Brown would only push the average age of our squad up to 17.2 years old, to be fair.

I think part of the cosgrave decision to play was with tomorrow in mind. 1, to find out what he can do in possibly a free hit game, 2, to keep Ablade fit for tomorrow and hopefully not to give the opposition much scope of seeing his game at a time where the surprise element might be more beneficial. For, I really hope that Robbo learns a thing or two about the need to play the strongest side from the outset and that any incoming player on a perminant contract goes straight into the team, if it fucks off a long standing regular, good. Be a pro and take being dropped on the chin and fight for your place. You've had half a season plus to cement your spot, and it's not worked.

Have we got Boris running the club thought it was said no more journeymen looking for a final payday.

Strange we are signing a 31 year old should make a good club captain, sounds like he is a consistent 6.5 player every game

Brown went for a medical at Hampton & Richmond as well cos it’s just round the corner from his house.

Ah, I'm not sure I trust newspapers much more either. 😁 They seem to get most of their stuff from the Internet these days. 😊

Not just source stuff...Pompey paper said he had gone to do his medical with us on Wednesday

Apparently Brown has signed and will be announced later.

What makes people think the Brown signing was/is definitely close to happening? Only been rumours, hasn't it? And 'my source' stuff.

Have we really fucked up the Lee Brown signing? Seems odd we wouldn't have got it over the line by now.

Jesus, the wheels haven't fallen off unless we fail to sign a forward, in which case they might, or we might find some form and be ok. The wider squad is looking half decent relatively speaking - or about 14 of them are at least. We are just missing a useful forward, and we now have some money to buy (some)one.

Also, suspect lack of movement is down to finances rather than anything to do with a committee or whatever. We may have offers in and players are thinking "I'll take it if I have to if nobody else comes in with a better offer before the deadline." That's more a legacy of the stadium costs rocketing than any current issues.

Nick: Fair Game seems to be a trust thing so doubt affects the club at all.

Hash - missing next two. Probably be at Rotherham ...

Lol, 17,300 and you know it.stats don't lie

Some things about the club seem so well done (the PLB, in particular is a very innovative and well- executed way of getting funding for a supporter-owned club), some aspects of the playing side (especially the player recruitment strategy) seem good in theory but the failure to execute and a seeming desire to be different from other clubs just for the sake of things does seem to mean that we struggle in practice. We are clearly spread very thin on the "administrative" front so I do think that diverting our efforts into peripheral stuff like the "fair game" campaigning is a big mistake. Let's get our own house in order before preaching to others.

Run in last season we had the 4 great wins after Easter then scraped 3 points from the last 4 games.pigs equaliser against Rochdale being the pick of those 4 games

Another one for the village idiots: [Link]

The PODcast is brilliant. Tells it how it is and how many of us feeling about how things are going with the club.

Enjoyed the podcast yesterday and Lees pronunciation of Ablade that could well mean we can use the Beatles ‘ o bla de o bla da ‘ song … if he ever does anything to warrant his own song that is

The run in last season was so exciting, we where smashing teams and the summer brought so much promise. The wheels have truely fallen off. SB you've hit the nail on the head.

SB, are you coming tomorrow? Look forward to a chat and a moan if so ;-)

Inexperience on the field being hampered by inexperience in the backroom. Little wonder we are fucked. Palmer going has just compounded the matter. Doubt this season has much interest left for any of us as we falter like a very damp squib.

Oxy, I think Ablade was the second forward.

Action speaks louder than words. Even if we get a stop gap until now and the end of the season and it keeps us up, job done? If no one comes in and we go down, the panel would have been a complete failure. Other teams are strengthing, why are we stalling