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That Derry article just seems to emphasise how much Pompey, at the very least, are being run or portrayed as being seemingly in a parallel world to their reality. Kind of beggars belief but it is no different from what they have been doing since before the 2nd of their 3 administrations. As far as i am concerned, it has to be 3 strikes and you are out... out of the Football League. Yes I feel for the fans but the club finally has to be taught a stern lesson, any lesson dealt so far has just been ignored with utter contempt by repeated owners.

In effect they all have as a worse case scenario... and that scenario is almost upon them.

Someone has to come up otherwise it makes a right mess of the fixtures... equally from conference into football league I would suggest.

Kanu for sure. Ben Haim joined in August 2009 and they went into Admin early in 2010... that was the pen-ultimate time. These are the two highest paid players, the latter by some margin..36k a week with Kanu on 10k a week. The rest are on similar or less than Kanu. Little bit more background... Kitson and Lawrence arrived in the summer of 2010 with a certain Marc Wilson going the other way.. to Stoke. Norris arrived in June 2011 on a free from Ipswich, Pearce, Varney, Henderson and Halford followed soon after. Henderson of course has gone to West Ham. Huselklepp came in August 2011 and, astonishingly, a fee of £1.5 million was 'paid' to Bari.. debuting against us in a 0-0 niller. Although he did subsequently agree to a loan move to Brum until the end of last season. All in all a right mess.

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Does today's regurgitated news of imminent closure of Portsmouth Football Club have many similarities with our own financial meltdown of 30 years ago? The most obvious coincidence, of course, is the 8 players contracted who could, like our City heroes, save their club. How have times changed from then to now? Can The mega rich players of today stomach the thought of tearing up their contracts and emulating what far less wealthy players did for Bristol City? The signs, so far, do not look promising.

Perhaps you know more about Harry than I do and know of his stats that points to his capabilities. However, i find it hard to believe that the so called Spurs failings, if one can even say it is failure, which I do not, is down to the naivety of a man who has had success pretty much everywhere he has gone. The only man that is naive here is AVB and that is not all a bad thing; certainly at his age he can learn faster than an ageing man but of course he is also on a steeper learning curve in the first place so that is fairly obvious.

He certainly has a lot to prove and hope, for his sake, he does well. I do not rate him personally as high as Harry.. how on earth could you if only its based on the future which of course is somewhat stating the bleedin' obvious. As for ambition by Spurs?.. agreed albeit somewhat blind to where they have come from which is the best 2-3 years in the clubs recent history.

Good points and agree on the last sentence. All seemed to be going so well for Spurs with Harry and despite them falling away at the end it still looks like one helluva gamble from an outsider viewpoint. Look where Spurs were when Harry took over and look where he took them. Look at that context and now they have a kid in charge who cracked it on his home patch but England is indeed a totally different kettle. Spurs have a long history of making totally the wrong appointments; for once they were, without doubt, going places with Harry. Levy inexplicably bailed out what we can only suspect was an uneasy or tense relationship and we will find out if it was the correct roll of the dice but to an extent of course we will never know.

What do we make of that appointment then? What is the betting he will be out on his ear before the end of next season with more egg on Levy's face. Be interesting to see the fans reaction to this one. Not sure it is going to be that positive.

Coming good now though ain't he !

Good. Was beginning to think my inclusion of him on my list was an error. Verdict still out mind.. need to see if he plays where he is at his best in the next match. I hope Mikkelson and Postiga get a look in later today. I doubt the latter though.

Could not disagree with that on last night's showing; he looked bizarrely disinterested.

Appreciate your remarks there Harry. My list was not put together entirely at random and i think your remarks reflect that. Be interested to see your list. I thought Samaras looked a little weak last night. Mikkelsen and Brozek would be by favoured two but some of the older guys perhaps more realistic. I shall be watching the rest of the players and hope they put in some decent performances, if they play.

Really? You just never know what is around the corner.

