Ken Tone

I thought maybe we could change the shape of the woodwork? So the ball is deflected in ? Of course the ref may object to us changing the posts over to the other end at half time, but if it is the bloke we had yesterday, he probably won't notice.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20464371 Statistical evidence indicating that big teams are given an advantage by refs over injury time when playing at home

If those really are their genuine names, that must count as some form of child abuse, surely?

Poster on the News site says it didn't go through.

You mean when they lose the case and are liquidated ?

The high suicide rate wouldn't bother you then? -- approx 2.5 times as high as in the UK. Doesn't tend to suggest it's a happy place to live.

This one had me in stitches!

Events at PFC are funny and crooked enough without our having to make up new rules for them to bend. So to be fair ---- my understanding is that the monthly contracts are a financial constraint imposed by PKF; the FL imposed the 20 man squad limit. This player was on a monthly contract, which meant that if he just left the club as a free agent he'd be stranded, unable to sign for anyone else till the January window. Portsmouth extending his contract enables him to go to Barnsley on loan whilst only nominally being on Portsmouth's books ...costs PFC nothing since Barnsley will pay him, but gains them nothing either (unless Barnsley are downright stupid) and does not count in their 20 man squad.

Dear God! Some people on this forum are first rate pillocks. The OP 'dares' to write a positive comment about our manager and others jump down his throat. Yes lots of footballers and lots of managers give time to charities and events such as the OP described, but also, yes, Adkins does it particularly well, and I have also seen him go the extra mile in similar circumstances. He comes across as a really, genuinely, decent bloke.

Until my position as the most erudite and best-punctuated poster of the year is finally recognised, I refuse to comment.

Anyone know the record for consecutive football league defeats? just asking!

Has he got a bell by any chance?

I think that it is even stricter than that. They need to have been out of contract before the window closed. Otherwise there would a pompey-style loophole , whereby a club could release a player so he became a free agent honest guv, just before they signed elsewhere.

Unless I've misunderstood the rules, we surely couldn't sign him , even on loan, until January? There is a faint possibility of an emeregency loan for a keeper, but that is normally only if all a club's senior keepers are injured, not just 'not quite good enough' .

Nowadays, I doubt there will be a negative. It'll be a digital photo!

And especially given that the PFC pledges haven't actually been paid yet. I can see a good half of the plucky 1800 having second thoughts.

I wish you'd put an apostrophe in the thread title. I came on here expecting to learn that we'd bought him! As in "Saints now own Ibrahimovic"!

I think there is some indication that the FL are trying their damnedest to avoid Portsmouth being liquidated, and I think most non-saints fans woud think they should do so. However if the trust do eventually takeover and the risk of liquidation has gone, I can't see that the FL will have any motivation whatosever to be lenient with them. As long as they actually exist , no one at the League will care if they exist successfully , in L1 or in L2, or even relegated out of the league. I'll be absoutely amazed if the ten points don't come off, and not totally surprised if even more points are taken off later for financial irregularities.

It was on the same day as several by-elections and it made no difference. Haven't seen all the figures, but the turnout in manchester at the same time as their by-election was still a pathetic 18%. It is a damn silly idea that no one outside of a few Tory politicians wanted. Must have cost a few million quid too --all those poll staff sitting there twiddling their thumbs all day.

Get down there! I'll blame you if Mates gets his nice easy retirement job to boost his pension!

Presumably this has been dicussed on the POL message board? Have they said anything about details? Is the plan to sell of land to Tesco's or get them to knock down and redevelop a stand with a supermarket in it, like the monstrosity at Bolton's old ground? Because surely if they intend to sell off a bit of land that they do notyet own, why can't Tesco's just buy it now, directly from the current owners?

Ah - thanks. Seems even more than usually pie-in-the-sky, if they seriously think they can a) pay off chainrai, b) buy the rest of the land, c) get planning permission, d) sell off bits of land to Tesco, yet without having to move away from Fratton to play elsewhere ... and make enough profit to give the Trust £2.5 million, on top of Robinson's own cut. I didn't realise Tesco's were that generous!

Can anyone decipher the logic in this one please? How can the trust benefit from a property dealer buying Fratton Park by paying Chainrai for this 'charge'? In response to is Robinson a fan and what's in it for him? Neil: No he's not, although has recently been to a few games, including Yeovil away. He is in it for a property deal, that is what everyone other than the Trust is primarily in it for. If you can tie all the land together it is worth a lot of money. Incidentally, the Trust stand to receive around £2.5m from the deal so both they and Robinson benefit.

Gosh ..there's a thought! I wonder if it has occurred to him.

Cracking article on the BBC site, about the inventor of the modern cigarette, and full of 'blimey!' statistics http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20042217 eg "A factory such as Hongta's in Yuxi [China] is responsible for generating 25,000 or 30,000 deaths per year from lung cancer. And about twice that number from other diseases. " "Cigarette makers make about a penny in profit for every cigarette sold, which means that the value of a life to a cigarette maker is about US$10,000."