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But what if they appoint a Bobby Robson type, and that person thinks Pardew is rubbish? The DOF role can obviously work but it's vital the DOF appoints the manager, IMO.

As long as Pardew is happy with the set up there shouldn't be a problem. It's a bit of an arse about tit way of doing things, surely the logical thing to do would be appoint the director then let him choose the manager. At least then the manager knows the DOF is on the same page.

Even the better ones on that list were at the arsehole of their career. We might as well include Peter Reid, Bruse Grobelaar, Mark Hughes and Andrei Kenchelskis.

I think it's perfectly valid to ask how much was made and where all the money went, while we shouldn't be overly critical of people who are just doing there best to help, they shouldn't expect everything to be kept secret as at the end of the day it was our money involved. Also if it did make a loss it would be wise to work out why in case a similar situation happens again. I might be wrong but the whole Saints Aid music thing did appear a bit self indulgent to me. It almost looked like someone was looking for a reason to set up a gig, rather than looking at ways to raise dough.

I can't believe Storrie takes home £2,033,751! He's playing the Skates for a bunch of mugs, no wonder this take-over has been dragged out, he's just sat there earning a fortune dishing out fan friendly bull**** while the club gets asset stripped. I almost feel sorry for the fish fiddlers.

In theory Gaydamak could pocket the sky TV cash, sell every single player and do a runner. Was this Arab thing a smoke screen from day 1? I wonder how many skates bought season tickets when this Arab billionare story broke?

Whilst scientists can often be wrong I think it would be foolish to ignore the opinions of the vast majority. Climate has changed throughout history but that doesn't mean that what is happening now is not caused by us. There is absolutely nothing we can do about it now anyway, if the scientists are right we are past the tipping point and the positive feedbacks will accelerate the warming anyway. The whole world could stop ALL CO2 production tomorrow - wont make alot of difference. Best just carry on as we are and adapt to the effects, the UK may even benefit from the changes.

The facts speak for themselves, they all point to nothing other than a complete balls up by Lowe. The issue is not about admin but the timing of it, it is the timing which has screwed up this season. All the facts point to one of 3 things: Either Lowe had a massive communication failure with Barclays. or Lowe tried to call Barclays bluff and failed miserabley. or Lowe purposely waited untill after the dealine to spite us, Crouch n co. Either way Lowe is to blame for the -10 this season. Many other clubs have managed to time administration to suit them, sometimes down to the hour. they all had banks with overdrafts, creditors etc, there is no excuse for Lowe's mis-management.

Another one jumps ship... http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/p/portsmouth/8193109.stm

I can see Gaydamak seriously ****ing pompey over. This is a guy who used money made by selling old russian weapons to third world countries. People like that don't care about annoying a few in-bred football fans. If this deal falls through they will be lucky if they have a club left, there is nothing stopping him selling all the players and leaving the creditors to fight over the ground.

Surprise or excite, which is it?

Did they really only get 9,000 for Rangers! LOL. That is **** poor considering how many Rangers would bring.

He will get dogs abuse from the blue few if he screws up - would be great if he does.

You really are a thick ****, we all understand that Lowe didn't want admin, only you fail to understand that he could have put us in admin a week earlier and not written off this season. Blaming Barclays is nonsense, it's Lowe's failure to communicate with Barclays that was the problem. He figured he had nothing to lose by calling their bluff, yet SFC had everything to lose.

Huddersfield to win and Leeds second. Gunn hasn't done anything to suggest he can manage, Norwich were rubbish under him last year.

Any sympathy I have for them disapears the moment I remember the brick throwing, police dog kicking scum that greeted me when I got of the train the last time I went down there. if ever a club deserved to go bust it was pompey, they brought the FA Cup on a credit card, it's only right and fair that they pay for it now.

That was after he stumped up the cash, the Swiss were free to buy the club before the exclusivity but chose not to. Maybe the Pinnacle mess lowered the price?

There was nothing stopping the Swiss buying the club when Crouch stepped in.

It's on Coral: http://www.coral.co.uk/sbuk.go?page=grouppage&groupid=700009&lang=20&sid=20&ms=&type=0 Looks like bet365 have better odds though.

you can get 12-1 on the skates to finish bottom - has to be worth a few quid. At the moment unless some signings are made I would make them favorites, a classic club in crisis. There is a lot of poor sides in the Prem this year and their squad is not as bad as Burnley's but they have a nobody manager and you can guarantee the few decent players they have will be wanting out

We're obviously way behind all the other clubs but that's no need for Pardew to panic buy, I expect there will be a couple of deadline day signings followed by a load of loans. We have to face facts, we've had no summer to prepare and there is little chance of promotion even with a good team thanks to the -10 so panic buying doesn't make sense.

I think all those straplines are pointless, waste of money. If the team are playing well you could write "you are a c**t" on everything and the fans would still turn up.

A huge loss to football, Bobby was a great manager but also a really nice bloke. RIP.

Great, a bunch of fat homosexuals are gonna be tearing up our Champions League turf.