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A tad irresponsible playing him at all in that case. Would have been at greater risk of picking up a muscular / hamstring type injury with that amount of inactivity leading up to the game. I'm guessing Russ won't be best pleased he was risked like that.

That could be quite tricky given we've only got 10 games left....

The latter, obviously, although I wonder why the EU are the only destination that deploy this rule? The rest of the world only use the expiry date. Is it just the EU being awkward/different because they can, or is there any logic behind it? (Genuine question as I have no idea). If the latter, then why aren't the rest of the world applying the same logic?

If you guage our success on the stated aim of Jason Wilcox / Sport Republic at the start of the season then, yes, by their own measure, not being promoted would be a failure.

Brooks on for Wales.

English commentary on Radio 5 (Although, fair warning, there is a squealing Welsh lady as co-commentator)

*Derbies

Fair Points, Sir 😉

Stop moaning about people moaning FFS! Cheer up!

I'm actually looking forward to seeing how Portsmouth Community Football Club cope with their first ever foray beyond tier 3 of the football league structure.

We'd already played 5 games before the Sunderland/Leicester/Ipswich/Middlesbrough calamity (10 games if you count pre-season matches) so stretching it a smidge to say it was "at the start" of the season.

Calm down Russ. We need you in tip top mental state for the run-in.

Goal for THB! Edit: ah, not quite.... goal given to Jaden Philogene

A chance to watch a Saints player in action today... Live on YouTube at 12pm

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress" - Captain Eric Moody, June 24, 1982. RIP Sir 😥

Yeah, but what about the 12 year old football club that now play at Fratton Park?

Btw, should we send out a search party for @Lord Duckhunter? Incredibly surprising not to see him waxing lyrical about Ralph on this thread...

Indeed. And not to forget that at least two of the Utd goals were down to dubious (to put it politely) refereeing.

Yep... And we were 13 points behind Leicester... Who, of course, were in an "unassailable" position....

Just outside the box that....

Hmmm...

Yeah, but have they ever won the Championship 25 games unbeaten run trophy...?

Portsmouth Community Football Club have won 2 trophies in their 12 year history

No worries. It's never easy being right all the time...