SaintBobby

Lol. What makes me really scary is that Im not upset. I'm just relishing their death in an icy cold way. :smt033

Wtf? We have beaten them there 1-0 when we made the CCC play offs and the epic 4-5 to stay up in c. 1993.

Ive agonised about this too. But have decided I want them dead. They have cheated their way to Prem survival and the 2008 FA Cup (which they should be formally stripped of). The penalty for this behaviour should not be relegation or a points penalty, it should be death. English football needs sorting out. It will be a total farce if Portsmouth continue in existence. Id say its now 90% that they will cease to exist. That will be a great day for football if it happens. As for the skates fans, f**k them. They'll pay for celebrating their stolen 2008 Cup win with the liquidation of their club. That's justice. So shut up, f**k off and at least try and die with a little dignity.

Yep - herein lies the problem. The teams in 3rd-7th place are doing very well. To close the gap at the rate of about a point a game is a huge ask. I reckon we may well average more than 2 points a game, but we probably need to be averaging about 2.5 to make the play-offs. Bridge too far. I'd be happy with finishing 8th or 9th with a great last 1/3 of the season and being installed as clear favourites for next season. I want Leeds, Norwich and Charlton to go up and Plymouth, Peterborough and S****horpe to come down. Saints win League One next season with well over 100 points. Simples.

I don't think we will make it. It's not just the -10, it's the damned annoying fact that the teams in the playoff slots are doing so well. I was hoping 70 points might be enough for a post-season berth, but it looks more like 80.

Nope - its already been confirmed, somewhere, that they would relegate 2 of the remaining 19.

I think I prefer Connolly to Barnard. Haven't seen enough of Puncheon yet to compare him to Antonio/Papa/Lallana on the right.

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Some sort of AFC Portsmouth is probably sustainable in the Blue Square Premier or Blue Square South - maybe in lower ends of League Two. I'd imagine crowds of about 2,000 or so. Without Fratton Park, you'll probably have to share with Havant. Portsmouth isn't much of a football town. Crowds of 17,000 in the Premiership are lamentable. But I'd imagine a semi-pro club is feasible, even with such limited interest in football in the city.

It's a long time since Ive seen Star Wars, but I dont think Obi Wan Kenobi was suggesting that the rebel alliance was going to be re-formed and thereby strengthened in the Beazer Homes League Division 8.

This is so glorious to watch. I can't wait for them to disappear off the face of the Earth.

Connolly returning would be a major boost. I haven't botehred to do the stats, but I think our W:D:L ratio has been enormously better when he's been playing. Our best form of the season has been when Connolly has been a regular. Absolute class act. Just worry that he's destiend to be a bit player for the rest of his ever-shortening career.

Id say their natural level is lower CCC to mid L1. A lot depends on the stadium though. If they lose Fratton Park, they may stabilise in BSP. We're naturally somewhere between 10th and 30th, I'd say.

We shouldn't seek to be reinstated into the competition, but if it transpires that they were trading whilst insolvent, we should sue Storrie and the other directors - personally - for loss of earnings. Coventry and Sunderland could join us as plaintiffs.

Can someone answer a (relatively) simple question: Isn't it overwhelmingly likely that they will have borrowed against the parachute payments already? If I was in their shoes, I would have done. It's £16m over two years, I believe. Couldn't they convert that into £13m - £14m up front? In short, why it is believed the parachute payments are still in play, when they've clearly mortgaged everything else?

I was sat on the halfway line in the corporate area. Ok, I didn't count. But I think the number (or %) of folk leaving was LESS not MORE than I've seen at 1-0 up or down with 2 mins to go.

Really? He seemed pretty relaxed to me, from where I was sitting (3 rows behind him). We aren't going to make the play-offs unless we hit an incredible run of form (we probably need 2.5 points a game or something mental). We ain't going to get relegated either. We'll win League One next season with 90-100 points. I genuinely believe that.

