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Not a chance Jrod will be here next season. His agent has been touting him around to everyone.

Cook thinks the fans are a bunch of ****s. Got fed up with grief he got half way through the season and despite ending up champions and all ending well he won't have forgotten their ****ishness.

No reason to sign him, but really liked Baily Cargill when I saw him. I wonder if he is a better prospect than Targett.

I meant too many small players. Since we lost VVD and Fonte (adding to the loss of Pelle) we have looked susceptible at set pieces. Without Morgan and Wanyama we hardly ever win a header in midfield. It's not just headers, it's covering the ground. I the first half f games we get away with it as everyone is fresh, but once players start to get tired the gaps open and then our failure to replace the two midfielders with guys that are quick, strong ad pacey really shows up. Sorry, his moves away from the discussion about Puel, but it goes in hand in hand. If he doesn't bring in the right players (I assume he has final say) then no matter what his tactics are or aren't we will have problems next season. The same applies to his successor, should there be one before or during the next season. Managers can only do so much, but equally if they are his players that he wanted then he must take the blame if we are not performing.

did it ever work?

You've just answered your own earlier question of what needs to change to get us back where we were. The answer is players. Player performance or players full stop. Either Redmond, Boufal, Gabbiadini and JWP get a lot better and fill the shoes of the players that departed or we need new players. Personally I don't think Puel has a chance with this squad. Too small and not enough quality.

Don't get me wrong, I know VVD will be in demand this summer, but the way Black phrases those answers doesn't half feel like it's done and dusted already. I guess if you are going to spend £50m you don't do it without a shed load of research and planning, which usually starts six months before the deal is annouced.

Personally I would be very concerned if Bertrand was to go, although I can see it possibly happening. I was surprised he didn't go last summer. He's an outstanding fullback both with and without the ball, great reader of the game, with pace and an engine to go with it. Crucially he gets his distances right and makes fantastic decisions that prevent him being exposed. I like McQueen and think he has real talent, which you could see from the first minute he played in the first team. In the cup game against Norwich he was head and shoulders above the rest, although that wasn't saying much that night. But that said, he's still a long way short of offering the kind of quality that Bertrand does. McQueen has pace, strength and ability, but its just that little extra bit of quality on the ball (and off it) that makes the difference at the top level. Its hardly noticeable to the naked eye, but when you remove that genuine quality throughout the side you end up with a team that can't retain possession against a pressing side - just like at Chelsea. That Chelsea game was a real eye opener for me. We had our best team out, but we didn't have the players to keep the ball for more than a pass or two because of he pressure Chelsea put them under. Players don't just need a good first touch they need a brilliant first touch, strength to hold opponents off and or/the bottle to carry the ball out of tight areas. Bertrand was part of that side and he didn't exactly cope with the press either (which I guess undermines my argument a little), but eroding team quality further certainly isn't going to help if we want to ever compete at the top end of the league again. If you've read my posts before, you will know what I think of Targett. So far he has looked comfortable on the ball with a decent left foot that will stand him in good stead throughout his career, but by and large he has looked weak (which he can overcome) and the big negative is his lack of pace. Only with the safety blanket of a five man defence and Bertrand behind him has he looked really comfortable. Play him in a back four and stick someone like Zaha on him and he was made to look like a mug. I recall Zaha giving him a 10 yard head start in a midweek cup game and he still lost that race. The number of quality slow fullbacks can be counted on one hand. He, like many in our squad can `hold and end up' and look comfortable on the ball (Targett certainly has the first touch required), but what we want is players like Bertrand that are `too good for us' so to speak, not `almost good enough for us'. I wonder if Targett will ever become that. I am perhaps being rather hypocritical here, as I am always inclined to say that Saints fans need to cut young players far more slack than they do, but I simply do not want to go back to the days of watching Saints fullbacks with no pace dragging the side down to nothing more than Premiership relegation fodder.

Thought Kirchoff looked a very decent player under Sam, although perhaps not the most mobile, but he seems to have been injured most of this season so hard to tell if he is the real deal or just looked good against us at SMS.

if we sign him then no one should have any complaints when in two years time he refuses to train with us because he has a move lined up to Liverpool.

any chance they might wear it in the last home game of the season? I think Liverpool are doing that this year.

Was Rogers at the heart of the negotiations with Lander?

When Mourinho does it, having spent hundreds of millions on his team, I don't think anyone describes him as a tactical genius do they?

Can't complain about an away draw at one of the big sides, and having struggled against the top sides in recent times I cant blame Puel and the team for being very compact and not throwing bodies forward...but it was painful to see how limited we have become in comparison to three seasons ago. The balance between attack and defence is something we have not really got right all season. We are either too expansive or too cautious, too top heavy or too many men behind the ball. Solving that problem is not easy. Its not simply a case of a change of formation or playing an extra attacking midfielder, IMO it's a problem caused by not having the players Puel needs. Central midfield is an issue as is the wide players. We don't dominate in the middle and we give the ball away too cheaply out wide. The signing of Classie, Hoj and Boufal have left us exposed and we either need replacements or a serious step up in performance next season. Overall the side looks short of quality. We can hold our own, but where we used to have players with the quality to dominate teams, we now hold on for grim life. You can still win games, and we do, but we cant match the top sides, playing their game. There is no shame in that, but no one can deny we are not the side we once were. The solution? Recruit better player and find and recruit better youngsters. Obvious, but not simple.

stuffed the skates home and away. Deserve to be champions. They never let me down. Come on Donny

They are not involved, just use it because I forget the spelling of eisners name.

They will get 51.2% of the £5.76m, assuming the deal goes through. That's what they put in, assuming they go for the £1000 a share offer and not the £1 now, up to £2000 later option.

Did he explain why he won't permit the PST to retain a share or have any representation on the board?

Did anyone ask him why them?

he suggests Disney will be contractually obliged to come up with the £10m. Interesting that he seems to totally disregard the possibility that none of the current presidents might be interested in investing more, and thus increase their own share. Perhaps that is the case.

Thanks. Couldn't find reference to that in the PST membership information.

I've never quite understood the ridicule of the term `shareholder'. There are restrictions and there is obviously no dividend, but they do own a share of the club and as we are about to possibly find out - they can be sold, all be it on mass, and possibly for a profit. or am I missing something...

Lee's 50 shares equate to 0.88%, so his vote ain't going to make a huge difference. Moth, Kirk and the PST are the ones that matter.

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/our-region/portsmouth/brown-pompey-fans-can-continue-going-it-alone-1-7940386 I suspect Browns opinion will be well respected by many PST members.

what, you mean instead of crying about not having budgeted for their stadium works and selling to the first offer that comes along, they create a new operating budget that does take the works into account? Now there's an idea.