Might our manager be considering running the rule over these striker potentials at the Euros. Some are hardy professionals entering, perhaps, their twilight playing careers, others are just starting out or perhaps not quite good enough for the Prem. Either way, and since he mentioned it not me, we can perhaps consider that one or more of the players taking to the field at the competition, might be in a City shirt sometime soon. STRIKERS PAWEL BROZEK - AGED 29 - PLAYS FOR POLAND AND CELTIC GEORGIOS SAMARA - AGED 27 - PLAYS FOR GREECE AND CELTIC DAVID LAFATA - AGED 30 - PLAYS FOR CZECH REPUBLIC AND FC JABLONEC TOBIAS MIKKELSON - AGED 25 - PLAYS FOR DENMARK AND Nordsjælland - also plays as a winger HELDER POSTIGA - AGED 29 - PLAYS FOR PORTUGAL AND REAL ZARAGOZA - once of spurs.. blows hot and cold, not been with RZ long but he would be would be off the radar and can still win a match and may have something to prove in England where he failed to impress in his young days. JOHAN ELMANDER - AGED 30 - PLAYS FOR SWEDEN AND GALATASARY I don't think any of the above are beyond the realms of possibility for one reason or other.

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I always like to get an opposing fans view of our match... they all said to a man that we were 5hit.. buts thats fine. They can come to the Gate on Monday and think its gonna be easy. .... If Bristol win today I am not feeling very confident for Monday. Full gate at Ashton Gate and they get this away win. Suddenly the light at the end of the tunnel not looking too bright I think I've turned into a forest fan, and just my luck they are sh1te too who said that gerken is a shite keeper? knew this was going to happen. we lose monday we will be down. You useless fxxxing cxxxs Forest. To win 4-7 at Leeds and then put in that display. Fxxxing typical. Fxxk you Cotterill. (i had to beep this one) I don't want to be negative, I really don't, but I can't see us winning Monday. Especially after those wxxxers gave them a massive lift.

I was not referring to Basso but take your general point. My view is simply different.

I think Monkeh is suggesting Basso waited for Weale to go before putting his own spanner in the works, i,.e, that Basso was complicit or scheming. Monkeh.. ultimately, the board need to take the blame; the buck stops with them. it has been handled badly imo.

If I was in the UK i would of course go to that WHU match. its not in my nature to boo an ex player or any player for that matter but i can understand why some people would at Maynard. Lets be quite clear here; the lad could very easily have come out and been honest and said he would like to test himself at a higher level and for that reason he did not think he would be signing a new contract... blah blah blah and all the nice stuff about us etc etc.. he didn't. he waffled, blagged, deferred, said nout, turned us around in riddles and kept everyone guessing knowing full well he was off and we, most of us anyway, thought about the same, probably. he had ample opportunity to put it to bed early on, mid way through the saga or nearer the end... he never did. You will always have a mindless moronic few who will shout obscenities and throw things and abuse his family and that is plain wrong. But.. it could all have been avoided had he been grown up about it. And I don't care if some say he was advised by his 'agent' - inverted commas because he never behaved like a decent agent did he, not in my book. He wasn't grown up about it and will get flak from BCFC for it forever more. All i can say really therefore is, tough luck. As for Henderson, Millen made a big mistake there imo, amongst the litany. All in all though... you have to look upstairs for the real errors in losing out on the cash front with both of these players. its been said many times before and will be many times in the future, of that I have no doubt; CS is not a patch on SL as a chairman. Just my opinion however but there are enough pointers to that conclusion.

According to this article ... http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/pompey/pompey-past/pearce-i-may-be-next-to-leave-1-3640279 ....Henderson has gone to WHU for a £700k loan fee. I find that a great deal for Pompey especially when you compare what Maynard was sold for.. to the same club. Seems like we got stitched twice. Of course, you cannot believe all you read in the press can you.

The original stats are as they are and not an attempt, in any way, to shine a certain better light with Del than Millen. if you want to lump the entire season together and forget about the manager for a minute then we are currently on exactly 1 pt per game. At a cursory glance most people who have responded to my thread seem to think 46 points will be sufficient. My view is that it will not. Will we get more? Yes. So I think we will survive and we can thank Millen for 6pts of that if you like.

Meaningful remarks there!