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Avoid tradesmen with a PO postcode?

About blimin' time someone started a Pompey thread on here...

I wonder how that forensic examination of the accounts of the previous football club that played at Fratton Park is coming along? You know, the one where the appointed forensic accountants were on track for reporting back on a couple of years ago...

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Indeed. (I've no idea what the forum's software deems "active users" to be. Maybe it means people who login on a daily basis or maybe once a year. Who knows?) Anyway, just to clarify my position (which may or may not be representative of the 69% of those 'active members' that haven't voted to sack Pellegrino)... I'm undecided if sacking Pellegrino at this point in time would work out for the best BUT if he was sacked today I wouldn't be unhappy about it. (If the poll question was: "would you be unhappy if the board sacked Pellegrino now?" I'd vote 'no' in a flash) (Yes, I know the self appointed forum intelligentsia can't abide such fence sitting pragmatism, but hey ho.... )

Aren't we all...?

Precisely. Doesn't that work both ways though...? All I'm suggesting is, that if I was "desperate" for something to happen, I'm more likely to vote for it than not vote at all. That just seems logical to me. (Yes, I'm fully aware that there's no place for logic on the internet... )

I suspect there is circumstantial / anecdotal evidence to back up Hypo's declaration, but it's not always as black and white as polls such as this might lead one to believe. As it happens, I'm inclined to believe that 'most' Saints fans *would* be happy to see the back of Pellegrino but that's not quite the same as saying that the vast majority are "desperate" to see him go. IMO of course

# Statistic spinning klaxon # Number of forum members = 10,895 Number of active forum members = 1,394 Active members voting 'Back Him' = 35 = 2.5% Active members voting 'Sack Him' = 431 = 31% Active members not voted = 928 = 66.5% Ergo, the number of active SWF members who currently aren't in the "desperate for him to leave" camp = 69%. (Yes.... (a) I really was sad enough to expend some brain cells on coming up with those figures, and yes.... (b) I aIready know what the response to this post will be, but feel free to mention it anyway... )

https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/crime/man-jailed-in-dubai-for-stealing-5m-from-his-wife-to-buy-pompey-1-8376642

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I know I'll have to incur the wrath of Fitzhugh Fella when I say this but..... Its an abstension from me.... I genuinely have no idea what's best at this stage. #arsefullofsplinters

Sounds like Pellegrino was wide of the mark a couple of weeks ago when he said Austin was back in training. Or maybe he's had a relapse?

Where is this rumour on the rumour scale? ("Heard it from the horses mouth" at one end of the scale, and "saw a tweet on Twitter" at the other) Cheers

I guess there's a difference between being 'ultra cautious in attack' and 'defensive' but they often get translated as the same thing. Pellegrino is more the former than the latter IMO.

Bugger

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/saints/news/15987281.amp/ "SAINTS’ majority shareholder Gao Jisheng invited the club’s chairman Ralph Krueger and fellow owner Katharina Liebherr to China to celebrate Chinese New Year – and watch the team’s 2-0 defeat to Liverpool."

Any chance of Austin being back for the next league game in two weeks? I suspect him coming back for the last 10 games and staying fit is now our main hope of avoiding the drop...

If we stay up he gets the premier league cash to offset his investment. If we go down we sell our best players, which will offset his investment. I don't foresee his investment being "crippled" either way.

On way home from the game. After some half decent performances in recent weeks, that was back to square one. Back to players being devoid of any fight or passion. What's so difficult about giving 100% every game?

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