SaintBobby

1. Lambert 2. Yoshida 3. Morgan 4. Rodriguez 5. Davis (or maybe Cork or Boruc)

Lawrenson looked like he was sucking a lemon. Not f-ing good enough. He should have ripped his shirt off and self-flagellated there and then on live TV. Appallingly bad punditry. I think I might have to write a letter to the BBC.

On a serious (ish) points, I'm amazed that Cork is running away with MotM on the poll. Everyone was 8/10 or more. But I thought Lambert was easily the best player on the park. Not even sure Jack would be in my top 5 (even though he was very good)

I'm basically with Dalek here. I was pretty close in thinking we'd end up 17th last season. I then, quite fairly, expected us to lose 3-0 to Wigan. I then expected us to do well if we kept our defeat today to less than 4 goals. I guess I need to confess that we have rather exceeded my expectations. But when we lose 37-0 away to Newcastle United, then it will all start crashing down around our ears. :-)

I find it odd that the valuation is so contested/argued over. Seems weird that some surveyor would claim it's worth £x and another that it's worth £5x.

Any views on the valuation of Fratton Park? Or whether Chanrai really would be better off if the club were liquidated? It seems to me - plucking numbers out of thin air - that the owner of Fatpipes could reasonably charge, say, £5 on every ticket as rent at each match. In rough terms, this would be an income stream of about £1m or £1.5m per annum. Is the land really worth more if bulldozed and e.g. sold to Tesco?

I confess I've rather lost touch with what parachute payments arrive and when. As well as who they have been promised to - and whether these promises are legally binding or simply need to be fulfilled in order to fulfill the football creditors rule and retain the golden share. Couldn't a new consortium (or Harris) make a bid to takeover the club one second after the next tranche of parachute payments arrive and then divert these payments to wider creditors (i.e. Chanrai) rather than to the ex-players. Sure, the skates lose their golden share, but it means Balram gets the cash rather than Kanu, TBH etc.

Ok, someone help me here. I'm sure I'm being dense. But from what I gather, the Football League's statement is - in strict technical terms - irrelevant. It is PKF's job to secure the best deal for the creditors not to ensure that Portsmouth FC continue to play football at Fratton Park. If we put together a "nutjob" consortium and offered to pay the creditors in full, Birch would have to accept our offer, not the Trust's surely? The fact that we'd just hold a party on the pitch and then cackle away as we burnt the stadium down ratehr than have any plans at all for fielding a football team is neither here nor there, surely?

If I'd written a **** mag about the collapse of Portsmouth FC, I couldn't have come up with something as fantastically brilliant as this turn of events. Joyous.

The Pompey Trust website http://www.pompeytrust.com/ still has as one of their "NEWS HEADLINES" stories, the tale of a teenage boy who did a sponsored cycle ride to raise £1,150. In May 2012. Yep. That really is one of their selected top 5 stories. It's beneath pathetic.

I watched the game in a bar. We were genuinely asking each other "what's the minute's silence for?" I think it's overused. The deaths in that bar were horrid. But nothing to do with football. About 2,500 people die every year in car smashes in Britain.

I wish I could fly high up the leagues, but I can't You can I can't.

I find the idea that a stadium tour guide has let slip our plans for a 58K stadium laughable. I find the idea that Cortese must have some plan to make this work - possibly by selling lots of bratwurst and sauerkraut even more laughable.

Was just looking up some stuff on FC United (see thread on main board), who have managed to raise £1.7m in shares/pledges. WTFILN

Why the feck are they eating the newly-installed facilities?

Better still, let's hope we collapse down the entire league table. Or even end up in the Blue Square. Tickets would be much cheaper then. The plastics would be gone. And we could almost guarantee kick offs at 3pm on Saturdays. It's no a brainer, surely.

I think the glorious thing about all of this is how the skate fans are losing heart. The Trust has signally failed to unite the fanbase -in fact, it's split it quite badly. And can you imagine how dispiriting it must be to see your team fail to win in 17 games with a threadbare squad of journeyman with no past or future at the club? I'm trying to imagine how I'd feel if Saints were in this position. At first, I'd fight and campaign, "back the bid" etc. But after months and months of it, I think maybe I'd just drift away.

Sounds like it really is a recurring dead leg problem for Ramirez then.

The odds were pretty bad back then as I recall. Although, it was the admin that finally sealed it, I think - not just the poor performances on the pitch. I have no problem betting against Saints - it doesn't affect the result.

If not Lambert, who? Is Sturridge already in the squad?

Proper mental. Massively impressed......

I doubt he still thinks they'll be "fine", which sort of implies staying well clear of relegation. At best, they will scrape out of the bottom three by a whisker. Mind you, my predictions weren't so good - but I'd change them now, rather than be "consistent"

I agree that Gaston has failed to impress. But there's time for him to come good. Nevertheless, it was a wise signing at the time. Expensive - but consistent with our approach of signing youngish players who will/could improve.

DOWN - QPR, Villa, Wigan UP - Cardiff and 2 randoms

If we end up behind QPR, given we're 7 points ahead of them with just 13 games to go, we deserve to be relegated tbh.