posted Jun 30, 2009

As a non supporting Southampton resident, it saddens me that the Football league can take such a polarised view, without thinking of the consequences of their actions. Would any potental investor, put money into the club, knowing that they will start minus 10 points?
Are they that out of touch with the real world? The football league have a duty of care to the footballing world, and its about time they excercised it, instead of seeking shelter behing rules that clearly do not work in todays business world

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posted Jun 30, 2009

Matt Le Tissier Was so cut up on meridean news this eve and frankly that bloke has put
everything into the club and attemps to Save it
deserves a lot of praise for this what a chairman he would have made and i hope even at this late stage he can still be
All the luck in the world to Saints you Fans need it and to get behind Matt Le Tissier
buy the bloke a drink its the least you can do

Tony
farnborough

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posted Jun 30, 2009

As a football fan i would not like to see your club (or any other club except maybe Man Utd) fold and disappear.

To all those fans that think the 10 point deduction is not right (just 'cos it means no one wants to buy your club)and trying to blame to FL I ask you what your opinion was when Leeds were in a similar situation with a 15 point deduction looming ? Did you support us or were you laughing at us - don't tell me, i already know the answer!

As i said at the time when all the chairmen voted in favour of the FL and against Leeds - very short sighted chairman and what goes around comes around.

Still, i'm not bitter and do hope someone saves you.

MOT

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posted Jul 1, 2009

It'll be a real shame to see Southampton fold. I hope you can find a buyer soon. - Spurs fan

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posted Jul 1, 2009

Your comment is so wrong.
It's not Le Tissier who has taken our club to the edge of extinction, as you put it.
It's a litany of gross mismanagement over a number of years by people who should not have been allowed to even run a Subbuteo team, let alone a club that so many people have given their hearts and lives to, like Matt Le Tissier.

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posted Jul 1, 2009

I'm a Norwich fan who is moving Southampton soon and I really hope to see us play one another at Saint Mary's.
I went to 4-5 game at carrow road many years ago and it was incredible...Le Tissier ran the show. Lets hope he and anyone else connected to this can sort your mess out.
Good Luck.....and hope the saints can march on..

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posted Jul 1, 2009

This is real bad news and I feel for everyone at Southampton, you deserve better. We have people waiting at the door to take over, invest and pick up the pieces, keeping a famous club in existence and who is standing in their way ? Why ! it's the old enemy, the FL.

I fully agree with the Pinnacle stance on the appeal, they are right and the league are wrong. It is unbelievable that they will allow Southampton to die rather than climb down. This absolutely nonsensical 10 point deduction and the resulting appeal is a gagging order and it is highly likely that it would fail legally.

Having made this stupid ruling the League now find themselves in a very invidious position, a position which was inevitable. They either let Southampton GO, or rescind the judgements on Luton, Leeds, Rotherham and Bournemouth, which leaves them wide open to serious charges and damages.

Sooner or later a prospective saviour was going to seriously challenge this stupidity and they have rightly done so. The FL and the Chairmen should hang their heads in shame if the Saints fall and if they do, Mawhinny should resign immediately.

Good Luck you Saints fans, here's hoping common sense will prevail.

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posted Jul 1, 2009

Speaking as a fan of sports.

As far as I understand it this was a case where the right of appeal had to be waved.

Whatever happened to the right of due process in the first world. When did the right to have your case heard and day in court disappear to the annuals of history.

Sad when the powers that be have to resort to this type of approach because they don't obviously believe in their own case enough to have it stand up to scrutiny.

Football league, shame on you.

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posted Jul 1, 2009

wellrounded, Your comments are absolutely correct and so is the position of potential buyers Pinnacle, who are under company law, attempting to do what is best practice for the business. Indeed, in signing away their right to appeal, they could be accused of neglect.

The FL know well that a gagging order will not stand up in court and use their right to refuse entry into their competition as a form of blackmail. This morally bankrupt attitude toward a group of desperately needed investors, people fully prepared to save the football club and who are totally innocent of previous maladministration, beggars belief.

The Football League Committee have built the proverbial Camel on this one and need to call a EGM very quickly to find a way out. Frankly, from the Chairman down, they are not fit for purpose.

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posted Jul 1, 2009

As a Wolves fan I remember only too well what it is like to have (the proverbial) wolves at the door when the club is teetering on the brink of extinction. But have heart Saints fans.
Even should the worst come to pass and the club lose the Football league membership, there is hope of reforming in the non league pyramid. Looking back over history there many Cinderella stories of the fallen. Aldershot and Accrington Stanley have both returned to what for them is the big time. Newport County; Maidstone United; Bradford Park Avenue and Workington are all still going after leaving the league for financial reasons. And mostly they are only a couple of steps below the conference. And for those clubs who went out of business after leaving the league, both Halifax and Boston are going again. The only ones I do not know about are Scarborough.
And finally there is Wimbledon, who after THE cruelest twist of fate/ knife in the back sanctioned by the Football league are only one step away from returning to the Football league (nobody in the Football League would dare deny them there right to redemption by refusing them membership)!
So out of ten clubs mentioned above, at least nine are going again, and with some degree of respect.
Keep heart Saints- a dream never dies.

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