CB Fry

I didn't actually say that: my point is our abortion of a home kit wins out in overall shi tness against their third kit. Both kits are sh it, but theirs is a third kit with at least a nod to tradition and history. It has its heart in the right place, and at the end of the day is the third choice kit. Tossing about with a third kit: minimal impact. We're stuck with our sack of sh it at every home game for the rest of the season.

You making that conclusion from what I've written says a heck of a lot more about you. As does every moronic utterance you make on this topic and all topics on this forum. You're not worth wasting energy on.

That is sh it. Pompey have had salmon pink away kits before - Everton had one a couple of seasons back - and they can look great. A L2 team selling a third kit is a decent enough idea. I know the general form here is to laugh and sneer at every single thing Pompey ever do regardless of merit but all in all I'd say this is worth doing, albeit with a slightly better design. And frankly we are in a huge glass house when it comes to utter shi teness of kit. Our abortion wins hands down.

Boring.

...presumably you are "not bothered" about who we face?

This. Ideally Derby.

This is a fair assessment. Agree on L1, Pardew and many others would have got us up that season. No so the Championship in one - that was a real achievement. However I am not so sure Nige himself would be that much of a barrier to players, Osvaldo being a notable exception. The manager is only one factor, and Gaston arrived last year. Lastly, way back when the clappers on this forum had decided he was Alex Ferguson/greatest young manager ever/future England boss etc etc I quietly floated the suggestion that he was more likely another Owen Coyle, Tony Mowbray, George Burley, Aidy Boothroyd, Paul Jewell etc etc. A decent manager with one or two great promotions in them. But who never make "the big league". And I think I won't be far wrong.

They've got other priorities.

Actually looks like Saints. Can't be having that Nicola.

We have a squad now, that's for sure. Should be enough. Let's hope we do the business. Frankly we should be going all out to win this trophy. After staying up, should be a top priority.

Whether or not you class WBA as a lesser team or not is irrelevent as we lost to them anyway, so the fact that we struggle against "lesser" teams at home still stands. So that little piece in the Guardian is based on a clear trend stretching back to well before Christmas 2012, and thus far has continued into 2013-4. Pretty balanced to me. Boo hoo the nasty journalist man.

Key thing to remember is this: Young players who leave us and go on to great things: entirely down to us and nothing to do with the buying club. What did they ever do? Players who leave us and don't quite fulfil their potential: entirely the fault of the buying club, he was brilliant when he left us. You have to have a system on here.

Classic Wes Tender. Clueless ranting against a short piece which makes some excellent points. We clearly struggle at home to the "lesser" teams, as we haven't beaten one since Adkins beat Reading last December. Clearly not "flimsy" evidence. Add to that the point made by others on here that we are struggling to score, esp from open play and MP has some things to address. But you carry on grizzling that a sports journo infinitely more clued up than you refuses to just parrot how super duper the super Saints are.

Meanwhile, not in the playground...

They'll be threads when we sell out, don't worry. Mainly demanding we tie up millions and millions and millions of pounds in thousands of new seats which we then flog at rock bottom prices. And something about the German model. And dynamic pricing.

I remember the brilliant, balanced and informative threads we used to have on here about the standard of pies at the stadium. Great, great days. No wonder all the good pie eaters don't post on here anymore.

some bird from check-a-trade?

Maybe they didn't.

This isn't going to stay 1-0 for long.

You seem to be ignoring how they do it in Germany and stuff.

2-0 stroll in the park.

Is that another Stewart Lee routine?

The OP delivered his irony more succinctly than you did.

Thank you Lawro. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for saying we'd win. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

I think he suggested something.