SaintBobby

I'm starting to feel confident enough to look at catching the teams above us rather than keep clear of those below us.

Shows how amazingly good our midfielders have been that we can even contemplate leaving out a fit Lallana and Ramirez from the starting eleven.

Slightly unfortunate wording on Saints player. [h=2]Pochettino Hails Players' Belief[/h]Mauricio Pochettino says Saints bet Manchester City because the team had the belief they could win going into the match.

Poch: "One second, Nathaniel, I know we're f**king them up the arse - but is Roberto right that you're THAT well hung?"

Abysmal display by all the officials. A blind man can get 50% of the decisions right by tossing a coin. 2/10.

Just think, if each of them bought ten pledges at £1K each, the Trust might be viable. Beyond laughable.

Gees, it really is a tragedy. He was such an incredible footballer and seemed like a fun-loving genuine person. He is probably going to die in something approaching poverty within a few months.

Top class today. One amazing save and one incident of shoving his face into a melee of boots. Love him.

It's hard to watch this interview on the BBC website and believe otherwise. He nearly cuts off the translator at one point. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21311313 He also clearly chats to oncoming subs on the touchline. Genius.

Should I be proud or terrified that we're on the same wavelength? Or both? :-)

You are wrong. HTH.

Fox was great today. If that's the quality of our back-up left back, I'm more than happy.

Pedant ! :-)

God yeah, I remember that game. Danny Wallace creamed them.

c 500 under capacity today on the official stats?

Well done on being half right against the odds, Glasgow. Did you get any pay out or did it all rest on Guly?

Basically, really good atmosphere. But there was a period when Northam went really, really quiet. (mins 38-45?)

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?