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what are you suggesting?

I have certainly struggled to see his good points. I admit that. the `thing' I have against him is that he isn't as good as I hoped. He's not as bad as I suggested initially, but he's not as good as people are making out now. I genuinely want him to prove me wrong. I try to back all Saints players, especially those being slated by everyone. I love an underdog, but he's not one, he's loved on here, and wrongly IMO. Note that I want him to be the best centre back in the league, but he isn't and never will be. He was **** when he started, and although many seem to think he has improved liek no other, I don't. He has had some good games. And when he does I have said so. I like lots of things about his game. He's great on the ball, composed, good first touch, quick enough, tries hard. His best games have been when he gets tight and actually makes life tough for a striker. However in the majority of games he offers an `after you' persona in matches. He's not nasty enough. You can't foul all day long these days, but you can make life horrible for an attacker, or at least hard. He doesn't. He is often bullied. My biggest gripe is he is not good enough in the air. Winning headers is the number 1 thing a CB must do. He doesn't. That kills us. He jumps early to overcome the fact he is isn't the biggest. Chris Perry did this a lot but no matter how hard he tried his lack of height cost us with **** weak clearance headers that offered lots and lots oif second ball chances. Yoshida is exactly the same. Anyone that had him as MOTM yesterday doesn't understand the game in my book. He was poor.

agent Connelly has had to work hard to gain their trust. He better remember quickly which side he's working for.

he did. You are completely wrong IMO. You are one of the many people that wrongly wrote him off and have since failed to eat humble pie after some great displays since getting back imto the team. At Wigan he was our best player. He has been very gpod since getting back into the side. He is the perfect player when faced with big lumps. Small tricky forwards then maybe he shoulkd be replaced (as Clybe is dropped when faced with long ball teams).

I'm with you on all those things.

two great interceptions preventing a goal will grab the eye (I saw the Times and the Sun jounralists had him as our best player and Cork our worst), but other than that he was utter crap. Yesterday he was a massive weak link IMO. I admit I am not a fan, so I watched him closely to help me pick out poor peices of play to strengthen my arguement. Right back is not his position, I know that, but on several occasions he didn't get goal side. All defenders should do that without question. He didn't bust a gut to do so either. Fox would be hung drawn and quartered for that. We got away with it thankfully. Check out his positioning and effort for the Holt-pulled-back-by-Shaw chance. His crossing was horrific. So bad that he gave up and at one point passed it back to the half way line when he had time to swing a cross in from the edge of their box. Passing out from the back was even worse. He gave thre ball away on numerous occassions. I can see why we selected him yesterday as they have two huge front men, but we suffered because of it. Richardson needs to be Clyne's cover when we are faced with a long ball team. At centre back he's too small IMO. He is not good enough in the air and we have suffered because of it. He does stay on he feet, but at at times he doesn't get tight enough or apply any phtsical pressure. As I said, I'm not a fan, buit having said that O can see that he's not the worst player in the world. He's very comfortable on the ball.

