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I shall watch that when I have a bit more time, but thanks! Like a big kid I was shouting out the names as I saw them in the introduction: Paine, Sydenham, Osgood, Wallace, Golac!

Possibly that you best start the process within one minute?

Brown slop?

Watched a bit of the Hull-Watford game: 0-0 and all very much thud and blunder but with the sort of physicality that we usually struggle against..

Are they nearer sea level than St Marys then?

Well, at least we won't miss his ability in that direction.

What, like angry wasps? Wouldn't hang around there mush!

I think that is the crucial point. We've long been used to his misses, mind. Perhaps we can have Cyle start the odd game, bully the defenders a bit and get them running around, get a CB booked, possibly even score a goal (!) and then bring on Stewart to finish it off.. We can all dream, can't we, and then wish him well on his world cup venture after scoring 8 goals for us.

From The Echo website: 9:12pm 🚨 Plan remains the same. Armstrong to Wolves announced soon, and then the loan signing of Larin from Mallorca shortly after. There's a plan, at any rate..

Well, it's some time since we had a player strong enough to be bounced off! As for the f-u, at least he was there and anticipated it, and as you observe he can run. My naturally optimistic nature may soon be disillusioned, but let's see. The thing about Downs was that he _didn't_ run, although I recall just the one occasion when he proved he could, quite quickly. Most odd.

What? Not even Tommy Fourpast?

The reported opinions of Feyenoord and Mallorca fans (as well as recent stats) obviously don't fill us with optimism but for those on here going on and on (and on) about SR's scouting it would appear they are not alone in their crapness given that both those clubs took him on. We might also use Leicester recruiting Aribo as another example! Perhaps it's just the financial reality of all of us skint minor clubs. My hope is that he really wants to play at the World Cup, so plays out of his skin and gets on the end of some of Fellows' lovely crosses, when we will all forgive him his clumsiness. It does seem best to wait and see, although with Downs it didn't take long to come to an opinion..

Hopefully people are digesting the fact that we got a win away and are looking a bit more progressive and might go out and buy a ticket..

or the Factless Allen school. For primary school level language. And short paragraphs of dross.

Ooh, go on, tell us more.. Nobody will lose their job, though sounds that could be a blessing..

It really is pathetic. The same when I came over from East when I went to the home game. Intelligence led policing I think is an oxymoron.. Monk, it's probably because I'm a demure inoffensive pensioner that I'd go in any pub (almost).. The village pub is fine and I've been there with only 3 or 4 people in there of a midweek depressing myself watching Saints away and sustaining their turnover. It's just whether the game makes the next village lose its idiots temporarily.

It's on Sky Sports+ and showing down my local pub, stop moaning.. At least they haven't stopped the internet on the bubble buses: good to know Die Mannyschaft has his choccy crisps!

Saints average 28,330 (only 4th in the division) Pompey 20,155 (16th)

Thanks for reminding me. I'm off to the local pub in the PO10 area where I go regularly to watch Saints away games when they are on. Most banter with the regulars is fine, and in fact there's even been a bit of mutual gloom and humour, but once this twat was telling me with a patronising laugh that they had better crowds blah blah, so I need to remind myself of the figures.. PS: Did Pompey 2012 ever pay those charities back?

He's probably been influenced by the weather we've been having and the forecast.. His experience and strength should do him well down there as his pace has gone. Good luck to him. Edit: Does this place in the squad have any implications for signings or loans, I wonder?

Last time I went there, for a testimonial, they kept us in for an hour whilst the bad boys threw lumps of concrete over the wall at us until cleared off by the police. Are you sure you want to stay longer in that dump than necessary?

In what way? I have to say I've found the arguments on this thread rather difficult to follow. He feels that he isn't getting enough protection from the refs, and I suspect there'd be very few on this board who disagreed with that view. Objecting to attempts to physically harm him seems reasonable, and I've seen little evidence of diving.

Well, on the train.. Some Blades fans too, worrying about getting the train home. I might be nice and tell them to use Woolston and save 10 minutes over Central.. If I do and we lose I shall be really hacked!

Oh gawd, I'm sat here at my desk looking at the low clouds and the rain beating against the window. Errands to do at some stage in Southampton but if I drive the roads will be dire and it means no pre-med and mild anaesthesia for the game. The alternative by train could then include the exquisite misery of a late train home after another depressing performance and dedeat, or even a 0-0 of anti-football. There's a certain catharis of being there and shouting at Manning to run back and cover, and a bit of loud despairing moaning about players taking responsibility and not abrogating it by passing it back the way it came. I've given up complaining about referees as they seem the least of our problems, although Scienza certainly deserves more protection. What choices, eh? Or not go: too stubborn for that and I don't like giving up, plus need to get out of the house. I've decided, sod Dry January it is!