Charlie Wayman

Scrapping for and scraping a win is not the same as winning by dominance and controlling the game. Let's just be grateful for 3 points today but not lose sight of reality. We are still not good enough to be sure of fighting our way out of trouble. By the law of averages we will occasionally come back from the dead to record a somewhat fortunate success as today whereas on other occasions we would just as easily let a winning lead slip away. Tony Husbands and Dave Merrington were absolutely sh*t* toady on RS and deserved to be suspended without play. Their so-called commentating was incomprehensible to those of us who were trying to form a mental picture of what was going on. We were not even told what colour shirts we were wearing and as for not spotting Gobern for 20 mins after his half-time entry... Bloody diabolical!

The petition is utter garbage! It is utterly derisable. There is not a semblance of correct grammatical expression in it; it will only confirm "our" rulers beliefs that those who protest are fresh out of the backwoods, Scrap it before all of us are made to look like laughing stocks.

Yet another baby in a pushchair. 19 years old, don't we ever get hold of somebody who has reached the ripe old age of 21 even? What is it with our fixation on youth?

The question is a non sequiter. A fourth division player is used to playing in front of A third division player is used to playing in front of A second division player is used to playing in front of A Prem division player is used to playing in front of 25000+ crowds The players we have now with only one or two exceptions have mostly only ever played in front of crowds of 5000-10000, so as far as they are concerned everything is normal. They might be intimidated and overwhelmed by crowds of 25000 each week but as it isn't going to happen anytime soon it's all a bit academic

He CANNOT! How many games do you need to prove your crap at managing a CCC side, surely no more than a dozen? Any day now.... He didn't look that concerned last night or last week. JAN, GELIEVE TE GAAN NAAR HUIS!

Lowe is a bean counter not a risk taker. How many beans make five? Answer, 4. The other one is Lowe's Dividend. He's not in there for nothing after all. As a result of his excellent stewardship of our finances we will probably end up as the ONLY solvent FC in the Blue Square Premiership and with the biggest ground.

Good in parts but Poortvleit's decision to switch Euell and Schneiderlin, front to back, at 70 mins was a disaster, which cost us the goal. Too late he reverted but only thanks to Euell giving him a right b*ll*cking. Unfortunately it rather seems as 'though he is clueless on tactics. Trouble is brewing as the dressing room now appears to be telling management how to run things on the field. I had a feeling Poortvleit was losing the dressing room, seems that feeling was right so unless things change soon, i.e, new manager, then we will not recover. Nothing on display last night convinces me we can go on a winning run and reverse our situation. We will struggle all year and if we get cut adrift at the bottom by a half-dozen points, there'll be no way back.

If it wasn't obvious before it is now, our lads haven't the faintest idea what Poortvleit is on about; now they can't even be bothered to try to work it out. He has lost them. For goodness sake get him out before it's too late. JAN you seem to be a nice bloke, you know you are out of your depth over here so please save us any more agony and b*gger off back to The Netherlands

Good luck to him, he has done all he can for Pompey and he knows that all the promises of new grounds and new training facilities are just bullsh*t as they are mired in debt. Unlike many on here I do not wish on them a future like our recent history. We want a strong football presence in the South but with one team heading for the BSQ and another for the Third Division the last thing this region needs or deserves is for it's one remaining team above the parapet to disintegrate in the wake of Redknapps departure and also start falling like a stone through the divisions. What value our infamous rivalry in the Southern Conference with only 316 watching?

As usual listened in to RS but gave up when we went 2-0 down. This season I have a ST which I am not using until Lowe leaves. Next year I will not bother even with a ST, it has come to this after over 40 years as a ST and many more before as a 'turn-up' man.

I suppose you meant to say "My friend and I will...?"

Rudi is one of those lucky bustards who looks like a footballer the second he waddles onto the field. End of story! From then on it's always downhill all the way. That is why nobody wants to buy him and he doesn't figure in his national team. It is a desperate measure indeed when even our erstwhile coveted TFM (total football man) falls back on the likes of Rudi to save the ship from going down. It suggests to me that the hole below the water line is far more serious than we think. TFM has lost it and running about the decks like a headless chicken when he is supposed to be up on the bridge steering us into tropical calms and misty eyed sunsets.

