yellow&blue Posted 22 May, 2012 Share Posted 22 May, 2012 http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18152689 lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
COMEONYOUREDS Posted 22 May, 2012 Share Posted 22 May, 2012 http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18152689 lol http://www.theshedend.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
This Charming Man Posted 22 May, 2012 Share Posted 22 May, 2012 Not good enough for us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Le God Posted 22 May, 2012 Share Posted 22 May, 2012 (edited) Oh, how different it might have been... http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11700_2278049,00.html + http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11700_2271287,00.html Edited 22 May, 2012 by Matthew Le God Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glasgow_Saint Posted 22 May, 2012 Share Posted 22 May, 2012 Billy Sharp is better imho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VectisSaint Posted 22 May, 2012 Share Posted 22 May, 2012 Apparently he is running the lympich torch relay in swindon tomorrow, so is presumably planning to link up with De Canio next season. I will try to trip him up tomorrow as he runs past and see if I can get a scoop (he will presumably dive and roll around for a while first but I will stick by my task). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamster Posted 22 May, 2012 Share Posted 22 May, 2012 Scored some great goals v saints. Makes our job of taking the title next year a bit easier. Adam's stock will increase at this news. Amongst others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSAINT Posted 22 May, 2012 Share Posted 22 May, 2012 Oh, how different it might have been... http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11700_2278049,00.html + http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11700_2271287,00.html Sucks that we got Griffit instead of Adebayor doesn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redondo Saint Posted 22 May, 2012 Share Posted 22 May, 2012 Oh, how different it might have been... http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11700_2278049,00.html + http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11700_2271287,00.html This really does make terrible reading.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Munster Posted 22 May, 2012 Share Posted 22 May, 2012 Oh, how different it might have been... http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11700_2278049,00.html + http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11700_2271287,00.html "Guingamp were looking in the region of £2.5 million for him, but Southampton were only willing to pay £1.5 million." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thedelldays Posted 22 May, 2012 Share Posted 22 May, 2012 "Guingamp were looking in the region of £2.5 million for him, but Southampton were only willing to pay £1.5 million." HAHA you got to love the old southampton way...eh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Window Cleaner Posted 22 May, 2012 Share Posted 22 May, 2012 "Guingamp were looking in the region of £2.5 million for him, but Southampton were only willing to pay £1.5 million." And yet we paid nigh on 4 million for that dork from Ecuador and his cousin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel=God-Poyet=Sod Posted 22 May, 2012 Share Posted 22 May, 2012 Oh, how different it might have been... http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11700_2278049,00.html + http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11700_2271287,00.html What a **** Rupert Lowe was!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thedelldays Posted 22 May, 2012 Share Posted 22 May, 2012 it was clear, every single person at the club said we HAD to sign him...for £2.5m...we said, no thanks LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wes Tender Posted 22 May, 2012 Share Posted 22 May, 2012 What a **** Rupert Lowe was!! Well, you just know that the Lowe attitude would have been that he would have earned far less in his own country, so he ought to be grateful to come to us. Lowe would take him out clay pigeon shooting to build up team spirit. How many clubs were offering that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buctootim Posted 22 May, 2012 Share Posted 22 May, 2012 (edited) Many of you now berating Lowe for his 'stupidity' in not signing a French second division player with a good but not outstanding scoring record for £2.5m 10 years ago would have used the same stick to beat him with if he had signed and flopped. Nothing worse than hypocrites with hindsight imo. Edited 22 May, 2012 by buctootim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel=God-Poyet=Sod Posted 22 May, 2012 Share Posted 22 May, 2012 Well, you just know that the Lowe attitude would have been that he would have earned far less in his own country, so he ought to be grateful to come to us. Lowe would take him out clay pigeon shooting to build up team spirit. How many clubs were offering that? Duck shooting wasn't it?! Haha, such a missed opportunity. I bet Lowe thought he was such a good businessman when he turned Drogba down. Duck off Lowe! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel=God-Poyet=Sod Posted 22 May, 2012 Share Posted 22 May, 2012 Many of you now berating Lowe for his stupidity in not signing a French second division player with a good but not outstanding scoring record for £2.5m 10 years ago would have used the same stick to beat him with if the same player had flopped. Nothing worse than hypocrites with hindsight imo. That is true, but hindsight has given us the perfect opportunity to berate him nonetheless. Even you admitted his stupidity. Did good for us by building St Mary's and building up our academy and we are all grateful for that, but he didn't really look too far into the future in terms of financial security, did he. