Guided Missile

lol at the "King of Google" from his bedsit in Rutland...I guess that's no to a season ticket, then....just a couple of trips, if you can get a lift.... Maybe you can get your best mate Lynam to sponsor you...

So Stanley, I assume that now your boycott is over, you'll buy an ST? ...more like cadge a lift down from Rutland if you can, for a couple games... ...I'll have to warn the ticket office...:smt044

I think you need to stay out of the sun a bit more or you'll be posting more gems like this one: Now we know why you bought property in Spain...:smt044

I am sure many renewing ST holders are currently heaving a sigh of relief that they will be seeing old friends sitting near them at the Stadium next season and new players on the pitch. We have been very lucky with our new owner and it was very much a case of dumb luck. Luck that we support a club with the history that was able to attract a billionaire with the same values. It will be great if there are some new season ticket holders returning from their "noble boycott", but I doubt if there are that many. The club needs all the support it can get, but as I read the threads, there are none that I can see from the ST renewals crowing about how their support during the tough times was responsible for the fortunate position we are now in. A brief piece of advice for the "noble boycotters", buying their ST's on the back of "ridding this club" of Wilde, Lowe et al. If you happen to sit next to me, don't tap me on the shoulder and tell me to thank you for the games you boycotted, when I was walking back over Itchen Bridge, in the wind and rain from another dismal defeat. Don't explain to me how your gesture has helped me, the club, it's employees and how I should be grateful for your sacrifice. Just think for a second, realise that the position we are now in was down to luck, dumb luck and that it was a f***ing close run thing. To the stay aways, keep you mouths shut about your bitter "boycott", cheer the team on, moan about the manager, the players, the pies, whatever you want, but if...if you dare ask for my gratitude for the matches you stayed away from, during times the players needed a lift, the periods the club needed the income, don't be surprised if I grab your shiny new season ticket and shove it up your arse... We were lucky, f***ing lucky...

I forgot just how nauseating it was to read your bullsh !t. YOU STOPPED GOING BECAUSE WE GOT RELEGATED FROM THE PREMIERSHIP. NOTHING TO DO WITH LOWE, AS YOU CONFIRMED AT THE TIME. You won't deny it, because you know I have the proof....

Pray tell us which group you fall into then, Wes, so that when you post your pompous reply, I can prove, yet again, what a bullsh !tting windbag you really are....

...and in that spirit, I wonder if, like me, you have started to make a list? One of my favourite moments of recent times was the visit of Spurs to St. Mary's in the FA Cup tie. The sight of Hoddle retreating into the tunnel, as they were spanked 4:0 was nearly on a par with the hammering we gave them at White Hart Lane, shortly before he was sacked. (apologies to Dalek 2003) Now that we are stable, have a promising future and will come up against clubs and managers that have done us wrong, which will give you the greatest pleasure to beat to a pulp (figuratively speaking, of course). I will get the first dream for all of us, out of the way first: Pompey away - last game of the season - Saints send them crashing out of the 2010-2011 Championship League, back to Division 1 and a 10 point penalty for being bankrupt and a further 15 points for good measure for financial irregularities. They eventually apply to the Blue Square League and get rejected for having a cr @p ground... So many more...Mandaric, Spurs, Redknapp, Leeds, Roy Keane.....I must have missed a few...

F*** all...as you know, but to link Lowe with the failure of Seymour Pierce to raise any investment is totally wrong. They helped Wilde get rid of Lowe on the back of investment promises, FFS... BTW, Lowe failed to raise any investment while he was in charge, before you remind me... A new era and I'm willing to forgive and forget, as none of it matters, anyway. I've got my two ST's and can't wait for the season to start...

Maybe you are a crackpot and as obsessed with Lowe as many on this site. This might help bring some light into your padded cell: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/article-446565/Right-royal-football-row-rocks-Windsor.html Rupert Lowe, former FA board member and ex- Southampton chairman, is alleged to have called former Football League chairman Keith Harris a f****** disgrace within earshot of the Prince.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/2939234/Southampton-FC-shows-Lowe-the-red-card.html Wilde, who is being advised by Seymour Pierce, the City broker, believes he has more than enough support to oust Lowe and can count on the backing of Leon Crouch, who holds a 10 per cent stake in the club. Lowe holds 6.3 per cent.

No...it was the same Seymour Pierce that Wilde enlisted to get rid of Lowe and find us investment. Still, don't let your obsession be altered by the facts...

