The Kraken

News of the impending situation seems to have been met by incredulity by the intelligencia over on POL. Yep; despite Talksport stating as fact that one player is on £8K a week; this true visionary genius equates pompey's squad of 19 players (we'll assume he doesn't include the now departed Luke Rodgers in his figures) as earning on average less than £2,000 per week. And because the Trust says all is progressing, we should listen to them. Not enough This rather hilariously-titled poster adds a new dynamic to the equation:

Thanks for that. You're on form today.

:lol:

I've heard its Luke Shaw's turn. His 10 minute cameo against WBA was a warm up for the lad to get a full game.

I'm neither a Goolie dissenter nor fully in the Adkins-out camp, Diggory. I firmly hope he can register a win on Saturday to turn it around, the man is top class. And I actually think we will.

I'll be getting p*ssed.

You could probably borrow Crouchie's lawyer if you get in any libel troubles. Oh those were fun times.

In either case; if he has been given his notice there's entirely no reason why he shouldn't just do things his way. He has nothing to lose; if he's not going to save his job he may as well go out doing it his way.

We've been told that Nik Nak is still learning the trade; hopefully this is part of his learning curve.

What a strange post. You seem to want to suppress the opinions of others who hold a contrary view to your own. "Supposed Saints fans" is a quite ridiculous and pompus assertion too.

Well at least PKF will have bled the carcass of £3M by the time liquidation comes.

What a ridiculous response.

As it should be.

Yes. More than that. Glad I could clear that up.

From the OS http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/news/article/adkins-implements-change-of-routine-474988.aspx The bits in bold definitely reinforce my opinion that he's demanded to do things entirely his own way and told others to butt out. I actually feel pretty positive ahead of the Swansea game.

I'm seeing it that Adkins has asked for and been given complete free licence for 2 or 3 games to do things entirely his own way and he'll be judged on that. If he's still found wanting, he's out. If we see an upturn he'll have proved his point.

I think Tricky Trev must have gotten himself a login on the Pompey message boards. :lol:

Really? What has he done to suggest he's not ready?

Everything I've heard suggests that Cortese ensures the players are treated like kings; its VIP all the way for them. The other staff? Not so much, no.

I don't think you'd get much odds on that. UnAppy has done a p*ss poor job considering the wage bill he's pushed out on those underperforming high paid mercenaries. Pompey should be way higher in the division than they currently are. And Blackpool are a busted flush, with their remaining good players now sure to leave in January and condemn the club back to a struggle in the lower leagues. The eyebrowless idiot will get found out for the tactical imbecile he is.

Yep, thats a great reason why we should completely rule it out.

Tick. Especially about the helmet part.

Part of it seems to stem from some posters not wishing to accept opinion of anything unless cast iron proof is delivered. So, as much as you can profess an opinion that Adkins, Cortese, Reed and the players should all share some collective responsibility, it always descends into a "how can you say that, how do you know that for a fact?" type bickering when its broken down into more specific detail. I suspect the flip side of that will be the accusation that opinion often gets dressed up and presented as fact. But this is an internet spazboard and the amount of fact being spoken at any one time is limited at best, so its probably just best off to treat everything as opinion and speculation and leave it at that.

The loan has been secured against future income AND the assets of Southampton FC.

You sure about that? I don't know either way, but I read a comment on here from a certain forum co-owner suggesting that David Bick should be ashamed for his role in that particular leak.