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Ah, but SFC and SLH were effectively one financially troubled entity whereas PFC were/are able to trade solvently and separately from CSI... Which is why AA is trying to find a buyer for CSI and not PFC as PFC were/are financially OK in their own right...

I didn't realise Chesney Hawkes had that many fans TBH

Probably something to do with the 'fact' that Portsmouth FC are not in administration....

Didn't someone post recently that Markus bequeathed a c.£300m Premier League investment 'war chest' to Southampton FC? I can't remember who posted that or if indeed I imagined it.

I probably didn't ask the question clearly enough. I'm not asking which English international he's as good as, rather, where is he in the striker pecking order in his country. For example, if Defoe is 3rd choice striker in England and this chap is 3rd choice striker in Japan, then that's what I'm looking to compare, not a direct skill comparison but a relative one.

To those in the know....where would you put this chap in the relative pecking order of English international strikers. I assume we're not talking Rooney level (I.e. Number one in their respective country) but are we talking, say, Defoe? Bent? Walcott? Someone else?

Yeah, but it is one step down from rocket science...

The RC religion doesn't force parents to copulate as far as I'm aware. It's possible to follow the RC (and other) faiths without producing double figure amounts of children.

It's usually a contract renewal when Mr Sibley pre-announces something...

@jordansibley: First bit of January transfer news coming up on the Official Site shortly, keep your eyes peeled. #saintsfc

@jordansibley: First bit of January transfer news coming up on the Official Site shortly, keep your eyes peeled. #saintsfc

Btw, does he play on the flank?

I've got a feeling this chap will become a colt hero for Saints

You'd have to be a foal to believe that

He's been taking an intense oral English language course but all that talking has made him a little hoarse

What a load of fetlocks

What a load of pony (manely)

But that didn't change the course of the game as obviously as it did on Monday. In that game we were the better team and the bad decision simply helped the best team on their way to a victory they deserved anyway. On Monday it was the reverse. The bad decision helped the worse team (up to that point) to a victory.

The ref vs Bristol City was equally blinkered when it came to awarding fouls for pushes and pulls on Lambert

I'm about to think out loud so this could be a dim question....(for once).... If CSI is the parent company of two subsidiaries operating solvently (Pompey and World Rally) how can the parent company be in an insolvent position in the first place? Surely a parent company with solvent subsidiaries is, by definition, a solvent parent company...? Unless, of course, one of those subsidiaries (*cough* Pompey *cough*) wasn't intact operating solvently and the parent company's fortunes were directly linked to that of said failing subsidiary. How does that work? How can a parent company be broke when it's subsidiaries aren't...logically?

Nah....I've assumed we'll be killing two birds with one stone and getting the chauffeur to swing by Heathrow after picking up the Luke Shaw contract from Arsenal....

An elaborate decoy to put the Saints Web Forum sleuths off the scent of course..... ;-)

But shurlock said it was his first. How is a poor humble Saints Web Forum member such as myself supposed to work out who is correct? :-)

The bit that caught my cynical eye...."he is not the most accomplished of finishers."

So, which is it....first or second time in England?