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Just what a possible buyer would not want to see. Mindless supporters.

Yep. You utter plonker, Lowe! You too, Wilde! Many of us were pleading for the club to go into Administration before the March deadline. To go into it a few days later is incompetence of the highest order. Thanks to your maladministration, and if we still exist, we will start League 2 with minus 10 points, without most of even the Academy kids, the way it is looking. You have failed us on all counts. And the consequences will be with us forever.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/b/bournemouth/8013363.stm Let's hear it for Bournemouth too. They had 17 points deducted this season. It would be terrible if they disappeared from League 2. And it could be us next. Good luck Bournemouth! Beat Grimsby! You can do it!

So most of us are all willing to help out the club's immediate needs from our hard-earned wages, PROVIDED they come clean and tell us how much is needed to get to the end of the season, and thus avoid being thrown out of the Football leagues by the FL. When will we know? Is anyone listening?

Rubbish. You are well named.

That's a bit harsh, given his, and our, circumstances. We all now have to live with the reality that the administrator is going to sell whichever players are sellable. That is his legal responsibility to our creditors. So all our players and their agents are now looking for their next employers. Administration ain't no party. This will be the case until, hopefully, the administrator finds a buyer. Then, only then, will we be in a position to negotiate new contracts with everybody, from the 'stars' to the academy players. Let's just hope that Saga has the extra incentive to impress Legia by scoring a couple of hat-tricks for us.

Another one we missed Roy Keane http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/i/ipswich_town/8013572.stm

Very clever, GM, not to mention Henry 5th who sailed from Southampton and sacked the port of Harfleur in Normandy in 1415, and Agincourt, and ..... Whatever you do, don't mention the Hundred Years War. You're clearly on to a winner here.

I got my old car out the Sunday before last and it made all of three miles before having to call the AA. Then it travelled the next three miles successfully. I think that was a sign too.

I wouldn't go as far as to say he's my favourite mug. We top that.

For all the many discussions about how to save the Saints, filling the ground on Saturday is the most immediate and positive thing that every one can do. A half or three-quarters filled ground will probably not be enough to pay all the immediate bills that must be made without cheques bouncing. If the club can't play the last match of the season, ie fulfill all our fixtures, that will be it! Extinction. Removed from the Football league. So get your mates along. Or the match against Burnley will be the last time we ever watch Saints. (This is much more important than the result imo.)

Is the SOS appeal to enable the club to fulfill it's fixtures over the next two weeks, or for the longer term.

Any idea of what funds are needed to do this, Jonah? Many of us are willing to donate hard-earned savings, but there is a top to what we can afford, and we are reluctant to put more money into a bottomless pit, without more information. Once we have spent this, that's it. Nothing more to give. We have just two fixtures to go. So how much is needed?

Really? What was the score?

Actually, that could work. Shearer needs to learn the trade in a lower division (even lower than Newcastle will be in next season). Dowie would kick players arses, and needs to restart his career. And they would attract decent players too. Plus they have Saints connections. The only draw back is that we really could do with a manager that will commit himself for several seasons, and rebuild from nothing. We need continuity and stability as much as anything.

If a group of potential leaders were to emerge from wherever, there should be a properly election of SFC members, as approved by the Electoral Reform Society, imo so that they can operate with a concensus that would come with that. Certainly they would need to detail who they are and what they stand for as part of the process.

I think we will all back whatever is the last resort in the end in last ditch hope. Even those who are and have been poles apart in their opinions. That means that all options should be discussed first. We are not hearing all of them yet.

The first sensible post on this thread. We need a completely new and professionally run beginning and structure. A complete rebirth, not a patchwork of old parts (like my ancient car).

Is that a euphimism for no masturbating? I hope so. Don't want to watch another underperforming team

I do support all efforts to keep the club going at least until the last match of the season, but yes it does hurt. That we hard-up fans are having to bale out the club, which the miserly fool Lowe (more than anyone else) ruined, is disgraceful. It does hurt that his very presence drove the fans away that could have saved the club. It hurts that the fans are now having to club together to pay (underperforming) players' wages, the electric light bill et all. But we are where we are now. The small amount I have pledged I cannot top, so the question is to which appeal does it go? Some of it whittled away to keep the club going for a few weeks, and the rest to wait in the hope that a properly organised fund to rebuild the club materialises? (It hasn't yet as far as I can see.) I applaud all the fund-raising schemes by guys such as Goodie's chippie. Lets have more of them. But to which fund(s) do the hard up fans' monies go? I am confused. We need a plan.

Amy who?

Some brilliant odes to Lowe on here. How about collecting them all and publishing for Saints survival Fund?

...Barclays are a w***k, Barclays are a w***k, etc

Unless the FL have decided in advance of the Inquiry they have set up to re-write the Rule Book and throw even more points deductions at us, like they did to Luton, and relegate us three leagues. Nothing would surprise me from the FL ******s.