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Great approach play saints

Lambert....great defender!

Hooiveld on... Yoshida to move over?

Richardson injured - hamstring

Yes!!!!Fonte

Is this now the match thread?

@officialsaints: Three changes for Saints as Gast?n Ram?rez and Nathaniel Clyne each miss out with a dead leg. Morgan Schneiderlin returns. #saintsfc

Is Tadanari Lee ever going to play football ever again, or what?

Not even on the bench. Odd?

Stu Francis

Nope

Oh contrare...feltching on a Thursday and frottage every last Monday in the month (except bank holidays and when Boxing Day doesn't fall on the 26th December)

As long as you promise it'll be run better than last time it was state owned

@Lord_Palmerston: You've got to love Cortese. Constant source of entertainment. Makes Mandaric look positively stable. Poor old Saints! @SOSPompey: @Lord_Palmerston just think, they're under his full control. Well, apart from the fixed and floating charge on all assets of course.

With or without crutches?

The 'competitive' part of it isn't the running of the service, per se, but (supposedly) the regular tender process when it comes to retaining or gaining the licence. So, a train company runs the service as if they were vying for punters so that their bid looks good the next time the licence is up for offer again. As I say, that's the theory...as long as you've got competent procurement people it works fine...doh...

Result

Simon Peach ‏@SimonPeach Schneiderlin back in full training today after knee injury so could play for #SaintsFC this weekend. #FFC too soon for Cork, though.

Simon Peach ‏@SimonPeach Schneiderlin back in full training today after knee injury so could play for #SaintsFC this weekend. #FFC too soon for Cork, though.

You'll need another packet for when Rallyboy gets his literary teeth into this one!

Pretty much all of those.... http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/pompey/appy-pompey-denied-in-bid-to-scrap-crewe-visit-1-4335915 That's made my day that has. Someone at Pompey having the gall to bang on about integrity and fair play....maybe if you weren't trying to cheat in League One by fielding internationals in your team then you wouldn't have the 'problem' in the first place....

The 'joke' was unintentional but reading it back I can see how people might think otherwise. Apologies for the bad choice of words.

That's a decent piece of analysis. Would be good to have a sticky thread with a weekly update to the 'current state of play' table: [TABLE=class: sbnu-legacy-content-table] [TR] [/TR] [TR] [TD][/TD] [TD=width: 70]MINIMUM[/TD] [TD=width: 79]MAXIMUM[/TD] [TD=width: 55]ACTUAL[/TD] [TD=width: 75]+/- MIN[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]READING[/TD] [TD]4[/TD] [TD]8[/TD] [TD]2[/TD] [TD]-2[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]VILLA[/TD] [TD]5[/TD] [TD]13[/TD] [TD]5[/TD] [TD]0[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]QPR[/TD] [TD]7[/TD] [TD]10[/TD] [TD]2[/TD] [TD]-5[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]NORWICH[/TD] [TD]7[/TD] [TD]10[/TD] [TD]3[/TD] [TD]-4[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]SO'TON[/TD] [TD]6[/TD] [TD]7[/TD] [TD]3[/TD] [TD]-3[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]SWANSEA[/TD] [TD]10[/TD] [TD]16[/TD] [TD]7[/TD] [TD]-3[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]WIGAN[/TD] [TD]5[/TD] [TD]10[/TD] [TD]4[/TD] [TD]-1[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE]

Sorry...sadly not....just a feeble attempt at humour on an internet football forum....(these attempts usually end in failure!)

http://m.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/pompey/blues-to-meet-a-familiar-face-appy-couldn-t-afford-1-4335888