Verbal

Name and shame the guilty.

Distin really knows how to leave a sinking ship - give it an extra puncture below the waterline. Still, you can hardly blame him. http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news/New-Everton-signing-Sylvain-Distin-fears-for-Portsmouth-future-article135947.html

Can someone please explain what the f*ck that smiley is supposed to mean? Have you and TDD got nits? And obviously anyone calling for AP to leave is certifiable. So maybe that was TDD's intention - to smoke out the loonies.

Impressive for a ref. But doesn't it break some implied notion of impartiality?

S Club 7.

I think it's the reason Germany got into the arguments in the first place. Read Schopenhauer while listening to Wagner and try telling me you right arm doesn't straighten and lift, as you develop an irresistible urge to qualify for a coaching badge, and claim mastery over all you survey with your 94%.

I'll let you in to a little secret - which may explain the spats with Mr '94%' Bizzle Read the German philosopher Arthur Shopenhauer's '38 Ways to Win an Argument.' The ones relevant to this forum are: 8. Make your opponent angry. and 38. Become personal, insulting and rude as soon as you perceive that your opponent has the upper hand. HTH ****head.

Voted early, voted often.

Have I missed something, or have the club said nothing yet about the extent of Murty's injury? And +1 for Volz.

I made sense? Sorry, not sure how that happened. And, like tiggers, sniping is what I do best! (But I do find your fence-sitting arguments vacuous at time - sorry that's just me, no doubt) Incidentally, I'm not accusing 19C of sniping. I'm accusing him of a bitter, obsessive (and therefore ultimately pointless) piece character assassination. The bottom line is that 19C's accusations make no sense whatsoever. I've seen no evidence of an overwheening ego on MLT's part, nor of arrogance,..nor of all the other cardinal sins of which he's supposed to be guilty. The fact that his arguments are (mostly) formed in complete sentences does not make them rational. It's the pure irrationality of his burblings on MLT that truly makes me wonder...

Frank, I think you'll find that 19C wasn't talking about laziness so much as MLT's 'ego', arrogance' and political duplicitousness. In your rather empty pursuit of some middle line, you're forgetting that most people on here are reacting to a nasty, small-minded attempt to brand MLT with characteristics he simply does not possess. All, it seems, on the basis of a book that our odd little friend hasn't read - as if the act of even touching it would somehow pollute his mind. Therefore small caveats about MLT's workrate seem rather beside the point. And as for 'lack of ambition' - I mean, for heaven's sake, how badly do some people wish he'd left, and for us to have drifted into oblivion sooner?

You should brush up on your trash talk. That's so last decade.

That would be the same Ponty who, at the time 19C first appeared, said that the mods were 'suspicious' and were looking at his and Sundance's IP addresses. I really can't figure out how to square that claim with the suggestion that Sundance was given an explicit amnesty. I don't want to make a big issue of this - it's just that, as far as Sundance/19C is concerned, he's for some unexplained reason allowed to operate outside the rules that apply to the rest of us. And someone should perhaps reproduce that Sundance PM in full. It has a few other gems in it which are relevent to the present tussles. Since Sundance is no more, I assume that no rules would be broken by revealing all its contents.

Staring at the walls again? The great thing about your truly asinine 'take' on MLT is that it seems only to have reinforced the admiration for him on here. You're clearly a walking, talking embodiment of the law of unintended consequences. Well done!

Are you slumming as an ITK now?

Barring several injuries, I doubt Gillett will get much time on the pitch in the next ten or so games. Hammond and Schneiderlin seem to be the first choice, with James (especially if a loan replacement is brought in for Murty) and Wotton higher up the pecking order than Gillett. (In support of this argument, I am and have always been crap at footy)

His days were numbered the minute his sponsor's name was announced.

Thank you, Mr Coming. With regard to your point 3., Mr Canteen did indeed miss this entire period, as he was born on 25 08 09. I hope that clears up any confusion in your mind (which in no way would I imply is unsound). Yours, etc., Verbal, Esq.

That is breathtaking. It's like the club was taken over by the pod people.

trousers, I think the repeated references to 'zero' suggest that the rot set in ages ago. If the scouting system had vanished during admin, it would have been relatively easy to revive it. But it's clear that AP has had to rebuild it root and branch.

Is that a request?

Right back at you. Either it is trolling or it isn't. And you should know. If it is, then you should surely ban him. If it isn't, then we should engage with him, surely - otherwise what's the point of a message board? And don't you really think that his latest fixation - the trashing of MLT - deserves some sort of comment?

Please tell me his name is tommac. *although I'd imagine you'd have to substitute 'nice bloke' for 'demented idiot' - but still...P*mpey and tommac, a marriage made in heaven.

Or a good loss with a poor win?

Hmm. I suspect it was MLT's none too complementary remarks about His Lordship that has prompted this tirade. One of the really quite weird aspects of this particular poster is his clear desire to imagine himself into RL's way of thinking and to try, rather sadly, to be his representative on earth. It seems the fixation has just taken a turn for the worse.