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You what? as opposed to serial complainers who think it is one or at least playoffs are a minimum requirement this season?

Most games in L1 aren't played at sufficiently high-tempo to get fans involved. They're way too scrappy and disjointed. Doesn't help that home fans are nowhere to be seen or heard. CCC games are much more absorbing in both respects.

The huddersfield fan in the skate top on Tues was a wind-up; this was the real deal. Couldn't tell if the shorts were skate shorts- tranmere also play in white. But you could just tell from the instinctive way the guy was signalling 4-1 with his fingers that he probably stunk from every pore of his body. BTW, what ever happen to the big mouth on Facebook who offered to invade the pitch at Fratton in a saints shirt?

cant f**kin stand anyone who at the last moment switches to Barcelona or Man U when I set my stall out with Saints

Absolutely agree- nothing is more addictive (and agonising) than sport's unpredictability. Its also character-changing - i bet anyone who follows sport seriously, esp anyone who supports a team like Saints is also a very different person for doing so. Lets just say I've learnt not to assume or extrapolate too much as sh*t can always ambush you. Some people might call it toughminded humility; others might call it spineless fatalism Still 8 draws on the road, almost half our away games, the most in the league. Even if no game is the same - that strikes me predictable and predictable for all the wrong reasons.

Had a good night's sleep - we weren't as bad as we were against Exeter or Wycombe; we were comfortable for the majority of the game though we never really clicked in the final third. The major positive was that Barnard had another good game. He worked tirelessly and showed good touch and vision when the ball was played on the floor to him. Lallana and Punch had poor games - too erratic in their decision-making and distribution. We certainly lacked pace which is a weakness of the current XI- Tranmere played a very high line and were there for the taking. Think Pards bottled the subs with Papa/Antonio. Too little too late. Like others say, the ref was totally out of his depth.Admittedly Fonte's pen shout at the end was dubious but we at least another one and Barnard was cynically brought checked/pushed outside their box before the ref handed the game to them on a plate. Perhaps because refs assume he's a big guy and the goals suggest that he can handle himself but the lack of protection being given Lambert is a worrying sign. WTF with Harding. I just hope the three or four mysterious reasons are all variants on he was injured because its hard to see how bringing on Seaborne as LB was tactical. Leaving aside the pen that never was, the guy was repeatedly skinned in the position and Harding had done nothing wrong. The surface was bare in places but at least it was true and even.Tranmere are a poor, poor side which brings us back to expectations. I don't see why anyone should focus on performances or what might have beens to deflect from the result. With all due respect, these are games that we should win. Time and time again we haven't.

The main culprit with the flag, the bald weasel (probably a recovering scaghead) was untouchable as he had his two little daughters. Would have cuffed all three Amusing how bystanders were getting sucked into something so boringly predictable and avoidable. Don't know if people were 'obsessed'. More like going through the motions, that for the sake of consistency/honour, people assume they must stand their grounds or at least be seen to be standing their ground if others take the ****. The usual crap.

No worse, I bet, than the blue few down the road AKA the greatest fans in the world. Maybe Paul McKenna has got you to imagine having an anal prob and this is the moment you realise you quite like it...

Humble and honest as they come. Had just been watching him on SSN through the night after returning from our game.

Don't know about the rest of his game but Lambo's free kicks are world-class. It doesnt matter if you're in the lower leagues or a world-cup final, a good free kick is one and the same (the quality of keeper is only a minor variable). The pace and accuracy he can generate from anything upto 40 yards out is simply awesome.

Saw it all from block 4 - can't blame the stewards this time. They were milling around the idiot for ages, presumably talking to him. He refused to get up on more than occasion. No wonder if things esclated. Lets just say he would have bitten off even more than he could chew if block 4 had got to him

I want a life size jaidi to stick outside my flat - like a beware of the dog sign. a proper beast of a man. would also double up as a scarecrow.

I wonder does the team have enough pace? Puncheon/Semi apart, nobody is particularly quick, though the team has other qualities. For Derry and others, it was our lack of pace and width that was our Achilles Heel. Can we have width without pace, for instance?

why not adapt the "you used to be a skate but you're now Ok" chant: "oh oxy oxlade, your dad's an effing skate, but you're ok". sure abusing his father and mentor will do the lad's confidence/self-esteem no harm at all

Great night and someone in their end was wearing a skate shirt. Uproar in the Itchen kickstarted a few stewards into action. Looked like the order was to take him out dead or alive. Doubt he'll be pulling that sh*t again

His dad -the skate legend mark chamberlain- was running their youth set up - don't know if he still is. obviously has little confidence in their infrastructure in order to send him here. Travelled up with the team to the recent exeter game.

1 nil down away from home at HT with both CBs on yellows.

Its camp almost

An automon civil servant/lawyer spreading his wings and smelling blood, a fat-lipped, slobbering greek still wondering how you dot a t - just lovin it.

Of course HMRC are playing that card to have the holy and the righteous on their side. Christ they might even convince a few skates that this isn't a vindictive witch-hunt, but there is a public interest in the HMRC unearthing all the bodies. Go for it i say.

£21m i gather is what's in the official accounts.

Just rereading the quotes - android really is something. "It's not standard procedure but I'd imagine that HMRC are basically crossing their Is and dotting their Ts. We're expecting the administration to proceed as it was" The irony - can't even use a metaphor in the context of completing a formality without tripping over himself. Shambolic from top to bottom, from word to deed.

http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news/Sick-joke-as-potless-Portsmouth-offer-fans-financial-advice-article341255.html: Mirror article on how the skates are diversifying. All this time they've being sharing their wisdom and selling financial advice to their supporters, a new arm to their mouth-watering franchise. rolleyes:

Victor Cattermole out-fialking fialka according to skate spokesman, Phil Hall. LOL. Proof of funds provided on some obscure, banana republic bank letterhead (when subsequently asked, failed to come back with something more authoritative) while cattermole's representative, a 22 year old noob insisted on meeting skate representatives at his dads place on grounds that he didn't have an office.

Gillett;)