The Kraken

Trevor Birch must love working with the PDT. They're so desperate that they'll pander to his every whim, stretch the whole takeover out for as long as possible, let him keep clocking up those charges; and they're still happy with him!! Money for old rope, and Tricky Trev is milking it for all it's worth. So, January 15th court date. Even if PKF win it'll take a while longer for the takeover to go through and for the league to ratify it all. By which time the transfer window has nearly closed. Ho ho ho.

Neil Allen ‏@pn_neil_allen Judge’s decision well received by Trust. Worst case scenario would new administrator appointed by Portpin and back to square one.

POL goons not best pleased with today's turn of events.

Neil Allen‏@pn_neil_allen Adjourned until January 15 or if any developments arise before then.

Its ok, Neil has done his sums again and got it right this time. Neil Allen‏@pn_neil_allen PKF seeking adjournment for 28 days - January 15 Hang on a minute.......

Neil obviously didn't study maths at school. Neil Allen‏@pn_neil_allen PKF seeking adjournment for 27 days - January 15

Brilliant!! PDT: "Come on then, we're well up for this". PKF: "Erm, yeah, we're not really. Can we have another 31 days to think about it??"

Micah Hall ‏@blueballoo2000 The fight back starts here. The pst have overcome every obstacle - even yesterday's curveball. Rory McKeown ‏@pn_Rory_McKeown Fans in #Pompey shirts in court Dan Brett ‏@DanBrett90 Trust are in doggish mood today - up for battle.

Hell yes!!

Neil Allen‏@pn_neil_allen Court packed today. Fairly empty yesterday

*gets popcorn and settles in *

That's what GeoEye want you to believe. It could just as easily have been manipulated...

De Ridder can run really fast, he'll do. You and I both know the correct answer is really Jonno Quick though. What a great opportunity for the lad.

That's the problem. There really is no viable alternative. Given that I'd rather keep the rest of the team shape at its optimum and just make a change in one position. But it'll be JRod, for sure.

In fact, we've had a blue away kit almost as much as we've had a yellow one.

More than once, in fact.

That would be an enormous waste of our most creative player. Judging by his display against Reading I don't think it would work.

Can't come soon enough. Whether Matt Phillips or whoever else we're looking at is good enough, we'll see. I remember all too well the struggles we had in the lower leagues when Lallana was unavailable. I can see it being a problem again. And it kind of shift our priorities somewhat, we now need to spend big in midfield as well as at the back and in goal.

Well that's us f*cked then. We literally have no-one else who can play (adequately) at LM. Ramirez was out of sorts there, Rodriguez does OK defensively but bugger all going forwards, Fox isn't the answer and neither is Guly. Mayuka on the right and Puncheon on the left? I think not, no. We are a bit f*cked.

In a simlar vein to the Pompey supporting Dad in this thread, this pic made me smile.

Apart from clearly lacking in a great deal of intelligence, he's also got a desperately annoying voice and a gratingly weird accent. Kind of a hybrid of Yam Yam and Northern that has developed with a southern inflexion, its altogether a rather distasteful combination. The stuttering bumbling pr*ck.

Bump. Predictably, and shamefully enough, UEFA show yet again just how seriously they take the whole issue of racist abuse in the game. Serbia get a £65,000 fine; £15,000 less than Niklas Bentdner got for showing the tops of his pants during Euro 2012. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20718693 F*ck off UEFA, you useless shower of c*nts.

Hmmmm. Not sure how I feel about that.

Rather surprisingly, Sheff Wed never had an average attendance over 30,000 in any of their Prem seasons from 1992-2000. In fact their highest average was only 28,700. Other seasons saw between 25k and 27K.

Yep, been watching it all along. I'm predicting Anton to win, the bird second and Ollie third.