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^This It's not just about a striker's overall goal tally... unless you happen to live in a black and white world where the context behind seemingly decent stats and numbers is conveniently ignored.... It's totally reasonable to question the credentials of a striker that often goes on significant spells without scoring.... currently 10 games and counting in Armstrong's case.... Consistency is just as important a factor as proficiency. Armstrong isn't consistent enough, full stop.

Given it's Sport Republic doing the signing, one would assume a 20 year old 'project' from Lichtenstein...

Sorry to hear that. Thoughts are with you.

Any chance of this week's lottery numbers too Nostradamus?

Lady

I've been pondering.... (Dangerous I know...) Is there anything we can read-between-the-lines on Katherina Liebherr's attendance at the match yesterday? As far as I'm aware, her attendances are pretty rare these days (if at all?) and I'd have been a tad miffed if I'd picked "Portsmouth Away" out of the hat in a 'Games that Katharina will attend this season' sweepstake at the start of the season, as it would've seemed most unlikely for her to choose to visit that cesspit above other games. It's probably something simple like 'it happened to tie in with an unrelated visit to the UK' or suchlike, but do we rule out some kind of pow-wow gathering taking place at the top of the club at the weekend? (E.g. "Hey Rasmus / Dragan, stop f**king around with my dad's spiritual club, you nutters") Btw, do we know which other board members / shareholders attended the match too?

And, no doubt, Eckert will reward them with an unchanged side next match...

Is it still possible to section someone in this country...? #bagoffrogs

I see what you did there...

Does he/she have a preference for the 4-4-2 formation...?

Do we now get to call 25th January "Leo Scienza Day" and celebrate it with an open top bus parade every year... In the same way they get to pleasure themselves over a meaningless draw with their "David Norris Day" tinpot wankfest..?

Assume they keep jars of amoeba in the stadium vaults to ensure the average match day attendance IQ doesn't fall too low?

Yep, he actually looked pissed off immediately after the goal. F*** knows why such an un-inspirational shrug-shoulders player is ever entrusted with the captain's armband when Stephens isn't playing (other than the usual poor managerial judgement of course) I'd be inclined to move him on in this window if we can get a decent loan replacement for the rest of the season, despite the inevitable howls of derision from the "yeah, but he's the division's leading scorer, innit" fraternity...

Do we now get to call this "Leo Scienza Day" and celebrate it with an open top bus parade every year... In the same way they get to pleasure themselves over a meaningless draw with their "David Norris Day" wankfest..?

Great.... We've started to faff around with the ball at the back now... This only ends one way....