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This ties in with my post above. Even if Pardew wasn't making a noise about it I can't see the conditioning staff letting up. They'd have all the figures from last season and know what they want to achieve. Having seen Jaidi in switzerland for example I'd agree he's over the hill but they still had him out on the pitch after the friendly doing sprints. Either way, fitness or desire, it'll be interesting to see how the team respond.

I thought we had a whole training set-up with staff dedicated to conditioning: I find it difficult to believe that it's purely a matter of basic fitness. I'd imagine there'd be testing all the time: raw speed (they know how fast OC is, for example, compared with Theo), bleep tests, body fat index, pulmonary capacity etc. To give Lambert his due he admitted in a recent interview that he wasn't fit after returning from injury but last season was complimenting the staff for the improvement in his fitness. So although there is room for improvement from what I've seen (only Plymouth and Os) I don't see the situation being anything like it was under Burley.

Ah yes, I knew it ended in 's'.;=) Any feedback from him yet? Incidentally, if we have all these sports medecine specialists about the place, bleep tests, fat measurement etc., etc. how come players can be unfit? (I'll be generous to those returning from injury..).

Isn't it Trousers who normally shins up a tree for us?

Told you Turkish was thick...

********, I'm not in the closet at all, you slimy little turd. Anyway, I don't mind men and enjoy the company of many, but not the sort of wildly insecure and offensive sort that you represent. There are quite a few posters here whose company I reckon would be interesting and I think would enjoy a drink with me, but they tend to have a little more confidence in themselves than you do, and a lot more intelligence. Jesus - "a lot are so insecure" - the only person round here who fits that description is yourself.

Not necessarily....

Quote Originally Posted by suewhistle View Post ""Really? Do lots of people take this attitude? It strikes me a bit playground, "if you don't pick me first I don't want to be in your team". If you think you should have been first and want the job you take it and prove your point. Otherwise the job goes unfilled (as if) or the third of fourth or.. get the job."" "In my profession, yes. The job was re-advertised. Twice." Hope you take this in the spirit it's intended in ... quite a liquid lunch [oh gawd, training tonight], but why? What is the rationale behind that attitude? Why your profession in particular? Is it because you think that if the management offering the position preferred someone else they think you aren't up to the job? Or they won't be supportive? Is it an ego thing? If it is, how long before one considers it possible to apply again for the job, whether it's re-advertised or just vacant again as the first choice weren't up to it? Two awful metaphors (mmm this cheap wine is growing on me), but do people still say "I won't marry you because you weren't a virgin, I wasn't your first choice" or to use a personal example "I'm not going to come off the bench because you didn't pick me as first choice CF". I can understand why I wasn't first choice [she's younger and faster etc.], but when I do come off the bench I try my damn hardest to make the manager's choice difficult for the next game. I don't sulk or refuse. So back to footie managers and job offers: whether they were really made or not. They have all the politics of fans and boards and media to reconcile and keep happy. I assume that is what it's all about, but if it's just ego I prefer people with a little less touchiness and a little more confidence in their own abilities.

I come on here occasionally and it's always good for a chuckle, especially when CH has been on with his particular brand of obtuseness. At least we allow postings from our rivals here, which is more than seems to happen on any Portsmouth related boards. I think Dark Munster is right, based on some of the salaries they say they have been offering. How far adrift would you think they'll have to get before Chanrai starts to get twitchy?

Really? Do lots of people take this attitude? It strikes me a bit playground, "if you don't pick me first I don't want to be in your team". If you think you should have been first and want the job you take it and prove your point. Otherwise the job goes unfilled (as if) or the third of fourth or.. get the job. It does show why discretion is best in these matters. Hands up if you tell the boss "Can I have a day's leave Friday as I'm going to a job interview?" You might tell them when you get back and use a job offer as leverage in your current situation. Frankly all this wild speculation is not getting us anywhere. If Howe really was offered it why would he not come? A massive increase in salary, budget, crowds and training set up, and even if he couldn't end up working with our Les in the long term it would still look good on his CV. Just because we have interviewed a number of managers doesn't mean we have offered them all bloomin jobs!

There are various scenarios but that described by Colinjb seems a very possible explanation.

You'll need it!

Marsdinho does have a point. Reminds me of the story of my friends and neighbours sailing over to France and hailed frantically by a couple of Pompey types in a little open boat somewhere Needles way. "Can you give us a jump start?" er no, "Can you give us a tow" - holding up something akin to a short piece of string.. 'Best radio the coastguard' said my friends. You guessed it!... Eventually my friends radioed and gave them a tow until the inshore lifeboat took over and then set off back on course, having missed their tidal gate the other side..

Oh behave! All of you.;-)

Hmmm, I speak Italian (and French), experience of English and Italian football although no coaching badges at the moment. Hants FA cancelled the one I was due to go on. For 200k+ pa I'd say yes to NC!

I think I'm going to double my HRT dose tonight as I'm getting bad PM tension. Nobody has sent me one...sniff..

More like a nightmare team...

But Bobby, remember, we are all deluded! Incidentally, thanks for the link so that I was able to watch the game on a stream. Watching Saints 3/4 times a year live and via the net occasionally I have to say my win percentage is a lot less than 53%.. Over the past four years it probably works out at about 15%!!

Here we go!

No, but the quality of the Dons game picture was encouraging

Thanks. Hope it works as Betfair is blocked in Italy.

If there was going to have been a media campaign about this why not previously, and it's certainly not something I'd heard. Mind you, I hadn't heard the term "beard" before either! It still leaves me heartily disliking him for his voting record. If he won't grant me equality and enforced a 3 line whip on the crass section 28 he won't get any support from me.

P*** off Dune!;-) I don't send dodgy pics to dodgy blokes! Mind you, the thought of you having a waxing makes me cackle. You're not my type, I'm afraid. Unfortunately the girls in my footie side are all too young... and if you entered our changing rooms you'd have to make sure the shower was freezing..

Weellll, I'm crackin' on the bones - really! Plus tin whistle, keyless and keyed flutes at a lot lower level. Somewhere I have a bodhran I can't really play anymore but would be OK with a bit of practice. Yeah, and 4/4 is a bit boring: I'd prefer a jig or two meself.

Surely their worry will be that they won't even get what they agreed to, and if they don't they can go back to the courts again?