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He turned us down when we were in the Premiership, when he was at Luton, to go to the Skates in the Championship, when Harry was in charge.

Not good enough now although, apart from his first touch, he did a very good job for us during his time here.

I think he was trying to say that he was available for a long time, but just was not picked by the Manager, thus not back from the dead.

This picture looks as though it was taken at Vale do Lobo on the Algarve. Ken Dulieu lives there.

Not surprising leicester are signing all these players with Sven as manager. He thinks he can buy promotion rather than coach to promotion. He could not motivate a flea.

If we go for wingers, I would think they will be players with pace.

A sensible post at last!

Who did we sign and when?

I would not disagree about pace, but a "big hulk" does not have this normally.

One of our best signings for year. Well done to all concerned. There cannot be anybody on this Forum who is not delighted at this news, surely?

Mellor would not be bad providing it was backup for Rickie. I cannot see Maynard wanting to sit on the bench for most of the time.

One family of swallows on second brood in my workshop. 2 pairs of House Martins started renovating old nests under the eaves 3 weeks ago but have disappeared. Same happened last year .Never seen Swifts in this part of West Dorset. Friends say the sparrow hawks are after them.

Ticket office agreed to this for me and my grandson today for 2 Renewals, both concessions, purchased on line yesterday. I had to include order no. and customer no. in header. I await postal delivery.

Just carried out a Company Search on Portsmouth Football Club (2010) Ltd. Portpin Ltd still have a Fixed and Floating Charge over Fratton Park and all the assets. The Share Capital is now £1m and all the shares are owned by Sports Holdings (Asia) Ltd and guess who are the Directors of the latter Company...why?....the Chanrai's of course.

Maynard would be a good signing. He has a bit of height, very pacey and scores goals. If we signed McGoldrick we would be going backwards. Tyson looked to have all the attributes a few years ago but to me, he seems to have stood still and I have not been impressed in the few times I have seen him. Likewise his manager as he did not start very often last season. I would go along with Super Saint's allocation.

I do not know why this keeps rearing its head quite regularly now. When Rupes was in charge, he said that he would need 25K Season Tickets sold over a 5 year period to justify a business case. This was one of the things he did get right. NC is a business man too, so he will probably take a similar view. We never had anywhere near that number of ST when we were in the Premiership, even when we were 5th at Christmas and got to the FA Cup Final. Let us close this thread now and get back to reality.

Who on earth would wish to live in Burnley when the alternative choice would be the south coast. He did not play in the the under21 qualifiers last week and there was not much talent there on show, over the three matches.

It is great to know our Chairman and CEO is no "pushover".

We tried that when Uncle George was in charge and look where it took us.

Agree entirely and what a supportive initiative this is to give something to the memory of Markus. Without him, we would not have a club perhaps to support and to spend our hard earned cash in such pleasures.

Now we know though why Baloo still has a charge registered on the Land Registry, against the Club.

Was a good keeper as you would expect in the Premiership, but not great. He would regularly flap at crosses and I was relieved when Niemi came in and took his place. Now he was a great keeper.

Stanley Baker, Ivor Emannuel and Micheal Caine do not appear.

But that was the only one he ever scored for us was it not?

Aplogies my previous reply was Gemmels and I was trying to highlight the quote. However he is not far adrift in his comment as the accounts for DMWSL 613 Ltd show Intangible and Tangible assets of £17.5m with the Loan from Markus or his company at £25M. The diffeence is probably down to player purchase and providing an element of working capital.