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Thanks for your service, James. A professional. Can't agree with him being called a 'legend', but not sure whether that's just the emotion of him leaving making me irrational. Good luck to him.

Not sure that would be a great move from a man that is part of a Portsmouth supporting family?

Where has he said this? Have only seen him say he's excited to play a part in our Championship campaign.

Leicester still have a few quality players and have got two good results so far. I'd pop them as favourites for the title.

Like others have said, when you see him at a live match you really realise his lack of presence. Both in terms of physical stature and his lack of verbal command. He inspires no confidence and in no way commands his area or his defence. The goal seems to dwarf him.

Piss poor at times today. Didn't marshall the defence at all.

Enjoyed that at times. Good to be back at St Mary's. I feel we essentially gifted those goals to Norwich, particularly the free header for the third. Norwich's fourth was a clusterfuck. Cross came in too easy, Manning gently slotting it into the path of the striker rather than lacing it out of the box first time. Head in hands moment. Our defending needs sorting out. I'm at a loss as to whether it was individually poor performances and defending, or whether it was a wider issue with shape and defensive tactics from our central midfield and entire defence. It was, at times, embarrassing how easy Norwich found it to carve us open and ultimately to score four goals away from home. On the positive side of things, A-A looked spritely, Che was great, AA showed some good moments, especially one of his defensive sliding tackles (or was that Alcaraz?) Stu was dangerous and showed real heart. Still work to be done. Need to replace those we have sold and get some grit and a proper spine, because at the moment we are spineless. Was the atmosphere good? I felt it was from the Northam but always hard to tell.

Completely agree with the bit in bold. Norwich cut through the middle of us with absolute ease. We need a solid presence in there to disrup, to intercept, to block runs and stop the opposition basically strolling through the centre of us.

We need to invest in the playing squad. If we don't, promotion is a no-go. Up to SR. It was their fuck ups in appointment making that sent us down to this level, it's up to them to sort it out.

I'm hopeful. Would like to see a response from some players after the Gillingham gore of Tuesday. Are Norwich any good?

Remember at Bristol Rovers away early in Pardew's spell in charge, some absolute psycho threw an aubergine onto the pitch. Some impromptu chanting in relation to said vegetable thus commenced. Banter.

Sounds like a fucking disgrace of a wrap. Hth.

Shame to see him go after such a long time. I really thought he would be one that would stay until he retires. Did he really achieve anything with us, though? A few 'nearly' moments in finals, a half-hearted European tour... what else? Getting in to the England team? Not much of a feat considering some of the dross that have amassed caps in international friendlies for England. For me it will be the highlight reels of his free kicks that will be my lasting memory of the chap. The Wolves free kick, blimey. Having said that, many of those free kicks were all but meaningless. His leadership during a season which saw us relegated embarrassingly is the final line in his Southampton career epitaph. What a way to bow out, James.

Glad Martin has called a few out. He's done it in a professional and driven manner, too. The idea that some of these so called professional footballers cannot follow tactical instructions says it all. Fucking ship them out.

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Passing back with the intention of drawing out opposing players whom otherwise would be packed tight in an 11-man-sitting-deep tactic. We can then try to pass through them and into the spaces created. Surely this is in no way 'meaningless' passing? Surely very purposeful?

A win away from home?

He won't be a legend if he leaves, a word too easily used.

The famous Brexit Party MEP. A particularly fitting role. Shame he didn't swing from the Itchen Bridge.

A tricky one for Prowsey. I reckon hed only really want to leave for a club the size of Tottenham or above, but West Ham offer both PL and Europe, so although they don't fully tickle his fancy, they are attractive for his career in many ways. The only thing holding him to us in his mind will be the fact we are and have always been his playing club, and that we may well be back in the PL next year. As others have said, he's worth £40m in today's market, surely? Tinpot Hammers wanting discounted rates for prime talent. Laughable.

Wholeheartedly agree. I mean, what the actual fuck were they thinking? It's a fucking schoolboy-playing-FM error that reeks of contrived attempts to 'think outside the box'. As you rightly say, a GK is one position where you really do need to think inside the box with your scouting. That one game Bazunu had against Ipswich when playing for Portsmouth (in League One, for crying out loud) was enough of a clue of his ineptitude. We can't afford to piss about with him in goal.

What is severely concerning is that people at the club seem to rate him. I hope I'm wrong but the lack of any rumours or gossip about looking for a new #1 suggests we're sticking. A fucking terrible situation. You simply cannot be successful with a keeper that is as effective as a chocolate teapot.

Clattenburg was a complete cock. What was it that he said to Lallana whilst he was playing for us during a PL game? It says a lot then that Dean is a bigger wanker than Clattenburg could ever be. Both utter shit as referees.

Always hard to tell from pre-season. Didn't Aribo score a cracking goal in pre-season last year? Look how he turned out. Some of our players are known entities, we know they will be good enough (Alcaraz) or will still be prone to being fairly regularly shite (Lyanco).

Leeds bigger than us, Burnley and Sheff Utd. Burnley and Sheff Utd in the league above... what a couple that would be if they're interested.