The Cat

How dare you let cold hard facts get in the way of people's opinions.

Glad that's been said because it means that it was genuinely fine for me to think that last week's result was a point gained rather than 2 lost. Well done to Martin for grabbing a point against a team with better players and a better manager.

It's almost as if there isn't a perfect tactical strategy and most trophies and success are based on teams spending more money on transfers and wages than others. I don't remember anyone saying Poch was a sheep because he was influenced by Bielsa's style but apparently anyone who prefers their teams to play possession football has their tongue lodged firmly up Guardiola's ring.

He re-signed for them this season so must be happy. He got a bad injury at Saints on his first start at Burnley so maybe that restricts his fitness a bit. Someone like Salisbury might come in for him at some point I guess.

Wolves haven't kept a clean sheet in the league since January haha.

Seager did nothing. In fact Havant were very poor on the day. Hesketh is so good at that level. His touch and technique is way above most other players in the league. I really enjoy watching him play. MLT was there today, stopped and chatted to everyone who wanted to and had photos taken even with some Havant fans.

5-1 to Sholing over Havant. Could have easily scored more. Hampshire non league is red and white.

Some Sholing kids were throwing chips at the Havant fans and then one of them threw some beer over the kids

Madness. When the last time was that someone scored 4 in the first half?

We can add Harrison Miles to this list, gone to Man City.

Hesketh and Flannigan playing for Sholing, Seager for Havant

Sholing v Havant for me today. Any excuse for a Saints v Pompey derby

That's just not true though. I spoke to a load of Swansea fans since he left them and at worse a couple were ambivalent and the rest wanted him to stay. I also went to actual Swansea last season and their actual fans in the actual ground clapped him after the game. That doesn't smack to me as "most" of their fans being happy to see him go.

Apart from yesterday when a manager who everyone was banging on about being better than Martin, and with a team who finished above us last season, had to rely on an injury time deflection to sneak a point? If Martin was that bad they'd have thumped us 3-0 right?

Wasn't it something to do with Kat Liebherr wanting to keep 20% of the club? Wasn't there also a thing where it seemed Gao intended to invest but then the Chinese government stopped their citizens putting money into foreign businesses? All in the past though, all we can do is try and improve over whatever period of time Sports Republic have decided they want us to. Someone mentioned a 10 year plan so maybe it's that.

Because they had some rich bloke come in and pump a load of money into their club while we were stuck with zero investment from Gao for too long.

Dibling has not played as a CF. If you want to look back at old U21 games and line ups to disprove that then feel free. For most of his time as a youth he's played with Dom Ballard as the CF, then Luke Pearce and then latterly Ehibhatiomhan. He plays wide in an attacking 3, in midfield behind them or as a 10. Not a CF.

I'm not sure he has ever really played CF so it might be a bit of a stretch to suddenly try to convert him to one in the PL. He's also very good in his current position, so even if he was moved to CF it would weaken us elsewhere on the pitch.

28% of Championship play off winners stay up so it's quite a low figure. We can all pick a few teams out and state that because they did it then why can't we? However, that's a simplistic argument which ignores quite a lot of information like relative strength of squads, the quality of the PL the season they went up etc.

Oh look, there's Martin's undroppable best mate who he always picks because he only picks his mates every week without fail and never drops them.

Did well to win that considering we had to play in the famous Goodison atmosphere created by those always so loud Everton fans

Same at quite a few grounds sadly. Much easier to just lob in some rails to the existing set up than do it all properly.

He'll obviously leave if we go down. Being a keeper in a team which has a weak defence is no drama. Much easier for an England manager to judge how good they are than if they are playing for a team that only lets the opposition have a few shots a match

I like it when a player clatters another one, gets correctly sent off and the fans boo the player who got kicked for the rest of the match. Like it's his fault for being kicked! Cheering when Bereton Diaz got subbed was classless. Blokes near us were going absolutely mental when Dibling got subbed off even though he was obviously not able to last any longer and cramping up. But then it's not just our fans. A lot of football fans are halfwits.

Would be so funny if we get a late equaliser at Goodison in the last game to take them down with us