Chin Strain

Oh look....Saints in 'going about their business quietly' shocker.....

Thought that was closed - now The Fox bistro or something similar. F&H went bust in Nov 08

This about sums it up. However, why the panic? Sure it would have been ideal to have it all sorted now, but they've only been back a week or so. If there is no movement by the start of August then fair enough. However, even then, if we want the quality maybe we have to wait. Maybe it's because our transfer business isn't all over the papers that causes some concern, rather than trusting the people in charge to get the right players in...quietly.

He was joking.....

FWIW I'm with Mark on this if that helps towards Stu's poll. I'm in the 'happy with the general way the club is being run, albeit some things could have been done better' camp. Ultimately I will trust Markus / Cortese until I have a genuine reason to doubt him / them. What I don't want is someone telling me what is a genuine reason - I'll make up my own mind thanks. BTW, I did instalments last season, and I'm not bothered that they're not available this season. The two guys I go with also did instalments. They're not bothered either. We did it because it was offered at the time and was free to do, not because we needed to do it (I don't mean that in a 'look at me I'm rich' kind of a way). We've all renewed. Stu / DBP, your opinion is your opinion. That's fine...but why do you have to try and ram it down everyones throat all the time? You're not always right, and you don't appear to speak for the majority. You seem to have issues with attention seeking. Maybe we should do a straw poll as to who we think is better qualified to run the football club - you or Cortese.

Midnight tonight I believe is the deadline.

If you look at the first team squad of 17 on their website there are 17 players, including James, Rocha, Hreidersson, Kanu (all out of contract) Ben Haim, Boateng, Utaka, (all need to be sold) Diop, (sold)....leaving 9. They seem not to have any information on reserve or youth players...strangely. I seem to remember our first team squad being made up of youth team players when we were trying to avoid admin. Now they're in admin the FL should make them play those players. I have a feeling the FL won't be as charitable as the PL. http://www.portsmouthfc.co.uk/squad/first-team.aspx

Maybe the FL won't be mugged like the PL. Here's hoping.

I think I'd wet myself laughing if he releases all these players, and the FL turn round and say 'you had a squad of 20 and chose to cancel contracts of several players. Tough sh it, live with it'

Are you a rake? Does Bob Geldof deliver food parcels personally?

100%. They would always vote against a cva that offered anything less.

Bloody right. They may we;; spend £2 chasing £1, but you can bet that for every football club in the future, the taxman will be paid as number one priority. That's the message, it's just that idiot journalists can't work that out.

You really are a nugget. Tommy Smith has played 409 games in his league career, scoring 85 goals. Wanna know how many PL games in that? 65 How about the number of PL goals? Drum roll please......4 (Four) 2 of those were in 99/00. His best season for goals was the 08/09 season - 17 from 44 games. Only other times he's made double figures were in the Championship - 11 in 04/05 (Derby, 42 games), 11 in 00/01 (Watford, 43 games), 11 in 01/02 (Watford, 40 games). So, feel a bit of a plank do you?

Not had a French car since my 205 1.9 GTi back in the early 90's. Great car to drive and reliability was ok, but plenty of niggly issues. Have to say, the CRX I followed it up with blew it away on quality, and was a better drive too, albeit not so quick. Granted that the GTi was a 1989 and the CRX an 87, so things have moved on. Only recent experience of a French car was in 2006 when a Scenic I had in Majorca (brand new) packed in up in the mountains. Liked the car, but the quality of the plastics and interior trim was pretty poor TBH.

I have no experience of any German cars of this size so can't comment....apart from the Golf, which is superb (and the Passat was decent). I'd be hard pushed to buy an A3 over a new Golf to be fair. What gets my goat is posters (Cestrian Saint for example) stating that I've been done by the marketeers without considering that many mainstream manufacturers don't actually make a car that I want to buy. Just one point though...I've not had a BMW in my car history, but the 3 series is always held up as the best car in it's class, bar none. Seems like the experts all agree that they're pretty special.

Yeah? Which one of those players will the Yanks have heard of then?

It's personal choice. The kind of car that I'm looking for simply doesn't exist from the 'non premium' manufacturers. There are many considerations that I have when I buy a new car. Quality and price at outset (and the sort of deal I can get), how it drives, how it looks, space inside (I'm 6 ft 4 with 2 kids), emissions and, a major consideration, resale value. Sure I could go and get one of the big offerings from Peugeot, Citroen, Honda or someone else.....but I might as well just burn all my money and be done with it. This bollix about buying into the marketing of a certain brand is ludicrous. I've got an A5, and bought it because I wanted one, could afford it and got a bloody good deal. There aren't many similar offerings from other brands, so my choice for what I wanted was limited. Resale will be good, the quality is very good and I have faith that it won't be falling apart in a couple of years. You get in an Audi, BMW or Mercedes and then come back on here and say if the equivalent Vauxhall, Ford or Kia is built as well. I bought a brand new A6 in 2007 and a friend of mine had a Saab 93 that he got a month later. Within 2 years the Saab was falling to bits (same mileage), the passenger seat felt like your granny's old sofa and the plastics were shocking. The A6 was like new. Anyway, on 29 June (post 65) you said you were considering getting a Passat. Now you're slagging VW....what happened?

But maybe he's actually picking the loser and has got every one wrong except for the Euro 2008 final..... Anyway, he surely only does the German games....and they just aint playing on Sunday.

13 years ago....August.....Merc....scooters.....tunnels.....now, what happened in August 1997 involving a Merc, scooters and tunnels....?

And people being too damn greedy for their own good. People not wanting to take personal responsibility for their actions seems to be another reason this country is going downhill. Everyone's always looking for someone else to blame. 'It was them, they leant me the money'.....you know what, people got greedy, they wanted their 'investment' flat. They were prepared to spend £300k on a 2 bed flat in Southampton. They were happy to take '2 years guaranteed rent at £1500 per month' from the builders. Surprise, surprise, when they came to month 25, they suddenly found out it was only worth £750 per month and the market was flooded with other flats. Bottom line is that these people were also part of the reason for the recession. A large part. Oh, one other thing....'some' large banking organisations. Not all. P.S. Why didn't you just pay your council tax on time? Would have avoided the whole situation. Personal responsibility?

In an M9 at that

whoosh

The day before the tournament started. Germany would have been a good bet, but......

Where did you get those odds? I've got Germany at 14s and Klose e/w at 33's. Did a few bets with a mate on the Ladbrokes deal - bet 1 x £5 bet and get 4 x £5 bets free. Also on Villa at 8s, Spain 4s, Holland 9s. Pulled uruguay in the sweep at work and, the final bonus, had a few entries on the 'sure for men' quarter final sweep. Put the code on the can into the website and you get a team. Had about 10 cans (no bo problem!!) and, as you would expect, got my fair share of crap, but also pulled Uruguay and Spain. £15 each as they're in the semis. Beaten finalist is £25, winner £50. Pretty happy with that lot...although had a few turkeys - Crouch and Robinho top scorers. Argentina and Brazil as winners.

I don't think there are many cabs that sort of size on the market. I think the pure size causes issues with scuttle shake. The strengthening of the chassis makes the car unbelievably heavy.