Miltonaggro

I agree, Johansson will get snapped up by a bigger club in the summer 100%. Great all rounder.

We are good, but we'll never be Columbus Crew good...

Good call, but I wasn't there to here the crunch and yelp for that one. Around that era I recall rumours of Jimmy Case laying out Jones in the tunnel at Plough Lane after Snatch had tried to take the piss out of his hearing aid, hope that was true.

I was level with his kung fu kick on Barmby at White Hart Lane. I genuinely think that was his career highlight.

We are in jumpers for goalposts territory here, but the one clear smell I remember from that era was a wall of Deep Heat when the players ran out and at every corner. The cup win in 1976 gave us ten years of positive momentum and we played some beautiful passing football, but with an intensity that is incredibly rare. Remember Steve Williams reminiscing and saying that it was a side that would keep fighting to play football and for one another right until the final whistle.

Big Dave Merrington had an eye for a player...

Is there a big reveal that Ali turns out to be Kamaldeen Sulemana's dad?

Chris, re-watch some of those games on the Big Match Revisted on ITV Player. You want to see class, intensity and team spirit - we were very spoilt.

Exactly, cheers CBF. Back in the early 80s when the likes of Forest, Ipswich and Saints were capable of genuinely upsetting the 'big clubs' I remember it being used as a common label applied by journalists when they could write and speak English. Provincial as opposed to metropolitan, peripheral perhaps - a semi insult

I know that Christophe! Dragan Solak is

No, not at all. Trying to point out that Saints have had a great many opportunities to achieve some balance in terms of the silverware quotient with our bitter rivals, and have continually fallen short. I've been attending matches for something like 45 years. In that time I've seen us pipped by that arrogant Liverpool team in terms of the league title when we were the best side that season, been to an FA Cup final and four semi finals, and two League cup finals and two semi finals. Just once on those ten occasions it would have been nice to have actually got it over the line. I am sure that a majority of supporters at similar sized provincial clubs would not view one out of ten as unreasonably ambitious.

Go back and actually read my post, you seem to have misinterpreted or completely missed the points made.

Are those examples in the trophy cabinet? The point is valid, for a club our age and size you might expect us to have been successful in actually winning senior silverware on more than one occasion in the last 140 years. Portsmouth clearly have bragging rights here, as much as that grates.

It is indeed. Russ should alternate between Jack and Ryan to do the post match trio fist pump to the Saints kop win lose or draw until the end of the season.

or Manning, who is supposed to...

These days their fans are so small time it's actually quite pitiful, it is as if since they dropped out of the top flight they've been hyper-interbreeding to create a generation of creatures that can truly put the myth in Portsmyth. Thankfully there appear to be considerably less than 19,000 specimens at large for their current resurrection and title surge. Saints are a bigger club in every aspect and it's idiotic for the inbreeds to suggest otherwise, we have been for around sixty years, and soon it will be 'in living memory' - support, stadium, facilities, players, internationals, transfer fees, European campaigns, PL seasons, revenue, ambition, you name it. The problem is we are also the fucking runners up / semi-final / perennial choke specialists, and you are right to say this. I wanted that great Adkins side to win both pots on the way up but couldn't really give a shit about lower league trophies, except where those freaks down the wrong end of the M27 are concerned, and that's the problem here. I hope that they fuck it up, but if they come up next season expect another Rotherham rather than Ipswich, delusion in their DNA.

Likely best bet using the eyes at our games: Bree - Harwood-Bellis - Bednarek - Walker-Peters. Bar injuries to these players. Then like for like. Simple really.

See he's replacing Niko Kovacs, who a few, including me quite fancied to replace him at Saints - funny old game isn't it. I think the vast majority of Saints fans will wish Ralph all the very best, decent man at a decent club. Always thought he did his best with diminishing returns here, and at the end had simply run out of steam and probably patience. Hopefully draw them in Europe when we qualify in 2025/26

Shame, as the man has a huge amount of ability and drive. Could have been a top, top player. The black dog has no respect for money or fame. Hope he finds his tribe and a way through.

Like to see you lot researching a new subject on an ipad wearing a balaclava on live TV. Everyone's a critic.

Slopez Lopez the financial genius...

Up for trying that. Then again I think we'd probably look more solid defensively with Shakin' Stevens replacing Mind the Gap Manning.

He's a power player Rothwell and really like seeing him playing through the middle. Always handy to have a brick shithouse in the side, and JR appears to have the pedigree and attributes to tear up opposition defences at this level.

Loan him to Goztepe next season and haunt the tight bastards!

They should emergency loan Ryan Manning, see if Lis is really any good.