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You mean he wants to "Roger" her?

Anyone reminded of rats and sinking ships?

one word: momentum. If we get on a winning run, I think we'll be very difficult to stop. I can see us sneaking into the play of on the final day of the season. It's written in the stars that AP will have to return to Charlton, where we'll knock them out.

**** a fish?

Stop washing? Start living in caravans?

From the Sun: WEST HAM chief David Gold has offered to lend Portsmouth £10million to keep them from going bust. But the Hammers co-chairman insists the loan would have to be underwritten by the Premier League. Gold said "If Portsmouth asked me for £10m, I would lend it to them so long as the Premier League endorsed it and I was repaid on the agreed date. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/2860028/Gold-Ill-lend-Pompey-10m.html#ixzz0fySQMWI2 I think I may have spotted the flaw in this plan....

Great post.

Those of us who think that the filthy cheating skates from down the road are about to get their just desserts will be dissappointed, I fear. "Portsmouth chief executive Peter Storrie has...insisted he has put measures in place that will help save the club from extinction." http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/st...ngland&cc=5739 So that's it then, Storrie has it all sorted. Move along nothing to see here.... ;-))

Does anyone have the words to the "shoot to P*mpey scum" song?

We should deduct the costs of any repairs from their portion of the gate money.

It's a derby - in a game played at 100mph, their supposedly "better" players will not get the chance to show anything. And they're used to losing. 2-1 saints with the winner in the last 5 minutes.

Grandfather was killed in action in 1917, 3 months before my father was born. My father saw action in Norway and North Africa before being called back to England. He then took part in the D-Day landings. After being wounded, he returned to action and was part of the force that liberated Holland. He was posted in Arnhem, where me met my mum. During the Nazi occupation of Holland, my Mum was forced to work in a munitions factory, where she met Gobbels who was on an inspection tour. Man & Dad returned to England in 1946. All true.

So how did the appeal go today? Was there one??

Don't we all! But generally these things don't happen overnight. Look at AF at Utd or Kendall at Everton. Both were very nearly sacked (and would have been but for lucky cup wins), but a bit of patients paid off in droves.

You and I must have been watching a different side last season then TDD. The point I was making was that, yes, the team that started yesterday IS very different from the team that we relagated. We've come a long way, but they do need time and support to develop into the team they are capable of developing into. And if you want a prime example of what a lack of patience can do, have a look at QPR.

yes...but none (that I can recall) of our rivals had just come out of administration, and had a "team" of demorialised kids who were used to looseing every week. We were relegated from the Championship for a reason - were really were not very good. So, yes AP has spent some money, but that's because he had to (if he hadn't I dread to think where we would be now). In a very short space of time AP has has not only caught up with other teams in the league, but overtaken most of them. It is always on the cards that it will take most players a few months to settle in and the for team to play as a team. I think what we're seeing now is similar to the start of the season. It will take a while for things to settle down again. But I wouldn't mind betting that we'll win the last 10 games of the season on the spin. I'd also expect that AP has now done most of his rebuilding. One to two faces will be added over the summer, and then we'll really crack on.

From the Daily Mail: Just hours before facing cash-strapped Portsmouth, Manchester United's boss expressed his sympathies for Pompey boss Avram Grant. Sir Alex Ferguson said: "When you see what's happening there, you have to feel for him. It can't be easy. How he's coping, you can only imagine" I think we all know how he's coping Sir Alex ;-)

Not to mention the PL FAPP test :-)

Game set and match to Alehouse - all I can say is that great minds think alike :-)

Ho dear.... ;-) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1247400/Portsmouth-hit-Begovic-U-turn.html Portsmouth were pushed closer to financial collapse last night after goalkeeper Asmir Begovic pulled out of a transfer to Tottenham. Although the club completed a deal to send defender Younes Kaboul back to White Hart Lane, they now face a race against time to find another buyer for Begovic and others in order to stave off the threats of administration and being wound up. When news broke that Begovic was unwilling to go to Tottenham, a Portsmouth insider said: 'This will kill the club.'

Yes, it was a typo - I was thinking "without".

(To the tune of "Blue Moon") Blue few You're always standing alone Without a club to support With a ground of your own

They're just trying to keep people in the dark. (I'll get me coat.)

Dead right. Why would a club shell out £x million on a player when they could simply wait a while and pick them up for a signing on fee? Why would a player agree to a transfer when he could wait and make more money through a signing on fee? I suspect if the players take any action to walk out if the wages are late, it will be "en-mass" - no one would want to be the first to walk away (or give notice), but several of them could do it together.

Someone come up with a song to "welcome" Avram. Preferably to include the words "unit" and "one" ;-)