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hmmmm... I wonder why Storrie didn't put a stop to the mad, unsustainable spending.

Can't agree with that. For all the talk of progress, we are still 10 points adrift of safety and have only won 1 game. Yes we have not had a pre-season but Pardew has had money to spend that most clubs in this league can only dream about - he needs to start getting results soon.

It is perfectly safe to drive at 100 in the right conditions as long as you are paying attention. It s done in Germany an Police often do it over here.

LOL

I would be very surprised if Strach went anywhere near the skate job - he's had his fair share of nutjob chairmen in the past, would be a foolish risk of a good reputation. Unless there is a guarantee of serious cash in January I can't see any decent manager taking that job.

LOL at the thought of a bunch of depressed skates, walking home from fartton park after getting a dicking from the scousers, all minus one Reebok.

We had Lowe doing that for years, yet we still regularly had 32K turn up paying top whack. All this Arab guy is doing is getting your team on a sustainable budget, we have always had to do that but you lot are turning their back on the club in thousands. Southampton have never spent the money on the sort of players you lot did yet the year after our FA Cup Final appearance the Chelsea game sold out all 32 thousand in 6 HOURS! And that's to watch Ormerod, Telfer n co pit their wits against a top team, not a bunch of England Internationals. Southampton FC is so much bigger than Portsmouth it's funny, it's not even close.

I think it's worth having a supporters group but think it's important that Illingsworth and any of the SISA lot have absolutely nothing to do with it. It needs someone without the political baggage. The Trust lost all credibility when they stood by and did and said nothing while Lowe almost killed the club.

Waste of space, there's no point in a Trust now.

Fry's job was to get the creditors as much money as possible, not to make sure SFC had a decent pre-season. We were facing extinction and ended up with a billionaire - it's hard to criticise Fry. Lynam on the other hand...

Good things come to those who wait! Also if hosting the World cup means some fort of funding from the FA it might not even be a gamble.

The way pompey are going they will be lucky to have a club let alone a new ground. Plus if they go down, with their poor support there will simply not be demand for a new ground. A 40K stadium would be a complete white elephant in Plymouth or Bristol, Southampton is the logical venue - best location, most cost effective stadia and best transport links.

That's fantastic news! lets hope the council don't **** it up, Southampton is easily the best option for the South.

Fantastic! An opportunity to spend 50 million of your hard earned £'s to get the club something that 9 out of 10 other clubs already have. I would hate to see the downside in owning pompey.

We all know that certain refs are complete pussies and just can't handle the pressure at places like Old Trafford. If it was City pushing for the winner and 70,000 plastic reds calling for the whistle the spineless **** would have blown on the dot of 94mins.

Whoever started this thread is a penis.

You make the threshold so high that it is hardly ever used.

I think the Fred West case illustrates a case where there is no doubt (bodies under house, wife admitted, torture on tape, numerous previous witnesses of abuse etc). When you compare that to the flimsy evidence that was used to convict the Jill Dando murderer - who was later released. You can see that there can be a million miles between two different murder convictions.

We will need to produce Championship form to reach the play-offs, which whilst not out of the question is very unlikely, especially considering our poor start, and we were not exactly great yesterday. Much will depend on how the league pans out, if the top 6 team stay in good form we wont get a sniff regardless of how well we play, if it's quite a close league sometimes reaching 6th is not that hard if a good run is put together.

I thought he looked good, apart from the off-sides.

You are right about the way to combat it - totally. The measures you state above are way more likley to happen if groups like the EDL make the government stand up and take notice. EDL are not going to root out the Extremists themselves, they are never going to be a major political party that can change things themselves. Their job is to put the issue on the agenda, make the government realize the problem and act on it - mostly in the way you say.

that's where peoples views differ. Justice is about fairness. If someone in my family was murdered I don't think it fair that the person who did it spends 15 years playing playstation, and be fed and kept at my expense only to leave and live a normal life when every connected to the victim has to suffer their whole life. Capital punishment is not nice, but it is a hell of a lot nicer than what murderers do to their victims. Its harsh but totally fair. Retribution and evening the score would be to torture them and kill them in the same way they did.

Why does it matter if it's a deterrent or not, it's about justice.

Didin't see how it started but from what I saw the Yeovil mob were just as up for it as the Saints lot. All a bit pathetic.

It's pretty clear to me that it's extremists they oppose... "We are a non racist and non discriminatory protest group who believe in an integrated and peaceful Britain with one law and one society, respected by all of its members. The EDL will continue to peacefully protest and highlight the issue of unrestrained Islamic extremism in the UK, unless and until the government take concerted action against those who preach hatred and wish to harm the people of this country." Obviously their cause attracts BNP nutters but it's a sound cause IMO.