CB Fry

What kind of season can you envisage where you would care? Being that we got to the final with far less resource than we have now not long ago.

Don't France deserve special treatment as the fact they are a big country out-ranks their seeding? That was the entire basis of your last rant or have you forgotten this?

Fair play to him for not giving up his seat on the bus. Never forget.

Is Paulo Wanchop still going? Sign him up for the full set.

Define "promptly". Edit: just looked it up and happy to confirm total appearances by Chris Bard in our relegation season: zero. Not even one in the cups. David, if Hollywood ever makes "The Chris Baird Story" then they probably will go with your version.

What, apart from our recent form and current league position vs pre-Sunderland, you mean? Remember, these are facts, not speculation.

You forget Wigan. Cup win = certain relegation. Don't you know anything?

We were told dumping the cup would help our league form. It hasn't. End of argument.

Why do those clubs become so difficult to beat when it is a cup game? A few weeks back people could "see no reason why we cannot finish top four". Kinda need to beat the Chelseas of this earth to do that.

I'm still here and still say we should have played a stronger team at Sunderland and tried to win our first major trophy for thirty odd years. a) we apparently rested them to concentrate on our league position, we've slipped down the table on the back of that wonderful rest they all had. b) As Steve Grant has said despite the wonderful rest they had, we've got loads of injuries. So where are all the "its brilliant we're not trying to win a trophy" voices now, then?

Absolutely. If we were still in that joke of a competition we'd probably be battling against relegation. I mean LOOK AT WIGAN LOOK AT WIGAN LOOK AT WIGAN.

Why hasn't Delldays told us how he is "not bothered" by this yet? Disappointing.

Do you think you direct me to one forum contributor that is talking about us being relegated? I mean, you're saying a "group" so there must be quite a few.

I'd like to make it clear I am standing by this statement.

We were never going to get anything out of this game once we went 3-2 down.

This has three-all game written all over it. We will definitely score again. Calm down everyone.

When was this? Alps has been on here (and its predecessors) for nigh on a decade. As have I and it's always been like this, especially if we don't happen to be winning. We'll get at least a point today anyway.

Exactly. So they know Graham Taylor's and Tony Pulis's (or whoever) phone number. Well done Pompey. Them boasting about it is just something else to add to the "do you realise quite how small time they are now" pot.

Read a couple of pages of that thread and all I can see is a load of perfectly sensible Pompey fans calling that Charter a load of old sh it. Some of the responses are quite funny in fairness.

Should have done Karl Howman.

Sign ten players for three million rather than three at ten million, you mean? Not sure about that. I'd say our summer strategy was bang on.

I think Jones can take credit for Pahars - pretty sure it came through his close friendship with Gary Johnson who was Latvia boss at the time.

There's a season-plus-twelve-games League table is there?

So we're above just getting into the Europa League for just one season, then. I mean, that would be awful. As I keep saying, the arrogance of entitlement is sweeping across this forum. Just to recap: total season Saints have spent in the Europa League in current form: zero.

I was responding to your claim that no one thinks the League Cup is beneath us, and your comeback is about something entirely different. Kinda like a selective answer, ain't it.