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buctootim Posted 22 May, 2012 Share Posted 22 May, 2012 That is true, but hindsight has given us the perfect opportunity to berate him nonetheless. Even you admitted his stupidity. Did good for us by building St Mary's and building up our academy and we are all grateful for that, but he didn't really look too far into the future in terms of financial security, did he. tbf fair that is a spectacularly dumb post. Would it have made it easier to read if I had put the 'stupid' in inverted commas? So he was stupid for being a tightwad with Drogba and also culpable for not looking into the future in terms of financial security...... right o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bpsaint Posted 22 May, 2012 Share Posted 22 May, 2012 Scored some great goals v saints. Makes our job of taking the title next year a bit easier. Adam's stock will increase at this news. Amongst others. Hate to be a pedant but Drogba has never scored against us. Time for Torres to step up now, he's got some big boots to fill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Le Tissier Posted 22 May, 2012 Share Posted 22 May, 2012 Billy Sharp is better imho This has made my day hahahaha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legod Third Coming Posted 22 May, 2012 Share Posted 22 May, 2012 So we could have sold him to Chelsea for £24m in 2004 and staved off administration - well done Rupert, as graves go you did a fine job with the shovel... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legod Third Coming Posted 22 May, 2012 Share Posted 22 May, 2012 Many of you now berating Lowe for his 'stupidity' in not signing a French second division player with a good but not outstanding scoring record for £2.5m 10 years ago would have used the same stick to beat him with if he had signed and flopped. Nothing worse than hypocrites with hindsight imo. Fans rarely berate a Chairman for showing ambition - they recognise he can't dictate whether the player is any good. His job is to employe people (scouts and coaches) to tell him this... And while our scouts often did, Rupert had this crazy idea that Lloyd James would grow into the role... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buctootim Posted 22 May, 2012 Share Posted 22 May, 2012 So we could have sold him to Chelsea for £24m in 2004 and staved off administration - well done Rupert, as graves go you did a fine job with the shovel... With your amazing potential talent spotting skills and business acumen you could be so much more than a simple lookatme on a web forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buctootim Posted 22 May, 2012 Share Posted 22 May, 2012 (edited) Fans rarely berate a Chairman for showing ambition - they recognise he can't dictate whether the player is any good. His job is to employe people (scouts and coaches) to tell him this... And while our scouts often did, Rupert had this crazy idea that Lloyd James would grow into the role... But you have no idea exactly what the scouts said, how much money Drogba wanted in wages, how much cash we had to spend - or indeed what Lowe thought of Lloyd James. Its facile to try and re-interpret with the benefit of hindsight decisions made 10 years ago. Yes Drogba turned out to be a missed opportunity. Bale, Walcott and Ox Chamb were opportunities which were taken. Some you win some you lose. Edited 22 May, 2012 by buctootim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legod Third Coming Posted 22 May, 2012 Share Posted 22 May, 2012 With your amazing potential talent spotting skills and business acumen you could be so much more than a simple lookatme on a web forum. Yawn... Must be tough to cling on to regime that bankrupted us with incompetence and not join in the fun now we actually have a future... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buctootim Posted 22 May, 2012 Share Posted 22 May, 2012 (edited) Yawn... Must be tough to cling on to regime that bankrupted us with incompetence and not join in the fun now we actually have a future... Not clinging on to anything. Clearly where we are is better than where we were. Berating any manager or chairman because they didnt sign an average perfoming French second divison striker for £2.5m 10 years ago and they later turned out to be good is just the height of idiocy. Edited 22 May, 2012 by buctootim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CWD Posted 22 May, 2012 Share Posted 22 May, 2012 http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18152689 lol I don't understand why you lolled. Nothing lolworthy was said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpturner Posted 22 May, 2012 Share Posted 22 May, 2012 Is this saints related? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thedelldays Posted 22 May, 2012 Share Posted 22 May, 2012 Isn't a club out there that hasn't made bad judgements on some players. Hindsight doesn't half help. its a case it seemed...delagdo/drogba I wonder if our scouts/staff were saying such great things about 'tino....at the time like Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legod Third Coming Posted 22 May, 2012 Share Posted 22 May, 2012 Not clinging on to anything. Clearly where we are is better than where we were. Berating any manager or chairman because they didnt sign an average perfoming French second divison striker for £2.5m 10 years ago and they later turned out to be good is just the height of idiocy. You're right, apart from not signing Drogba, he proved himself a brilliant chairman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Munster Posted 22 May, 2012 Share Posted 22 May, 2012 And yet we paid nigh on 4 million for that dork from Ecuador and his cousin. Quite a bargain compared to the 4 million for Decrap (who was 3 times better than Drogba, according to the rosy cheeked bastard). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smirking_Saint Posted 23 May, 2012 Share Posted 23 May, 2012 And yet we paid nigh on 4 million for that dork from Ecuador and his cousin. We could have got Forlan instead for 500k, but Lowe knew better, always stunk a bit that signing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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