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He should play more. He's clearly a more complete player than Lambert, and has a good scoring record. Adkins signed Jay to lead the line for years to come and needs to play him soon if he is to avoid losing him.

No. A point is only one more than no points.

Those who think his job is secure are deluded. We're in a poor run of form which has done just enough to delay his sacking. So far.

Can't see his fiancée following him up there!

Beats me. Ramirez = Cortese signing ... Forte = Adkins signing ... and somebody is bed wetting why?

He's a Skate who works out of a Pompey based independent agency. Not a national journo in the traditional sense.

I think we need to be a bit better defensively.

What has Rickie ever done for this club anyway? He's a one trick pony. It's just a shame that trick isn't scoring goals.

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How to improve the atmosphere today? For a start it would have helped if we had managed to sell more than 23000 tickets. Aside from that, uprooting the Northam stand is ridiculous. Moving the away fans isn't an option though due to segregation, access and so on, so the only thing the club could possibly look at doing is trying to get the Northam singers to go and take over the Chapel. Still not a simple idea and the family concession areas would have to be changed. That said, with the majority of Saints fans in blocks 1,2 & 3 today all more interested in sticking their fingers up at Chelsea fans as opposed to watching the game or supporting our own bloody team, this is all rather immaterial.

Not necessarily.

I could just tell that DPS was a fatty.

Are we already moaning about the business we haven't done in the window which is less than 72 hours old?

Just get a Mac.

Christ. Looks like Javi made a career out of his courting of players.

Your coat's too big for you.

Oh dear Turkish. You desperate individual. Leave the boy alone.

Eh? He was found guilty and sentenced!

I blame all the silent standers in the Northam for not lifting the team.

Without wishing to sound completely cynical, but if we were so fantastic in the first half was it purely coincidental that our three goals were a result of calamitous defending?

That wasn't really my point. I like Guly. He had a good game. He also missed.

What is most disappointing is how we seemed powerless to stop Stoke once they piled the pressure on. From the point at which Guly missed it was all Stoke really, and as the game progressed we naively hoofed the ball upfield, straight back to them. We wanted to be keeping hold of the ball and making the most of our extra man, but we couldn't do this as they had us camped so deep in our own half. Our substitutions were defensive and seemed to exacerbate the situation. I don't know if it's as simple as saying we should have gone for it a bit more, but we certainly ended up playing into the hands of Stoke (a bigger, stronger side) tactically for the last twenty minutes or so.

Give me ten vocal Santas over twenty silent Superdry wearing knob heads any day.

Thanks for the encouragement.

Can't expect passion from players when fans can't be arsed.