rallyboy

I reckon Theo might ask for a move after two games, and looking at that defence, if Phillips is coming off the bench it will be when we need four goals in the last ten minutes.

that's disappointing news, I was rather hoping we would sell him to Avram Grant in January.

so clown number one handed over 90% of the club for nothing, which if you divide by nine and multiply by ten means the club is currently valued at...er, nothing. The danger of just allowing people to take control over the debt is that it attracts fantasists who see an easy profit if they can scrape together loans, which as fantasists they can't. I think it unlikely that they have stumbled across a second lunatic but if I were down the road I would like some detail of the new owner rather than this 'mysterious billionaire' excuse, so secretive that no one knows where his money is coming from. Once again, cash talks, if he puts it on the table then they are home and dry, until then, it's just spin. And paying the wage bill doesn't count, while hopefully Fahim's overpriced loan is already a done deal and that will come in to the equation as well. So there may still be some laughs left in this sorry old tale.

looks like the Fratton circus clowns may be packing up but it has been hilarious while it has lasted, and Al Fahim will always have a special place in our hearts, especially if he has sent them towards a 15pts deficit by January. But I think they will be okay now - Wolves, Hull and Burnley or Birmingham could be poorer in the long term. And as for the Blue few who deserted this board when things got tough, we must remind them of that when they reappear, which they no doubt will should things improve. The silence of the fish and the empty blue seats has been as funny as the results, long may all three continue.

Mr Pardew ain't at the wheel of a Sunseeker, this is a seriously damaged canoe that has patches keeping the water out. I want results like all and I think he could do better, BUT let's not propose a repeat of the revolving door policy mistakes of the past.

They tried to rush a deal through but another financial hammer blow is now on the way - 'The UK minimum wage will rise by 7p to £5.80 an hour from October, the government has announced.'

looks like another cheap option, I give it six weeks before the fake Dr does another U-turn and McAllister takes over, though they might be better off playing him. Lets make the most of this hilarity, it can't last much longer, any gathering of players will eventually stumble across a point, in the meantime, let's go past their points tally tonight.

if you'd asked me at the start of the season how many points I could dream of them having after seven games I would have been happy with four or five, I can't believe they can carry on like this for too much longer, they will get something at Wolves surely...if not they are properly doomed. And as it was when we were about to get relegated, the table doesn't currently reflect how bad it is in reality - most of us knew we were never going to bridge a small gap but people thought it was mathematically possible on both recent occasions and kept hoping for a miracle. So their fans think they are 'just a couple of wins from safety'. In reality they are eight points from safety already, and when you take the top five (man city?) out of the fixtures equation they already need maybe 40 points from about 23 games? Suddenly the figures don't stack up. Meanwhile they can't afford a new manager or players, and who wants to go there in January when they are ten points adrift and flirting with administration? The fake Dr thinks it's good news that he is about to double the debt, it's insane - they haven't learned one thing from our public debacle, bizarre, but funny. I can't believe they could be worse off if they had appointed a board made up of six of our maddest forum members whose only aim was to get them relegated and drive the business into the ground. We are living in a golden era.

as someone who wasn't there can I say big respect to the travelling faithful, that was a test of faith, finance and time-management! All 921 passed with flying colours by the sound of it. The future looks nice.

not sure whether I want Storrie to go, he's the man who is ripping cash out of the club in huge quantities and deserves credit as the hilarious driving force behind where they find themselves now, but then again, if their creditors are lenient because of him being there and his departure would force them over the edge, then he can sod off now. Either way it's hugely entertaining stuff, I think we may look back on this as a golden era for local rivalry. Ding, ding, call Mr Fry, there's another little job brewing up but this time the shop is empty.

How about a cake that Torres jumps out of, dances like a girl for a bit, then signs a loan deal and scores us forty five goals?

Cortese makes it quite clear on the fans forum that he was surprised and disappointed at their treatment. While the rest of us are guessing at how Fry performed just looking from the outside, if a key figure inside the deal is still voicing concerns then it's an indicator to me of how the administrator dealt with our club. No award methinks, just congratulations on getting lucky, or is it accepted in business that you want a lucky administrator over a good one?

