Jimmy_D

HOW THE HECK are we still behind!? We're playing them off the park atm.

In the meantime, until they find a replacement, they have Stuart Gray in charge

The thick skate still thinks that having a total outlay of £24M means you'd need £50M back to make any money then... I know maths is pretty weak there... but that's just ridiculous.

Actually, although it's mainly an American holiday now, it originally came from Scotland.

Close. Hampshire was named after the port of Hampton, which later became Southampton.

Or SAAB/Spyker, with, at best, an unclear ownership situation, and SAAB being in financial difficulty... Not to mention the alleged links with the Russian Mafia that the owners have been reported as having. Aye, not sure why Corp tried to bring that argument to the table to be honest.

Aye, it does seem like he's trying to deflect attention from how obviously the figures don't add up at Pompey by trying to suggest that there's trouble ahead for Saints... Corp, the figure of £24M was an estimate of the Liebherrs' total outlay on the club, not a figure you can lump on to the rest of the estimates to suddenly say we're £50M in debt. The Liebherrs have a policy of not running in debt, and we have no debts except to the Liebherrs themselves. Money like that I'd see more as investment than debt, they have a vested interest in seeing us do well, as it increases the chances of a return on their investment. That along with Cortese's claims that if they walked away tomorrow, he could bring someone else equally wealthy in, and I'm very very relaxed about our financial situation. I admit we were lucky to find such a fantastic owner, but we did actually get that luck, and this is the situation we find ourselves in now. This is completely opposite to the methods of Pompey's last few owners, who have loaded the club up to the eyeballs with debt, and avoided paying bills to anyone, including the taxman, charities, and even your own tealady, in an attempt to avoid losing money themselves, and turned the club completely toxic in a financial sense in the process. In fact, with the debt to the taxman you had, each and every Saints fan in the country owns about 50p's worth of your precious FA Cup. The administration process removed some of that toxicity, but you still have liabilities relating to that debt. The jury is still out on your current owners. Is there any evidence they've put any money into the club themselves? Yes you spent money in the summer, but a combination of having a squad of eight players and all the season ticket money coming in will mean the club will have had cash on hand, which might have been what was spent despite being needed for liabilities later in the season? The club have talked about improvements to the training facilities, all while failing to mention Pompey don't own the training ground and it's not them spending a penny on the upgrades. Then of course there's the pittance that's being spent on the stadium to scrape it past health and safety inspections. Surely if they're interested in investing money in the club, surely the stadium, with the state it's in, is somewhere where a small amount of money (a similar amount to that spent on players for example) could go a very very long way?

If that turns out to be true...

12 for me. Has anyone passed without using Google yet?

http://twitter.com/#!/LiterallyJamie/status/124062055501279232 The fake Jamie Redknapp account sums it up best I reckon.

Oh! I forgot about Wembley/New Wembley! I saw us when we beat Mexico. I guess some of us will have seen Saints play at both Wembleys.

The Dell and St Mary's!

http://www.dcfcfans.co.uk/topic/7654-derby-county-v-southampton/ Their supporters are pretty pessimistic about their chances. Especially as apparently Tyson won't be fit for the game. https://twitter.com/#!/ColinBloomfield Apparently this game is being shown in Europe, so those with a way of picking up foreign satellite TV channels might be able to watch. Scoreline? I predict 3-1 to us, Lambert, Lallana, and de Ridder to score (not necessarily in that order).

I don't think this month can break us. If we lose most of the games we can still recover, although then we'd be playing catch up. (Might work for us, we were awesome towards the end of last season trying to catch Brighton) This month could certainly make our season though. Win most of the games and we'd probably have a 7-9 point gap to second spot, as well as breaking Boro's unbeaten streak, and our confidence going into an easier (on paper) run of games would be through the roof.

The future for their attendances is looking pretty bleak if they're not getting any kids through the turnstiles... CSI are in this for the long haul, right?

I reckon our players will be higher rated after the first or second patch.

The original point on this thread was lost quite a while ago.

You might not see why, and to be honest niether do I, but regardless of that the FFP regulations don't allow 'non-football' income to be counted. However, it's also the case that not all outgoings are counted either, for example money put into youth development or stadium construction. So additional income isn't counted by FFP can be put into outgoings that aren't counted and free up income that is counted to be put towards the outgoings that are counted. No doubt that there will be arguments and probably court cases over whether certain income streams should be counted, but I can't see this ending cleanly.

I can't be certain, this is just my own speculation, but I'd guess the beginnings of this came from Clive Woodward.

According to SSN, he's had a scan and it's just concussion. Obviously still not great, but nothing compared to what it could have been.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/15176078.stm Think we unfortunately might be looking at a contender for worst injury tonight, apparently some reporter at the match tweeted that his neck was broken. Obviously that hasn't been confirmed yet, but all the best of luck to him in his recovery.

They have two smaller clubs.

That would break European competition law, there'll have to be more than one broadcaster that they sell rights to.

After 10 games is when the table starts to take shape. Most of the time, you can weed out teams in a false position by looking at goal difference, as it usually turns out pretty accurate for predicting finishing positions, so I'm very VERY happy looking at our performance so far. Not to mention St Mary's has never been more of a fortress, and due to scoring every game, teams have to score at least twice before they can even THINK about beating us... Adkins obviously knows what to say to keep the team motivated when leading at half time as we've won a silly number of games in a row when leading at half time. Our subs always seem to make an impact, either through scoring, or getting assists, or shutting the game down, and we never seem to give up. Even in the two games we've lost we might have got a point just through keeping going right to the end. Our squad is deep, we seem to be able to change players in and out without disrupting the cohesion of the team. The one area I'd like to see us improve is defence. We don't keep as many clean sheets as we'd like, and teams tend to get a few easy chances against us that we might have been cutting out last season (albeit against weaker opposition). That said, I'd far prefer us to play attacking football and maybe concede a few more that we might otherwise.

If we're going to do this, we'll do it RIGHT. After 6 August, Saints v Leeds, Middlesbrough v Pompey; Gap: 2 After 13 August, Barnsley v Saints, Pompey v Brighton; Gap: 5 After 16 August, Ipswich v Saints, Pompey v Reading; Gap: 5 After 20 August, Sainst v Millwall, Bristol City v Pompey; Gap: 7 After 27 August, Leicester v Saints, Pompey v Cardiff; Gap: 6 After 10 September, Saints v Nottingham Forest, West Ham v Pompey; Gap: 9 After 17 September, Saints did not play, Hull v Pompey; Gap: 9 After 18 September, Saints v Birmingham, Pompey did not play; Gap: 12 After 24 September, Burnley v Saints, Pompey v Blackpool; Gap: 10 After 27 September, Saints did not play, Pompey v Peterborough; Gap: 10 After 28 September, Cardiff v Saints, Pompey did not play; Gap: 10 After 1 October, Saints v Watford, Leeds v Pompey; Gap: 13