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Personally I'm just pleased that we have established the reason for the cup exit, it's that old favourite, no.35 in the Nutjob Almanack.... The referee cost us the game because a. it was too big for him. b. he was intimidated by the lack of spectators. c. he had an email from the Football League. From the evidence on this occasion it sounds like a case of 35a, and certainly nothing to do with poor players badly managed, or being coached to dive from an early age.

It's the PR campaign for the new series. The End.

You Nutjobs just won't give them credit for anything! They are debt-free*, they are fan-owned** which is way better than being at the whim of owners who have firesales every summer, and when someone with big money eventually comes in to make the most of their massive sleepy giant potential, all of those loyal fan shareholders will be selling up and laughing all the way to the bank. There is too much jealousy coming out on this thread. I don't even know why you laugh at them, we are in a very precarious state ourselves and likely to be relegated this season. And that's true, I read it on the main board. *sort of **a bit

Finance director Tony Brown credited the success to £688,904 on operational savings, chiefly achieved through the renegotiation of legacy debts. And there was me thinking that football creditors had to be paid in full, along with the CVA.

How can they STILL not understand that they do NOT own shares? You can keep telling them but it's like trying to teach a goldfish to play backgammon.

Good and balanced article. So Poch assured his new bosses that he could solve their midfield problems for £10M because of a release clause that his former Chairman had told him about? He must have looked a right tit the day that offer was laughed out of town! Was that Cortese's final parting gift to us? Thanks Nicola, it made us chuckle.

So is that five members of our League One team that have since gone onto get international recognition, or have I missed someone? Quite an achievement. Guly for Brazil?.....

Look into my eyes, now look at the swinging watch, that's it...no I don't know what happened to the big clock, that doesn't matter, look at the watch, you are tired, your eyelids feel very heavy, that's it...yes I can smell fat, ignore it, because you are sleepy, you are so tired....you are the sleepiest giant in world football, that's it...gently lie back, no, I'm not your brother, stop groping me, just go to sleep... Now when you wake up I will be gone with your cash but I'll leave you virtual a sheet of A4 in it's place and Avram will be trying to get your pants back on to you. Also you will have forgotten all of the debts, the criminality, the relegations, the ridiculous managerial appointments, the hero/villains, the tax evasion, the written off £130M, the pension fund theft, the harbourdome project, the ludicrous deluded claims, the half-empty ground, the illegal ownership, the false accounting, the underwater Mr Clive, the proposed signing of Eto and Maradona, the money-laundering, and the lenient attitude of the football authorities BUT....you will clearly remember winning a cup, winning at St Mary's and of course the famous dock strike. And when you come round from this deep sleep, these three things alone will be the only things you will accept as fact. You will also believe that you own a share of some sort.

I hope he is called up, as well as being deserved, it will be a gentle reminder to everyone that it's business as usual at SMS - still developing young talent and supplying the national team. We can't wish disappointment on our own players just to keep them under the radar, and it's not as if Liverpool and Man Utd can hold onto their best players when their heads are turned by cash. All UK clubs are selling clubs, it's just that with Saints' reputation built on producing internationals, we get the best prices. And the Emu has it right, no one from Liverpool or Man Utd will be bigging up their current lives!

The Connolly situation is definitely an odd one, no one wants to discuss it....whatever is going on is the best kept secret since the property developers saved the Tifosi scheme.

yes, I recall those dark days when fans made rabbit noises at players and threw carrots on the pitch.

been anywhere nice recently DP?...

The PST owns just under 51% of the club 29/9/14 - BBC report including interview with Catlin. Ashley Brown announced the Trust presently own 48 per cent of the club. 30/9/14 - The News, reporting on the accounts. Technically 48% is just under £51%, but it's quite an important tipping point, perhaps related to the Tifosi £50K? Putting aside the discrepancy, if that is fan-owned then so are Newcastle, Chelsea, Southampton, Man City etc. We are in complete control of the club’s destiny, said the pompey CEO looking around the board of seven, alongside his two colleagues..... So the people who have donated have no voting powers at all, and their representatives now control less than half of the business, and are in a minority on the board.

