Lee On Solent Saint

Never been too much of a fan, for me Brit Pop was more Blur, Suede and Pulp. Much more a fan of the earlier "Madchester scene", Stone Roses, Happy Mondays etc. Having said that, I never saw them back in the day, so I'll look at going this time around.

I would imagine that wages would be an issue for us, should we be interested in signings like that.

Yep, Utter horseshit.

Understand the project? Keep the ball out of the fuckin net should be his only concern for a year's loan.

Sky showed all the cup games live last night. Assume this will be the same arrangement for our game.

Executive boxes not selling well then.

Thats ok, with the money we make on those sales we can panic buy in January again.

If Martin plays Armstrong up front for any considerable amount of time, we are fucked.

If you were KWP would you sign a new deal?

Bournemouth are loaning Kepa.

Isn't he Irish too? Can't be up to much if Baz keeps him out of the Ireland team.

I wonder what the terms are of Kepa's loan to Bournemouth? I just hope we aren't looking at Travers as he will likely be moving on from them.

Where are you getting the W's from?!

Stupid money?? It's the going rate for decent Premier League level players these days. No wonder as a club we are still paying the same fees we were paying for players 15 years ago with comments like that. We are never going to compete when we are shopping in that price range. Even fuckin Bournemouth have a bigger transfer record purchase than we do.

Nope. Besides, we have already loaned one player from Chelsea.

Busted? Like this thread?

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After sitting through yesterday's game, I think the criticism shared on here is not unjust in the slightest. Yesterday was every bit as worse as we've seen under Jones and Selles when we were last here. I don't think it is negative to say we got beat by a bang average team who are likely to be bottom six come the end of the season. That for me is the biggest concern. RM talks about being brave and having a go this year, but there was nothing brave in that performance.

You need to take off your red and white tinted glasses once in a while. You berate any fans that aren't happy clappy and dare to criticise the club in anyway, you are exactly the fan that Semmens was on about when he said we should be grateful for just being in the Premier League. My opinion on who is a Championship player and who is not is totally revelant to a discussion on a football forum about the team I support, so you can take you thinly disguised Pompey jibes and shove them up your arse. If calling out bad tactics and bad in game management makes me a negative supporter then I can live with that. I was treated to enough inept displays in our last Premier League season, so I was expecting us to at least have a go against a bang average Forest team. We offered nothing, did you honestly believe once we conceded that we were going to score? That's not being negative, its being realistic on what we were seeing out on the pitch. As a fan, did you enjoy our last relegation season?

Agreed, but he was always going to be are number one target no matter what. I think he'll be fine, but he needs to play alongside players that are going to help him, rather than just recycle the ball backwards and forwards.

He was outstanding for us last season, at times yesterday he was doing two jobs as Smallbone was so ineffective.

I'll make this easy for you. Smallbone, Armstrong, Stephens, Aribo, Edozie and McCarthy are Championship players. End of. None of them are getting into any other Premier League team bar us. Jury is out on THB, BBD and Sugra. Even Downes to a lesser extent. KWP is truly the only player that teams competing at our level, which is bottom half would seriously look at. We are a Championship team playing Premier League.

So, why does he wait until Forest scored to shake things up? Aribo and Smallbone were truly awful yesterday. Smallbone looks terrified everytime he gets the ball. We had no drive in midfield at all, well not until Dibling came on and at least tried to run with the ball, instead of getting rid of it and the first opportunity.

But we weren't competitive yesterday against a bang average Forest team. We managed to stay in the game not because we were playing well, but because Forest were slightly less gash than we were.

I think it's a mix of all three.