I'm sure there were no underhand dealings to favour Pinnacle, dodgy practice in high-finance would be as likely as an F1 driver crashing deliberately so I am sure we can discount that as an allegation. As for Mr Fry, did he win the award he was nominated for re our speedy and trouble-free takeover? If so I think we still owe Rupert and Barclays some thanks for their choice of administrator, which is like saying that Fred West wasn't all bad, he was great at converting cellars.

The next time Pompey come which will be sooner than they think, their loyal travelling support can have the away dugout, and the spare seats can be used for the subs.

dim defender sticks leg out and invites striker to fall over it shock. As with Eduardo, who conned not the ref but a rotund keeper with poor timing who missed the ball and left a knee available to anyone shrewd enough to clip it and fall over. Saga didn't dive as such, that is when a player pretends there is contact, he just dramatically highlighted the contact in case the ref was blind, which they often are, (see Robbie Keane chopped down from behind against Chelsea, given nothing.) So Saga looked stupid and made it look a ridiculous penalty but if the defender has missed the ball there will only be one result in those circumstances. It isn't the striker's job to hurdle trailing legs, nor a winger's job to cross avoiding defenders who leave arms sticking out when they know the ball is in the vicinity. I have seen so many dodgy penalties given against us that I cheerfully welcome any for us, and these two both had their merits, so we are still owed some generous ones.

I haven't seen any of those '-10 in Southampton' weather map gags for a few weeks - I guess the updated version is, 'it's always 0 in Pompey' - the ice age cometh... The wheels have properly come off the band wagon now, no points, no fans, no cash, no future, unless the fake Dr wins the lottery - though I will feel more comfortable when they are ten points adrift. Would love more facts on the Al Fahim-Jackson deal, if that was confirmed and made common knowledge it would be hilarious. Meanwhile the blue few cup glory hunters have scuttled off to support Chelsea or Man City. After four years of ludicrous Saturday afternoons where we would lose to a late late joke of a goal and they would beat Man Utd or something equally ridiculous, order is finally being restored. Life is good, the future is red and white.

At last, it sounds like Phil has finally agreed to officially announce everything, in principle.

if only we'd kept Walcott and Shearer.

'I am sure that Al Fahim will look for finance advice from Peter Storrie.' let's hope so! He could then see what Ridsdale and Lowe would do.

So Al Fahim now claims to have organised re-financing....'in principle'. Could be a shrewd move if he has sold half the club he will half own if his backers eventually prove clean enough for the Premier League, (in principle) - so looks like a nailed on done deal, and a rosy future! Though there is one nagging minor issue, I still don't see any actual, how can I put it, money, on the table. Up the Villa.

I saw the official Pompey van on the M3 at Eastleigh last Saturday, I just crawled up alongside and gave him that 'you're getting relegated and going bust and we all know it' look. It can't be fun driving round in that, especially as he must expect the baillifs on the door every morning to take it back.

I think they will be fine, you have to remember that Bolton and Birmingham are very good sides who may well be breaking the top four themselves, and the new striker line up looked very good. Piquione (?) in particular looked ruthless in front of goal, in no way did he make Nugent look like Thierry Henry, and at the back they have players who can trap the ball further than many can kick it. Once the new ground is open and the faithful 50,000 are flowing through the doors they will have Champions League and the future world cup games to savour, all under the stewardship of Maradona etc. No, we are in a far worse state with no sign of hope. All in all it's far too early to consider that they are in a spiral of despair that will end in financial ruin, humiliation and a fall down the league structure that makes our problems look like a blip. We should be able to say that in six weeks if little changes.

I guess BT's swift and incident-free resolution of our little 'issue' deserves something. Months of frustrating and damaging mediocrity and then they pulled the mother of all rabbits out of a hat that they didn't even know they were wearing, give them a prize.

can Coppell play on either wing? He would be ideal for providing service so I see it as a shrewd signing. Though I would worry that two games a week might be too much for his knee, he is fitter than Ledley King so we might be able to sell him to Spurs in January.

current form is all about sticking two fingers up to Mawhinney and showing him that even if he hadn't hit us with the penalty we would still be down there....so the jokes on him.... I think.....