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Thanks, I have sent it electronically to The Echo....so its up to them if they want to print it now !

if anyone has an address or e mail contact for Mary Corbett could they PM it to me please ? thanks.

I can see the logic.....but only with a club that is on a sound financial footing. If you are in the mire financially surely you play it safe until that position is more haelthy ? Dont you ?

I have sent it to Wilde....and good idea, will send it to The Echo too. Thanks.

Serious question, especially for the Lowe supporters out there.... Can anyone give me a sensible answer to this - Lowe comes back as PLC chairman to protect his shares/investment and in order to do this he needs to put the club on a sound financial footing. Fair enough, I can understand that. So, in order to achieve the above the club needs to, at the very least, maintain CCC status, but hopefully push for promotion (NOT re-promotion as RL keeps insisting on calling it). To achieve this aim the football team need to win matches, this means they are at the very least comfortable in the league but it also means it will attract more fans through the turnstiles as people will always go and watch a winning team, hence improving the financial position of the club. With all that in mind why would Lowe play Russian Roulette with not just the club's future but his own shares by carrying out this Dutch experiment ? Where is the logic or what is the thinking behind carrying out an experiment with a club that is as financially in the mire as Lowe insists we are ? Surely the time for experiments comes when you are financially sound and have the resources to buy your way out of trouble if it all goes horribly wrong, like this has. We have nowhere to turn, we cannot afford to buy a round of drinks never mind our way out of this mess. So why, in all seriousness, has he taken such a massive gamble without a safety net ?

"We remind you that the contents of the forum do not necessarily represent the views of SaintsWeb or their directors. This thread is made a sticky by popular choice and not as the views of the owners of SaintsWeb Ltd" Wont do any good but its got it off my chest. This is it if anyone is interested....and if anyone wants to pull it to shreds, feel free, i dont care !! Dear Mr Wilde, I have been a supporter of the once great Southampton Football Club for 31 years. I have seen the good times, the bad times, the indifferent and the just outright bizarre. I have missed maybe 6 home matches in the league since 1978, so I like to think that I have some knowledge of football and the “Spirit of Southampton”. I left the Doncaster match on 17/1/09 at the end, unlike yourself I believe, and as I walked back to my car I can honestly say that I have NEVER had the same sense of foreboding as I have now about the future of our club. It is the first time in those 31 years that I have lacked the one feeling that all football supporters, whether they follow Real Madrid or Eastleigh should have, and that is the feeling of hope. As I say, I understand you left when the first songs of protest against the Chairman of the PLC began. That’s a shame as you would have witnessed one of the saddest sites I have ever seen whilst supporting the Saints, and that was of supporters actually fighting each other. How can a football club survive and move forward when their own fan base is so split that there are fights between the very people who should be the lifeblood of a football club? May I take this opportunity to respectfully remind you that supporters are the paying customers. We do not get in for free, we do not enjoy corporate hospitality (neither it appears does David Armstrong who was removed from one of the suites whilst visiting friends. Tell me Mr Wilde, how many games over how many seasons did he play with distinction for this club ? If Matthew Le Tissier had been told to leave there would have been a riot. This is how the once family club Southampton treat their former players is it ? ), We simply turn up week in week out and pay our money in the hope of being entertained and see our team win. The fact that we are treated so poorly by those that run the club, especially in a time of deep financial turmoil when I would have thought the club needed the supporters more than ever, is beyond my comprehension. Again, Mr Wilde, unlike yourself I attended the AGM just before Christmas. Such a shame that you could not be there because I feel the behaviour and attitude of the PLC Chairman towards the shareholders who are not in his clique was appalling. The arrogance and pomposity and his preference for talking down to people was really at the height of its powers. It was shameful. Even his old public school fag, Mr Cowen, looked embarrassed and awkward. As you may have noted, I have not mentioned him by name, I cannot bring myself to do so, the very thought of what one individual has done to the football club I support and love makes me sick to the pit of my stomach. You were heralded as a hero when you ousted him from Southampton back in 2006. Please explain to me how on earth you can seriously do a complete turnabout and support him, hence allowing him back into this football club to continue in the same way as was so abhorrent to you in the first place that you spent millions on shares to oust him ? How many good people have left this club since the PLC Chairman came back ? Liz Cowley, Woggy Taylor and Graham Hiley to name just three. Two of them went because of what ? Cost cutting ? No, every company the size of this needs a Secretary, you know that as well as I do. And do we now assume the players wash and put out their own kit ? People were dismissed because they had at one point or another, probably under your initial stewardship ironically, spoken out against him. That is petty, vindictive and just plain nasty. This is the sort of person you now feel comfortable supporting is it Mr Wilde ? As I have said your decision not to attend the AGM, and to leave the Doncaster game as soon as a protest song about the PLC Chairman is entirely up to you, of course it is. But there comes a point when closing your eyes and putting your fingers in your ears so that you see and hear nothing does nothing. There are none so blind as those who will NOT see. You are unfortunately supremely guilty of this Mr Wilde. I implore you to consider what you have done to the club and its supporters by allowing this man back into the club to rule it like a dictatorship, to carry out and worse still persevere with this ludicrous Dutch experiment that everybody can see is just not working. For the love of God Mr Wilde act now and rid this club once and for all of the PLC Chairman before there is no club left. He will kill Southampton FC and the “Spirit of Southampton”. Do you really want to be known as the man who gave him the weapon to do so ? Yours truly,

