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Cork coming on

Great save Forster

This has got 0-0 written all over it

Shane Long coming on for Davis

Good read. Cheers for posting

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Change the thread title? Nah, they are still in a takeover phase. As we know from past experience, a takeover isn't complete until the inherited (diluted) debts are settled. Ergo this latest takeover completes in 2016 (IIRC). As my old showbiz chum Bobby Davro once said: "A volcano that hasn't erupted for years isn't necessarily extinct". Wise words Bobby, wise words.

Yep, same as previous seasons. I'm just mildly curious why the "broadcast section" has significantly fewer questions asked in it this season compared to previous seasons.

Is it me or are these pre-match press conferences getting shorter and shorter? This afternoon's couldn't have been much longer than 5 mins. Used to be at least 15 mins.

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Talking of which, whatever happened to the forensic investigation into the Pompey accounts that Baker Tilly were conducting? No doubt something else that has been conveniently and quietly brushed under the carpet and airbrushed from history....

If Pompey was a 'normal' business it would have gone under years ago. The only reason Pompey is still alive in the football league is because its a football club and football clubs are able to circumnavigate usual business rules by playing the "you can't let a football club go to the wall" heart strings card. Unlike a 'normal' business, Pompey had a choice: liquidate and start again in the lower leagues or rip off as many people as possible to stay in the football league. They chose the latter.

http://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/chelseas-petr-cech-trains-on-day-off-in-bid-to-win-back-no1-spot-from-thibaut-courtois-9679976.html

Well said sir. The only reason the club are in (relatively) good health today is because the money owed to taxpayers, businesses, etc was traded for preservation of their league status. The only outcome that would have warranted anyone's praise for Pompey fans would have been liquidation of the club and the ground + land sold off with the proceeds given to the creditors, along with the remaining parachute payments at the time, and then a new non-league club started up. The club is only where it is today because they chose self preservation over maximising payments to creditors. Self preservation over paying back more to the tax payer so that more hospital operations could be performed (for example). Hardly worthy of any praise.

Out of character cynicism alert..... I wonder how much more the club are making out of kids who are having to pay extra for adult shirts because the child sizes are too small for them?

Corrected it for you

Clyne edit: ignore me....not an academy product. Too early in the morning for this thinking malarkey.... Let's take a punt at Harry Reed instead....

Sad obsessed nutjobs in acting like sad obsessed nutjobs shocker. Hold the front pages...

You mean they've finally given up reveling in the "glory days" of the last decade which were built on foundations that they couldn't afford and have never paid off? I must have missed that revelation....

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The duodenum. Most underated component of the gastrointestinal tract

I thought the same at time. A lack of confidence I guess.

I thought the same at time. A lack of confidence I guess.