suewhistle

Thanks guys, I wonder how many creditors wish they'd voted a different way?!

Remind us, when is the first CVA payment due, ta. (This is one thread that's so big I feel justified in asking knowing that somebody will know off the top of their head)..

Yep, but he'd still terrify a tiring defence with his pace and maybe earn a few free kicks into the bargain.

Thanks for the comments TO, it's always good to get a different perspective but I'm going to have to go with the reports biased for Saints!;-)

Whew....shouting at the screen DOES work!

Nice one. I'll laugh later, if you don't mind!;-)

Oh, I do hope shouting "COME ON" at the screen is going to help...

What a relief... I think there's a wine festival in a local village I might go. Red and White here we come..

Hahhaa - you couldn't make it up!

I made some with Italian sloes last year but they're pretty difficult to find round here (which reminds me I'd better pick em before the birds...). Anybody near Maidenhead I noted back on my summer visit that there were a load of sloes on Maidenhead Thicket. Where I used to live in Ampshire the competition for sloes used to be fierce!

Friends of mine in Berkshire used to play against Broadmoor - both home and away games there, funnily enough! But thinking about it, the players there were round the bend mad and bad: Pompey as a club are just bad... @soppyoldsod A buyer? Mwah, hah, hah. Serious head back on; what would they be buying?

Well, it patently can't under with its present crowds and STILL large wage bill. Lets not forget the pitiful payments to be made for the CVA, which although small still have to be found. That's before we get started on the 'black hole' - which seems a pretty apt simile. Surely it must all be posited in getting back to the premier league and those juicy TV monies? And where exactly do I find Pompey on that helpful skysports page? Next to Preston North End, and they haven't even got the alphabetical order right.:-)

Oh well, off to get tiddly. My last saturday night before my signing on comes through and I start being sensible for Sunday games....

Can't someone else take it?

I take it nothing happened...

Forza guly!

Second half needs a different approach - I'm off to clean the kitchen...

Just been off practising the flute and got back for half time; that doesn't seem to have worked either. I knew it ws a bad sign when I saw we were only up to 3 pages on the thread. Mind you, if we'd have been up to 5 or so I'd have assumed we were 1-0 down!

Come on Saints, cheer me up. Just spent two days doing my ^%&&**** Italian tax forms, appointment tomorrow, and I'm sure they're wrong.

Without a doubt!

Well, if anyone should manage to get something working I'm sure you'll let us know!

Yep, he gave it a good deal of thought, reading between the lines of his blog but ended up taking a training job with Empoli.

This ties in with my post above. Even if Pardew wasn't making a noise about it I can't see the conditioning staff letting up. They'd have all the figures from last season and know what they want to achieve. Having seen Jaidi in switzerland for example I'd agree he's over the hill but they still had him out on the pitch after the friendly doing sprints. Either way, fitness or desire, it'll be interesting to see how the team respond.

I thought we had a whole training set-up with staff dedicated to conditioning: I find it difficult to believe that it's purely a matter of basic fitness. I'd imagine there'd be testing all the time: raw speed (they know how fast OC is, for example, compared with Theo), bleep tests, body fat index, pulmonary capacity etc. To give Lambert his due he admitted in a recent interview that he wasn't fit after returning from injury but last season was complimenting the staff for the improvement in his fitness. So although there is room for improvement from what I've seen (only Plymouth and Os) I don't see the situation being anything like it was under Burley.

Ah yes, I knew it ended in 's'.;=) Any feedback from him yet? Incidentally, if we have all these sports medecine specialists about the place, bleep tests, fat measurement etc., etc. how come players can be unfit? (I'll be generous to those returning from injury..).