I doubt if Lowe was involved in the consortium, or that he'd use Seymour Pierce. If any of our former executives were involved with the Seymour Pierce fronted bid, it would be Wilde, who enlisted their help to get rid of Lowe in the first place and relied on them to obtain the "investment" that he had promised would be forthcoming. I agree with the sentiment, "Who Gives A F*** What This Bunch Think?" They were the advisors that gave us Wilde in the first place...

So much for the boycotting boll ox.... Embarrassing really...Rutland...member....enduring image....isn't it...?

I'm all for care in the community, but did they have to provide you internet access as well.....?

Actually it was a Saints fan vs a Spurs fan dig. It's interesting what insults the mods allow you and your chum, Alpine to get away with. Luckily there's an ignore function I can take advantage of. Byeee....

The point is that any deeply religious person bases his/her actions on his/her beliefs. That is a good thing, IMHO. It will be the basis for the choice of manager and hopefully, the disciplinary code with our young players, ie we are unlikely to have an alcoholic for a manager that turns up drunk for training, nor have players that steal money from barmaids purses...

Let's not go where? I'm proud of the club's roots and even more proud that the Stadium as now located in a multi-cultural and multi-faith area of the City, where there has been none of the problems with our fans, that were predicted by many. The founders of our club would also be proud as I am sure will our new owner. Feel uneasy? Nowhere near as uneasy as I would have felt, with Fialka in charge....

I suspected as much and it make you wonder whether he would have been inspired to spend £13-15M if the stadium would have been located in the middle of a retail park at Stoneham...

I wonder if Markus Liebherr was motivated by the history of our club to complete the deal, in competition against other bidders that may have not had that recognition in mind, but may have been more interested in the investment potential. I also wonder whether this will also drive him forward, to return the club to it's "family club" image. The Times reported: The Times understands that part of the attraction of the club to Liebherr, a deeply religious man, was that they were formed in 1885 by members of the St Mary’s Church of England Young Men’s Association, hence the “Saints” nickname. His background, IMHO, will form the basis of many of the decisions he makes with regard to the club and I would have thought that would extend to the choice of manager and behaviour of the players. I also re-read the forum rules and can see no issue with discussing Herr Liebherr's religious belief's and the way it influence(d) the way he has/will run our club but I must admit I won't be suprised if this one gets locked as well, given the attraction many so-called liberal commentators have in restricting free-speech and the expression of opinions opposite to their's...

I just wonder if the tipping point for the Swiss bid was the prospect of a Jewish owner of our football club. Things seemed to rapidly accelerate as soon as Fialka was revealed and his background became known. The money was also reported to be sourced from the North London Jewish community. We also know that Markus Liebherr is deeply religious and a committed Christian and one of the attractions of the club was/is the origin of the club being from the St Mary's Church of England Young Men's Association. I hope that people reading this don't get the impression that this is any way an anti-Semitic accusation against our new owner, because it is not. I just happen to think that the Christian roots of our great club, its history, our nickname and the location of the stadium so close to Southampton's mother church, may have been a large factor and that Markus Liebherr may have wanted to preserve this. I can see a return to our "family club image" with Markus Liebherr in charge and I hope he looks at the ground from an engineer's background and all he sees is the ease with which he could expand the capacity! I am sure that the fans will give him and his family a great welcome next Saturday and that he will one day understand what a fantastic club and set of fans he has been lucky enough to become involved with...

Cheers, although I can't see him doing much about it. I'm currently on hold to the ticket office and have been for 15 minutes. F***ing useless and was the same last season.... Update, just renewed the old fashioned way, by a pleasant girl who informed me they weren't doing renewals online this season! She seemed surprised when I told her that they were, but I couldn't renew linked seats nor get the free Ajax tickets. Still, got them now and Saints should get a new IT person ASAP....

Same problem for me. They have to do something about it.

Try to be objective and avoid misquoting what was written, FFS. I read the Times story as follows: "Meanwhile, Begbies Traynor, the firm that handled the club’s 98 days in administration, yesterday reported a 29 per cent rise in revenues to £62.1 million in the year ending April 2009, and no wonder, some will say. Although its fee was originally estimated at £500,000, it has risen to three times that amount for a performance that has impressed few. One rival consortium was especially unhappy that it was unable to succeed with a bid that was higher than that of Liebherr." You seem remarkably sanquine about the fees, seeing as you posted this not too long ago: Just stick this one in, for good measure:

Why does the phrase "As thick as thieves" comes into my mind...?

Let's just call it a pre-season, parting shot, Paddy...