CB Fry

The only hope is the fact that they have battered us and deserve to win easily (as it sounds on the radio) but are only one nil up. The kind of game if it was the other way round Saints could easily **** up and end up with only a point or even losing if the tide turns. So Swindon could still blow it. I know its a long shot, but it's all I've got for you.

Because SaintsTV (as was) have the exclusive licence. I was hoping that would have died off with admin, but Saints Player seem to have sewn it up again, but I haven't subscribed this year. It is a joke charging for radio coverage of third tier football. (Liebherr out etc).

I don't understand which part of "I don't have any money now but I will have £100m in six months" you lot find so implausible. We'll be laughing on the other side of our faces when Diego Maradona leads out Requilme, Eto'o, Ribery and the rest of the Portsmouth team in the World Cup final against Brazil next July.

LOL. Fair point. At least I've not taken my own advice - ten years in and I've given the old ten grand freeload-a-thon the swerve for now. But I do have the mortgage, the "quiet nights in" and the ever expanding mountain of kids toy plastic growing round my feet......so I'm only "free" on paper Love your description of the family by the way - sounds about right to me!

'Arry's just been on Five Live slating his "spiritual home", revisiting the fact they only cobbled together 17,000 for the first Prem game of the season and spluttering at the notion of them filling a 30-40,000 seater stadium. "They can't do it". Also, hilariously, he talked about Defoe being sold for much less than they paid for him. The common denominator each end of those those deals being..... And a snorted "I'll believe it when I see it" when the studio panel were telling him the Doctor megabucks deal is still on. I think he had a text on his phone from someone telling him otherwise, he hinted as much. Arf. Always liked the bloke, me.

Wotton definitely wouldn't beat this one. A really quick mover. It was there. And then, in a flash Gone.

Remember Corp has already told us Sacha's only using Portsmouth "as a toy" - he couldn't give two hoots about making any profits or anything as tasteless as that. Just a little plaything he bought to cheer up the gypos in Paulsgrove for a couple of years who he loves so deeply. Probably more than his own family. Who cares about silly old money? Just a toy. Not for profit. No sirree.

So it is, but you brought it up on here to have a whine. And anyway, I like the principle of people's savings being saved for covering them should they find themselves or their family jobless, or ill, or in trouble, or to treat themselves to a wedding, a car or a holiday. Not to be guilttripped out of their accounts into some pie in the sky football club scheme when there were businesses out there ready to take the debts on professionally. Now you know what it would have felt like to everyone else.

Funny that Milan made a fat profit out of you though, aint it? And Funny that the ulitmate "I'm only doing it for the love of the club" ultramegafan pompeytillIdie owner Sacha seems pretty darn keen to get all his investment back. It's a toy but your current owner is holding up the queue in Woolies with a reciept in his hand ranting about speaking to the store manager. He wants his money back, mush. Or, to put it another way, he's "doing it for profit".

Seems to me there's a massive difference between you gobbing off on here, in the Echo and elsewhere about people putting hands in their pockets left right and centre and you actually contributing your own money to something. As is often the case, it is so much easier getting on one's high horse when you are spending someone elses money. You seem incredibly attached to your own, though. PSML at you running off to the small claims court to claim back an amount less than you were demanding normal saints fans cough up for your little scheme not so long ago.

Actually, no they wouldn't. It isn't like us where we could screw Aviva down to accepting a fraction of the total mortgage on SMS. Pompey's debt is all player wage related. And the PFA (and the PL) will demand all player debts are honoured. Every penny of it. In football you can't walk away from those debts. You can with the Pie Supplier and St John's Ambulance, but not with players - it is written. That's why Leeds were still paying Robbie Fowler four years later and why there is so little wriggle room for our friends down the road.

Actually I think he said IF we're mid table by christmas, we're going for the play offs after that (ie loads of teams that are mid table at Christmas make the play offs) - the quote was about going for promotion, not hoping to stay up. Pardew wants success, not poncing about making out fourth from bottom is "all we can expect" like some dipsticks on this forum like to.

