The Kraken

Call me cavalier Turkey, but I'm perfectly happy to make snap judgements all by myself with or without 100% factual evidence. No matter what other nonsense the mongboard glitterati and sensible fringe are insistent upon. That's just me though, so I appreciate you quest for balance.

This is going to sounds terrifically homosexual of me, but hair straighteners would have been entirely useful during my college and uni years and trying to recreate the Madchester look with my long, wiry, matted mad thatch. I ended up getting a grade 1 all over instead as it was too much hard work to try to maintain such a scruffy and out of control mess.

Hang on a minute. This isn't fair at all; Pompey need to be competitive and there needs to be a level playing field FFS. Sometimes I despair at the Football League, this is entirely their fault.

And people still bite. F*ck me.

Yes. Is it a wonder.

One of Bombers' better creations; I like it.

If its a site that relies on stats to form an opinion then it might be worth taking with a pinch of salt.

Hold the horses. It was talked about in LYNDHURST? Well why didn't you say so in the first place? This pretty much confirms it for me. Nigel Adkins and his assistant Roberto di Matteo; wow. It's the dream ticket; English guile and chest-thumping passion twinned with Italian defensive solidity and tactical nous. I can see us achieving the Champions League dream with these two at the helm. COYR!

If we sign Phillips then it writes off Mayuka; can't see him getting a game anywhere else on the pitch. Looking like a very odd signing.

Mayuka?

I'm positively glowing in the warmth of it. And there was me thinking everyone saw right through my relentless bullsh*t. Who knew?

You're so nasty. I'm having to rethink my earlier appraisal of you, Diggers my boy. First the gold shirt thread and now this; it's not good enough.

There are ways around the restrictive covenant, though. Chainrai could potentially argue that he or other owners may want to look for a new site in and around Portsmouth to build a new ground; and that part of the funding for that would come from a redevelopment of the Fratton Park land into housing (as the previous owners had done with the Harbourdome "project"). Ergo, with PFC finding a new home, the restrictive covenant would become null and void and the value of the land would increase significantly. The PDT may have their own valuations of the land; but if the judge is allowed to look beyond the scope of the land only being used for leisure purposes, then they could be in real trouble.

The question is; what present do we want? I'm definitely at the stage where I'd like to see the current car crash continue for as long as possible this season, with PKF running the bank account (and future parachute payments) dry. Finish the season still in administration and in the relegation zone (eminently possible at this rate), exit administration in the summer, and start season 2013/14 with the PDT in charge and minus ten points in League 2. That'll do for me. Liquidation is too good for 'em.

Sh*t just got real...

Diggsy, I know you were keen to cement yourself a place in the SaintsWeb annual awards; I think you've now got every chance in the "sh*ttest thread of the year" section with this epic creation. This is nearly miltonroaderesque in its inner genius.

And to think I nominated you for an honourable achievement award. Can I rescind it?

Go on then, I'll partake. Best poster of the year: CB Fry Honourable achievement awards: Dig Dig, Sour Mash, Dark Munster, This Charming Man, Hypo, Turkish, trousers. Worst poster of the year: Wes Tender Funniest poster of the year: rallyboy Least funny / most tedious poster of the year: Frank's Cousin The most positive poster of the year: NickG The most negative poster of the year: Alpine Saint Most intelligent poster of the year: Sour Mash Least intelligent poster of the year: aintforever Banned poster of the year: Dune The "I'm trying to be funny like Deppo but not succeeding" poster of the year: the stain The "i dont need punctuation that shiz is wack" poster of the year: mack rill The most text effects poster of the year: Swedish Dave The most ridiculous thread of the year: "St. Mary's - What we might expect to see happen (and possibly announced soon...)", by Matthew Le God The poster with the most locked threads of the year: Miltonroader07 The "Who the **** are you?" poster of the year: tajjuk The Piers Morgan award for unpleasant and nasty poster of the year: Alpine Saint

I expect The9 is feeling rather too excited about that prospect already.

I'm starting to think we may not see a return to genuine stripes just yet. Originally i thought we'd alternate between traditional red and white and other designs from one season to another, as we have done with the sash and this year's one. However, with yesterday's revelation that this year's kit has already outsold last season's total, it perhaps shows that while the stripes are popular from a fans viewpoint, they're less popular from a commercial sales point of view. So the old reverse Ajax is a definite possibility; I just hope that a classic old kit gets replicated properly if they're going to do it at all.

It's thoroughly unkind to tar Oldham with the same brush as the skates. Oldham are currently 18th, 3 places above the relegation zone. Pompey are in the bottom four and therefore in the drop zone, and that's before you take off the minus ten points that's coming their way. If we're being truly honest, their relegation rivals are Hartlepool who are marronned on the bottom on 8 points; the same amount of points that Pompey will have after the points penalty is enacted, and 11 points from safety.

What evidence is there of any new manager being able to do a better job than the previous one with those players?

Akos Buzsaky has decided he wants out. Following rumours that he refused to go on the bench last Saturday, he now apparently wants out. http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/pompey/pompey-ready-to-let-buzsaky-depart-1-4505317 Still, if his rumoured enormous wages are anything to go by, this can only be a good thing for the fiscally-minded PDT. Right? Surely it is.

Yep. God forbid they should otherwise attract some curiosity to a multi-billion dollar project. Still, I'm no NASA scientist so I guess you know better.