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There were long periods of silence in the 2nd half . Probably mainly because everyone in ground knew we were going to win . we’ve never been a fan base that makes up lots of songs or even picks up on songs it’s taken 4 years for the Stuart Armstrong song to be sung . there was a good song ( and it didn’t even include Pompey) about Fraser just after he went of but I dare say will be knocked back by the usual suspect because it’s not a song he made up .

Have to agree , the Sunday ko will put a few off .

The way I see it is Martin clearly rates Stephens however he knows he can’t drop Bednarek and Harwood Bellis . So just like he did for the Swansea game he thought the best line was going with 3 centre backs. it worked against Swansea and to some extent it worked today . Personally I think we are a better side playing with a 4 at the back . And if Stephens can’t get in at CB then he misses out. 10 points from 4 games I doubt there is not one fan that wouldn’t have taken that on 22 December .

It’s no coincidence that Bazunu has got better in line with a settled CB pairing in front of him . Both Bennarek and Harwood-Bellis have been excellent and probably one of the best CB paring in the league . Bazunu though is excellent on the ball and he passes out with such confidence.

The final games of the season : Leicester v Blackburn Ipswich v Huddersfield Leeds v Saints I bet SKY tv are hoping that winner of our game can clinch 2 nd .

Bristol City are a bit of a bogie team for us , plus we are going to lose sooner or later . Saints 0 Bristol City 2.

Hull went on general sale and Huddersfield is a similar distance. Think you will be fine.

Probably because at the time we let him go we were an established mid table premier league team , rather than Hull who are a mid table championship team . You are right now, hindsight and all that seeing as we are now a mid table championship team then he would probably do ok for us .

For those fans ( if there are any left) that hope for automatic promotion then losing to Hull is unacceptable. For those fans hoping for a play of place losing or even drawing to Hull is unacceptable. For those fans accepting / thinking we will lose to Hull , losing to the likes of Hull is exactly why we aren’t challenging for automatic promotion and why a play off place is looking less and less likely.

Very true he was shit last season and he is no better this . If he played in goal for Rotherham last week we would have won as he wouldn’t have made the saves the Rotherham goalie did .

Have to agree. 17 points from 11 games would be the least those fans hoping for a play off spot would have wanted. Average that over a season would get around 71 points and even then that only might get you 6th place. Those fans keep harping on about how many points Burnley had at this stage last season - we ain’t Burnley and it’s not fucking last season .

Talk sport have just played the audio It’s worth a listen .

You don’t become a good goalie by only letting in goals that arnt your fault. you become a good goalie by saving the ones you shouldn’t have . Bazunu makes mistakes , he lets in goals that are not directly his fault . He doesn’t save any shots he shouldn’t have . He contributed to our relegation and he’ll contribute to us finishing mid table .

Nope . One of his many faults is I don’t think he reads the game .

He looks like he dives with no intention of getting the ball . He either needs to go to the optician or he’s just shit . Perhaps he is an agent that the Portsmouth fans think ? either way he needs dropping before the crowd start to turn on him . McCathy had a solid couple of seasons for us and we need him to reach those levels again .

So according to Saints Extra Martin states there are 3 scenarios Che stays. Che leaves and we replace him. Che stays and we sign someone else . I can think of another Che leaves and we don’t replace him . I’d be shocked if Che stays and we sign another striker , I’d wouldn’t be shocked if Che left and we didn’t sign a replacement .

Hopefully for once the club have listened to its own fans have now reduced the away allocation. Like you say it was ridiculous we gave more . I also hated the fact we gave more then we had to in the FA Cup by giving away fans the whole End when the requirement is only 15% . Just for the record the requirements for the Championship is a minimum of 2000 or 10% whichever is smaller so even now we are still giving more then we have to. But it’s a start . it would be nice to have block 43 for Saints fans every game and just give what Norwich had to the away teams.

Top 10 but never really threatening the playoffs . I would not be totally surprised if we finished in the bottom half . Leicester and Ipswich for the top 2.

What’s the fascination by some fans that somehow shit centre backs will make good defensive midfielders ?

Just shit at his main job which is saving shots .

Having players like Mo starting every week is the reason we finished bottom .

Let’s hope the “we will win more games” will come true !

So we could be looking at 40 odd quid for our visit next month . Another championship myth by some that away tickets will be cheaper along with more 3 pm kick offs .

Yep if Joe Shields had his way we would have spunked our record transfer fee on him . A player that got sent out on loan to 2 championship clubs last season and didn’t make it at either .