| Did I See Tommy Forecast Play For Southampton 09:44 - Mar 27 with 2187 views | SaintNick |
I think he did, I have a vague recollection that after we were promoted back to the Championship in 2011 we had a meaningless friendly celebration match at St Mary's and Forecast played .
Does anyone else remember the game and Forecast playing |  |
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| Did I See Tommy Forecast Play For Southampton on 10:07 - Mar 27 with 2143 views | BLEEDRED |
Can't remember seeing him play, didn't he have a 5-year contract on high wages? Then just disappeared at the end into lower league football |  | | |
| Did I See Tommy Forecast Play For Southampton on 10:49 - Mar 27 with 2098 views | Tonyfromdk |
Apparently in his 20 year career, he’s played 34 first team games…
6 of those were with Grimsby and Gillingham. The rest were non league.
It seems he’s made a reasonable living out of doing fck all, supplementing his wages by delivering pizza.
In the words of Mr Spock “ Its life Jim, but not as we know it”. [Post edited 27 Mar 11:06]
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| Did I See Tommy Forecast Play For Southampton on 12:10 - Mar 27 with 2029 views | kernow |
I think he played as many games Tony Pulis junior, another stellar signing of the golden era of Rupert Lowe | | | |
| Did I See Tommy Forecast Play For Southampton on 12:53 - Mar 27 with 1993 views | shotters |
I’m probably wrong but wasn’t he brought in from Spurs on a deal that meant we got no sell on fee for Gareth Bale?
If what I remember is true then that’s utterly preposterous |  |
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| Did I See Tommy Forecast Play For Southampton on 13:40 - Mar 27 with 1959 views | SaintNick |
| Did I See Tommy Forecast Play For Southampton on 12:53 - Mar 27 by shotters |
I’m probably wrong but wasn’t he brought in from Spurs on a deal that meant we got no sell on fee for Gareth Bale?
If what I remember is true then that’s utterly preposterous |
He arrived as we were heading towards administration and there was a deal done where Spurs agreed to pay us a cash sum in lieu of payments potentially due in the future , we needed the money to be able to stay in existence.
The choice was get this money in and get the bank to agree to extend our overdraft for the season, or go into administration, we opted for the only realistic hope we had of survival
If we had not got this money in, it is likely that the club would have gone under, given that in the following 8 months no potential buyer emerged or at least one that was good for the club, ie one previous option was SISU and look what they did to Coventry, Lowe doesnt get good press, but he stood firm against that deal when the likes of Wilde etc wanted to sell us down the river.
Ultimately we went into administration due to the Credit Crunch back then with the banks calling in loans and overdrafts all over the place. | |
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| Did I See Tommy Forecast Play For Southampton on 16:00 - Mar 27 with 1912 views | kernow |
As per usual, fukt over by the NLYs | | | |
| Did I See Tommy Forecast Play For Southampton on 11:56 - Mar 28 with 1763 views | ericofarabia |
| Did I See Tommy Forecast Play For Southampton on 12:53 - Mar 27 by shotters |
I’m probably wrong but wasn’t he brought in from Spurs on a deal that meant we got no sell on fee for Gareth Bale?
If what I remember is true then that’s utterly preposterous |
Pretty sure that it is true.
Double Edged Sword. We needed cash up front or face
going under, but lost out big time if the rumoured 25% sell
on fee was correct, of about £20 mill when Bale went to Madrid,
indirectly making Fourpast the most expensive glovesman in The PL, not that he made any appearances!
Did he even make the bench? |  | | |
| Did I See Tommy Forecast Play For Southampton on 09:01 - Mar 31 with 1593 views | SouthSeaSaint |
| Did I See Tommy Forecast Play For Southampton on 13:40 - Mar 27 by SaintNick |
He arrived as we were heading towards administration and there was a deal done where Spurs agreed to pay us a cash sum in lieu of payments potentially due in the future , we needed the money to be able to stay in existence.
