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No, online only. I just refreshed my browser and its gone from 1.5 hours wait time to 1 minute... Edit: ah, has now jumped back up to 1.5 hours. All a bit hit and miss.

I logged in 15 minutes before 9:00 and got allocated 30 mins of connection time. 2 tickets duly purchased at 9am. Yay. edit: I then clicked on 'purchase history' to check what ticket numbers I got allocated, and am now in a "1hr 30min" queue to access my account!

Slightly surprising that Isgrove got a call up to the first team bench yesterday but playing tonight seemingly rules him out for an appearance on Wednesday. Unless he's perhaps only going to play 1st half tonight in order to give him some match time ahead of Wednesday (I don't think he's featured as much this season as the other u23s being 'rested' for Wednesday's game?)

Tonight's U23 squad

"They aren't a top-six club. Not yet. But neither are they a bubble waiting to pop." Eh? I thought we were on the cusp of yet another meltdown a week or so ago?

By reading back through the thread and spotting the 28 times that it's been explained...

http://www.fullmatchesandshows.com/2016/09/18/southampton-vs-swansea-city-highlights-full-match/2/

I'd like to see Calum Slattery thrown into the mix as a bit of a wild card.

FFS Pompey. I'm counting on you getting promotion this season

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21707209-labours-implosion-leaves-britain-without-functioning-opposition-more-dangerous?cid1=cust/ednew/n/bl/n/20160915n/owned/n/n/nwl/n/n/n/n Why do most commentators conflate "Scots" with "Scottish Nationalists"? c.50% of Scots who voted in the 2015 general election voted for "Westminster" parties. Or, put another way, only 35.5% of the Scottish electorate voted for the Scottish Nationalist Party in the 2015 general election. So, when these commentators refer to "Scots" as a whole, what they really mean is "just over a third of Scots". (Yes, I know that stats can be spun to fit a given narrative, but that works both ways...)

13:30

4 mins in: https://rutube.ru/video/3008e36ce53a51aa15cd5135ed2cbfd1/

Virgil did the right thing IMO. Austin, having taken possession of the ball (rightly or wrongly), was in the dominant position and if Virgil had tried to move Austin away it would have ended up more farcical than it did. Moving Tadic away was the more pragmatic approach in the circumstances.

I would have been equally miffed if it was against us, but I can see why it was given. The defender's arm was raised and therefore arguably in an "unnatural position". Looking back at the replay, its also quite telling (perhaps) that the defender's immediate reaction was to look over to the lino with a worried look on his face (Edit: that's the defender's face, not the lino's!)

Forster Martina Fonte Virgil Bertrand Clasie Hojbjerg Davis Redmond Austin JRod Subs: McCarthy, Cedric/Targett, Yoshida/Gardos, Romeu, JWP, Tadic, Long Saints 2 Swansea 0 (Virgil, JRod)

Highlights and full match here: http://www.fullmatchesandshows.com/2016/09/15/southampton-vs-sparta-prague-highlights-full-match/

I was slap bang in the middle of the Northam and don't recall hearing "One Ronald Koeman"

Can't recall there being any discussion about this on the forum yet....

Neil Allen in selecting which parts of previous Pompey history to attribute to current club and which to airbrush shocker...

At the game with my 16 year old son. He's happy with the starting 11. Maybe he should sign up to Saintsweb as he's obviously too optimistic and needs more exposure to manic depressives...

Keep up.... I posted about that yesterday