stevegrant

I'm going to guess that the England TSTs have already sold out.

The Old Grey Mare and the White Hart have been suggested as away-friendly pubs near the ground, both on Rochdale Road.

One of our sources is wrong, Duncan... mine tells me sales of the Pink are up this season

Absolutely insane how we've suddenly found a knack of scoring from set pieces, having been utter turd at them pretty much since Le Tiss retired...

There was definitely contact, but unfortunately Morgan decided he had to over-exaggerate the fall with a twist as he fell - as a result, I wasn't at all surprised to see the ref give the decision the other way.

On my way back now... we were superb in the first half, probably Lallana's best individual performance of his career so far, Southend just couldn't get near him. Notable mentions for Schneiderlin and Lambert going forward and Paul Wotton for a sterling holding job in front of the back 4. Couldn't do anything with their goal, great strike from the free-kick.

Well that was unexpected... a very pleasant surprise though

To be fair, with two goals he did at least contribute, which can't be said for most of the rest of them.

Christ, that was painful viewing. I think the main thing that Pardew will probably have learned from tonight is that some of the fringe players aren't good enough. Also, lumping the ball to Lambert is a ridiculous tactic that just doesn't work. Surely we've learned that by now? ("apparently not" is the obvious answer) While we were terrible from about the 10th minute onwards, the ref was equally appalling. Some of the decisions he gave were just bizarre in the extreme, and then showed complete inconsistency by not giving us a free-kick for identical "fouls". Made a change to see five clinical penalty takers, though - why couldn't that have been the case at Pride Park?

Yes.

We also sponsor Graeme Murty. Altogether, it came to £1400 (£700 each)

Morning all Just had an e-mail from the club stating that the Sponsors Training Session will take place on Thursday 22nd October. This will include watching first-team training, refreshments and meeting your player (either Simon Gillett or Graeme Murty) at Staplewood. A full itinerary will be sent nearer the event. This has come a bit earlier than I was expecting, so we will be conducting the draw at some point in the next week. The prize list currently stands at: 2 pairs of tickets to the end-of-season dinner 2 pairs of tickets to the sponsors training session 2 signed player shirts 1 Saints shirt signed by the Soccer Saturday panel 1 copy of Taking Le Tiss Winners will be drawn in order of the prizes - the first two winners will get the end-of-season dinner tickets, the next two the training session tickets, etc, but we will draw four further names in case the original winners are unable to attend the training session. e.g. Winners 1 and 2 get the end-of-season dinner tickets - sorted. Winners 3 and 4 get the training session, but winner 4 cannot make it. Winner 5 would have had one of the shirts, but instead moves up to winner 4. etc When the draw has been completed, the results will obviously be posted on here, and you will be contacted with full details of how to claim your prize if you have won one. RESULTS

Came on after about half an hour as Le Tiss got injured, replaced some time in the second half. Presumably it's in ITN, Duncan?

That's effectively what it is now that we've already qualified.

The bit in bold is untrue. The rights could have been picked up by any of the major broadcasters, but none of them were willing to pay the asking price because it was expected that this game would be a dead rubber for England by the time the game came around - an expectation that proved to be right. The company who have bought the rights, Perform, already have plenty of business in the UK as they (badly) run the vast majority (if not all) of the Football League official club websites. Apparently they're going to need 300,000 subscribers to break even on this - I'll be surprised if they get 300. Bet365 are streaming it for free for any customer who has money in their account, and there are countless other sites that will be showing it for free (most will probably be doing so illegally, so I'm not going to name any of them).

Yes, based on us winning promotion (from the Championship), him playing a certain number of games and getting full international caps. There's not a cat in hell's chance we'll pay £1m in total.

His words: "I can remember playing..."

Has anyone else spotted the slight flaw in Kelvin Davis' comments: Strangely, I remember Richard Wright playing in front of a full house at that game...

Apart from the fact that we didn't pay anywhere near £1m for Schneiderlin, spot on...

For legal reasons, I couldn't possibly comment...

These aren't rumours about him returning to Pompey...

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=681919&sec=england&cc=5739

I'm not convinced he actually owns anything yet. From what I understood, while he's put down guarantees that he'll service the debt, Gaydamak still owns the majority of the assets, which won't be handed over until the fake doctor pays off the rest of whatever Gaydamak is owed. As such, I don't think it's actually possible for Storrie and his consortium to buy the club from the fake doctor.

From what I remember, Miland Development Ltd is the company Milan Mandaric set up to buy the club when they were in administration a decade or so ago, and because Portsmouth Football Club Limited officially went bust, a new company was set up - Portsmouth City Football Club Limited - to run the football club, in much the same way as SLH was a holding company for SFC until recently. When Mandaric sold the club to Gaydamak, he initially sold 50% of the shares in Miland Ltd for about £20m, with the remaining 50% sold a year or so later. According to their June 2007 accounts (not the most recent, but the one before), Fratton Park was valued at £10m on the PCFC Ltd balance sheet, so it's fair to assume that at that point, the ground was owned by the club, not the holding company. Whether that's changed in all the various shenanigans in the last 18 months or so as security for the various loans that were taken out to fund Redknapp's spending spree, I don't know, and I suspect we may never know if they do end up in administration - the annual accounts for SLH/SFC for last season may never be made public, so it's possible Pompey's accounts may go the same way. Miland Development Ltd is still owned by Gaydamak, and that company won't be transferred to the fake doctor until a final payment is made in January to Gaydamak for whatever it is he's still owed money. I suspect the doc will never actually "own" the club and that they'll be in administration before he gets the chance. Being appointed chairman essentially means bugger all in the grand scheme of things, he owns nothing at the moment. Or at least that's my interpretation of it.

You'll have more choice if you go to Southend Victoria, but it's a bit of a trek from there to the ground. Re the Underground part of the journey, I don't know - the website didn't mention anything about having to buy a separate tube ticket.