The choice was get this money in and get the bank to agree to extend our overdraft for the season, or go into administration, we opted for the only realistic hope we had of survival
If we had not got this money in, it is likely that the club would have gone under, given that in the following 8 months no potential buyer emerged or at least one that was good for the club, ie one previous option was SISU and look what they did to Coventry, Lowe doesnt get good press, but he stood firm against that deal when the likes of Wilde etc wanted to sell us down the river.
Ultimately we went into administration due to the Credit Crunch back then with the banks calling in loans and overdrafts all over the place. |
I agree with you, in some respects, re Rupert Lowe.
He was, and is, an arsehole but did oversee the move to St Marys and building a stadium for £32m seems an absolute steal in todays market. | | | |
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| Did I See Tommy Forecast Play For Southampton on 09:56 - Mar 31 with 1556 views | SaintNick |
| Did I See Tommy Forecast Play For Southampton on 09:01 - Mar 31 by SouthSeaSaint |
I agree with you, in some respects, re Rupert Lowe.
He was, and is, an arsehole but did oversee the move to St Marys and building a stadium for £32m seems an absolute steal in todays market. |
No one is disputing your description of him as a person, many things are written about the dark days of 20 years ago and sometimes the fact is distorted by fiction.
The financial downfall of the club was not brought about by Lowe, but Michael Wilde who came in as the owner and told people he had the money, employed people to go out and spend it and then it turned out he didn't have it to spend. | |
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| Did I See Tommy Forecast Play For Southampton on 10:21 - Mar 31 with 1547 views | Butty101 |
| Did I See Tommy Forecast Play For Southampton on 09:56 - Mar 31 by SaintNick |
No one is disputing your description of him as a person, many things are written about the dark days of 20 years ago and sometimes the fact is distorted by fiction.
The financial downfall of the club was not brought about by Lowe, but Michael Wilde who came in as the owner and told people he had the money, employed people to go out and spend it and then it turned out he didn't have it to spend. |
Relegation caused the financial down fall under Lowe's Watch. Him thinking he was cleverer than anyone else in football - thinking he can bring in egg chasers for example
Wilde made things 10x worse |  |
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| Did I See Tommy Forecast Play For Southampton on 15:05 - Mar 31 with 1466 views | SaintNick |
| Did I See Tommy Forecast Play For Southampton on 10:21 - Mar 31 by Butty101 |
Relegation caused the financial down fall under Lowe's Watch. Him thinking he was cleverer than anyone else in football - thinking he can bring in egg chasers for example
Wilde made things 10x worse |
It wasnt relegation that caused the financial meltdown, in our first season down in the Championship, we had sold a lot of the high paid players by the summer of 2006 when Lowe resigned
We had got most of the big wage earners off the books and brought in a reasonable amount of money.
We had a transfer kitty of around £7 million to spent to launch a challenge for promotion and under Lowe we bought Raziak for £2 million.
Then Michael Wilde came in at the end of June
We then signed 8 players Wright Phillips, Pele, Jermaine Wright, Skajel, Davis, Viafara, Makin & Idiakez.
We failed in the promotion push, and this is when it started to go wrong in 2007/08, bear in mind we sold Gareth Bale for £7 million , Chris Baird for £3 million and Kenwynne Jones for £6 million, we brought in over £17 million in transfer fees and at that stage had got the Premier League high earners off the books.
There was no reason why we were not financially solvent.
The problem was high wages, some of those bought the previous summer were being paid too much and in came Jason Euell & Stern John both said to be on £18,000 a week at a time when the average Championship wage was around £10,000 a week.
with average gates dropping to 21,000 we were living beyond our means, Wilde had overspent and we were losing money on a weekly basis.
The egg chaser bit is naive, Clive Woodward was at the time seen as one of the most innovative team coaches in World sport, he was eschewing ideas about nutrition and health, he was not involved in football tactics etc.
Harry Redknapp sneered at him talking about how in his day a breakfast in the local cafe at West Ham didn't do to bad for him, everything Woodward came into do at Saints was sneered at by Redknapp and the fans.
Yet everything that he was trying to change is now common practice in football, diet, health, protein, energy replacement drinks, you name it most sneered at him for being an egg chaser | |
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