miserableoldgit

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Dave Benson Phillips???

You can read absolutely anything that you want into a situation depending on your stand-point. How often have we as a club completed our transfer activity prior to the season starting?

Now you`re letting logic get in the way of an agenda-led diatribe aren`t you.

So, this is your rock-solid reasoning behind the statement "And, it is now painfully obvious that he is NOT going to get funds to add to the squad"? Because all clubs buy their new players before the season starts do they?? No point in having a transfer window that lasts longer than the beginning of the season is there? We didn`t buy most of our better players after the season started did we? Unbelievable!!

Can you please give me the reasons why this is "painfully obvious"?

Oh No!! Not the Facsist connection again! You`ll be in trouble.

So we continually have to concentrate on the negative and disregard any positives? How many of peoples "favourites to go up" had bad results on Saturday? Quite a few. Despite what you say, it IS only one game - the first game of the season, when you always get "strange" results that do not reflect what is going to happen for the rest of the campaign. Are you suggesting that if we had won the game we would all be sat back with our feet up saying "this is going to be a doddle"?

And all you are doing is making an assumption that we are going to have a crap season based on one game. Can you give me the lottery numbers for Saturday please?

Prepare for the words "Happy" and "Clapper" to appear!

What actual "realistic" facts are contained in this post. It is virtually all conjecture and your opinion. Neither you or I no exactly what is going on behind the scenes. I never said that I was happy or unhappy with the way thing are being run, but in keeping with the rest of your post, you have assumed that I am happy so it must be true. The one thing that is true, is that if Saints are successful this season, nobody will give any of this "stuff" a second thought. If we are not successful, then people will use these things against those running the club.

FFS I thought that I was a miserable old git! How many more threads do we need on this subject??? Yes, communication has been bad or non-existant in most cases, and yes some decisions that have been taken have been unpopular and even mystifying. Is there "an obvious cut back on purchase of new players"?? I don`t see it. We have signed, what, three new players so far? We have held on to our best ones. We did all of our best business last year well after the start of the season. Be patient. As far as I `am aware we have only played one game so far this season (when we played very well for 45 mins) and yet the wrist-slitting has started already. I am sick to death of the posters who post their opinions as fact and who seem to want just "Wallow in their own crapulence" (Thank You Mr Burns) and hope that things go badly so that they can all say "I told you so. You wouldn`t listen to me, would you!" Please start you own "Depressive Saints Online" forum before turning this one into an advert for Dignitas!!

Any response yet?? Perhaps "scathing attack" fits his agenda better.

Tend to agree somewhat with this. This forum has been hi-jacked this summer by a small handful of agenda-laden doom-mongers, who cannot wait for something to go wrong so that everyone will turn around and say "F*** Me! You were right all the time". I certainly welcome different opinions and have always enjoyed the sensible ( sometimes the non-sensible!!) debates that there used to be. I accept that the club have made a few ****-ups over the summer, the biggest of which has been the complete lack of communication with the fans. I certainly do not think that NC is untouchable or that his decisions should not be questioned but there needs to be some sense of reasonable balance in the arguments, not just a few "Billy Big ********" posting rumour and opinion as fact, and looking for their moment in the sun. If I wanted that, I would go to "another forum!"

I quite agree. As much as I have enjoyed this forum and its predecessors over the years, I have become heartily sick of the "Wise Men", pathetically waiting for their "I told you so" moment, who have dominated it this summer. (I think you mean "grammar" by the way.)

"On the face of it?" So you don`t actually know what sort of job NC is doing. I am sure that ML knows more about the job that he is doing than you or I do.

It is quite simple. It is called "Football". If things were as easily predicted and logical as you seem to think, we would be able to win the football pools every week. Look at some of the other results yesterday. A number of so-called favourites for promotion in all of the divisions suffered bad results. It`s one game (which we played well in for 45 mins). "We`re doomed, we`re all doomed!"

So, in your opinion, we are going to continue losing games. You have made this judgement after one game where we were very good for the first 45 and awful in the second. So doom and gloom after 45 mins of a game. Did you have this feeling that we were going to be continuing to throw 3 points away at half-time? Do you honestly think that AP felt that his pre-season was wasted? When did we buy most of our players last year? After the season started, as most clubs did. Anyway Private Frazer, I`m off to enjoy my Sunday and look forward to watching Saint again on Tuesday!

Bugger! I must have missed something. I thought that we had only played one game. Could somebody please let me have the results of the other game that we have lost please.

Firstly, I suspect that both NC and AP are aware that we need one or two more bodies, but they have to be the right ones, not just signings for the sake of it. I think that most of our signings came after the season started last year. We will not be the only ones buying players in the next few weeks. They will all be fine-tuning their squads for a few weeks yet. Secondly, We were by far the better team in the first half today, although I do agree that we were awful after going a goal down early in the second half. So all of this doom and gloom is based on 45 mins of the first game of the season, is it?? The OP is way OTT.

This is a brilliant thread!! I am beginning to get my appetite for TSW back again after the grind of the summer anti-Cortese fest.

Oh, oh. Think that you may have blown your cover!! Comment From andy s andy s : ] Hayling Jerry, why were you in Milan when the game was at Fratton Park

This one`s a classic :- Comment From richard richard : ] This is a vendetta by the English Establishment against Portsmouth FC and the city for daring to stick out and be radical and different. We must win or it's a case of 'Street Fighting Man' ! Play UP Pompey !

Oh, go on! You know you want to!

Good post. I am fed up with the agendas and band-wagons that are currently blighting this forum. I can only hope that when the football actually starts, they will disappear.