Charlie Wayman

Where's your evidence for making these sorts of accusations. I've never read anything negative about his performances and recall we were all thrilled to bits when he was signed.

Utter Tosh. How does it help us to include THB in the team and then he leaves after 4 matches. Then we have to start from scratch again with a different combination at CB.

Nothing to do with it. As emphasised by Eckert, Schlotterbeck is a left footer so plays on the left where Stephens has been standing in for quite a while. Wood is a right footer so plays on the right. Not rocket science.

It was a Hampshire lad from Winchester that did for them in the end but he couldn't cook.

Way past it; time to hang up his boots. Maybe we could do a loan deal with West Ham, we give them four pintsof scrumpy and a box of Walkers .

If our aim is to build a side that can stay in and compete in the PL should we win promotion, then the last thing we need is to waste our very limited resources on bringing back a 32 yo Ward Prowse for largely sentimental reasons. He has no future value to the club, will be over the hill soon if not already and lacks the athleticism that will be essential in midfield to compete at the higher level and even at thios level. It's all very well pointing to his considerable experience in the PL and free kick record but more recently he has failed to cut the mustard at WHU, Notts F or Burnley. Why do people on here expect anything to be different if he re-joined Saints? It won't. We don't need a geriatric passenger who happens to take free kicks well, we have one of those already. Worse still he will be blocking the progress of youngsters like Akachukwu and our youngsters is where our future must lie. Signing JWP will be a munumental folly that we must not commit or will come to regret.

Have you been spying on them?

We still scored more goals than most other teams in the league last season

We should go in for KWP not Prowse.

Edozie is bloody good at falling over in the penalty area. He got an assist on Sunday. Worth starting him even if this trick works only a half dozen times per season.

I wouldn't rule out some background shit stirring from his Father-in-law either. Surprised ManUre haven't made a bid.

Time for a Potter's Heron moment!

Things are really looking up

I know but not intentionally, just that I expected more of him than he has shown so far. He may be under orders to stay back but where are those over-lapping runs taht characterised his play last season. Stoke switched their left winger to the right later on so maybe that was a trbute of sorts to Bree for preventing him getting to the bye line and putting in crosses. Can we agree he could do better?

How much did the team miss THB today? He has been the only true leader on the pitch and his absence probably contributed to the rudderless performance we saw today. Troops are inspired by their section commanders and will fight to the last drop of blood for them. Left to their own devices and chaos ensues. We saw that today as well. We need a new leader and damn quickly. A win is a win for all that. There have been plenty of times when we deserved to win but didn't so for once it's nice to celebrate a victory that we did not deserve. Big shout out for Larin, at the moment he is red hot; 20 goals this season? Don't rule it out. Back four were DS as usual. Where's Welly when you need him and Bree just about did enough but he isn't the player we saw last season.

Puctuated by "We hate Pompey" chants even though both are irrelevant to this match.

THB will start, Jander is genuinely injured and it's very unlikely we'll go 442. What's happened to your last season's optimism?

As things stand we have lost Stewart abd Charles, that's all and neither were starters. Last Sunday we had to start without Azaz, Fellows and Jander. Once everything has settled down we'll be on it. 4-0 against the Potters will settle a few people's nerves. We haven't suddenly become a bad team.

You're kidding. Stephens' career here has been littered by a catalogue of errors usually leading to goals against. We dumped him once for good reasons.

Oh Ye of little faith, cheer up for goodness sake, the season is only one match old.

It is doubtful that was the main reason for bringing in Romeu last season. My guess is that his value was as a mentor to the likes of Bragg and Jander. It'll be interesting to see if their performances drop off this season. Certainly Bragg seemed to lack a bit of composure and authority in his play at Watford. Early days.

Anybody in for Stephens yet or is the £50 releae fee too high?

It won't happen. We've already signed the guy from ManC

He knows how to play football, just playing in an unfamiliar position.

Blinkered?