I thought we frowned upon sarcasm here? Had I known that we didn't I might have been more active. Oh well, at least they paid everyone off in full.

I thought there might be some little gems in there... I couldn't understand why they would pay off players who are not due their money until 2016. 'Settlement agreements' that had to be signed off by the PFA! Have the hero/villains accepted another wagecut for a lump sum? Well at least they have paid everyone off in full.

I'm not sure there will be laughs, they'll be more surprise than anything, but there might be laughs if the details don't quite stack up....

This will frighten a few... Yesterday I walked under the ladder attached to scaffolding on Old Northam Road on my way to the ground. I saw it, I headed straight for it - we are Southampton, we walk where we want! But I did put my lucky socks on in the correct order so it was okay.

They are clearing the fat and preparing the official tablecloth because there's a big announcement looming, a nice positive one to please the easily-led... What I've heard I find difficult to believe, so I look forward to seeing the detail, but brace yourself for a plucky and glorious start to next week. It's not something that will bother us too much but they'll see it as progress.

I see that some Southampton graffiti has been scrawled on their memorial to players lost in WW1. It looks like it was done by a ten-year-old. Whoever did it is an effing moron who doesn't understand rivalry.

He doesn't need to apologise to us, he should be saying sorry to his bosses for not being very good at what he's paid to do. Ditto the commentators who are working to the rules of football from 1968 and have clearly never played the game. It was a very late flag....yeah, because he wasn't offside until he touched the ball. But he got the ball....no, he came through the back of the bloke and then happened to touch the ball. An amazing save....no, it was straight at him. An unstoppable freekick...no, it was three metres inside the post. He wanted it more.... no, he was just quicker and stronger and more technically sound. But he was only just offside...yeah, that's called offside. How can that be a penalty, it was ball to hand....cos the bloke had both hands out to block the cross. That shot lacked belief....yeah, whatever. Idiots, one and all.

Funny how one can switch from supporting Worcester to Essex mid-innings! It worked for us. Aaaaaampshire!

Looking at that link to their board I guess we got it wrong - though it's nice that they come here for the information that is censored by the local media. Apparently the property developer just donated £50K out of love for the club to make the Tifosy scheme look successful asking nothing in return - and the Trust donations scheme seems to have been converted into a share scheme so all the fans now own a bit of the club rather that a virtual sheet of A4. I must have missed that change. Now that details are emerging I suppose they will be asking questions of the club. Like why did you loudly boast that the fans had hit the donations target when in fact it was a big-hearted property developer who came in last minute to save the Tifosy scheme from falling short? These property developers seem nearly as kind and generous as those loan sharks they got into bed with.

To mothball a store that has already been built is a massive decision. It smacks of a company that is sorting out senior management issues and not committing to anything. No doubt the Trust will make an immediate statement to allay the fears of....oh hang on, there are no fears, because no one in Portsea has noticed nor been informed. It's just Nutjob talk on the leading international news portal for all things blue and few. Jealous scummahs.

That looks like news to me, the property developers have a financial interest in the wholly fan-funded training ground? And as my learned colleagues have pointed out, it does explain the sudden mysterious appearance of that £50K. If so, that is a proper con even by their standards - triumphantly telling the fans that they have hit target when in fact the Trust's percentage of control has just been reduced. I see why they wanted to keep the postcard on that one. So I look forward to the fanbase quizzing the Trust about that little gem, especially as they are renowned for ruthlessly demanding answers rather than embracing the warm and fluffy version of events normally served up.

In recent years Leeds, Norwich and ourselves had huge crowds in League One and were sensible enough not to check out League Two - but despite having bigger crowds than many Premier League games at that time, the three of us never once claimed as a result to have better support than Liverpool, Newcastle or Real Madrid. That's the difference - claim you are a big club in League Two, but don't be deluded enough to claim anything beyond that, the rest of football just laughs at you. QPR's gate money income from the weekend must have been four or five times that of pompey - the devil is in the pricing. As for Connolly, he is described as an ambitious and driven winner who demands maximum effort from all, and he has popular training methods - maybe that's why he doesn't fit in? He also disagreed with their last appallingly and hilariously failed manager. So the few should be careful before taking sides. This hero/villain doesn't seem to have done much wrong.