Just back from a weekend in Norfolk. Finally a chance to thaw out. Enjoyed the game, well, the first half. The quality ofour passing game on that pitch was outstanding. The second was poor, not helped by the weather, but equally the lack of fitness (or ability to maintain our high tempo/workrate) of key players like Lallana and Ramirez stopped our passing football and we ended up doing nothing. We were by far and away the better side in the first half, but we failed to press home our advantage - the Lallana miss was poor - and we let Norwich back in the game.I thought we deserved the win, but a draw wasn't far from fair. Boroc 8 - very solid game, not all that much to do but two great saves. Kicking good. Didn't ut us in trouble with his throws either. Yoshida 4 two great interceptions preventing a goal will grab the eye (I saw the Times and the Sun jounralists had him as our best player and Cork our worst), but put other than that he was utter crap. A massive weak link. I admit I am not a fan, so I watched him closely to help me pick out poor peices of play to strengthen my arguement. Right back is not his position, I know that, but on several occasions he didn't get goal side. All defenders should do that without question, He didn't bust a gut to do so. We got away with it thankfully. Check out his positioning and effort for the Holt pulled back by Shaw chance. His crossing was horrific. So bad that he gave up and at one point passed it back to the half way line when he had time to swing a cross in from the edge of their box. Passing out from the back was even worse. He gave thre ball away on numerous occassions. I can see why we selected him as they have two huge front men, but we suffered because of it. Richardson needs to be Clyne's cover when we are faced with a long ball team. Fonte 8 Very good game considering the tough physical battle presented by their two strikers. Great to have him back. Jos 9 outstanding. Some of you need to eat humble pie. The abuse he got on here after a couple of own goals was appauling IMO. I said he'd be fine and do a job when called upon and he has done exactly that. He's been bloody great since he came back. He was great in the air and extremely calm in posession. Perfect player for this kind of game. Had Holt on his pocket. Shaw 8 very good again. At some point he's going to have to be a bit more greedy and just take them all on AND shoot. Cork 9 I liked him last season, I love him this. At the centre of everything defensively and offensively. Covered every blade of grass. If he keeps playing like this then he will get y player of the season vote and that's from a Morgan fan. Morgan 7 solid game, what a great partnership him and Cork have forged. Just need him to recoieve the ball from the defence a bit more but not so deep. Lallana 6 as he faded so did the side as a whole. Need him fully fit if we are going to survive. I didn't think he and Ramirez could play in the same side but they did yesterday. Should have scored. Ramirez 7 very good first half, got in between the lines and made us tick. I've seen tweets berating him, but disagree fully. He was woeful at Wigan, he was good yesterday, at least until he ran out of steam. Fitness is a real issue though. He only lasts 60 minutes. When he tired he got sloppy. Subbed at right time, but why on earth are we not bringing on another attacking player in Puncheon? We had no one to pass to from back to midfield when he went off. That shows how important ball players like him are if we are to play the passing game. Shoukd he have scored when he went for the chip? Very good save perhaps. Lambert 8 lead the line well, one tough chance. Much better than last week. Touch right on the money. Rodriguez 6 ran himself into the ground. He had nothing give when the last chance fell to him. Should have been subbed by then, but no striker on the bench! Had one great chance, but kind of bottled it by just stabbing at it. I like Jay, but that little touch of quality was lacking when we needed it most. Control let him down a few times.

I'd have Davis in goal ahead of Gazza every day of the week based on what we have seen this season. Hopefully Gazza will develop far better than Bart did. Davis has got the contract because the management think he's done OK and not just out of loyalty. They were quick to cut Hammond and Sharp, so they are not sentimental. Palming a wicked cross on sodden ground into the path of Berba doesn't mean he's woeful or passed it. My concern would be whether he will hear `it's in, what a save' with him in nets. There may be better keepers out there, but you have to get them, pay them and then make them sit on the bench whilst Boruc shines.

very strange that we need to go to the BVI for a mere £3.8m five minutes after the Liebherrs cleared £30m odd million worth of debt from the club. Why didn't they give or loan the club that kind of money? OK so the tap may have been turned off, but still strange that any loan didn't come from them rather than BVI (assuming it did of course).

I notice the 59% wage to turnover figure is used for 6 month period, but in 2012 wages were actually 102% of turnover. I assume that includes the promotional bonuses. It's hard to get a real understanding of the situation calender year to year, especially with a promotion.

Can we conclude that the BVI loan is £3.8m? If it is just that amount then that washes away pretty much all my worries once more (as the news that the debt had been turned to equity did). Having a £10m, £20m or even £30m loan hanging over us would be a nightmare. Mind you we will still need to cover the large cost of this summers transfers over the next three to four years of trading, so there is additional debt hanging over us I guess. I've not had a chance to look at the document, but if the figures look reasonably healthy that is great. Maybe they can reduce ticket prices next season seeing as the TV money goes up. If you don't ask...

buy the club for £3.12m, take responsibility for the unsecured creditor (£800k) and football creditor debts (£8.5m), but get a ground and £11m of parachute payments back. The existing £4m in the bank pays PKF and the lawyers. Seems like a decent deal to me. I applaud the efforts of the PST, but it strikes me that the creditors have been ill advised. All that parachute money floating around and they accept just £800,000.

