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Then I'm happy to sit back and let this all play out then.

But Mr Fry has seen 'proof of funds' for it to get this far, hasn't he.................?

...so which one's the all-new 19C then?

Compromise. Accept the -10...but...if we miss out on the play-offs (or staying up!!) by several points then the FL can give 'em back to us at the end of the season. Can't say fairer than that.

...but also mentioned NDAs...

This * http://www.writetothem.com/write?fyr_extref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theyworkforyou.com%2Fpeer%2Flord_mawhinney&who=31769 * needs to be made a sticky - BUT...good letter 'Red', only DON'T just copy-and-paste as suggested as it wont get through. Was just gonna add my twopenneth when read that on their 'do's and dont's'. Email away.

...and not forgetting ol' Ted who they both seem to be gazing at... Nice one BBC.

Well, Sky are still running with the story this morning, one of the main headlines and Saints featured prominently on the 'back-page' round-up, how long's it been since that happened?! You'd have thought that if it really were a non-starter Sky would've pulled back a bit by now as Le Tiss is one of their employees (tho', is he still?), surely they'd have spoken directly with him and got his approval? Anyways, this does look good...

...or...passionate. To get a manager of KKs ability in this division, starting on minus 10 points!, would be a coup of 1980 proportions. It would be an unbelievable moment for this club.

For me it's gotta be... Millwall at home, 8th August 2009, d'ya remember, King Kev and Mattie's homecoming, SMS bursting at the seams, wotta day, and me on a family holiday on the other side of the world!!! B*ll*x.

Fair comment, obviously a tongue-in-cheek moment. Of course JR can't really be compared to the "f*ckwit" bellringer, he was harmless and no-one in their right mind would have given him any grief...unlike the extremely punchable Quasimodo... JR, RIP

Certainly would be a 'WOW factor', I'd lurve it, even if it were short-lived! IF it were to happen, exciting times, in League One, who'd 'ave thought it!

...wasn't it Chelsea, how'd that song go? "Jim, Jim, Jim Redpath, England's leading psychopath, he only runs when the Chelsea come!" (something like that) He was an early kind of a Saints 'J*hn Westw**d' - self-appointed fans leader - that big scar across his throat, did he get done in 'Stanley Park'? Guess not, they'd never have caught him! Jim "We're the Barmy Archers Army" Redpath, RIP (Runs In Panic). Back to the OP, I'll go along with 'JR' (the other one!).

I'd go along with just about all of this, the problem with it now being so late to start selling STs it may have to be one crazy prize for all. I fear many who'd normally renew in March may very well have (or the missus has!) already spent that money some 3 months on and, although a cheaper 2-year ST is something I've championed, a longer-term ST may be out of reach now for many.

We'll be the new Middlesbro' of the south...smogmonsters step aside! When I first read his name I had visions of ol' Jim Redpath! (one for the for older fans - RIP)

With the amount of money sloshing around in it it's inevitable. It now needs an 'MPs Expenses' type-investigation from an outside body to weed out the corrupt b*stards. Wot'ya say 'arry?

...good work Mr Custis...tho' he obviously got this bit VERY wrong... "When wealthy Arabian businessman Dr Sulaiman Al-Fahim arrived out of the blue to rescue crippled Ports-mouth, everyone on the South coast thought: There is a God"

Well, this makes an interesing read... http://nastybrutalistandshort.blogspot.com/2009/05/in-search-of-south-coast-supercity.html ...so you dirty portsmuff-scab-strike-breaking-scumbags are really to blame

There's also a theory that the first time it was used down here (as mentioned before 'scum' was used by many when referring to rivals c1970) it was Saints fans changing the 'Pom' to 'Scum' and so the term 'Scumpey' was created. But as most in Southampton never gave them a second thought, they kind of adopted/adapted it and 'Scummer' became the most popular word in the portsmyth vocabulary. And with regards to the mythical dock strike, they've tried to convince people it happened on various points in history. The 'Ugly' blew the one about it being a 1930s thing as while Southampton was a commercial port back then p*mpeys was purely naval so no unions existed back then in their port so there could have been a strike break. More portsmyth bullsh*te.

Fred Drainage. And Rod Stewart, Englishman, supports Scotland/Celtic/Man Utd/previously Rangers (true story)...more clubs than 19C!

...quick let's help ol' Nineteen C*nteen find a new club to support any ideas...

Did he say which town?

You see that's it aint it...the M27 is like a big see-saw, when one club is doing well the other is generally appalling. Goes back a long way, like when they got lucky well over half a century ago. Those "bigger crowds" they go on about back then were a result of the rest of the country’s misfortune. You see WW2 came along the top clubs lost their best players to National Service but with ‘Portsmyth’ being a naval port many were stationed there to do their bit and were permitted to act as guest players for them giving them a somewhat unfair advantage over other weakened teams. This led to their little successful era but as it was as a result of the unusual circumstances maybe we should really disregard this period So this encouraged more locals to turn up (glory-hunters?) and many travelled the 17 miles down the old A27 from Southampton to watch these star names (there wasn’t the bitter animosity back then, that came later in the 60s when they couldn’t handle us taking over - nothing to do with fictitious Dock strikes) and probably the biggest factor being they allowed all the servicemen based in the area free entry into fartton park which obviously swelled the crowds enormously. I wonder how many were actually p*mpey fans in those attendances?

...anything before 1996 then?

"...fell by 60%"...but our gates (with all our problems, in a lower league) still stand up against yours (and far exceed at times) even when you've enjoyed success previously unknown by the vast majority of your 'fans'. And maybe if a few more of you had turned up when you were in our shadow you wouldn't have been in that "financial position". Pah, glory hunters