Dont want them to run the club, just want them to organise a rally with speakers such as MLT, Mark Dennis, David Armstrong.....people who have the respect of the supporters and can try to unite the fan base. Surely the Trust has a duty to unite the supporters of the football club, the very people they are representing ?

That is the most logical and sensible post I have seen regarding what action we can now take. Come on Saints Trust......your club needs you to organise something - show your colours, show that Rich Chorley is not the only man in Southampton who at least tries to organise a rally etc.....perhaps the ST will not get the abuse he does.

Thanks for making me smile this morning. Unfortunately or not, I agree with you 100%.

Umm......I believe that to be true......why else would he have jumped into bed with Lowe ?

I really dont believe he will, his skin is much too thick for that.

You are absolutely right. I cannot see that any manager who is halfway decent would want to work with him....and if they were in two minds there are plenty of fellow managers they could ring up and ask who have already had the dubious pleasure.

Rupert Lowe will never never never admit to making a mistake. He has put all his eggs in the one basket, he is too pig headed and too arrogant to admit he has got this horribly wrong. I dont understand why some people cannot see that knowing what this idiot is like. We are well and trully ****ed !

Nice idea but that would not force Lowe to do anything. He would probably turn it around on Crouch and say he is just making up a small amount for what the club lost whilst he was Chairman. It doesnt have to be 100% true with Lowe remember.....he's a tricky one. Now if Crouch and co. were to make public certain instances that occured whilst Lowe was trying to get back into the club, that may force his hand.

Yeah, I'm not actually sure I can remember last time we scored at home !!!

He actually rates himself as "still premiership quality" !!!!!!!!!!! oh dear !! Come On Stoke....you love our players, here's one more for ya !!!

If this is a "come and get me" plea by jason and his agent I hope someone is linstening. I doubt it though. Pity really cos just him off the wage bill would be a hell of a saving financially.

If this is a serious post then you are a complete and sad waste of space. If anyone out there had an ounce of interest or more importantly respect for you (which I would doubt) they surely have lost it by now. Its a "remember that player, the good old days" thread......so **** off back to your Lowe love in somewhere else.

"Beattie is an absolute bloody disgrace and should never wear the Saints shirt again" - Me, the game before he went on his goal streak in WGS's first season. "This Ali Dia doesnt look bad" - Me, just after his first touch was a shot on goal in his only game. I also told my old man "Perry Groves will be a bloody good signing for us" On the plus side i never liked Lowe from the first time I saw or heard him !!!!

George Mainwaring - Capt - Warmington-on-Sea DONT PANIC !!

If thats true, and i have no reason to doubt Pilchards especially, that is disgraceful and says a hell of a lot about why the "boysh" are tired playing two games in a week.

Absolutely right......cos we were playing Man Utd it has now been bought to the attention of the national media and football followers in general......still presumably in Rupert World that just means the lunatic fringe has got a bit bigger.

Actually, thinking about it, that statement is a load of crap. When the stadium was built we had the tag line from our glorious leader "We built it...You fill it".....and for 4 years we did but he still managed to screw it up didnt he ? More bums on seats will not result in better players or keeping our current better ones.....Lowe will still do whatever he wants and if you honestly believe an extra 10,000 on each gate will make any difference you are seriously deluded......just look at recent history at SMS !

We didnt exactly get "great value" against Notts Forest, Plymouth and Blackpool at home this season though did we ? We dont exactly get great value in the goal scoring stakes either do we ? I am past applauding nicely the oppositions 2 yard tap ins cos our defence is awful. I am pleased you enjoyed your day out, but if you had been to every home match this season the continual defeats would be getting on your tits by now. I have witnessed a great deal of the Disaster this season but its been very short on the Triumph front. If and when that imposter makes an appearence I will let you know if I can treat them the same !!!!

Well he isnt brilliant by any stretch of the imagination but as to why he wasnt playing or bought on today is totally beyond me....... But then so much that JP does is beyond me.