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If people think he's publicity hungry and egotistical, I think the evidence would suggest he isn't. Rarely does interviews and is hardly in the national press. One programme cover doesn't really make him a loon, tbf. If anything, it's quite funny, a sort of response to the "Don Cortese" theme. He's not stupid, he knows people probably reference it...

Feck, feck... I forgot you too! OK, I like a lot of posters on here. Contrary to popular belief, there are many people who are reasoned and whom I could probably share a blackcurrant cordial with. adriansfc is one whom I sadly forgot. Saint Sausage was definitely a master of the rofl.

Cheers GM, was tryin to find the cached version...

I understand that some people will see it as inappropriate and that the players should be featured, not the chairman but to me it's only a bit of harmless fun. That said, I'm sure a few people wont "get it" and will probably react negatively to him from now in. Most likely the sizeable cacker contingent.

I absolutely agree. And I'm sure that they'll pop their heads above the precipice again in the future, as soon as the club is in a bit of trouble and they've got something to moan about...

That is quite simply a brilliant, brilliant post. He's as much a part (and deserved of the credit) as anyone involved with Saints in recent times. Oh no, let's all just p1ss our pants over a programme front cover.... bed wetters indeed

LMFAO, that's brilliant. So many people taking this seriously... fan-on-the-board, I-could-do-better, let's-protest-at-about-a-£1.20-car-park-charge, yucky-the-beer-is-watery types...

Ah, a link, or any written copy would be great if possible, chaps! ho ho ho

I forgot to mention TDD 8. TDD

Likes (in no particular order) 1. rallyboy 2. Wes Tender 3. Gemmel 4. Giordano 5. Minty 6. saint_stevo 7. Paul Chuckle Oh, and a few others I haven't mentioned here. The only thing I dislike is the needless pedantry and griping.

A-chuffin'men to that.

Ah but Corp, Saints fan did actively question the leadership, several times - over several years. For what it's worth, I was a fierce Lowe-loyalist (in a very small minority there, believe me) but thousands of fans did take action, protesting regularly, actively boycotting and paying for a flypast banner from their own pocket. The Echo also led the charge as well - unlike The News who appear to just gloss everything over and pander to the simple IQ's of it's many readers. You only have to look at this board and it's previous incarnations to deduce that the clubs actions is often questioned by the fans - however seemingly trivial some of the reasoning might be. Bend over for another shafting, Corpy... here come the Ruskies!

If we want to keep Lallana, Chamberlain, De Ridder, Cork and Fonte beyond next year, we had better be promoted. The "baby steps" method simply won't work. We need to make giant strides and we need to make them pretty fast because if we don't, we'll lose the only Premier League quality players we have - and will only be able to afford to replace them with average Championship ones. You can never "go up too quickly" to the Premier League. Whatever happens, even relegation, we'd be £60m better off and in a better position to roll with the punches post-relegation and launch an immediate fightback. The longer we stay in one place and 'establish' ourselves, the more we'll stagnate and lose any players of significant ability and value. So, for those reasons alone - I hope we prove the critics wrong and gain promotion by any means necessary this year. I don't expect it, but I sure as hell hope for it.

I liked him.

Dear Best Fans In The World™ What a bunch of despicable, shameless gutter-turds you are. So much so, I don't even know where to begin. If you're not robbing cancer charities or local businesses, you're busy shafting local football clubs doing you a favour because of your own self-indulgent, incompetent bumkinite manager Clotterill. And if you're not out doing that, you're out spending the cash of 50m+ taxpayers, your creditors or a wedge of filthy lucre covered with blood from maimed African children. Still, you beat the "scum" 4-1 and you won the cup, so that's all that matters, isn't it? And you wouldn't trade those moments of true, impartial glory for anything, would you? Apparently, we're scum. Ha, if only. You filthy f()cking sh1tbags have the audacity to call (and continue to do so) us scum on the bizarre hearsay concocted by a deranged fish-fiddler many years ago. It probably didn't happen but I'd rather we broke a picket line than break a bank or - worse still - a million children's bones. Still, you beat the "scum" 4-1 and won the cup, so that's all that matters, isn't it? You had the incredulity to question Herr Liebherr's background, with many of you labelling him a nazi tank driver (which was probably a little wide of the mark, considering he wasn't even born) yet whilst you were spunking people's hard earned cash and shredding the invoices, you did little to question your own chairmen's morality and ethics. Oh, you were having too much fun, were you? Quite a ride, was it? Oh, good ol' plucky Pompey! Still, you've had England internationals grace the Fratton Park 'arena' and that's all that matters, isn't it? We hear incessantly about your supposed loyal and vocal fanbase, yet you have been outsupported by ourselves, a full 2 leagues lower (and one league, last year) over the past two seasons. You're so well supported, in fact, you couldn't even shift your 26,000 for a Wembley FA Cup final. For those of you who can't recall, it was the year you beat "the scum" 4-1 en-route to the final whilst trading insolvently - not the year you had assembled a team of international footballers you couldn't afford and beat Cardiff 1-0 in the final; whilst trading insolvently, of course. 250,000 on Southsea common yet no more than 200 in the away ends at Wigan, Blackburn, Boro, Sunderland and Villa on more than one occasion, it's about time we put this Best Fans In The World™ myth to rest, once and for all. Still, Thierry Henry wore the Pompey shirt and clapped back at you as his Arsenal side demolished you mongy-blue ar5ewipes 5-1 and you wouldn't trade that glorious night at Fratton for anything, would you? Not even for a share in Spyker? You've lied, cheated, stolen and bankrupted your way into football's history books and escaped justice off-the-field on more than one occasion. You've revelled in the faux-glory of Europe, cup wins, cup finals and Premier League football, flicking the V's to all and sundry as another fit-and-proper rolls into Fratton promising good times. You're a dirty, cheap whore of a football club, smacked out on an artificial high knowing that someone, somewhere, will bail out your rotten carcass for a quickie in one of the adjoining p1ss-soaked alleys of Frogmore Road. You should be ashamed, but you're not. Still, you beat the "scum" 4-1 and won the cup, so that's all that matters, isn't it? You've bleated about how unfair you've been treated when it's been anything but. You've alluded to a world football conspiracy plotting against you, when it isn't. In fact, thousands of you still do not get that comparing your monolithic and irresponsible overspend and subsequent debt does not correlate with the rest of the Premier League's debt. Here's a clue; The clubs in debt in the Premier League have serviceable debt. Here's another clue; They pay their bills, on-time, every month. And here's a final clue; All of them can muster a few thousand more at their home and away fixtures, irrespective of their league position and 'disenchantment with the cost of football'. You may have escaped justice off-the-field but you're about to brought to rights on it, you d1rty c()nt5. I for one cannot wait.

I would happily do it.

Lmfao, he's about 35

24,304 or 24,887

Lmao at all the internet tough guys trying to bully TDD over a couple of comments that were risque at best.

What we need is a fan on the board to make all the significant decision-making.

£3.5m and £30,000pw. Good ol' Skates.

If he's disappointed with Manchester, christ knows what he'd make of this sh1t tip

Cyberdog is worth a.... giggle.

All quiet on the Western Front... so far. We'll see what tonight brings. Thanks for the contributions so far, will keep you updated.

As regularly featured in The Daily Echo. Hypothetically, what if they moved in a couple of doors down from you in a leafy suburban area and caused a huge disturbance the first night they moved in? My heart says to go round there and execute them all, my head says to wait, see what happens and ride it out. Opinions?