Jack

Even Claridge saying that's a nailed on pen for handball. Saying lino has missed everything

We don't sound good on 5 live either

Not usually a pessimist, but this is going to be frustrating for us. Just can't see us getting the result we want.

Just realised I'm delayed a couple of minutes. Listening to ****ty 5 live on my mobile, keeps pausing to buffer

WHAT THE **** SAINTS!! SORT IT OUT!! What is Kelv doing ****ing around like that?

Get the fecking ball down and play Saints! Still getting overrun by 10 men. Pass them do death and we'll make chances FFS

Feck off Taylor. I'm not confident, we started sh*t, they score, they'll probably manage to defend this by sticking everyone behind the ball

Listening on 5 live. Horrendous! Think we've had 5 mins of commentary and 10 of updates from round the country. Awful!

I wasn't, but now I am. I think it's down to the fact that all the lads have gone but I can't as I'm working away. Feels wrong. I'm going to be sat in a bar with the Barcelona game on the box and the Saints game on the radio on my phone.

Good luck to him, unfortunately he's just not good enough for us. I reckon he could do a job at a bottom half championship side though. Good signing for Oxford

Good read as always

On the forum that post came from, I've noticed at least 2 threads along the lines of 'when we win the league', and 'who should we sign when we go up'. I would love it, LOVE IT, if we went up there, soaked up their long ball sh*t, and passed and play our way to victory.

See Pugwash's post on previous page for that sort of letter template!

Good effort Pugwash. I reckon it's worth mailing a few thousand copies of that to the Football League, and a copy via email to every other football club in the league for them to use also. It's every club's interest that Portsmouth get punished appropriately.

It's unlikely, but would be fun! Could try to get the local rag down there, filming the tears. I could probably get access to the substation Fratton Park is fed from and turn it off at any time, it's just not worth losing my job and getting sued!

If true then that's weak by the FL. Really doesn't affect them much. It'd be farcical if they went into admin, got an investor, and avoided relegation. The 3 sides that would be below Pompey hardly pick up points, and unfortunately, Pompey do.

Brilliant. I work for Southern Electric, based in Portsmouth. Out of the 60+ electricians I work with, there are 2 of us saints fans. Myself and the lad I stand with at SMS. The rest are mostly skates. I'll take great pleasure out of this happening if it does

This is exactly why I, and lots of other team's fans, have no symathy for them. They haven't learnt their lesson from last time. Instead of trying to resolve their problems by moving on the high earners, and building side that doesn't cost a huge percentage of their turnover to run, they've gone and bought more sh*t players on massive wages, and gone with the approach of 'someone will buy us before we go bust, all will be fine. Let's sign another 32 year old on £38k p/w'. They deserve a proper punishment. One that will guarantee relegation at the very least.

Hoofballers 1-3 Footballers IMO. Lambert (2), Sharp.

It was made clear that Doncaster accepted a bid for Sharp but he didn't agree terms with them. He said in his first interview after he signed that he was holding out for us to go in for him and that Leicester wasn't right for him. I very much doubt we would've paid any more than the £1.85m release clause fee.

I know this, just going with Nigel's positivity slant on things after the 'if we lose the next two' thread. The chasing pack has been catching up very quickly, and now is a good chance to put some pressure on them by getting points on the board while they're not playing.

....things will be looking very nice indeed. I think we've got a good chance, our last 3 results and performances in the league have been positive. Unbeaten against Cardiff, Birmingham and Burnley, and we were unlucky not to take 7 points instead of the 5 we got out of them. Everyone is fit or very close, and looking confident. I think it's possible. Matches this week: WHU - Saints (h), NO MATCH. Saints - West Ham (a), Derby (h). Brum - Hull (h), FA CUP. Cardiff - Peterborough (h), Ipswich (a). Blackpool - Doncaster (a), FA CUP. Hull - Birmingham (a), NO MATCH. Reading - Derby (a), Burnley (h). A fair few of our promotion rivals will have a backlog of fixtures. We will have played 2 more than WHU, Birmingham and Hull by this time next week. Good opportunity to put some pressure back on them.

We have 3 tough games in 8 days coming up. I believe we will know whether we are automatic promotion contenders or not after these. I'm optimistic. Our squad is stronger than at the beginning of the season. Recently we've had a lot of disruption due to injury and suspension, and had some bad luck too. Now nearly everyone is back fit, and those who are returning will quickly get back to match fitness, and we'll start playing well and getting the results we need. I think we'll pick up 7 points from Burnely, West Ham and Derby. That would definitely get our season back on track.

NA over Postman Pat any day.

Birmingham is much less than 200 miles away, they're not playing bad at all, and they may not get many more chances to see their team play. 488 is sh*t. Especially as they claim to be the best fans in Hampshire/the South/England/the world