Jimmy_D

You'll probably be right about us not finishing tenth. Since we're going into the last game with a chance of finishing tenth though, I don't think it was right to be so dismissive of our chances of finishing tenth. Especially with your sneering tone and implications that anyone that thought we had a chance of finishing tenth was an idiot.

My take on it is that Cortese has promised Tino the backing and has the vision to take Saints to regular European football, and Tino's bought into that (ie. the expected signings are part of that) Cortese leaving would throw those promises and vision out of the window, so Tino wouldn't be part of a vision any more. However, by publicly saying that, it sounded to me as if he was just answering the question as given, but wasn't expecting it to actually come to him leaving.

Can't see them finding a better keeper than Eastwood for nothing. Is reality finally starting to set in for them?

No, it includes speculation about next season's Saints kit after all.

Agreed.

In 2008, Pompey won the FA Cup. In 2009, they saw us drop to League One and have the -10 applied to leave us in our lowest position for generations while they survived in the Premier League. Portmouth's implosion is, uh, well documented, shall we say, elsewhere on this forum, and since then, they've dropped to the lowest tier of league football, had the name of their team dragged through the mud, and today lost out on a player to Fleetwood Town. In the same time, mostly thanks to Marcus Liebherr and Nicola Cortese, we've seen our team score four goals at Wembley in front of a record crowd, back to back promotions, and survival in the Premier League, beating each of last season's champions. It's perhaps the biggest and fastest swing in fortunes any two rivals have EVER seen. They must absolutely despise him for his part in it. I hope he'll be here for a long time yet, but even if he isn't, he's already been a part of more than I could have dared to hope for us a few years ago.

Unbeliveable acheivement for a defensive midfielder to get player of the season, especially with a talisman like Lambert in the side. He really does absolutely deserve it though, been brilliant this year.

Phil really wasn't joking about banning you was he?

http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/news/article/euro-2013-calls-for-clyne-shaw-821123.aspx

http://www.thefa.com/england/mens-under-21s/News/2013/euro-2013-squad-announcement.aspx Huge congratulations to them both

Well that seems to make things clearer as to why there's the speculation now. Natural break, so there's bound to be negotiation.

http://goo.gl/lxsXD Some lucky guesses with that one heh.

Oh you poor thing, haven't you realised by now it's the hope that kills?

So, seems to be a dispute over transfer funds being made available?

as they do with anyone who says anything that they dont want to read. Yes, because everything that we don't want to read/believe has been true. Obviously. Lots of negative stories have appeared about Saints over the years. Not all of them have been true. I'm taking a wait and see approach. Could well be that a journo has stuck his oar in during the middle of a negotiation that will work out fine, could be that we're about to have to weather a big storm, or anything in between.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22510420 BBC's take on it.

Strange that this has appeared the day after we confirmed our safety. Still, papers don't get it all right, I'll take a 'wait and see' view on this one for now.

It's still a mad mad season where with one game remaining, we can finish anywhere from 10th to 18th. (OK, OK, but even 10th - 17th realistically is a huge range with one game left.)

So with one game to go, we can still (just about) finish anywhere from 10th to 18th. This is a mad mad season.

That'll do.

Get IN! Get another one and we've gone from 17th to 11th in a matter of minutes!

If their fans are arguing as much as this you could probably say it's already been a success

'Tis only my opinion, who knows, maybe it'll get traction, properly take off and the next generation of Pompey fans will get dragged along to Fratton Park, good luck to em if it does.

No, just that aspect of it. They didn't need to use that sort of negative marketing at all, playing on Fratton Park's percieved atmosphere is just one of any number of positive slants they could have used.