don't be daft. this £4m windfall will be passed directly onto the unsecured creditors. The poxy £800,000 they were getting before will be nicely supplemented with that money. The PST would obviously love to have it, but they don't really need it. Their bid has been fully funded for months now, long before the rise in PPs was made clear to them. yeah right.

it's been at least 12 minutes since you've all been reminded about the BestestFansInTheWorldTM so time for another: Rio Ferdinand ‏@rioferdy5 I must say last night our fans done us + our club proud. Best/loudest support I've heard at ANY ground throughout my career. Thank you David Oliver ‏@doliver_25 @rioferdy5 Don't kid yourself Rio. You've played at Fratton Park before, you know what the #Pompey fans are like! :-) #BestInTheCountry

take them to a match. Pre match beer, pie at half time, the game, another beer, curry. That's what I'd want to do if I was coming across.

note factlessallen doesnt answer my question. Have they ratified the bid yes or no? Do they hold any power yes or no? Simple questions and a factless answer.

Wigan at home under Adkins was a very similar game to QPR at home under MP. A team we "expected" to beat at home, started brightly, but quickly ran out of ideas and defensive mistakes that killed us.

salad cream.

glad they won in a way. I'll now enjoy their next defeat as I should do rather then just shrugging my shoulders in expectation.

Get Jos back in the side. If we're up against a big target man Jos is the right player.

this. The number of `big-D' balls we put in was ridiculous. Get to the byline FFS. They had two giant yet time after time we fed them. They have two woeful fullbacks yet we gave them the easiest days ever.

I'm not sure I agree with your assessment of the games. It depends how you want to see things. 1) Everton - outstanding for first 60 minutes. Ran out of steam and Everton deserved their point. 2) United away - lucky to get away with just two goals in 1st half, dominated the 2nd without creating enough. Slightly unlucky not to force the draw 3) Wigan - the better side in the first half, tough to be behind. Tremendous performance in the second and should have won 4) Man City - outstanding performance, worthy winners, hung on well at the end 5) Newcastle - played very well in patches, but equally poor in others. Scoreline flattered the Geordies 6) QPR - by and large we were the better side, but ran out of ideas very quickly and made poor mistakes in defence. I'm not sure the team is playing much better or worse than under Adkins. The pressing style helped us dominate Everton and that was certainly hugely impressive. As was the domination of ManUnited (A) in the second half, but was that any more so than at Chelsea under NA? It's fair to say that we played a hell of a lot better against Wigan than we did against Villa, but was our performance against ManUnited under Akdins at home any worse than the Man City home game? Different result, but performance wise?

Rather than a new or increased future set of payments, I wondered if the PST were just claiming the £4m of parachute payments in the club's bank account, despite the fact this has been earmarked for Birch and lawyer fees.

I can't believe I've found myself defending Fox. I was one of thr first to point out he was poor last season and faced a barrage of "leading assists" responses. The guy never gets tight, is positionally poor, lazy, doesnt get stuck in, can't see or make an easy pass, doesn't bust a gut, doesn't see danger, doesn't defend. What he does do is get the ball down, gets himself out of tight spots and swings the odd decent cross in. I am far from a fan, I just felt inclined to try and defend him as I am fed up of players being abused in games once the become the whipping boy. If he's **** lets say he was **** afterards. But in the next game lets back him, not abuse him. The stuff aimed at Puncheon and Guly in games is recent seasons has been disgraceful and Fox is a game or two away from that.

I do not recognise your description of Fox. He has ability on the ball, but he is amoungst the laziest players I have ever seen. Two marathons? Blimey, he must do that before a game. Fox is not a bad player. He just suffers from a serious lack of pace which means he drops too deep, doesn't get tight and makes it easy for oponents. He needs some good coaching to show how he can nullify a winger even without pace. Garry Neville and many others did it. His problem is he doesn't ever want to risk making himself look poor by comitting himself to anything. If you don't put yourself out there, then you are never going to be beaten. He is never taken on one on one because he hides.