Guided Missile

I think it's a fair post leaving me wondering why, after Wilde pitched up, you suddenly thought Lowe was the devil and Wilde the answer to everything. It's clear to me that you lost all objectivity when you led the Saints Trust to the fatal decision to back Wilde and to this day, you try and steer every thread towards an anti-Lowe egenda, when that 2005 post shows you were actually grateful for what he had achieved. Crouch apologised in the Echo for backing Wilde. Why the **** can't you?

Alright, Steve, here's a "scathing" critique of Lowe by you on the Saints' list from 2005. I struggled hard to see where your financial concerns were voiced, nor any anti-Lowe rhetoric. Finger on the pulse? More like a finger up your nose....

The most recent post of yours' I was unfortunate enough to read was this one: I am struggling to get the sense from this one, that you currently think it will be impossible to come up with any funds....

Look around you, Steve. Read the papers. Smell the air. WE'RE IN THE WORST RECESSION FOR 80 YEARS. There's no money, there will be no money and the game is up for this club, I am afraid to say. Anyone turning up for the rest of the season is simply helping to pay Barclay's back. If we'd been spared the Trust's attempts to get a fan on the board, by bending over as soon as Wilde and his team of spongers and egotists road into town, maybe, just maybe, we'd have survived in the Championship. Just admit it. The Trust, when you were chairman, should share the blame for helping to put the most incompetent businessman in Jersey, in charge of our old club, just because he threw you some shares. "I never assumed the change in ownership would lead to a massive influx of cash". No, sh** Sherlock. Putting your hero in charge lead to a "massive outflow of cash", that has bankrupted us....

Mark, I think the following old posts will show you how out of touch Steve was, regarding the Trust's choice to replace Lowe. From 0 to a £6.5M overdraft in two years was exactly the way douche bag Wilde was running Merlion. Scouser through and through.....

How about "Let's Go Broke"?

It's owned by SLH, which is in Admin. The football club is hardly in a position to operate independently, particularly as the meaningful assets are owned by SLH and over which the main creditors have a charge. No, the administrators are in charge of SFC until the club is sold to Crouch et al, when he will promptly have Wilde flogged and exiled back to the B&B he runs in Jersey...

The administrators are in charge, ie Begbies Traynor.... Article from Accountancy Age, 09 Nov 2007: "Begbies Traynor has snapped up the corporate recovery division of Leeds-based firm Bartfields, bringing well-known practitioner Gerald Krasner into its fold. Krasner is most well known for serving as chairman of debt-ridden football club Leeds United, effecting its successful sale – with considerably less debt - to Ken Bates."

I dug up two old posts of mine and think we might be in a position to remove both of the main stumbling blocks, IMHO, to our progress in the choppy waters of a recession, namely a ridiculously high interest charge on the stadium loan and a pointless AIM listing cost. Between them, ie a renegotiated 4.5% fixed interest rate on the stadium loan and an elimination of £250K in the fees our professional advisors rip us off, for our pointless AIM listing, I reckon we could save enough to pay off our creditors in a couple of years, if our attendance and income hold up.

What was more common, was the Cardiff fans I met in the Pitcher and Piano, having some friendly banter with them and wishing each other well. The bloke I saw in the pink top was nothing like them and fighting drunk. The incident had nothing to do with Saints fans, as they were all in the ground when it happened. There are plenty of pubs in Southampton I wouldn't go into, looking for a fight and I know there are plenty in Cardiff as well...

The Cardiff fan that deliberately barged into my son was a drunken jerk-off in a pink top, looking for a scrap with someone smaller than him....

A Cardiff "fan" in a pink top was walking back to the Chapel Arms, 15 minutes before kick-off, with a mate and they were both plastered and looking for trouble. The guy in the pink top deliberately walked into my son as we were walking towards the ground and when my son said what the **** did you do that for, he mouthed some Welsh obsenities and went on his way. I have no idea whether this guy in the pink top was the same one that sadly lies in Southampton General at the moment, but if it is the same one, he was looking for a fight and apparently found one....

It was the AGM...sorry....

The EGM was held a few weeks ago when there was an opportunity to remove the incumbent board. The transfer window closed a few weeks ago, when there was an opportunity to add/subtract from the playing squad. By all means pi ss and complain with the rest of the bunch, but don't try and tell me what our "real" problems are the moment. To anyone with half a brain, they are what goes on in the 90+ minutes of the games we are to play between now and the rest of the season. Or, let's put it this way....during the evacuation of Dunkirk, calling for a General Election would not have been high on my list of priorities.

I don't believe that for a minute. The loudmouth's on this forum and elsewhere "boycott" the games because we are a losing team in the Championship. Any claims about a noble war for the soul of the club, true fans fighting against the composition of the board of directors are lies....

Am I the only poster that believes the makeup of the board means naff all in the grand scheme of things, when compared with the makeup of the team?? Crouch coming back would not win the team an extra throw in between now and the end of the season, nor would Lowe leaving...

He quite rightly ripped the sh !t out of Wiseman, saying that he should wait until Saints are dead before he carried out an inquest. A lot more besides, but basically called for everyone to shut the **** up and get behind the club. I suggest that every fan reads the piece carefully...

I don't think that the money you spend with Ryanair once a season, to get away from your mother-in-law, really counts, does it? Now get back to the washing up, before I put you on ignore....

Must be one of the questions the Saints Trust is trying to answer, but I have to disagree that this particular organisation can claim to represent the fans. I don't think the demonstration of an ability to string a few words together on a website gives you any particular claim, nor the desire to march to the stadium behind a few wannabe shop stewards. I also don't think that holding a position within the club or owning shares gives you that right. In these times of adversity, a quick glance at the average attendances will tell anyone who makes up the bulk of the support. It is the ST holders, the scarf and flask brigade that cheer and laugh, boo and cry, but whatever the circumstances, populate the stadium when the casuals head for the hills. So, when is a representative body going to talk on their behalf? The silent 10,000, drowned out by the agitators, many of whom never go to St. Marys, but just need something to replace the shop steward's role they had at the docks. So this is how it could work. When the ST renewal forms come round, there is a box to tick on whether you are willing to donate a tenner to this organisation. The club collects the money and distributes voting forms, with the undertaking that the ST holder voted for, gets a seat on the football board to represent the fans views. The rest of the fans? They get to whinge on here....

Only you could slag someone off, using a parable....I can't wait for the story of the camel and the eye of a needle.

I know how much you like slagging people off, from your Austrian bunker, so here's a previous post of mine that you can use. I'm sure you'll get a hard-on in no time, thinking of a biting reposte.

I love to read the words of wisdom, on what the true state of the club's finances are, from people without the benefit of up to date management figures. I also love to read how the highly qualified, university graduates provide us with an insight into how exactly the board should be running the club. I just have one question for these clever people whose only wish is to see our club prosper. If they are so clever, why aren't they rich? Rich, as in rich enough to buy the club and solve our problems. My guess is that they are not rich, or successful and because of that, their only option is to try and belittle other peoples efforts in the unpredictable and highly difficult job of running a business....

Posted by the chairman of the Saint's Trust during the "Going Wilde" and Ted Bates statue period, I will have to defer to your extensive experience in bumbling incompetency.

I have a feeling that Dalek 2003 will be posting shortly...

True, although I'd prefer to call it God's country...