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To be fair, even if he was he doesn't exactly have a great product. Perhaps we can all come up with a list of Pompey's USPs - unique selling points. I'll start: - great fans, but only about 16000 of them (and falling)

Ah, petrol prices! Soon to be of interest to me as I'll be driving back from Italy in July. Italy, Switzerland, France, Luxembourg, Belgium and France again. This is to avoid French motorway tolls and French motorway petrol prices. Don't let anyone tell you that petrol is cheaper over here!

Bloomin 'eck, supporting the US - they hate us that much? Why's that then. I can think of one or two possible reasons but I'm not sure reason counts for much in the Middle East.

Can you also tell us what you were on? A bit coked up is my guess...

It was the wrong time of year to be in the Southern Ocean. Not a comment on her abilities, and I certainly couldn't and wouldn't do it (watch keeping as a single-hander would be no fun). Just glad she's OK though.

We were the better team but we weren't good, just a leetle bit better than an average US team. I was sat in an Italian bar saying to a local that England wouldn't win 3-0 (his prediction) and that we would certainly concede a goal. I also gave the bar a lesson in English cursing: I am quite capable of doing it in Italian (and French) but obviously could get away with it more! I see Man City's Wright-Phillips has the same faults as ours used to... As for Heskey; he's big and strong and did a decent layoff to Gerrard but his shot was straight at the keeper - is he really the best we can do for that position? For all the silly talk about Lambert for England I can't help thinking he'd have done better in that situation. And the goalkeeping error I wouldn't expect from the young lass who plays for my team. Che palle. B******s.

..and remember how critical we were of him!

Bloomin 'eck, not the company that pay my pension?! Not sure that Stuey would give me a discount though, what with being a female football player and supporter who occasionally drinks pints!

Ask Cortese? He seems to have got rid of all the moles at SMS.

Seems that quite a few of the commenters (e.g. Heliogabus, Astrological etc) are making some very reasonable comments, or are they Saints Web posters in disguise?

Definitely worth the read - loved it... "It is clear from the statement that they have not understood the comments we made in our modifications and we would urge them to take time to read each and every part."

Hmm, I'm definitely a veteran and I'm still training and playing (a bit). If I'm around on my summer UK tour I'll pop along and bring me boots..... nothing like raising the average age with an over 50.;-) It would make a change from playing with 15 year olds!

What a very good summary..

Now that is my sort of sailing too! I started when I moved to a little village outside P****y and met some guys in the local pub. Myself and the lodger decided to join the local sailing club (her because she wanted to meet someone - now married) and me because i fancied sailing and cheaper beer!.... PS: Hamster, you do realise most boating fatalities happen between the boat and a hostelry. I think that probably applies both on the sea shore and on the river. Now we never used to drink on board but our routines for mooring/getting ashore/getting to a pub with decent beer used to be slliiiickk.

[[in my opinion, what will happen if Griffins are appointed as administrators, is that they will seek to setoff the £54M in losses that Gaydamak was responsible for, whilst trading insolvently, against the £32M he is claiming.]] ah, thanks GM, as a wage slave I wasn't aware of the niceties of efffing the IR and your competitors and clients. [ Hmm, so there is a possibility that PFC could have been shown to have been trading while insolvent in a Court of Law. [VERY IMPORTANT SNIP] First indications of the real bag of worms that Lampitt is trying to keep a lid on methinks. ]]

Turkish. do shut-up. I like a running joke, but not for a bloomin ultra-marathon.

Thanks, I'll probably put out the feelers at my old sailing club. I was crewing once on a Contessa 32 which broached off St Cats in a club round the island race and then got a wrap. I still shudder - no one was wearing life-jackets.

Don't _you_ start! Not even in fun! As somebody else said there are far too many assumptions being made by Alps. We know we need to strengthen in certain positions but the idea that nothing is going on is laughable.

No, never done French canals (apart from the channel up to Carentan) and tidal rivers e.g. Treguier. Yep, if I get the opportunity I'll certainly take it up.

Why sir, let me do it for you.

This thread is so far off topic I can't remember what it was about. I'd like to know what Turkish is on though, and he must have a real pain in his tongue and his cheek.

A quick scan shows they share many of our opinions: "The current level of unsecured creditors’ claims are estimated to be in the region of £83 million, although the Administrators are of the opinion that the final admitted claims will be significantly less than this total."

Ta Hamster: no it was more sailing boats, and even unpaid just to get out on the water. I love the mountains but do miss the sea. I don't earn anything for the next three months apart from the odd private lesson and I really don't want to teach* at summer school again. (*Teach, supervise, put to bed, hoik out of the wrong dorm, visit police station after inevitable shop-lifting incident, visit Casualty after inevitable...). So if I could earn.... Still, just been on The News website for the latest Pompey story and saw a temporary job at the Farnborough Air Show for Italian and French speakers: so that would cover my trip to the UK and the odd Saints ticket, and booking fee... I'll have a look at Apolloduck though, ta. My other option is crewseekers but as so many Solent types on here I thought it worth a try.

We ought to have someone do a management summary report every 50 pages or so!

Thanks, but i sometimes feel I don't what I'm doing! Plus I'm English, so a story from the round Italy trip (Sardinia to Venice to be exact). I shared a watch with a young American who had been on the boat for some weeks before hand on the way from the UK. We'd share helming, and I can't remember on how many occasions on night watch I told him to ease it a bit: "I know what I'm doing" Bang.. taken aback. Off-watch disturbed and I got it in the neck from the skipper. Not saying it didn't happen to me (I'm used to sloops not schooners cough cough), but I learnt to hate that phrase!