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Well so far we've been linked with: Jay Rodriguez Martyn Waghorn Jelle Vossen Shane Long Nicky Maynard Marvin Sordell Ebanks-Blake I'm sure I've probably missed some out and that's just the strikers - I'd imagine a CB (and a winger would also be on the radar if AOC leaves). If you believe the twitter hype then the striker would be one of the bigger names on the list - I'm not sure Rodriguez or Waghorn justifies that hype. Could be an interesting couple of weeks.

Because it's a gamble. If they're short staffed on one turnstile it would be logical to assume they're short in all areas of the ground. Go round and investigate and you lose your place and face a longer queue - it's not that hard to understand for some intellectual monolith like you is it? Surprised it need explaining really......

To be fair you were the one moaning.... not many others are.

If you look at the replays it defintely wasn't a pen but you're right - by raising his arm it looked like one and I've no problem with it being awarded. These things even themselves out though and I'll have no problem justifying an equally contentious pen in our favour.

It could be early onset alzhiemers - get yourself checked out. Better safe than sorry and all that.

No, not the band, but what was happening with the huge queue to get in to North Kingsland yesterday? Also at HT there was only one poor lad serving the bottle bar. Obviously this doesn't rate up there with righteous outrage of the "not at the game brigade" singing anti pompey songs but it was a pain.

Sorry, I didn't quite catch that.....could you post it again? Ta.

Well it's definitely not Vossen

I was at the game and it wasn't just anti pompey songs. I hate dismissing someone's opinion just because they weren't at the game (everyone has their reasons) but in this case you're just plain wrong.

I'm not obsessed about Pompey, and don't always join in with the pompey songs but quite frankly I couldn't give a flying **** what anyone who wasn't at the game today thought. If you want to go to a game and start a few chants then be my guest otherwise shut up.

I think England should have it's own national anthem, and I'd be happy with Jerusalem but if I'm honest I'd prefer something similar to flower of scotland. I'm not sure if we have an equivalent (folkies should be able to dig something up) but anything is better than GSTQ.

Have to say that I miss the days of outfield players going in goal. Didn't Nial Quinn score a hattrick and save a pen once?

Rodriguez is a good player. Don't know much about Fox and I'm not sure we need another left back but we've been linked to left backs all season so I wouldn't be surprised if there was something in it.

First ten minutes or so I thought the football was pretty good but after that I didn't see any difference between what we've seen from the top teams in div 1. Both reasonable sides but nothing special and nothing we'd struggle to cope with.

Don't know what he was like as a poster because I never paid attention to this place until after he died but he was a bloody good laugh on a night out.

I wouldn't worry mate - it's a tiresome wind up brought to you by the same people who think posting "has Skacel signed yet" is funny. yawn........

As a complete aside I bloody hate it when people put words in my mouth - if you have an opinion then voice it but don't be so arrogant to assume you know what other people are thinking. That's you SamKimish - it's patronising. Secondly Shane Long may not be all that anyway. There have been plenty of flash in the pan strikers with one decent season behind them - remember Todorov or Aliadiare? Long may turn out to be great or not, same as Maynard and no one knows. FWIW from what I've seen I'd prefer Maynard but it's probably all rubbish anyway. My guess is that we'll sign Waghorn and he'll turn out to be this season's Shane Long.

Of course most clubs have supporters in places you wouldn't think but as an aside one of the things I've enjoyed about being in the championship and div 1 is meeting fans from other teams that are down to earth and sensible. There's good banter but no glory hunters and to be honest I've enjoyed the office football chats with Brizzle Rovers fans or other teams far more than the loud mouthed prem supporters. At least lower league fans know their stuff. I met up with a typical Liverpool supporter from Reading tonight and all he could bang on about was how Joe Cole didn't have a good first touch - I'd love to be back in the prem but I'm not looking forward to football talk with deluded halfwits again.

I saw that as well and Waghorn does look a fairly decent player. Only problem is we've got a number of fairly decent strikers already - if we do bring another forward in then they really should be clearly better than what we've got because we're certainly not in the market for just cover. To be fair I haven't seen enough to make too much of a judgement on Waghorn - he may be a blinding signing. Oh and I saw the rumour on Football Rumours so it's probably rubbish anyway.

It's probably quite cynical but I think the central tenent of the major parties is to get elected - everything else is secondary. Of course there is a wealth of history on both sides but it's used as a tool to galvanise the already converted (slogans if you like) and IMO isn't translated into policy. There are exceptions though - the minimum wage for example. Sometimes I feel as if an election is a choice between one set of bank managers and another (probably a bad comparison given bankers reputations these days but you get the idea). Ideologically there doesn't seem that much difference but maybe that's a good thing, who knows?

Me neither, and you can add in the fact that ideologically there is very little difference between the popular parties anyway - certainly not enough to justify some of the tub thumping that goes on. When push comes to shove most of the politicians make the same decisions.

It's a subjective matter of opinion - there is no best or worst. IMO though, no, and very definitely not in the case of Hallelujah.

Not really - I was going for clever comparison between the obscure logic of popular 70s/80s gameshow "3-2-1" and the guessing game we all play on these threads.....it's not as funny if you have to explain it though....

Do away with the grandparents before they have a chance to fritter it away on luxuries like care homes. I don't care if they did fight a war for us - they're still selfish b*stards.

Hmmm, interesting. What do get if you take the first five letters of QPR's opponents? Crawl. Who said they would "Crawl over broken glass for Southampton"? None other than midfield maestro, ginger wizard and saints legend Alan Ball. What sport plays with a ball and even contains the name in it's title? Football. Who plays football - Southampton, that's who. It's bloody obvious innit? Clearly this is a sign that Gorkss will sign for us - it's a shame QPR feel the need to so blatantly advertise it. I'd rather our business was done quietly and behind the scenes thankyouverymuch Mr Warnock.