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Very good

I predicted 4th but will be happy with 7th, 8th or 9th. Similarly, I predicted 8th last year but was content with 14th. Just watch where we finish when I predict us to be champions next season....

Make your mind up....

Oooh....like that... can I change my vote?

I agree with Turkish

http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?t=48699

RIP

No wonder this country is going down the pan if 40% is/was considered a pass in anything... I digress...

Oh yes there is.... put off paying the ex-players wages (yet again)....

http://www.thefa.com/news/england/development/2014/feb/blake-names-u19s-squad-for-turkey Good to see Gallagher following Targett's example and choosing England over Scotland. Reed named as a defender though....?

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/pompey/video-frost-and-wilson-s-post-match-verdict-1-5897707 #tinpot

If that's possible we should all start to get very worried about the stability of the space-time continuum

It's "chairman's vote of confidence time"... http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/pompey/chairman-issues-backing-to-barker-1-5896409

Ok.

I can't see many people saying that the story is "made up" or that MP "didn't actually say that". All people are doing is highlighting the way newspapers take an answer to a question and turn it into a sensationalist headline. MP might have said what's reported, or he might not. What we do know is that there is no context surrounding the quote. As you say, it's not a difficult concept to grasp but what's the harm in highlighting something that's obvious? I think in a roundabout way we're all in wild agreement here: Newspaper embellishes story shocker...

Someone has either thought that through and put "don't know" for comical effect or it was written by a clueless numpty. Can't work out which.

I'd like to think Krueger would be working more with the development squad than the first team. After all, "the project" is all about accelerating the progress of players from the academy into the first team squad so injecting some motivational and confidence boosting effort at that level would seem most beneficial. No danger of stepping on MP's toes that way either. IMO of course.

[video=youtube_share;XJonGASrEac]http://youtu.be/XJonGASrEac

Cheers for sharing. I think your hunch is correct... The article follows journalistic principle number 1: Don't publish the wording of the question that was used to extract a juicy quotation. Reporter: "if/when you leave [insert current club] sometime in the distant future, would you ever consider managing [insert a former club]?" Manager: "Of course, why not?" Of course, if PSG came knocking tomorrow he'd consider it sooner rather than later as well

Agree with that analysis Steve. Sums things up nicely.

There are different ways of imparting an opinion. Take your "won 4 in 17" mantra for example. Another way of phrasing that might be: "We've only lost 'x'in 17 games, which isn't bad considering the bigger picture of us sitting comfortably in 8th/9th, but I wondered if anyone else was concerned about the fact we've only won 4 games in that timeframe?" Or, another approach would be to bang on about "only winning 4 out of 17" games without reflecting on the positive sides of our season at the same time. Putting it another way , IF someone was trolling the forum, which way of putting it would you go for? I would venture that you'd recommend going for the more provocative "boo hiss, we've only won 4 games" approach rather than the more pragmatic "we've only lost 'x'games and are sitting comfortably in 8th/9th" approach. Both different ways of expressing the same "opinion"...

Yep, either scenario fits.

I was thinking this yesterday whilst watching MotD. In several of the other games the defences seemed relatively fluid, whereas teams' defences seem to go very 'rigid' against us. I guess this is what is known in the trade as a backhanded compliment but it obviously puts us at a disadvantage if teams are tightening up their defence to combat our 'uniquely' dogmatic style of play. (Some of the above observation/opinion may be me using Saints tinted glasses.)