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Oh, I do hope shouting "COME ON" at the screen is going to help...

What a relief... I think there's a wine festival in a local village I might go. Red and White here we come..

Hahhaa - you couldn't make it up!

I made some with Italian sloes last year but they're pretty difficult to find round here (which reminds me I'd better pick em before the birds...). Anybody near Maidenhead I noted back on my summer visit that there were a load of sloes on Maidenhead Thicket. Where I used to live in Ampshire the competition for sloes used to be fierce!

Friends of mine in Berkshire used to play against Broadmoor - both home and away games there, funnily enough! But thinking about it, the players there were round the bend mad and bad: Pompey as a club are just bad... @soppyoldsod A buyer? Mwah, hah, hah. Serious head back on; what would they be buying?

Well, it patently can't under with its present crowds and STILL large wage bill. Lets not forget the pitiful payments to be made for the CVA, which although small still have to be found. That's before we get started on the 'black hole' - which seems a pretty apt simile. Surely it must all be posited in getting back to the premier league and those juicy TV monies? And where exactly do I find Pompey on that helpful skysports page? Next to Preston North End, and they haven't even got the alphabetical order right.:-)

Oh well, off to get tiddly. My last saturday night before my signing on comes through and I start being sensible for Sunday games....

Can't someone else take it?

I take it nothing happened...

Forza guly!

Second half needs a different approach - I'm off to clean the kitchen...

Just been off practising the flute and got back for half time; that doesn't seem to have worked either. I knew it ws a bad sign when I saw we were only up to 3 pages on the thread. Mind you, if we'd have been up to 5 or so I'd have assumed we were 1-0 down!

Come on Saints, cheer me up. Just spent two days doing my ^%&&**** Italian tax forms, appointment tomorrow, and I'm sure they're wrong.

Without a doubt!

Well, if anyone should manage to get something working I'm sure you'll let us know!

Yep, he gave it a good deal of thought, reading between the lines of his blog but ended up taking a training job with Empoli.

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?