Verbal

There goes the neighbourhood.

He's also in the Indy today - as one of ten greatest one-club players. Nice shot of him running rings round Giggs and Beckham.

I still have tommac's email somewhere. I think it's time he made an offer.

Probably. I come from Newport.

10.30 Isle of Wight time. 10.00 civilized world. You've got ten minutes to wait.

I rest my case.

Think of the least interesting team we could possibly draw - and that's who we'll get. Simple formula, works every time.

I see your sense of seriousness failure is ongoing.

I think you've just discovered the fatal flaw in quantum mechanics. Damn. I'll alert Niels Bohr (who is probably dead)

Isn't there a forum member registered as Shrodinger's cat? Never posts, though - probably can't work out if he's dead or alive.

Plural. Nutters plural.

I don't believe that for a second. P*mpey will be out of business by this time next year at the very latest.

OBS vs TDD. Now there's a mismatch. Let's get back on topic - nickh's inability to type.

Fingers don't quite fit your iPhone?

Work what out? Sometimes, it's a useful idea, Frank, to take things as read, not as you want them to read. Anyway, I'm bored arguing about the angels on this pinhead. By all means have the last word before I starting sounding like ottery.

Clearly there's a problem in that department. The Guardian today quotes an education spokeman as saying that the schools near his home in Portsmouth are 'offensive'.

Not at all. It was all more in the way of a fool-proof (although clearly not P*mpey fan-proof) prediction. The only thing I confused was my 'c's.

Thank you, Guru Bates.

What untrue, Nick? Lowe WAS in charge of the club when it went into admin, wasn't he? What's actually untrue is that he devised the structure of the club to avoid the points penalty - an impossibility since SLH predated the penalty system by three or four years. That's why the apology is just plain weird.

Why? (And even the correction is wrong)

I know, I know. But the list is endless.

Although one or two chose to deny it, most on here last season knew damned well that we'd end up in administration. The numbers just didn't add up and we had beyond useless team and board management. By the same token, it's blindingly obvious that you will (a) lose more of your better players before the end of August; (b) lose your dodgy property developer buyer; © miss your payment deadline to Standard Chartered; © get relegated with possibly a record low number of points; and (d) go into administration. (d) may happen before © because someone at the club may see sense and take the points deduction before the end of the season. Either way, though, all of the above WILL happen. Trying to find comfort by comparing yourselves to Brum, Wolves, Stoke or Hull misses one very important point. All of those clubs are united in their desire to survive. Morale at your club is in the gutter.

Yeah - shall we just forward this thread to Middlesborough? Dammit! EDIT: Or not! God, it's a all bit too much an emotional rollercoaster these days.