stevegrant

Stoneham Lane, which I assume means Pompey's training ground, opposite Eastleigh FC.

Ernie.

As some of you may have noticed, I have had to delete a number of posts on this thread, for pretty bloody obvious reasons. While I'm sure it seemed like a good idea at the time, I'll let you all consider the ramifications for that person given the role he currently has - I don't think it's particularly fair on him, given he's simply trying to do a job. I'll say no more on the subject

Not really. Lowe wasn't the problem, despite what the loudest voices on here might claim. And we've not done too badly out of our spell in administration, to be honest.

Tonight's results: QPR 1-0 Everton Stoke 2-1 Brentford (AET) Peterborough 1-5 Fulham Updated Fifth Round Draw Portsmouth/Swansea v Man United/Derby Swindon/Man City v Fulham Blackburn/Coventry v Stoke City Charlton/Leicester v Tottenham Reading/West Brom v Burnley/Ipswich Chelsea v West Ham Newcastle/Watford v QPR Southampton v Nott'm Forest/Wigan

You would have thought that after all these years, Colin Farmery would have learned his lesson by now

So an embargo then

I wouldn't say that QPR and Swansea are necessarily not in the PL Academy structure for financial reasons. They might not have the required infrastructure or even the desire to invest the required funds on an annual basis. I don't think QPR have brought a player through their youth system for years - expect they felt it wasn't worthwhile when Chelsea and Fulham could just poach anyone with any talent. Fulham are particularly bad for it. Alternatively, they might even feel that their system is good enough as it is without needing the Premier League's approval. As for Pompey maintaining their PL Academy status, to be honest I have absolutely no problem in them investing in their youth system as it's probably the only way they've got a fighting chance of becoming a self-sustainable club. If only they were to get rid of their £20k-a-week players from the first team...

I genuinely wouldn't know where to start On a continuing note: "@solentsport #pompey Attempts to bring back West Brom's Joe Mattock for a 2nd spell on hold. Baggies have a number of injuries at the moment" - yes, West Brom do have some injuries right now, but none of them appear to be at left-back Incognito transfer embargo, anyone?

Difficult to really tell with the way the academy league structure is split - for example, Bolton are rock bottom of their division yet seemed to give us a tough game last night - but here's the remaining teams and their league positions, 10 teams in each group (group in brackets): Coventry (B) 1st Newcastle (D) 1st Man City © 1st Fulham (A) 2nd Reading (B) 2nd Saints - (A) 3rd Leicester (B) 3rd Derby (D) 3rd Tottenham (B) 4th Blackburn © 4th Charlton (A) 5th Everton © 5th West Ham (A) 6th Watford (B) 6th Stoke © 6th Chelsea (A) 7th Man United © 7th West Brom © 8th Ipswich (A) 9th Portsmouth (A) 10th Nottingham Forest (D) 10th Swansea - not in PL Academy structure Swindon - not in PL Academy structure Peterborough - not in PL Academy structure Brentford - not in PL Academy structure Burnley - not in PL Academy structure QPR - not in PL Academy structure Wigan - not in PL Academy structure So of the sides who have been strong in the league this season, Arsenal (leaders in Group A), Wolves and Barnsley (2nd in Groups C and D respectively) and Liverpool and Derby (3rd in Groups C and D respectively) have all been eliminated already.

While for most clubs that scenario would be vaguely plausible, it still doesn't answer the question as to why any "genuine" owner would buy PFC in its current state. It literally has *nothing* going for it, no assets, a stack of debts that require paying over the next 3-4 years and a huge wage bill with players on medium-to-long-term contracts.

Other results from tonight: Cardiff 1-2 Spurs Norwich 0-0 Chelsea (Chelsea win 4-2 on penalties) West Ham 4-1 Brighton Chelsea will host West Ham in the next round, while Spurs travel to Charlton or Leicester.

I genuinely can't believe they let some of those comments through

Tough choice for Tevez... AC Milan, Internazionale or QPR

Same as airlines, they take advantage of peoples' need to travel and willingness to pay through the nose for the privilege.

What could possibly go wrong, the nation foots the bill for building it and Network Rail maintains it, while a private company comes in and benefits from the profits, just like the rest of the rail network. Fantastic. I'm all for getting from A to B in less time, but those claiming it'll alleviate the crush on commuter services into London from Birmingham so the proles can have a seat on Virgin and London Midland services are missing the point. The way the prices continue to rise without any tangible improvement in the service provided by the franchises (my train into Clapham Junction has been late on at least 5 occasions since the new year already!), they'll have enough seats to accommodate everyone anyway, and with the downturn in passenger numbers on the "normal speed" lines, the franchises will be forced to whack their prices up again.

No, afraid not, it's server operating system upgrades.

Morning all, Just an early warning that we're expecting some downtime tomorrow (Tuesday), most likely at some point between 10 and 11am UK time, while we install some important upgrades on the server. Best-case scenario is that the site will be down for about 5-10 minutes, but this could stretch to an hour or so if there are any problems.

Having gone on strike to get a move away from here, he can **** right off.

Some actual figures, rather than made-up ones: 3005 users on here are deemed as "active", i.e. have logged in within the last month. Of that 3005, 1276 have actually posted.

As someone who went to that game, take it from me, ignore the scoreline from the Amex completely, it does the game no justice whatsoever. The performance before Lambert got sent off was as good as we've played away from home all season, and after that decision merely showed a bit of fatigue and lack of depth, which we knew would happen at some point anyway. Of infinite more concern to me was how a team as **** as Bristol City have managed to outplay us twice in a month when they've failed to even come close to beating anybody else. There's also a fundamental difference between our situation now and the situation we faced in 2007 - we don't have a £7m parachute payment that's going to cease to exist come the end of this season. Financially, we appear to be on solid ground, with no need to shed any of our better players in order to balance the books. In my opinion, we're also in the interesting position of having a strong side but at the same time not having players who would automatically be the sort of player to attract attention from the Premier League. Sure, the likes of Lambert have been linked, but he turns 30 next month and it would take a ridiculous offer for us to let him go, so that pretty much rules out any of the sides likely to be monitoring his progress. On the flipside, I also wouldn't necessarily read too much into a decent second half against a woeful Coventry side, as good as it is to see the likes of Ward-Prowse getting a game and playing well.

Wrexham away