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Looks pretty sheepish in the press conference. Probably because everyone in the room knows he was blatantly after more cash.

Indeed. Plimuff just scored against Francise. Good stuff.

Carlisle 2-0 up against Udders in the JPT. Doesn't really affect us, but if it knocks the Udders confidence a bit that can't be too bad. No goals in League 1 yet.

Is this your subconscious speaking?

Had to call about 20-30 times on the 012... number but after that I got through after 40s on hold. Also got a ticket for Yeovil in March as I can't get to the game against the Isle or Carl. Block 38, near the back.

Would love to get him and we'd certainly use him if we got promoted. Of our current CB options, only Fonte is really Championship class. Can also play the holding midfield role competantly. Sign him up Nige!

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That was my first thought too. Will have some scary dreams tonight.

You should be an errotic novelist.

It's good news IMO. I'd prefer Croft to DC too, but I think it'll be better than having Allen or Legard commentating. Can Murray Walker not donate his vocal chords to someone 50 years younger?

I think anyone would be sore after a bumming that long.

Why are Brighton fans getting all excited about this? I mean really is it that interesting? If it had been Brighton beating them today and the same had happened I doubt I'd have raised an eyebrow. Anyway, they knocked Pompey out, so we've got to be extra nice to them now.

I think he's a bit older than that.

Just seen the highlights. 1. What a goal that was from Guly 2. Lambert was so unlucky not to score in the first half. His effort hit matey on the line in the side of the head and rebounded onto the bar. The defender knew nothing about it, pure luck. 3. Ian Holloway getting upset by the oldest chant in the book ("Prem, you're having a laugh"). Bad loser. 4. Can't be too harsh on Bart for that cross he didn't catch. He came out at full stretch and couldn't get there. It was a feckin' good cross.

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In the last 2 seasons Bart has played 14 games and we've won 11 of them. We lost at Leeds and Colchester and drew with Norwich in the JPT (Bart pulled off a Banks-esq save to then win the shootout). That can't be a fluke.

Yes, but please stick him on your ignore list instead of quoting him (I can't see his posts, but I can see people quoting him). If everyone does that, nobody has to read this drivel.

I didn't boo him but I can understand why people did. He was crap here, never really put in a decent effort and it was very much a case of all quite on the goalscoring front. 5 goals in 2 years, despite being almost ever-present in a forward or attacking midfield possition. You can say he was a victim of the set-up, and that is true in a sense, but he was as much a part of the problem as he was a victim.

A trip to the Emirates.... then Leeds go and win their replay. Any big day out or crap team at home will do. It's just a shame that for the first time in 5 years, we could actually do Pompey and Brighton go and beat us to it.

Yeah he was pretty good today, although that's pretty easy when you're up against Jason Euell. If he'd scored today he would have doubled his goal tally at St Mary's.

I don't mind Sheff Utd signing Seabourne, as long as we can keep Seaborne.

Brilliant result, totally out played them. Yet another game where we could easily have had 5 or 6. AOC hitting the bar in injury time, Dickson had a shot very well saved, so did Barnard. Lallana's finish also let him down a couple of times with a couple of weak efforts, but was otherwise pretty good. Nice to see Puncheon back and playing well too. Bart - 7 A couple of dodgy second half kicks, but couldn't fault him otherwise. Made an excellent save to tip one over the crossbar. FR - 7 Solid at the back and supported the player in front of him, which seemed to change every 10 minutes. Martin - 7 Looked very good for a player who hasn't played in a few months. Seaborne - 8 Very strong performance Harding - 8 Was good defensively and got forward pretty well Puncheon - 8 For the first half hour he seemed to think he was still at Millwall and kept passing to blue shirts. Was excellent when he got into the game. Schneiderlin - 7 Solid midfield display Hammond - 7 As above Lallana - 7 Always a creative threat. Unlucky not to score a couple of times. Lambert - A constant menace and really should have scored in the build up to Barney's goal. Had a point blank effort well saved late on. Barnard - 8 Industrious and a well taken goal Subs: Dickson - 7 Unlucky not to score at least once AOC - 7 Great run and hit the bar at the end. Could have squared to Puncheon for a tap in, but you can't blame him. Guly - 8 What a finish. Sign him up!

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That we can agree on. That o.g. was a one in a million. We were just plain unlucky there. Penalty was inexcusable though.

It's a bit of a myth that a cup run will derail your League campaign. Look at the two Cup finals we've been to in recent history. 2003, finished 8th. We haven't been higher up in Englsih football in about 25 years. Then there's last season, when we were the second best team in the League, even in spite of that awful start. Our history is littered with counter arguments for this theory. 03/04 we managed to get ourselves into 4th at Christmas. Then, a couple of games later, we got knocked out to Newcastle in the 3rd round of the cup and fell down to 12th by the end of the season. Two years ago we lost at home to Man Utd in the third round. Made no difference to our eventual league possition and we still ended up relegated. I could go on...