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I am told that Lee Camp's agent has probably placed the story to help with Lee's contract negotiations with Forest. Expect to see "Camp snubs Saints interest to sign new contract at Forest" very shortly.

Camp has been fantastic for Forest for a few years now, but perhaps not at his best last season. I'm not his biggest fan, too short IMO, although yes there are the odd few small keepers to show the folly of that statement. Forest have load of money now, so not sure why they would want to sell unless they intend to upgrade, which begs the question why are we going for him.

I wonder if BC will continue to only offer one month contracts. Saves paying players for that long summer period for starters. It's not as though the players actually have a better offer elsewhere. If they did they'd be there.

double relegation and bottom of League 1? How much further do they have to drop before they have paid a price?

I thought Stuart Robinson was offering the Skate Trust a £3m loan? He seems to have become a "property developer partner" and now will be acquiring the ground or is it just security for that loan? Very good of him to offer a 0% interest rate, I assume because he is a supporter, but is that rate dependent on it being paid off within 12 months (didn't spot that in the original PST budget) or is it open ended?

they didn't lie and offered consistency. That's a step forward.

we're not currently bottom 3...you might be right...not sure we would have to have been bad. Even the supposed weaker sides are decent. Fulham for example have some real quality in their side.

I theirs. I backed big Sam, even if I don't like him. Thought he did a good job there to get them up (that's what was required and that's what he achieved under tremendous pressure) even if the style of football, if what we saw at SMS was anything to go by, was ****ing terrible and everything Sam claims he doesn't serve up. I also rate Poyet.

blast. Now I'm going to have to question the David Nugent, I mean Jay Rodriguez signing. Adkins will figure it out. Love his attack away from home and win four games concept.

a bit defeatest isn't it? I seem to recall promoted sides like Burnley and even the skates beating very good manu sides early season. I certainly didn't expect us to win all or any of these games, but I certainly hoped we might. All games are winnable. Swansea beat Man City last season and they only lost 5 league games all season.

Isn't our formation problem similar to that when we had the two dutch fellas in charge. Lots of bodies in the middle to dominate possession, but fullbacks left woefully exposed to a 2 on 1 allowing pinpoint crosses to come in that are almost impossible to defend against? I have to say I loved seeing us dominate possession (when the Dutch were in charge) but 4-4-2 made us much tougher to beat, if reducing our ability to control games. The solution therefore is to ensure that the left and right midfield are just that, midfielders, not wingers or free roaming ball players, they are midfielders that get up and down. Whether we support those with 2 or 3 in the middle and whether one of those is a luxury player is a different matter. Protect the fullbacks seems to the order of the day. Well that's one theory...

you may have posted it elsewhere, but please tell me what formation did you have in mind and using what players?

If I was looking for a player more pace than Lallana, Puncheon would be down there with Fox and Butterfield on my list.

Dayton, Drayton, very little difference.

not looking very hard then as every man and his dog seems to be crying like a girl about us not signing 23 new players in the window. Signing two whole strikers when we already had a bloody good one is now seen as a crime. How dare we sign the best we could get across the side before we had bought two in every defensive position first. How dare we. 2 GK 1 CB 1 RB 1 CM 1 AM 2 CF and a partridge in a pear tree.

Lallana tries very hard, no doubt about it, but he lacks pace and is not the best defensive player positionally or decision wise and that's putting it mildly. He simply got done, as he did a fair few times last season I might point out. Playing slightly further forward is not going to help matters either. too ask to charge forward AND be expected to track runners to your own byline too.

what tactics had you in mind and tell me,`what if' we had used them, would the outcome have been different?

we didn't need a bit of pace and trickery up front?

he packs the centre to try and keep the ball and stop teams waltzing through the middle. That leaves us open out wide. Spread us more thinly across the middle and we become exposed, er, down the middle. It's a catch 22. At some point he is going to have to trust the players to play 4-4-2 though. Either that or we go for a 4-5-1 (not a 4-3-3.

exactly what I was thinking. £8m to come with £3m disappearing fast from the bank account. By the time the new owner is approved and PKF paid off it will be closer to £8m than £11m. Perhaps we're wrong. I can't imagine the PST have budgeted for £11m of PP to compliment their property developer loan and pledges.

Championship sides simply weren't interested. Why on earth would you take a month contract (on "hardly anything" according to appleton) if there was even the hint of a 12 month contract elsewhere? if Forrest had wanted him they'd of signed him, the same goes for Bristol City.

just exactly how much PP money remains?

and the response http://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/football/portsmouth/fb_news.php?storyid=18258

For me he's a centre midfielder and very scholes-like. Needs games though

oh ****