Bobbyboy

Tadic missing all 3 of them?

Best thing so far was that tackle by Jack Stephens.

Or that Ramirez bloke at Boro. Might be that a change of club could help him settle down and regularly display the quality he shows in flashes.

What's the sell-on fee (if any) for Plymouth? I have a vague recollection of 10% but may be wrong.

I refuse to believe this.

So now in my head I can see a highlights/bloopers package from that season played at 2x speed with that music in the background and McGoldrick and co falling over and mis-kicking. I wish someone would do that.

One day closer to the day he gets injured again. It's depressing how many of our good players are out. Is this normal?

I always thought VVD was supposed to be awesome with the free kicks but we seem to prefer him to be in the box rather than taking them.

Harsh on Plymouth who are definitely on the south coast and currently above pompey in the league

I recall a pre-season friendly at Eastleigh prior to the 2004/05 season I think? Two notable subs came on that night, one a quick nippy right-wing for Saints who looked like he was about 11 years old (yes I know he was actually older than that), named Theo Walcott. And one slightly larger looking goalkeeper for Eastleigh, named Wayne Shaw. I wouldn't have thought that all these years later it would be Shaw I'd be reading about on front page of BBC Sport website. What would be odds on that be? Although what I remember most from that game was how astoundingly bad Neil McCann really was.

He's changed since he became famous.

Not wishing to steal the other Bobby's thunder, I would suggest the current answer is 2187. There can be only one.

Been wearing them since the semi final second leg. it's going to be a long two weeks until the final.

Can I just say on behalf of people who don't post much and like to come on here for occasional inside snippets and light banter - THANK YOU for what you're doing.

OK did a search and found another, Arthur Wharton who was a goalkeeper and the first black pro footballer.

Walter Tull at Northampton (and Tottenham I believe) and Jack Leslie at Plymouth would be two prior to the Pompey claim that I know of off top of head who played professionally in England prior to WW2 (WW1 in Tull's case). Probably there are at least one or two others? Leslie is a crazy story, he was picked for England while at Plymouth and then dropped when they found out he wasn't white.

Would Liebherr be supplying the cranes?

Ref: "Hmm, good opportunity to kick J-Rod in the najjers without anyone noticing"

I've never seen the word 'but' appear so frequently in the first sentence of so many posts

Genuine question: is Adam still interested in what goes on at Saints?

Wonder if any others will follow

TBH I doubt Alan McLoughlin can turn him into Eden Hazard. But I'm willing to eat popcorn and watch while he attempts it.

I think Long will. For the longest time I thought JRod would too but I'm close to giving up now, and I'm really sorry to say that. Been so long since he looked even close to sharp. (Not Billy Sharp).

Interesting that they pick Vokins but not Slattery. He's really come on the last few months.

Been thinking the same thing actually. If someone really wants to put money into the club, they should have enough money to be able to put it in via some kind of commercial sponsorship deal instead of/as well as direct investment. It's an obvious bending/breaking of the FFP rules but FFP itself doesn't appear to have been thought through very much so I'd be surprised if they had some sharp rule to prevent this approach.