What I don't get is that when we field a team of average age 22 who try to play Total Football, we get stuffed over and over again, when Arsenal field a team of average age 22 who try to play Total Football theY beat Fernabace 5-2 and the whole world says wHAt wonderful kids they are. What a great academy CAN YOU EXPLAIN THIS PARADOX PLEASE MR JAN POORTVLEIT AND MR RUPERT LOWE AND MR MICHAEL WILDE?

Lessons learnt? You must be Ffing kidding! Nothing has been learnt this season since the West Ham match revealed that we couldn't defend a fortress against a plague of orange ballooons. (There's a Dutch reference in there somewhere). This bloke Poortvleit has ONE BIG IDEA and he is going to plug away every week doing the same old thing in the same old way with the same predictable result. The whole team selection thing and approach to matches is total b*ll*cks and if ever a team was doomed to RELEGATION it is this year's Saints.

It's no good harping on about strikers, we ain't creating anything from midfield that warrants the use of strikers in our team. Chopping and changing strikers around is missing the point altogether. Until we stop running around like headless chickens in mid-field and actually devise a plan to get beyond defenders, all talk of strikers is pie-in-the-sky

I heard this on RS and it was bloody dire. Awful in fact, a drab kick-about in the local park of a Sunday morning would be more enterprising and exciting than this dross. We keep plumbing new depths on our route to obscurity. Poortvleit now seems to have adopted the strategy of let's pick eleven names out of a Ffing hat! He obviously hasn't a clue as to his best team. He's LOST, up sh*t* creek, paddle-less, rudderless and holed beneath the water line. He'll soon have to make a proper decision to save his own neck. I loved his approach in the friendly games, now he's proved to be just another w**k*r in disguise.

There's nothing to dislike about him, it's just that his ideas aren't working. By all accounts he froze into impotence on Saturday when more than ever the youngsters needed some instruction and leadership. He isn't helped by not having an authoritative figure on the field to cajole and gee up the lads. Surman doesn't seem to want to do it and Wootton is a hoofball relic and not used to total fotball. Other than that Davies was too busy having a strop, falling over and picking the ball out of his net. Lowe as usual won't take early decisive action as he created this mess and appointed Jan in the first palce, so his pride is at stake again.

Relegation is guaranteed by Christmas if things don't change fast. This is a different league to last year with a much clearer delineation between the good teams and the poor teams. The gaps are already beginning to open up and soon it'll take more than a couple of wins to move us to safety.

Why not ask them if you are a shareholder

They count the ST's as being there but I wasn't for one so as usual the published numbers are pure spin presumably to keep sponsor's on-side.

Lowe has of course - as was inevitable - repeated the same crass mistakes that saw us relegated from the premiership. In the name of cost saving he has lumbered us with yet another low rent, inexperienced and ineffective manager who blames players for his own failures of leadership, knowledge and skills. I do not know the solution and my anti-Lowe boycott of SMS is probably only adding to the Club's plight. I would return if Lowe left the Club but that is about as likely as Saints being able to defend a corner.

Expectations are low anyway so this result only confirms that we are a poor side with limited prospects. Relegation is pretty much a certainty now, this group of players does not have the knowse to turn things around and we just cannot afford to buy any experienced people to help them. Administration is a near certainty as well, as the lack of real passion amongst the crowd suggests that many more will drift away as the weeks go by. This is becoming our darkest hour.

Looks odds on for a 0-0 or 0-1, no more than that. Two poor teams in indifferent form.

The weather forecast is good but nobody is shopping so the wives will stay at home and the blokes won't have the excuse to sneak off to SMS for a couple of hours. That means quite a few having to make a conscious decision to get up off their Rrses and make the effort of a trip into town. Will they, won't they? The way we're palaying at the moment? NAH! Don't think so, so 14,357 will be the best that can be hoped for.

Is that why we keep losing?