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And we matched our result against the skates from 2011-2012.......

Even before that injury I was saying that one of ours could usefully get an “injury” because we really needed to sort a few things out. Not that I approve of such tactics of course

Awful weather didn’t help.nobody anywhere near me on the Milton . I think it had rained all afternoon. Looking at the team sheet, we seem to have started with Matty as a lone striker, until Moody replaced Terry Hurlock at HT !!!! Those were the days……..

The game v United in 1974 had 30789 , so not sure why that isn’t on the list. I was there . It was very unpleasantly overcrowded.

For those who were there in the happy days of the mid 70s and our four consecutive league wins over the skates We had joy we had fun we had pompey on the run But the fun didn’t last cos the bastards ran too fast. to the tune of Terry Jacks ( and Brel’s) Seasons in the Sun .

The loan fee looks very reasonable indeed compared to the option to buy , assuming he is even half decent. Or is the “option “ to buy binding in some way, making the loan payment effectively a downpayment ?

Alfie is very good, worth following, as is George Rees-Julian

Not sure if he is the " right kind of winger", and of course the recruitment people know better than me (!!) but I'd choose Edozie over him right now. Of course he may be of similar quality and save us some money, which seems the likely reason for this to happen. Hopefully he'll be great for us......

You'd have to assume that any 4th/5th choice CM isn't going to be much better that Smallbone, so we'll only sell him if we can make good money and replace with a cheap loan. Either that or they will buy a quality CM to add competition for Charles/Downes and hopefully MF , which seems a bit unlikely, but I suppose you never know.

Think Everton will be very pleased with him and the fee. incidentally, what happens to the add ons if Everton sell him before they are triggered ?

So if Matty F, Smallbone and Aribo all leave that leaves us with Matsuki and Sesay as cover for two MF slots. I’d make an assumption that we may want to play 3 in MF at times so we need 5 minimum, and would need at least one , probably 2 senior midfielders to come in ?

And if the other forwards don’t learn from him, there is no hope for them. if he wants to come back it is a no brainer. We have plenty of options to do the running around, but we simply will not find anybody else of his quality.

I bet if we were offered David Brooks on a season loan at a sensible price we’d be happy to take him . Not that he is likely to be available , just as an example.

What we need is a little less conversation....since he clearly isn't way down our hit list.

Looks like replacing Edozie , maybe similar level but making a few million ?