Woodward didn't recommend Poortvilet, that was Wotte and some other Dutch bloke pre Burley. Indeed it was ludicrous from day one, including me who slated them from day one flying in the face of the "give-them-a-chance-Alex-Ferguson-took-five-years-blah-blah" brigade droning on. Useless idiots. I'm not defending Lowe for appointing the tw* t, but just annoyed that as long as anyone says disparaging things about Lowe then they become a Saints cult hero by default. JP having a pop at Lowe now is just a cheap way of hiding his own useless tw *ttishness. And people on here lap it up. Lap it up. He said Lowe interfered, everyone. Let's name a stand after him. What an all time Saints legend. Well he isn't, wasn't and never will be - he was a useless idiot from day one, should never have been given the job, but was even worse at it than any of us dared dread.

Radio Five talked about "thousands of empty seats" in Farton. Easily the most passionate fanbase in Europe.

LOL. Chief bloody ringleader in guilt tripping people to pledge money into a bottomless pit a few weeks back, leading to boat loads of posters talking about donating their savings of one, two three odd grand each....is now bleating about 200 quid. Can't you accept your contribution was "for the good of the club" - you seemed happy to spend everyone elses money in your own head not so long ago.

Well if "I was completely unaware of the level of the league I was in" isn't a lie then fine. But to take a job as head coach of a club in a league "he didn't know the level of" is taking money under false pretences. So he is a liar. Or, more accurately, an idiot. Portvilet is getting heroworshipped for being an imbecile. Can't believe what some people are posting here.

There are some Divs on this forum, aint there? Jan says he was "completely unaware" of the "level" of the league he was in - the English second tier the fifth most popular league in Europe and probably the fifth richest. Completely unaware? Completely unaware? But because he peppers his quotes with a few vaguely anti-Lowe rentaquotes you lap it up. Poor old Jan he loves Saints through and through etc etc etc. Completely unaware of the level of the league. God help us.

Thanks for that insight into our predicament from gawd, three months ago. And yes, that'll be a Portsmouth supporter posting on a Southampton Football Club forum. Again. And again. And again. You are utterly besotted with us. Do try and get over it.

Why are we talking to Bolton?

Delays in completing the deal have been put down to the need to conduct due diligence and the completion of legal niceties. Looks like they've started work on the second round of due diligence. Because they'd completed due diligence according to Dr and Storie a few weeks back . But just to make sure, always worth doing it twice, ain't it. LOLtastic.

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11661_5471394,00.html Nikola Kalinic has signed for.............

Yeah, but you're still buying Riquelme, right?

LOL. Pompey fan in "we don't want any money-obsessed mercenaries" about turn shock. Don't tell me - all you want now are players just playing for the shirt - after all, what's the use of a load of galacticos clogging up the team with their demands for money and stuff. Far better to bring in a few ex-Crewe reserve teamers with a bit of "passion", eh? A busker with Alzheimer's wouldn't change his tune so quickly. Paying players wages? Euggh. Disgusting. Not at Newpompey of Dubai FC. Pant wettingly hilarious. Let's see if Rovers can stump up the billions he's asking for shall we?

Blackburn Rovers have emerged as the favourites to sign Croatia international striker Nikola Kalinic from Hajduk Split. The 21-year-old has also been linked with Portsmouth in recent weeks, but Kalinic's agent has suggested that Rovers are in pole position to seal a deal. Tomislav Erceg told The News: "When we arrived in Portsmouth on Tuesday, they told us to wait until Friday morning. "We didn't want them to play games with us so we decided to leave straight away for London. "In the meantime, we received a concrete offer from Blackburn, who were interested since the beginning. So we immediately left London for Blackburn. "They greeted Kalinic like a true star and they are expecting big things from him this season." Hajduk president Mate Peros added: "Blackburn was the best one of all the offers we have received to date. "Very quickly we finished the talks with the club."

I've cancelled today as well, £35 is just too much for L1 commentary, especially as none of the blurb on this new service mentions "exclusive" commentary, which was the selling point (or gun-to-the-head) of SaintsTV. If I can get Saints commentary from Solent (or somewhere else) online (which I think I can) then I don't need to spend £35.