Katalinic

Looks like it is about to unravel - the January window could be great fun for Saints fans in more ways than one: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/portsmouth/6875439/Portsmouth-secretly-begin-to-offload-players-as-debt-crisis-mounts.html

Bart deserves his place at the moment - there is no reason to drop him and this also sends out a positive message to the other fringe players - if you get in, take your chance and you may stay there.

Director of Football?

Garth Crooks - talks s***, uses 100 words when 3 will do, has eyes that looks like they are going to pop out of his head, nods too much when others are talking, comes across as a know it all.

I believe they are trying to find out if he even exists. That issue does seem to have been rather swept under the carpet, I wonder why?

A "Relegation Celebration" if ever there was one.

My reaction everytime I hear that the situation has worsened down the road:

Interesting that the Guardian mentions the Williamson transfer - whereas there may be some goodwill left from the likes of Chelsea with regards to late transfer payments, I would imagine that there won't be much goodwill coming from Watford who themselves are in trouble financially.

The only way this whole episode could get any funnier would be if they announced the appointment of George Burley tomorrow.

Sometimes you just have to accept that the opposition were better - Brighton got it spot on tactically -put simply, they stopped us doing the things we do well and exploited our weaknesses. I am sure we will learn from that and move on.

Well, straight from the horses, well, skates mouth, that is what one of their players told me last Saturday i.e. that the players got called into a meeing and were told that it wasn't certain they were going to get paid.

The players were called into a meeting last Friday and told "errrr we don't know if you are going to get paid or not" so it was obviously a last minute job and touch and go, where the money came from, who knows? For the first time ever on this board I am ITK on something!

No he isn't - good first touch and brings others into play well. Just needs some more experience so I would have thought a loan move would have done him some good.

The horror, the horror.

If Nigel Pearson had also been a guest then I fear you would have spontaneously combusted. We live in hope.

It was merely a shambles. Cost is a red herring as money was not even discussed with Pearson or any other English manager (would they really have cost less than Poortvliet and Wotte?). The Poortvliet appointment was purely down to Rupert thinking a) he knew best and b) being obsessed with somehow being revolutionary in the football world. As an aside, using your logic, you can't look at the previous 2 years shambles in isolation without looking at how we arrived there then and that is down to, in no small part, a certain R.Lowe.

The best we could afford??? There were hundreds of out of work managers in England that at the very least understood the English game. Suggest you read Poortvliet's recent interview about his time at Saints, even he admitted he knew nothing of the league and that the whole thing was actually a shambles.

Expected to win before the game but even at 2-0 down I thought we'd get back into it - not something I would say about any other Saints side from the past 5 years. Finally we have some belief in the side to deal with the knockbacks, which are inevitable during a season.

50p Head

I knew we were in for trouble when he was doing ball "skills" as part of his pre-match warm up. Seemed to be the "I could have been a pro you know but choose refereeing instead" centre of attention seeking type.

"Pas Dieu" was spot on with his substitutions and change of tactics today. Another slice of humble pie Mr.Art?

It was Jaidi I think. Kelvin had called for the ball as well (I heard it through the noise at the Chapel end...) and it was going to bounce through so was a totally pointless foul.

Absolutely, at least we tried to play football at times although there was the odd moments of hoofing it up in the air, while they were long ball all game, just punting it up into the channels. One of the most negative teams I can remember at SMS over the past few years. MK were truly awful and are/were third - that should give us hope that we can make the play offs this season.

Now that has all cheered me up on a cold winter's evening. Lol.

I am not so sure about that, Lowe did cripple us but in a different way - I do agree with you ref Wilde but Lowe started, and finished, the chain of events off that ultimately lead to our financial meltdown.