SAINTS fans are being asked to attend a meeting tonight to discuss a campaign to effectively oust chairman Rupert Lowe.

The Southampton Independent Supporters Association want to gauge the support they have in trying to end Lowe's nine-year involvement with the club and are appealing to all fans to turn up at the Northam Social Club tonight (7.30pm).

The Daily Echo has printed many pages of letters since Saints' relegation was confirmed, with a majority critical of Lowe - though we have received letters saying the chairman shouldn't be blamed.

More than three weeks after pro-tests against Lowe outside St Mary's ensued following the defeat by Manchester United, tonight is the first public meeting called on the issue.

A SISA statement read: "Rupert Lowe has failed miserably to understand that success in contemporary top flight football demands at least a modicum of investment and ambition.

"Saints were once one of everybody else's favourite other clubs.

"Now, we are a laughing stock.

"The meeting is designed to propose a way forward and an alternative, nine long years after SISA first registered a vote of 'no confidence' in the chairman and the board.

"We have not retreated from that position for the simple reason that, stadium or no stadium, the takeover that brought Lowe in never, from day one, provided adequate investment for long term Premiership survival."

"There appears no money for new signings unless we sell our best players.

"It's time for the red-and-white army to unite and fight.

"It was President Abraham Lincoln who said: 'The most annoying thing about minorities is that they are quite usually right'."

A club spokesman on behalf of Lowe responded: "This is an independent supporters' meeting and has nothing directly to do with the club, so there is nothing to say."