Re: Antonio He's not the finished article. But I think he is the starting article! The weaknesses in his game are (overwhlemingly and sometimes embarrassingly) positioning and decision-making. E.g. he will sometimes shoot form 40 yards and sometimes take a second touch from 2 yards; he can tackle and hassle quite well - but is often 5 - 10 yards away fro where he should be. His only obvious technical failure is that his crossing % is poor. But I find him an amazingly entertaining player to watch and I think he can easily improve the weaknesses in his game (they are learnable, not intrinsic). If he is able to develop his game, I think he will probably emerge as a striker not a winger.

For me, the measure of our club was that - at a guess - 29,000 people were still in the stadium until the final whistle. Going 2-1 down was a bad enough. But even at 4-1 down, virtually everyone stayed to applaud our team off the pitch. I thought our players gave everything today. But to see our fans stay in those sort of numbers to the very end was simply incredible. That was the thing that brought tears to my eyes. I feel proud and privileged to be a Saints supporter. God bless you all!

Interesting point. But I don't think a Man Utd or Liverpool will be the first to go. A Premiership death will send on a domino effect that will clean up the game, I think. Portsmouth's impending death will only really be worthwhile if it leads to a serious clean up of the game. Otherwise, it will just be sad and pathetic - albeit richly deserved.

He's a superb footballer. His poise on the ball was exceptional. He looked like an international-quality player at times today. I dearly hope we keep him for 2010/11. At the end of the game, he collapsed onto his knees. Partly out of exhaustion, I'm sure, but also I think he was emotionally upset. I'm sure he must have won MotM. I was in the Channon suite, where they promised us the MotM at 3pm, then 315pm, then 330pm. At 350pm -with still nio Saints player in sight - Kelvin turned up and tried to cheer us up as "club captain". I assume Adam won MotM - deservedly - but was not up to facing a ****ed-up (but supportive) audience of 500 Saints fans. Fair play to the lad either way. What a talent and what a credit to our team.

God help me, then. I'm now parroting the Daily Mail. I was thinking of sticking my head in the oven anyway, this has definitely tipped the balance.

I want Portsmouth liquidated. In some small, but measurable, part, this is because they are our rivals. But mainly - honest to God - it's because English football need a catastrophe, indeed a death, to wake up to the obsecene and preposterous state it is in. I can honestly say - hand on heart - that Porstmouth FC being terminated would be good for the long term future of our country's football. Let's hope it happens. Not because they are our rivals - nor because they beat us today. Let's hope they are liquidated to help save the game we love.

Obviously upset we lost. Portsmouth put their chances away, we didn't. I'd still say if that game was replayed 30 times, then on the balance of play today, it would yield about 10 Saints wins, 10 draws and 10 skates wins. They were very good on the counter attack and very clinical. David James had an exceptional game. From our point of view, I thought Lallana, Schneiderlin and Lambert were not just exceptional but positively heroic. I'd be amazed if we don't overtake them decisiviely in league status within two years and think there's a 50-50 chance they will not be part of the 92 teams next year. In terms of the "natural" position, we are a top 25 side (maybe in the Prem, maybe top end of Championship), they are somewhere around 30-50 (top CCC at best, probably League One). Without wishing to sound too embittered, the truth is that today, in playing our local rivals, we faced a team that they have no moral, financial or even legal right to put to the pitch. Similarly, in 2008, they effectively cheated (financially) to win the FA Cup. That doesn't mean either result should be expunged from the records. But it does mean that if Portsmouth are liquidated - as they certainly should be - in a few weeks time, they can't whinge about unfairness. For me, this was a slightly gutting day. But I follow a growing, upwardly mobile team with an incredible, immense fanbase. For the 4,000 Pompey fans, this could be one of the last meaningful games of football they ever witness in their lives. I'd rather be in my shoes than theirs.

He was utterly superb, unfortunately. One error (the ball going through his hands from a corner in the first half), but it wasn't punished and I don't think even a Drogba/Torres would have converted. If we'd caught James on a bad -or even mediocre - day, we would probably have won. Annoyingly, he turned in a 9.5/10 performance. I don't think that much improves England's chances of wining the World Cup or Portsmouth's chances of remaining in existence, but it was a sporting reality for 90 minutes today.