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Iraq and Afganistan must have cost a fortune and they are countries on the other side of the planet that should not concern us. I agree with the afgan war in principle but we should only have a token force there like many countries.

We obviously spend way too much on defence, we've got to get over this old colonial attitude where we feel the need to **** about in other people's countries. We are just a small skint island of the northern coast of Europe. So what if Iran and Korea have nukes - it's none of our business.

I'm not bothered about the press, it's more what dumb decisions like this say about our chairman.

The problem is nowadays if you throw a bog roll on the pitch you will be caught n CCTV throwing a "missile" arrested, thrown in Jail and be crucified by the nerds on here.

It seems pretty clear how it works from that article... "As a media team, we do our best to make journalists, broadcasters, photographers and officials from visiting clubs welcome." Makes more sense than each club banning other photographers then making them pay for pics. Any money the club makes it will have to spend for pics any way.

"The official stance is that the club are unhappy with external organisations using images of their players. Open up today's match programme and you will find pictures of Peter Reid, Carl Fletcher and Bondz N'Gala, pictures taken by Disco Dave and used by Southampton without our permission." Ban other photographers then use their photography in your own matchday programme - nice one Nicola.

Unless they take into account luck, lack of effort and standard of performance and still think it's worth booing?

I'm booing this thread right now

We desperately missed Antonio and Papa IMO. Not enough pace up front. If we are serious about promotion we will have to bring some players in. At the moment the squad is weaker than last year.

Who was on the SaintsWeb table?

Bet we don't make a penny from this, the nationals wont give a **** if they have a picture of a Saints player in or not. Local papers will not buy any out of principle. This is probably just all about Princess Nicola's tiff with the Echo, he probably expects their photographer to get banned from away games. I expect it annoys him that there is nothing he can do to spite the Echo at away games. I agree with the Plymouth article, it's an insult to football fans.

I think you will find fans taking pics is a bit different to press.

Until we go play in Plymouth and the roles are reversed.

Dunno, hopefully if Storrie gets done for tax evasion that will give them an excuse. The other clubs will be after blood and they can change the rules whenever they want like they did with Leeds.

I still think the Football League will give them a points penalty this season.

cheating ****s

I'm glad the other premier league club's attitude is now out in the open: "The other clubs wanted "to boot Pompey out there and then", Sheldon said. He added: "The clubs wanted Portsmouth to go to the wall and divide all the TV money among themselves."" Rest assured that's exactly how the other Football League clubs will be thinking, even if they escape this court case they will still be penalised IMO.

Has to be Beattie's first in the Carling Cup game, the atmosphere was electric.

I don't think they will liquidate if the CVA fails, it's just Chanrai's scare tactics.

Surely it just needs one person to subscribe, then they can just upload it, post link on here - sorted.

If the Echo has been banned it's just ****ing retarded. Not only does it show that the club doesn't give a toss about fans who rely on the Echo, it also achieves nothing but cut off a source of free promotion and just makes the paper more likely to print speculation and negative stories.

When is the Fans Forum?

Do you know anyone who works at SFC?

Bit melodramatic - where do you keep reading "this club is rotten to the core"? I havn't read that since Lowe was here. There is nothing wrong with posting a rumour you hear - good or bad. There is nothing wrong with criticising decisions made by Cortese. It doesn't mean you are anti-Cortese, or that you are making a big issue out of anything. It just means you have a different point of view.

Exactly, I can't believe the new Tory government hasn't introduced steps to make this the case, especially in today's climate of cuts. All prisoners should receive a bill for their imprisonment on release. If they own a house or other assets these should be taken as payment. Only if they have no assets should the bill be written off. That way any compo claims by prisoners would just be swallowed up in their bill anyway.