CB Fry

No. It's in the press release and this new show is on Mondays.

Diddums. Whereas some chump on here with a bit of "inside info" is lauded as a hero. If people didn't want inside information on their football club, there would be no need for sites like this for a start. Do you really want all your Saints news spoon fed to you via official, generic, anodyne diktats from the official site? This is a worrying and unnessesary development and should be reversed immediately.

Plymouth aren't punching above their weight, they are a second tier team. Pulis and Holloway did a better job at Argyle than Luggy did. And I like Luggy, it was a shame it didn't work out at Saints but I think his tenure would have ended in failure even if he was given longer. There is no question he is an excelllent lower tier manager - his record at PAFC first time, Sheff Weds and Swindon prove this. But like TDD says, he just does not cut it higher up.

Quite. At the end of the day Capello is one of the world's great football managers with his own hand picked team around him. If he needs Le Tiss he'll call him, but I doubt he does.

In Spring 2002 Sven would have been England manager for what, a year and a bit, fifteen months. So why would he be "shocked" say "is that really so" to some bloke telling him England aren't very good at penalty shootouts? He'd know. Every single interviewer and press conference from the minute he was appointed would have mentioned penalties, especially as "spring 2002" would have been the lead in to his first major tournament. You were hardly offering sparkling insight. Christ.

I think If a team ceases to exist then all the other teams have their points and goals gained against them removed, meaning the adjusted league table reflects a world where said club never existed in the first place. So everyone would have fewer number of matches, so it would even itself out anyway. And it wasn't a pro rata penalty, it was a flat ten point deduction. So it's a "no" from me I think we should ban the phrase pro rata from this forum forthwith. It is getting slightly annoying now....

In a poll of ten options, where two of the ten have secured nigh-on 80% of the votes, I can't seen any desperate need for more options. Just a thought.

Hope not. We're creating new heroes now, we don't need any old (and expensive) ones. Beattie was a mini-legend for what he achieved with us, but we move on.

LOL at you continuing to peddle the "it's my jolly clever concept other people just don't understand" line. Most of us have a perfectly good grasp on how we are doing in reality without pretending we've only had 5 points deducted, or 0.21 per game or whatever nonsense you are trying to manufacture. You are overcomplicating a perfectly simple league table with a formula that doesn't need to exist and aids no-one's understanding. Without the minus ten, we'd be sixth. We'd be the sixth best team in the league. On recent form, we're doing even better. We need title winning form here on in to have a chance of making the play-offs. No-one needs to pretend we've only had 5 points deducted at Christmas to understand this. You're over-thinking a problem that simply isn't there. PS - how many leagues do you know where all the teams simply "continue with the same average form they've shown so far". Have you ever even followed a football season before?

Yeah, agreed - need to keep his feet on the ground though. Let's not start alerting those mediocre Prem teams any more than they already are!!

We could always do a poll first on "who is your second favourite player of the season so far" and then exclude the winner from the subsequent real "player of the season so far" poll, much like we saw in that really odd Saints Best ever 11 A team/B team poll thing during the summer.

I voted first, check me out, and I voted for Lambert. We needed goals and boy is he delivering.

If you do want serious advice, do what the man says above. Saying your presentation out loud for real is by far the best practice. Actually hearing yourself talk through it is far better than sitting in front of powerpoint thinking about it. That said, Jawillwill's comment made me LOL a lot.

Someone will be on this thread in a minute saying "pro-rata" we've only actually drawn most of those games and we actually still owe the league some points or something.

To be fair, if our second ten games were as bad as our first ten games then Pardew should have been sacked. Think how fantastic our run has been and we've only been out of the bottom four for a week. Fantastic football and performances and it gets us out of the bottom four only in December. That's how difficult it has been. If our first twenty games were a continuation of the first ten we'd be royally screwed and Pardew's role would have been untenable immediately. Sad but true. That's all people were saying back then, and they were right to. It's a bloody internet forum. That's all. PS - LOL at the people who spent the autumn making out we'd only ever scrape fifth from bottom this season. I said Play offs were the aim in August, got slated for being unrealistic by those delivering pompous "reality checks" like they knew best. Well, we'll see what "reality" looks like come May, won't we?

Don't you think the gross "distortion" would be to pretend that on the first game of the season we had only minus 0.21 of a point deducted, when we had ten points deducted. We had ten points deducted at the start of the season. Ten points deducted. The league did not say "we are deducting 0.21 points for every game you play". They deducted ten points at the start of the seaosn. For the games we've played, we've accumulated 32 points. So, in your dopey words "to get a true idea of how we are performing relative to the other teams in the same league, the only valid measure" is the fact we've accummulated 32 points. End of. Because, at the start of the season we had ten points deducted. Not at the end of the season, as you claim. At the start of the season. We had ten points deducted then. At the start of the season. Ten points. Deducted. Start. Season. Of. And, how are you measuring every other teams' points tally? Can you tell me how many points Leeds have currently, or Hartlepoool, or Exeter? Or is it only Southampton that have to have their current points divided into the games they haven't played yet? Finally, again, in your words, I appreciate that this concept may be a little difficult for you to understand, but if the league table means nothing until the last game has been completedthen I strongly recommend you don't look at any league tables until Mid-May, because the ones you are looking at are making your little brain hurt. Bless. Utter madness. But hilarious.

It is completely bizarre. If you ignore the ten point deduction you are left with the points we have gained in the games we've played, for real. Just like all the other teams. 32 points. We'd have 32 points if the minus ten wasn't in place. Simple. This idea of "adding the deduction in gradually" is nonsense. This is a football league table, we're not making a souffle. And, one last point, the points deduction don't "actually take effect" at the end of the season. They "took effect" the minute we got our golden share back in the summer. That's why we had a sodding great -10 figure next to us in the league before we'd kicked a ball. Christ.

No-one turns up at SMS primarily because they don't like Portsmouth. For almost our entire time in the top flight Pompey were an irrelevence to us, and now, unfortunately, the opposite is the case. Both of us have had success and failure irrespective of the other. If they go out of existance (they won't) it won't make any difference to us.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/p/portsmouth/8394092.stm Don't panic everyone, they've got a loan. Does anyone know whether they have taken out any other loans before this?

I think the FA ran an initiative a couple of seasons ago where x number of selected games in some round were £10 a ticket rather than the official minimum rate. So they might do that again.

LOL.

Actually, blame the council. Anyone on the council with a bit of foresight would know that by 2018 SFC would still exist and SMS would still exist. Admin was always going to be a short term bit of turbulence. They could have ploughed on and bid regardless. And a WC bid could have actually sped the process of our takeover up a little, as it instantly makes the ground a tiny bit more valuable in the future. It's the council wot didn't do it, administration was not completely irrelevent, but is being as an excuse for the council bottling it.

Anyone remember the good old days when Pompey was just Gaydamak's rich man's toy and he would never be so bothered about such vulgar things like getting his money back or a return on investment? He was just chucking money at his beloved Pompey for his own amusement and for his love of the literally hundreds of world's-best-fans Pompey have. Pretty sure if you scroll back on this very thread Mr Ho makes such claims. But I can't be bothered.

Those of us that are really pernickety would say that persnickety is a dreadful Americanism. If you are American, you are excused.

LOLtastic. How could one post be so wrong.