture of the club, turning it into a professional outfit rather than something to be exploited.

As an aside, is hatred of Cortese (for some) due to his banking background? It seems to me that the posters who hated Lowe for being a toff now also hate Cortese, when really they have very little in common.

Very true, i wasn't actually referring to you in particular. To me it seems odd to treat each incident as isolated, because that isn't actually how things are run. Each decision is dependent on a number of factors, so to take ANY decision made by the club out of its overall context (or without knowing the context) is simplistic at best.

Does anybody else find it incredibly amusing that posters declare they support the good and criticize the bad, when the vast majority on here would fail miserably as the chairman of a professional football club?

forget that, let's set up an anti-paedo defence league

Maybe I'm petty, but I'd have trouble offering goodwill to somebody who said, very specifically, that they would advise managers against working with me.

It is sad, every time I look at the league table I have a tear in my eye. When Lallana signed a new contract I was locked in my room crying 'why are the fans singing the name of our chairman? WHY?' Unless you mean sad as in 'not cool', and then I still agree with you, because I look to the terraces as the first port of call for all things hip and fashionable.

Which is what makes the entire debate a little pointless don't you think? Both are at fault.

A fantastic post! There are too many morons on this forum who are used to hating the chairman. Cortese hasn't done anything bad that even remotely compares to the huge amount of good, sadly not everybody has the brain cells to see that.

eloquent isn't he.

i see your point, i apologise.

and when compared to everything else the club has done (that has exceeded ALL of our past regimes) i'd suggest that the club has got a little cut on its foot rather than shot it. maybe a nettle sting.

or maybe i am him

i haven't said eff anybody. how does discussing something on a forum lead to you helping him? if i typed 'cortese was a fool and the club should give nick a ticket straight away' what would happen? what's that? nothing. this is a forum, not the houses of parliament. what helping hand has been offered by typing on a forum? have the club suddenly changed their minds because of an anonymous opinion? i'm sure it's terrible for nick, BUT he can still pay to see games, he hasn't been banned. in addition i don't know any of the facts, so why would i condemn the club i support? since when are fans more loyal to each other than the club? my point was not actually about nick, and i'm pretty surprised that you aren't intelligent enough to see that, it was a response to the usual 'cortese needs to sort himself out blah blah'.

true, i wouldn't be too happy, but i don't run a supporter trust and appear in the media to discuss saints related things. he is a fan, but he has extra responsibilities that us average fans don't.

it's sad that a saints fan has been refused a season ticket, but he can still come and watch the games so not as bad as it could have been. i wonder if other fans meticulously dissect every aspect of their club in the way we do? it's sad how political this board (but maybe us fans in general- not that i'm suggesting this board is 'representative' of all saints fans, that doesn't seem to go down too well) has become. i'm sure there are some like nick who are genuinely very angry about this, but most of these posts want to spout some hatred about a subject that has little effect on them and, as far as i'm concerned, makes little difference to my life or my support of my team. to think that this puts a downer on our win is laughable.

and if prize money was their only income then you'd be correct. however (and i'm sure you know this) by winning competitions they would have more exposure to other markets for merchandising etc. if it wasn't cost effective for clubs to buy players for large sums of money they wouldn't. it might not be moral, and it might not be saving lives, but that doesn't mean it doesn't work.

because of the amount of money his goals would generate. it is very simple.

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I also agree. It shows how much I know about football, I thought he was one of the few players who would take the man on.

I see your point, but didn't Adkins technically resurrect Chaplow's career? He'd been out of the team for quite some time, and played for a few different clubs. I also think that you may be overestimating our league. We already have the best overall squad in the league, virtually all of our players would (and some have) be the star player in almost all League One sides. The fact we can talk about Lallana, Guly, AOC, Lambert, Chaplow etc all playing for us shows that we don't need any marquee signings.

i think the complete opposite. are you suggesting that we are on a par with arsenal? we are a THIRD DIVISION team, they are in the CHAMPIONS LEAGUE.

I agree. I don't want to have to choose between them, they are both great for our club.

Go on, lift the lid! I think it would actually be quite good PR for the club, highlighting the benefits of the technical team and the things they are planning for. Would remove a lot of the traditional skepticism fans have towards those sorts of roles in this country.