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Brilliant! Somebody log on and tell them we'll try to help the process on Saturday..

Yeah, I remember it. Another 4-0 would be nice, just to hear another virtuoso perfomance like that!

No, he hasn't changed. He's still a ****.

One of many accurate observations, Bearsy. Perhaps after he got his dream move he let himself go? Maybe that's why Welbeck looked so fit: he wanted to get out of Man Utd? Anyway, I think the OP should have a few gems by now..A bit of cut n paste and they've got themselves an article..

Dank U vel! If we do, come over for the last game and I'll buy you een pils + noch een pils. No idea about the spelling, I'm afraid..

S'OK Mystic; we're just a bit suspicious of illiterates round these parts.. :-)

Just been doing some research on having a day out in The Smoke. Return ticket from my local station £39.50. Return from the station 4 minutes down the line £23.70 with travel card for my day out and to get me to Highbury & Islington.. Day return to station 4 minutes down the line, £2.80. Something seriously amiss with our rail system if there's a £13 difference!

So basically you're saying there should be more support for grass roots football? I agree. My team could do with some more practice balls, poles, bibs.. which reminds me, I must contact Monk. Most of the girls support Portsmouth but it would be dangerous to contact _them_ as it would probably cost us too much...

Consider yourself one of the unsung heroes of this thread. We all have our part to play in chuckling at the screen, peferrably when the boss isn't around..

Yeah, but at least Spike was joking...

Reed?

More when you finally recover, I hope.

I'll drink to that! As for chant, how about - to the French 'allez les Bleus, Allez les Bleus, Allez (etc) 'Allez le rouge, allez le blanc, allez..'

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Incidentally, from The guardian " Reeves, who’s created all three goals and been the stand-out player tonight,... ".. Well done our academy!

Well, although I wasn't happy with Pelle's debut at home I don't think he had much support, either from the team or the fans. In the second half I noticed he received more balls to feet but he certainly didn't get any help from the ref as whenever he came forward towards the ball he was held by Olson. Personally I think he has to learn to be a bit nastier: backing on a bit, using his physique a bit more, the odd treading on the toes if the marker is too close.. There was no overt booing in the Itchen, but a collective sigh of disappoinmtment can be quite noticeable. If we'd got a goal I reckon we'd have got more. West Brom seem a competent team - like us in that regard - but I still reckon we have more quality..

I was there... I was there when Benali scored.. Last match at The Dell.. Alan Knight's testimonial, dodging the lumps of concrete; in the Fratton End for England U-21 with Danny Wallace, England Ladies against Turkey this year with collapsing seats and appalling loos...

I'm leaving shortly. I'm old enough to know better too!

Yep, I agree about Cropper... Rowe seems to have pace to burn.

You missed the early, first and best: Junk Mail. From the time when content and not production values were important. I believe editorial meeting were held at a certain hostelry in St. Denys..

You don't occasionally go in The Guide Dog after games, do you? I'd like to buy you are farewell pint. Or The Platform or Junction before the game.. :-)

You're probably right there; mind you, I have worked at the Portsmouth Foyer... But I think Dronski sums it up best for me: I too have had some genuine laugh out loud moments on this thread, and although like all long-running series it's lost some of its edge there are still plenty of chuckles to be had.

Either way, I think it's the "Stoke" bit that may be the problem..

The old argument emerges! But we're never going to increase our fan base with current prices, and as others have intimated on here, people formerly with season tickets have given up, and at £600/700 a pop it's difficult to persuade new fans to buy them. People will pick and choose and any minor barrier to going, which wouldn't affect you if you had a season ticket, will kill a sale. Even if people can afford a ST (and I can, just) there begins to build up a barrier of resentment that you're being taken for a ride and I'm sure some people have given up for that reason. For the first time in some time I went to the pre-season friendly. A tenner to see the new players I could justify, and it was great to see all the kids there (a very high percentage with shirts too). How do you keep those people coming: not at current season ticket prices you can't. Not sure there's an easy answer, but squeezing the suckers isn't one of them.