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This will mean that Corp Ho will be back on here tomorrow now he knows what the official Pompey line is,

It will probably be a love letter to his chum Turkish.

Why do we always end up calling you stupid ??? Do you do it deliberately or are you a bit thick??

Why not use a finger like everyone else?? (sorry - couldn't resist it. Its the lack of football over the last 10 days that has got to me).

I reckon that if the 1984 team were to play the current team, it would be a pretty close game. I reckon that the current team would win by say the odd goal in 5. Mind you, the 1984 team are beginning to get on a bit. Some of them may even be in their 60's so it would be inevitable that they would tire towards the end of the game.

So Corp gets shown up to be a complete muppet yet again and disappears from the forum. This time it is on the subject of the debenture. He logged on at 8:47 this morning , didn't like the stick he was getting and hasn't posted to day. I don't expect that he will post for a week or so but then will come back to have a go at Phil, to tell us how great Pompey are because they did not lose at the weekend (they aren't playing) and then to tell us that Pompey are financially very sound. Life must be difficult for him - trying to be a troll but being rather thick.

Corp, I think that you have been talking to the wrong type of solicitor!!

It is good to hear the EIEIO song which has a great ring to it. How old is it?? Does it date back to the 60's?? I think that I have very vague memories of hearing it when I was a young lad and Ron Davies was our king.... but I am not sure if my memory is playing tricks on me. Can anybody help??

To be honest, I think most of us fall sleep when we start to read your posts, Ho. Any idea of how Pompey are going to be funded this year ?? What is it, 6 players between them earn more than your entire gate revenue for the season. I suppose you could always buy lottery tickets and keep your fingers crossed.

I think that PFC is right. Pompey are undoubtedly much larger and more significant than us because of their past history. I content myself in the knowledge however that my second team is Wanderers. A bunch of ex public school boys , they won the FA Cup 5 times in the 1870's. By PFC's reckoning that makes them one of the biggest clubs in England. Manchester City, may be top of the Premiership and may be looking good things for the last 16of the Champions League but they are not such a big club as the Wanderers. I mean Man City only won the 5th of their FA Cups this year. Wanderers won their 5th FA Cup over 130 years ago!! I am sure that PFC and his logic would recognise that they are a bigger club than Manchester City and are a much bigger club than Pompey !!

Come on - tell us. Its a council house you live in so it is not yours to gamble away!!

Away victories are given a higher rating than home victories - could explain Nigel's relatively low position in the table.

I agree. Adkins out!!

I think it was the human side of things that let the academy down a few years ago. As well as the problem highlighted above with the attitudes of the likes of Best, McG, Dyer etc it seemed to do very little to encourage the youngsters to want to play for Southampton.The way that the likes of Matt Mills, Crainie (leaving us to join Pompey FFS!!), Best, Blackstock etc all moved on at seemingly the first opportunity to me indicated that there was no "club spirit". We were producing good players but other teams reaped the rewards. Mind you, I suppose you could say that the lack of club spirit at that time emanated from the boardroom down and that you couldn't blame yongsters for wanting to leave if they could see what a state the club was in.

His book is a good read as well. Written everal years ago , it pulls no punches and is brutally honest about his gambling addiction. For his sake, I hope that he has now overcome that.

The local BBC radio station referred to our manager as Ian Adkins. Thats a strongly worded letter to the BBC Director General. I bet they wouldn't dare call him Barry Allardyce !!

Did they ever get into our 6 yard box during the first half?? They once had an opportunity when Fox & Jos both went for the same ball & left a Covebntry player in a loy of space but he chose to shoot from long range, I think that was the nearest they got to us in the first half.

Every morning before I go to work, I sneak a little look on Ceefax. It sets me up very nicely for the day ahead.

I am not surprised that they are calling him childish. Just think , if Dagenham & Redbridge could get a Rickie Lambrt type striker, they would be top of the Championship in a couple of seasons.

Nice to see that the Clot hasn't changed. Apparently Forest were incredibly unlucky to lose. Differnt club but same story

I heard MLT being interviewed during the international break. He reckoned that we must be considered very highly if the next 4games could yield 8,9 or 10 points . 8 points and not dropping any points to promotion rivals like West Ham and Boro fits the bill nicely!!

He hasn't disappeared. He still regularly logs on and looks at the forum - his member profile shows he came on here on 24 October. Remember also that he claims to post on the main board using another name. He claims to use his wife's // sister's computer whilst wearing her knickers or something. I reckon he is lying. A true lass from Pompey wouldn't own any knickers !!

What p***s me off is that when the 6-3 game gets mentioned these days, the radio media refer to it as the grey shirts game when Fergie made them change their shirts at half time. This was mentioned recently on Talk Sport. To be honest you don't listen to Talk Sport if you want sensible rational information so I did not get too concerned. Last week however FiveLive made the same mistake. To avoid any doubt we beat manu 3-1 (the grey shirts game) in April one year and we beat them 6-3 in October the same year - but different seasons. Talk Sport probably cannot conceive "lowly" Southampton as ever being capable of beating the mighty Man U. 5 Live these days are probably too busy making and playing their incessant jingles to bother to check facts.

I found it impossible to get a beer yesterday. I was stuck in a queue which didn't move for 10 minutes & in the end gave it up as a bad job. Clearly I was in the wrong part of the ground ... but from where I was , we have nothing to learn from the Reading catering.

I agree with much of this but would like a place to be found for Dickson. One of the forgotten men of the squad , I think he has something to offer.