richardc

I am sure many of the opinions on this thread are based on sentiment - and it would be sad to see players that have been here a while and got us promoted be demoted to back ups - but the whether you judge us on recent form getting us to 10th in the table or whether you look at season length form putting us at 17th the table, the reality is that is significantly short of what I think NC's ambitions are and I dont think MP will show any sentiment when his brief is top 6 and he has seen how ruthless NC can be. However, sentimental you get about our defence, the stats show that we continue to leak poor goals and I think we will bring in two new centre backs to be 1st choice players and two full backs although these might be just to add competition to places as NC's also stated aim is to play academy players - that fact that punch doesnt seem to get much game time and the same with Davis would suggest that both those positions could be strengthened - I also think that across the season you would be looking at 3 first choice strikers of which we only have two at the moment. I expect to see significant movement this summer having experienced the reality of the prem and that MP will hold little sentiment to existing team players - and I think only if we make these changes will stand a chance of top 6 or even top 10

With the 10 point deduction Pompey could be 21 points from safety with 21 points available on Saturday evening - is it still too early for the relegation party

The fact we are four points off relegation and have a very very poor defensive record across the whole season would suggest that both centre backs are very poor premier league defenders - as much as we like them and yes he maybe our best its all relative - we will need to significantly improve if we want european football next season

that the number of posts inversely correlates to IQ levels By judging the success of 'lets get a song going for .................... that this forum does not represent anyone who actually attends St Mary's

can someone answer me a question as Ive never played in defence - but fox continually plays towards the middle and leaves the wide player with so much space and he continually does this - is this something that fall backs do or is he told to do this- Ive not noticed Shaw do this quite so much.

I watched the Swansea game yesterday and they played music for about 5 mins after each goal - totally killed the atmosphere absolutely dreadful idea - the yanks do it in there sports as they are so dull - we do not need to do it over here

and with Villa playing Wigan QPR could be 10 points behind

I used to work at the Spinnaker and had a very interesting encounter with the head of the 657 crew

Is this the right thread for a relegation countdown - by my reckoning and with the -10 points they could be down in 3 weeks on Tues 26th Feb

I know of at least 10,000 of the bestest fans that will be looking for a new club soon

NO one will know how Sharp would of done in the PL unless he is given a chance - all we know is he scored goals for fun in the championship and was our top scorer in pre-season - players like Le Fondre are making a impact in the PL It was stupid to get rid of him at the start of the season - at least they should of given him a few games to see how it worked out then if he didnt perform so be it

1224: Hmmm, this is turning into a theme of the day... a trend, even: QPR on Twitter: "TRANSFER NEWS COMING UP!" A lot more difficult to guess this one as QPR seem to be trying to sign anyone who has ever kicked a football, but I am going for Christopher Samba. What do you lot think? From the BBC - made me laugh

I had a tour of the Amex recently and quide said that before the BHA vs THFC pre season friendly Redknapp went into the press room before the match and had a drink with the journos and stayed with them for about 1/2 hour - cant imagine too many other managers doing that - which is why they probably love him

I take it that it was n't Nigel Adkins that you met yesterday

http://www.northstandchat.com/showthread.php?269644-True-Geordie-view-of-Nile-Ranger This video appeared on BHA north stand chat earlier today - its of a Geordies viewpoint on him - well worth a watch had me in stitches

what were the lyrics?

Who cares how old he is or how long he has been supporting saints - it's how many posts he's got on Swf that really matters

i thought **** was a bit of marketing genious - ESPN are obviously trying to copy with the twitter name ESPNUK - but i'm not really sure it works as well

Appleton losing in his first home game:lol:

Malvinas all ours, all ours, Malvinas are all ours

Absolute joke - but maybe the delay in signings were so that they could be announced today to deflect this news

maybe Adkins knows something we don't and someone else is being lined up

Looks like Liverpool are our scouting club - they put in first offer and we pinch them - I'm sure that will go down well with their 'chip on the shoulder' 'champions of europe' fans

That makes him very old or a liar

Always remember him running his heart out on away victory at Brighton in L1 - I thought he was MOM Was he ever really given a chance in Championship Not really his fault certainly wasnt through lack of trying