aintforever

Pinnacle are obviously going to try and pay as little as possible so there is going to be a certain amount of cat and mouse going on. If there is anything in this it has probably been leaked by Fry to put the ****s up Pinnacle: "Pinnacle are trying to force the price down to less than the club’s break-up value, which the administrator is legally bound not to allow to happen. Fry would also be financially liable himself if this were to occur. Therefore, Pinnacle’s current position is essentially an impossibility."

Paterson has shown nothing to suggest he can even be effective at league 1 level, no pace, no strength, limited skill, no particularly strong in the air. McGoldrick could score shed loads in League 1, for that reason I would not sell for 1mill, would be a daft business decision. To be fair though as staying at Saints would mean at least 2 seasons in League 1, McGoldrick will not want to hang around and we may have to accept a derisory offer.

The whole crazy world of football is held together by Sky TV's millions, take that away and it will all come crashing down. With internet streaming and the effects of recession and lack of interest in the predictable, sterile nature of the modern game it would be foolish to assume that the money will always be there.

Great example of Skate logic - The average house prices are not a good reflection because the huge amount of terraced slums in Portsmouth skew the results in our favour. LOL

I would be well happy with Dowie. People are forgetting we are a 3rd division side now, talk of Strachan or Coppell is pie in the sky. If we have a bit of cash behind us we wont need Jose Moriniho to get us out of League 1, someone with a bit of experience and the ability to organise and motivate is what we are after IMO.

1. Employ the best manager possible 2. Give the manager as much resources as possible 3. However much you know about football, accept the fact that your manager knows more and let him manage. In other words, do the opposite to what Lowe did and you will be fine.

It's hardly brought you good luck, I would finish it off with a hammer and bury the pieces in the garden.

Or over the last 50 years, in the lifetime of anyone who is still young enough to remember... The Cities Population - Saints win Average Income - Saints win Average House price - Saints win Visiting Toursist - Portsmouth win because you have some old boats Best Place to live - Saints win The Football Current Position - Portsmouth win Old Stadia (Like for Like) - Saints win - Dell was small but still not as **** as Fratton Park New Stadia (Like for Like) - Saints win - Your new stadia consists of a roof on the away end Facilities (Like for Like) - Saints win Attendances - Saints win Attendance as % of Population - Saints win Silverware - 1 FA Cup each Overall performance in cups - Saints win Time spent in top flight - Saints win Highest top flight finish- Saints win Most international players - Saints win

Can you have a trust without any shares anyway? I think now would be a good time to ditch the trust, SISA etc and just form a fans group without any of the politics. I think there is always a need for the fans to have a voice. Oh and well done Le God, Tony Lynam and mystery money man. Hopefully this will be all sorted in the next few days and you will be legends.

It pleases me that ****ty little clubs like Orient hate us.

It's got to be Rod.

1995 - 18th Championship - ave att 8,269 1996 - 21st Championship - ave att 9,407 1997 - 7th Championship - ave att 8,854 LOL, that's comparible to AFC Bournemouth in LEAGUE 1. The funny thing is that those are your average league attendances, **** knows what your lowest gate was in those seasons!

Saved by Le God! You can go stick you arabs up your ass

There is only one reason why pompey have got a billionare Arab and that's because the Prem gives him instant worldwide exposure, any other reason is not at all important. Agree about Southampton Council being a joke though, they keep banging on about creating a "Wow" factor when the only "wow" factor is it is unbelievable they cannot see the city already has it in the cruise liners. The problem is because of their comically bad town planning you have some of the most spectacular ships in the World hidden behind grain silos, old derelict buildings and car parks - the city council have ****ed up the city's main asset - the waterfront.

A few skate figures: 1995 - 18th Championship - ave att 8,269 1996 - 21st Championship - ave att 9,407 1997 - 7th Championship - ave att 8,854 1998 - 20th Championship - ave att 11,149 1999 - 19th Championship - ave att 11,956 2000 - 18th Championship - ave att 13,908 2001 - 20th Championship - ave att 13,533 2002 - 17th Championship - ave att 15,122

Just the usual ebb and flow, the roles will soon be reversed. The one positive thing is that the current role reversals have highlighted how much bigger Saints are as a club, when we were top dogs we were always being told by the blue few how much they are a sleeping giant, now even as FA Cup holders they struggle to fill their ground. When they were in a situation similar to ours they got way worse attendances, their average attendances at Championship level were often around 8-9K, never got above 16K until their sugar daddy turned up and they brought the league. If we were having the success they are enjoying it would be build a second tier on SMS time.

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Easily our best midfielder, would be a shame to lose him but might have to accept £1mill. I think he will benefit from being in a team where he doesn't have to babysit a bunch of 18 year olds. The Toon will get a bargain IMO.

Was great watching Barca stuff them manc ****s.

No chance of promotion next season but hopefully, with the right owners, we should stand a good chance the year after.

You don't have to harp on about it.

IMO it's a luxury and any benefit is outweighed by the fact that it turns the players into pussies. Football matches are played in all weather conditions, training should be the same. Doing keepie-upies in a nice warm dome is not going to prepare you for a boggy Hartlepool on a wet November evening. Sell Staplewood and make the weeds train down Shirley rec.

Good things come to those who wait

aintforever - is secretly hoping Leon Crouch buys the club just to annoy the usual luvies.

I'm no expert on administration but there are alot of things which don't appear to add up, like: Not selling any players and adding Saeijs, Molyneaux and Smith to the wage bill in January. Going into admin a matter of days after the critical deadline - reducing the price of the club. Fry wanting 500k to look at the books - Lowe already knows the books. Maybe I'm just being paranoid but if Lowe ends up in control again all of the above will suddenly make sense.