Ken Tone

Works very well with UK-based sources in my experience, but international callers ignore, as the law is unenforceable outside of the UK.

the 4 cases ,listed as 'tests' do seem quite different from each other. eg "Registrar Lilian Ladele, who was disciplined after she refused to conduct same-sex civil partnership ceremonies in north London" ...seems to me to have a weak case, since if she believes so strongly in the christian marriage, she surely should not be happy marrying anyone outside of a religious ceremony? Her whole job is against her beliefs surely?

Worth noting. Thanks for posting this. If accurate and yoshida can play LB, this could be our short term solution -- I reckon Fonte is a better CB than Fox is a LB (defensively to be fair. Fox is ok going forward) , so we might do better to put yoshida at LB until we sort out a longer term solution.

Im my brief but glorious spell on POL, I was gobsmacked by how few posters they have. The 17 that were listed earlier as being on-line is quite typical. Anyone, including many who are clearly genuine pompey fans, who dares to even hint that the trust is not perfect or who dares to hold as view that is not the party line is accused of being one of us, or paid by chainrai, and either bulied into silence or banned. POL is effectively a very small group of people with identical views and very narrow minds...even by PFC standards. Where do portsmouth fans get their info? Even The News seems to know more than their fans' forums. I know we've joked about it in the past but seriously there is better, more up to date, information about pompey on here than on their own forums.

If you google 'Bill Gillon twitter', you get this as the second entry, fully in the public domain ...... Bill Gillon. @PompeyScot. Fareham, Hampshire. Scottish Pompey fan, owner of POL, work for central government, lead business and systems analyst and ................... just saying like.

The fans online board is the one that colin farmery 'owns' isn't it? Interesting that he has let that thread run, with no comment from him as the trust's current offical spokesman

It's not often you see the words 'pompey' and 'principles' in the same sentence -- at least not without the word 'lack' in there too!

Haven't been to Oldham for donkey's years so the ground might have changed , but I can certainly testify that the old open end there was by far the coldest place in foootball when the wind blew.

This is perfectly understandable if you renew their monthly contracts, but is surely can't be true that if you choose not to renew the contract of one of them he will be stranded , in limbo, out of work and unpaid, but unable to sign for anyone else until January? So a player who is with a club and is secure, can be loaned from whenever the loan window opens, but a poor sod who has been conned into signing for PFC on a monthly basis can be put in a postion where he cannot work, at the whim of Appleton?

I expect you're right, but my point really is ---- doesn't this mean that the medals in reality go to not necessarily the best blind cyclist, but actually just to the one who is lucky enough to persuade a really good sighted cyclist to be his/her pilot?

Think you're on your own with this view mate. JWP held his own well yesterday ... just as well as chaplow or any more experienced player would have done.

Yes and what is more we targeted him in that game ...putting long balls in to Rickie on his wing. On that basis I had severe reservatrions about Clyne when we bought him. So far he has proved me very wrong. Fox however I've watched for much longer of course and to me he has never looked any better than Harding. He's fine going forward but has poor positional sense and is far too prone to give the ball away carelessly. in fact he'd probably be better as a left-side midfield player, where he'd be less exposed defensively... but we have far better options than him there already.

i've stoped even trying to read the official web site. I suspect others look at it far less often too.

Can some explain the logic of the tandem cycling to me? Blind cyclist on the back, 'piloted' by a sighted cyclist on the front, the blind athlete gets most or all of the glory -- it's even officially called the individual sprint. But the 'pilot' also pedals. What's to stop Team GB putting Chris Hoy, Bradley Wiggins, etc, in as pilots?

They looked longer yes, and he did overtake strongly down the straight (as Pistorius usually does to others btw) BUT, if you look at a replay he was striding very quickly ..more paces per minute than pistorius .. so the issue was not simply the length of his stride, which is presumably all that the length of the blades affects. The trouble is, once the paralympics stopped just being therapy for the disabled competitors and started being treated as high level competitive sport, all the boundaries, classifications, rules, etc, came under strain. The whole thing went badly wrong a few years back when the spanish put in a team of 'learning disabled' players ..who weren't. How could those gits live with themselves?

I wonder if Oscar Pestorius has really thought through his bad loser rant? He is effectively saying that a runner can gain an unfair advantage from his/her 'blades', making them a better runner than they should be. By saying this he has surely just undermined all his arguments over recent years insisting on being allowed to run in able-bodied events? Because the logical follow-on from this is surely that it might give them an unfair advantage over able-bodied athletes, and might even make them a better runner than they would have been with normal legs. And if it is possible to gain an advantage from some sorts of prosthetics, given the corruption, drug-taking etc, that is rife in top sporting events ,how long before someone has completely medically unnecessary surgical enhancements to make them more competitive? There are already suggestions that the Chinese are pretty much genetically engineering swimmers for the able-bodied Olympics.

Quite. I worry that we have signed a promising young centre forward, yet seem detemined to undermine his confidence by playing him out of position. The really weird thing was Nigel taking off Lambert yesterday but putting Mayuka in the middle and still JRod on the wing. I noticed that Kelvin's long kicks were all aimed to the left from then on, at JRod --because he is a target man. Surely it would have made more sense to put Guly and Mayuka on the wings with JRod in the middle? It's a bit like buying a Ferrari , using it as a tractor, then complaining it isn't very good.

Beginning to look like my post of the 23rd was pretty accurate! [h=2][/h] My prediction: Chainrai takes over, then offers the trust a deal for them to buy the football club as such, but with him retaining Fratton Park and charging them rent at a silly rate, say even £1 million a year, effectively getting a return on his money without losing his equity. If the trust won't (or more likely can't) do the deal, he either builds up big debts all over again, extracting whatever he can from the parachute payments and reneging on football creditors deals then makes a run for it ---- or he just liquidates immediately, leaving FP to rot for a bit till the council give up on their probably uneforceable restrictions and let him build there. Last edited by Ken Tone; 23-08-2012 at 02:48 PM.

Not me ,but the Knott lads in the GB team are from around here..... go to school /college in winchester/eastleigh area .....so they are bound to have local supporters, and therefore likely to have saints fans watching them

Well a loan would certainly surprise me. How many times do we have to keep saying there are no loans in the premier league until the window opens again in January.

What we still need is a left back. Really worried about Fox against the likes of Nani!

And any footballer out drinking at 4.30 am during the season when they are supposed to be 'in training', ought to be fined a signficant chunk of the ridiculous wages they're paid.

You do realise that the pen must be of 70% Italian and 30% Uruguyan manufacture, and can only be used after a training fee has been paid ?

Well, fasting would be lightening .......

So no chance of Yoshida playing against Man U, but presumably Mayuka might be on the bench?