Jack

Correct. A media leak to get one of the clubs moving who can realistically afford him.

Probably just a bluff to get Blackpool moving on the Phillips deal. Wouldn't that be an anticlimax...

Transfer budget? Wage budget? Can't see it myself.

Surely that would result in death. System overload.

I'm going to assume this is absolute horse sh*t. Surely that would be smashing our transfer and wage budgets to pieces. I'd be happy to be proven wrong.

Butland? We still need a 3rd 'keeper

Are Cov the new replacement for Southend when it comes to love ins? Anyway, your post prompted me to check the fixtures, and I've unearthed some interesting information: Saturday March 23rd 2013 - Portsmouth vs Coventry City. Saturday March 23rd 2013 - No premier league fixtures. I have a friend who is a Cov fan. IF Portsmouth are somehow still fulfilling their fixtures, I'll be going to this one with our brand new best buddies.

Vague. I know a good one in the south of France? A few in London? The states?

I think this is very encouraging if true. It shows that we're still in the market for players, and there is money available. I thought we'd shut up shop for the summer. NA knows we need CBs. Maybe he just knows he's got to wait for the market to go crazy as it always does in the last week or 10 days before the deadline, before making his moves.

They need it to be fair. Plastic to the extreme.

Been watching the N.I vs Finland game for a bit. I know it's only a friendly vs Finland, but Davis really does look a good player

Just because stranger things have happened, I just put a little tiny bit of the money I won from P*mpey's defeat on a Saints win. Saints win is 18/1 - £5 Lallana to score 1st 20/1 - £2 And the goodun, bare with me... We somehow break into their half, carve them open, and someone gets taken down in the box resulting in a straight red. Up steps Lambert - 1-0, then defend like f*ck. Leeds away style 'defending like f*ck'. Scorecast - Rickie Lambert to score first and Saints 1-0 is 240/1, so I stuck a cheeky £2 on. Stranger things have happened.

No, that adjective is best saved for the few down the road.

1 top quality centre half and I'll be pretty optimistic. As it stands, I'm worried, and worried that there are no signings inbound this window.

Putting a Saints defender in at all is foolish to say the least. I've put Lallana in as, as I needed a cheap midfielder with my leftover cash and I fancy him to catch the eye most out of our squad. Hooiveld scored 8 last season btw, I reckon he'll get 2 this season.

Banana skin for our 2nd string

Can we have an 'on which page will the skates go pop sweepstake'? I'll go for page 1447. I also think nuns and 'w00t for liquidation' (in large red font) posts are warranted. Just like a match day thread.

Thankyou Skybet. I'll be lumping the profit on the bucket rattlers. (the Dorset based ones)

I'd be in the country long enough to secure the money, sort out the people I want to sort out, and book my flights. At 25 years old, the rest of it can wait. I'd buy property and get into business later. Me, a couple of my best mates, our passports, and a little card with more money on it than you can imagine. I can't think of anything better. We've got mates on their travels all over the world at the moment - North and South America, Australia, South East Asia. Never been to any of these places so I'd be off exploring for at least a couple of years. Some of our mates arrived in Columbia a few days ago. That'd be the first stop I reckon.

It very much depends on my work circumstances. Until April I spent nearly 2 years working in Hull then Warwick, which obviously meant staying away from home. When we're away, we will usually have at least a couple in the pub after work with our dinner, and if there was any football on, it would often be 4 or 5. Then there were Thursday nights in Hull - 6 drinks for £8 in Barracuda = excessive binge drinking. Probably a good job we were playing 5 and 6 a side twice a week to keep the calories off. Now that I'm home every night, and on a massive health drive, I don't drink at all in the week. And I'm drinking much less at the weekend as I've been working a lot of weekends. This will all change again from next weekend - when the footy is on, we go on the p*ss, and do it properly. 10am - 4am efforts are not uncommon. Will have to step it up in the gym to battle the weekend binge calories when the season starts.

Absolute budgie

Dear Steve. Thankyou for your PM regarding the vacant Forum Moderator position. I am honoured that you consider me the best person to take on this very prestigious role, however I cannot commit the time that is required to keep check of all the halfwits that regularly abuse this fine forum. I hope you understand. Yours sincerely, Jack.

Nah, I saw the posts about the price on the Plymouth win and lumped on. F*ck Pompey, we'll still be laughing at them for years to come whether we play them or not.

Me. My terrace banter is second to none.

Dear Plymouth. Please ensure that you win tomorrow's match against that utter shambles of a football club. Regards, Jack.