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Anything that could detract from us getting three points cannot be a good thing. Demonstrate all you like, not easy from Austria I grant you, but not during the game.

Sadly me old rodent friend I have only met Rupes for about 15 seconds and Jonah for a couple of hours (although Mark did kindly end me a book about Woodward) so no bed action for me. If I had any sense I would be back in bed with my partner who has decided to stay put today (as it is snowing and bloody freezing) rather than chatting away here! I am not even at the servants table let along the top one!!! I am so low that I am not even considered worthy of being fed bio-grow like the other plants....ho hum....

Otter me old mucker, I have no idea what went on/goes on behind the doors of St Marys and take of pinch of salt what people say here goes/went on (this place has more plants than Kew Gardens!!!). I will judge Wotte on what he does now that JP has gone. If he keeps up safe before the last game of the season I will see that as progress on last year. Hardly a giant leap forward I grant you, but I think that we all knew that this season would be tough whoever the manager was.

So he managed to get at least one shot on target then???

Who knows what kind of role he played before? Yes he was involved but sometimes when you play the second string you have to go along with what the main players are doing. From his comments he obvioulsy realised that JP was too rigid in his thinking and has started to show signs of being his own man. I think we should judge him on what he achieves as manager (or head coach) rather than on what went before. Perhaps we shouldn't have appointed them? Hindsight is a wonderful thing. How many of us were gutted when Strachan was appointed? Let's see what happens...

Norwich have hit some form of late and Swansea are a decent side. A few weeks ago I would have expected us to lose both. At 2-0 down I didn't expect a point at Norwich. At 2-1 down against Swansea the same. With that kind of spirit you can turn draws into wins. If you still feel pessimistic that is your right. I don't, which is mine.

You are spot on, it is a choice. I was listening to a guy on the Talksport phone in last night who stopped going to Pompey games when Harry went back out of principle. Things are now worse under Adams but he is philisophical about it and says he will still be going next season if they go down. We all have choices. Thousands of people stopped going when we were relegated. If we get relegated again I expect we will lose more off he gate. We were told before when Lowe went thousands would come flooding back. Didn't happen. Lowe or Crouch or someone else, I suspect the only way the gates will increase is for us to win more games. Lowe was never a problem when we were doing well in the Prem was he? Not loved true, but tolerated by most. I think you will find that if Crouch came back and we went down and stayed down he would soon turn into a hate figure too.

Perhaps she should team up with Steve Godwin's nephew Ottery?

I don't know, I have had huge doubt about Crouch ever since his outburst against Woodward. I have also heard that the backers were not impressed, but again third hand stuff so who knows... What I do know is that we only stayed up by the skin of our teeth on the last day, not a direction I had much faith in. Who knows, if he and Pearson had stayed we may be higher now, we may also be in administration. We have what we have, for better or worse.

LOwe employed a supposed "big name" in Redknapp and he did a fairly amateur job didn't he? Ottery, give the bloke a chance. I actually feel we have a real chance of staying up for the first time in ages. And if we do go down at least it looks like we will go down with all guns blazing, which is more than happened under good ol'Arry.

So JohnnyFartPants is another name for a ladies front bottom???

I think he is commenting on what he knows, which is fare enough. As for unity under Lowe, was their unity under Wilde or unity under Crouch? To be honest I doubt if unity will exist again until all of these people have left the stage.

As if anyone ouside the M27 corridor gives a stuff mate. No thats not true, the other clubs in the relegation battle are probably lapping it up!

Thinking that myself. If Lowe has any sense she gives him "advice"!!! Just wondering, if Lowe went to the trouble of taking down LMs picture, why is that sign for Lean and Lawrie still up?

So who did you hear??? Anyway, are we supposed to go into administation this week???

Ferguson and Clough are/were arrogant t*ssers too (plus Redknapp and many many others). If he acheives a fraction of what they have managed he can be as arrogant as he likes. I am not quite sure what the hair and scarf have to do with anything? Perhaps he should wear a flat cap and go greyhound racing on a Friday night to endear himself to the "working classes"?

When running any business you have to risk manage. If they had a three year plan, which by all accounts they do, that would include a plan to deal with relegation/promotion too, as both are financial "risks". This planning was evident when we were relegated. Lowe had a clause inserted in most contracts that cut players wages to CCC levels upon relegation. It is encumbent upon him and Cowen to have similat arrangements should we be relegated again. This is not "planning for failure" but it is doing a professional job in a business environment. Should Leon Crouch get back in it is something he would have to do too.

I'd like one of those too, but how has Wotte been an "abject failure"? WE have picked up 2 points when under JP we could well have lost both. We have scored 4 goals in two games and finally have a decent striker up front. Wotte shows signs of keeping us up. If nothing else we finally seem up for a fight. Perhaps we should judge him at the end of the season?

I wasn't talking about the match, I was talking about here. Wotte has not been here 10 years and Lowe is his boss. He needs unity and probably can't understand the history, which is no surprise.

You are right Nick, the old Alehouse team wouldn't last 5 minutes nowdays. Nor would Bremner's Leeds. In fcat most teams had a few hard men on their books, but we had more than most I think! The game is very different now and played by a different type of person. The likes of Savage and Barton are in the minority. The football of the 60's and 70's was played by real characters and was more enjoyable for that. Still, things move on...

I wonder who mnay fans here could go on Dutch TV and give a decent interview in their language? Give the guy a break. He is right, Lowe wasn't here last year and we stayed up by the skin of our teeth. He hasn't had a bad start and by all accounts the team of showing more fight. This bloke is the key to us staying up, perhaps a bit of support is not amiss?

Apparently Reading are offereing a coaching job to JP too.

You know my ex-wife then???

We couldn't be much lower could we? But if we guarantee safety before the end of the season this year that would be a step forward would it not? Albeit not a huge one!

Well there is nothing you or I can do about that. He will not be here forever and at some point we will have another CEO to slag off.