Danbert

I find it hard to blame Jos for the Man U penalty. That was all Davies' fault. His distribution was terrifyingly bad.

If you're good enough you're old enough surely. He can only benefit from that sort of an experience.

What makes you think that? Stranger things have happened. Cortese doesn't strike me as the sort of person to care what other people think. If he gets it into his head that Bagpuss is the best man for the job then Bagpuss will get the job.

A really good article that captured many memories of mine. Well worth a read.

Stop confirming my prejudices.

Sounds like you win all your arguments you hero.

Do you seriously think doing that was classy? To some guy you'd never met? Just because of the football team he supports?

I never thought Bart was any good - and he certainly wasn't lauded in the media like Butland.

From the Torygraph article: Now, reading between the lines, is that or is that not suggesting that Chainrai threatened - as a creditor - to liquidate the club in order to block the Trust's bid (presumably because he wasn't getting offered enough for the stadium) so that his own bid could proceed?

There's disbelief on POL, one guy is threatening to give up his season ticket and that just about sums up the mood.

Hammond was our captain last year - it wouldn't bother me if we sold him

Who gives a ****, he might be crap.

Agreed, but it's not going to happen though is it.

Ha ha ha ha

I quite understand where you're coming from. How can it possibly be the fans fault? They don't own the f'ing club.

First time I have really giggled at something I read on here :-) I think it helps being stoned :-)

Who gives a money's

You get my vote - seriously. A little humility and commonsense definitely wouldn't go amiss.

I think you'll find that there will soon be a number of experienced and enthusiastic moderators available to fill any vacancy you may have. Just give it another month or so.

I've been posting a bit on POL. They, almost to a man, view this as positive news whether or not it eventually leads to liquidation - which is to their credit. However, there's still a lot of denial out there. They seem to feel that they are now shot of Chanrai, despite his charge on Fratton Park. Even if the Trust take over he'll still be pulling the strings and setting the rent. The notion that they can somehow force through a sale at a lower valuation seems misguided to me. The ground's value is a very hypothetical matter - there's no market for second-hand football stadia to determine price, but if it's to be used as a stadium its value is surely determined by its value to Pourtsmoputh football club - i.e. how much income could be got out of it in rent over time minus expenses. Any price that's forced on Chanrai would be sure to be challenged at length in the courts. I know it's a dilapidated old shed, but a couple of million quid doesn't sound like a fair price to me. I think they're toast.

That's a fair point to a degree, however, as a club with no debt we were throwing money around we could afford to pay back. Our business model wasn't unsustainable. Investing that money has also taken us up the leagues. What have Stoke, Sunderland, Villa, West Ham and Skatesmouth got for their spunk? What could they ever hope to achieve? There is no way for Premier League small fry to succeed beyond treading water. Adkins managed to get Colchester out of League 1, and keep them in the Championship for a season, but there's no way he could take Saints (a relative minnow in the league we're in as Colchester were in theirs) to the Premiership's summit. It just can't be done.

Man City? Rooney angling for a transfer? Even fStoke, QPR, Villa, Sunderland and f'ing Pompey are or have been throwing money around like there's no tomorrow since we were last Premier League. Maybe it's just rose-tinted spectacles but yes I think things have got a lot worse. Before it was just Chelsea that had gone down the soulless money-spunk route (if memory serves). All the people clamouring for more better and bigger signings remind me of Skates by the way. The market's ridiculously over-inflated at the moment. Some of the amounts changing hands for very average players with Premier League experience are obscene and obviously more than a sustainable budget can handle. Getting someone in who can improve the squad can be difficult in that climate - especially if the club runs a "we'd rather buy British" policy.

I can honestly sympathise with a lot of those sentiments. The Premiership (pants name) seems to have got even worse than when we were last in it and the only way to more or less hobble along as club is to have someone flush half their fortune down the toilet to make the team vaguely competitive. It's obscene (IMHO) and soulless. What's the point in succeeding if that just means the big boys will poach your manager and your best players next season?

"My life is too full to..." I'd say you and Hypo both need to get a life. Turn off the computer, move away from the keyboard. Go out for a walk, call a mate, get a life FFS.

I think that's a good bet. We clearly have a trigger happy chairman who knows his own mind - to put it mildly. A couple of **** results and he'll loose his rag and NA will be on his way - very sad.