miserableoldgit

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.

Looks more like they`re being inserted - sideways!!

http://www.fairportconvention.com/cropredy_line_up.php

Any news of any momentous decisions taked at the AGM last night??

Opinions are like ass-holes - everybody`s got one - and that is perfectly fine and how it should be. My problem is those posters who present their opinions as fact, without knowing the truth of a situation. Sadly, those same posters are generally unable to put their hands up and say "Sorry - I got it wrong" sometimes.

Didn`t you know,Benjii?? You are not allowed opinions. Only DBP is allowed those. They are the only ones that count.

Sadly, given your style of posting, your opinions never come across as just opinions. The only thing thats missing most of the time is the word "FACT!" at the end of them.

As you obviously know both NC and ML and have a complete knowledge of their personalities and their working relationship, you are probably right.

A small gentle word, but it does sum up the mentality of some posters on here.

So we don`t ever post or talk about anything on here unless it is 100% factual?? No rumours? No speculation? Jeez, this is going to be a really boring forum and you must be a really interesting person (I only deal in facts!) to have a conversation with.

Yeah, no, like you said.......

I am not particularly having a go here, but this is ridiculous. Footballers and managers are forever giving interviews. They always say absolutely nothing. It is the same things, the same platitudes all of the time. When was the last time that you heard an interview with a player or a manager that you came away from more knowledgable than you were before hearing it?? Yet on this forum we anyalyse every word and nuance and turn it into a crisis. Chill out. Let things pan out. We either trust AP to do a good job or we don`t but it`s only on the pitch activities that will let us know whether we were right or wrong.

Isn`t part of the "fun" of these forums joining in speculation??

Who are these two I wonder??