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Or just waste it on quangos, unworkable NHS computer systems etc, etc... like they did for the 13 years of government !!!

Not the Saints way, I'm afraid ! Always worries me when everything seems to be in our favour and then we blow it ! Hope I'm wrong !

It's quite amazing the impact that a newspaper interview has on a fan's forum ! Every word is dissected, every opinion becomes stronger and more entrenched when others disagree ! Before the web took over the world, these conversations were held down the pub with your mates and (with the real benefit of body language!) never seemed to get so out of hand ! Some call it progress, I suppose !

Give the guy credit though, he is resilient and never gives up ! My guess is that when his Russky saviours start defaulting on the CVA (???) he'll still find a hidden link to suggest that it was all 'kosher' and willingly agreed by the creditors ! He still has mountains of 'corpy and paste' bollix up his sleeve, no worries !!

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So they bought the club with the CVA, the charity debts, the sh#tty ground, etc, etc.... That is exactly my point - if you genuinely want involvement in English football, fine, but why take the club with the most complicated/dodgy scenario in the country ! (I only mentioned Sheffield and Bristol because they are big cities, but clubs like Reading and Wigan are for sale as are plenty of other better buys!) The suspicion that there could be a connection to former owners lingers like a bad smell (probably similar to the one down Farton way I would guess!).

If Mr Ho HO could offer a convincing argument as to why these two wealthy Russians chose to purchase Pompey over the many other alternatives (big city clubs from Bristol or Sheffield for example!) then I would start to listen ! The fact is that no respectable bidders came forward to take on the CVA, the charity debts, the fraud charges, the sh#tty ground, etc, etc, etc..... Surely eyebrows are raised by the fact that they are Russian (IMO the Gaydamak connection refuses to go away!) and have had some serious accusations laid at their door in the past ! I do understand why the Few are desperate for it to work out, but the owners stated reasons for buying the club are as paperthin as their squad ! They've seen them play a couple of times in a half empty relic of a stadium, win only once, and are now 'addicted', doesn't really take much does it, eh ?? Personally I am happy that these guys, along with Clotterill and Lumpit are at the helm of the ship, it just means that this thread will continue ad infinitum !!!

For those who wondered why they bought the club, this may (in a very subtle way!) provide a clue ??? :)

Can't see it, reckon uncle Avram will have been in place for a month or so before we take them on !!

Word is that he was so impressed with Princess Beatrix's wedding hat, he went for a copy

He's actually bl**dy rude, Herdman was more than reasonable with his questioning (IMHO) and yet he responded as if he'd somehow been insulted !! I'm not a great fan of Nigel's interviewing style but at least he always shows common courtesy and respect !

My brother (a Leicester ST holder!) was at both games and reckons that Saints were a class above the Seagulls ! TBF, he also said that Leicester are beginning to gel and were more solid at the back ! Anyway he is a neutral, so if he says that, it must be true, no ??

Clot's answers in advance : Red card = bent ref ! Goal against = offside/foul ! Overall play = we wos better team ! Teams above = about to 'fizzle' out ! Zero shots on target = somebody must have shifted the goalposts !! Message to the Russkie Mafia bays - please don't sack him, we just love him, we do !!!!

Leave him alone Phil, you will never out-ped a pedant !!!

Bournemouth ??

To be fair you get to see Barnsley, Peterborough or Doncaster

Nowhere does he state that he is not willing to collect the vouchers ! Why then are you slagging him off ??

That wasn't his point though ! He said that we should hold our best players back, settle for the play offs, and then bring back the 'big guns' ! Fortunately Adkins was not of the same view !

If you care to check back, I ripped the p*ss there and then (along with many others!) so nothing to do with 'hindsight' ! Anyway I have no desire to hijack this thread but just thought that, as this was one of your most priceless gems you had an opportunity to admit that you made an arse of yourself ! Ah well, never mind....

No mention of your : "We must rest our best players for the run-in, as our only hope is the play-offs" thread then ??

Oi, I'm supposed to be the one with the glasses, you're the one with the short fat hairy legs

Both of the highlighted figures have been plucked from articles written by people supposedly 'in the know', but given that reported debts when Admin Andy started the process were around £60mil and soon ballooned to £130mil, I would not pay too much heed to the accuracy of any quoted figures leading up to administartion ! The only FACT regarding numbers is the bottom line £130mil which was the figure used in court as the total outstanding to creditors, even that, we all know was contrived to minimise the taxman's percentage but any 'forensic investigation' has to assume that this is the starting point and work backwards ! I wish them well ! FC, please don't take any of Ho's figures as gospel just because he repeats them ad nauseum, he knows no more nor any less than any of us do !

Adkins said all along that he was preparing a team which would be of 'championship standard' and not just to get us out of the 3rd division ! Looks like he was true to his word !

As I stated in my post "I suppose it's a matter of opinion" but I do have a strong view based on (lierally!) hundreds of visits to both countries ! ( minimum 6 times a year for about 35 years!) I have eaten in a few of the 'starred' restaurants, but over the years mainly in mid/high level establishments. My opinion is that the general standard in Italy (from north to south) is much higher and more consistent ! So no, I wasn't joking !

Bl##dy hell, you call us naive and then praise the football authorities ! Tell me again who allowed an invisible man (Ali al Mirage) to pass the 'fit and proper persons test' ????