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Saganowski?

I'm not ITK at all but here's my thinking: The O'Donovan story is probably something put about by his agent. We'd be more likely to go for a loan if one of our targets fall through. Jaidi will probably sign if he gets permanent residency status. Seeing as though he's apparently still training with us and was at the game makes me think it's still an option. A genuine winger is probably one of the deals we're working hard on - I've no idea who though. Gradel possibly? We seemed to have talked to Leicester when Rasiak or Saga were linked and wanted him but their valuation wasn't what we were offering. Pardew said it was something we might return to. A striker. Someone who will link up with Lambert so that would be the "little" in the little and large partnership. Maybe Craddock? If you look at his career it's a bit like Kevin Phillips - released by a club early on and steadily rebuilt his reputation. Simeon Jackson would be on paper the ideal partnership but there has to be other options available Nathan Tyson and Freddie Eastwood spring to mind (though the latter doesn't have much pace). Right Back. Probably won't do anything until Murty's injury is properly assessed and then hope to either make do with what we've got or solve the problem with a loan. This is all my pure guesswork but if anything I've said happens then I'll gladly take the credit.

If the license fee helps drive The Sun and Fox News out of business then that can't be a bad thing, can it? It makes me laugh when little Murdoch bemoans independant journalism - since when has News Corp been unbiased? Voicepiece of very rich man intent on getting richer IMO.

Everyone has their own opinions about players and that's what forums like this are for. No one is right and no one is wrong. Personally I'd be tempted to say he's the the midfield version of Lee Todd but then people would say I'm just saying that because of his size...so I'll just say I don't think he is up to it. He isn't a young kid anymore and he really should be doing better than he is if he's as good as people say. A much much poorer version of Prutton (and i didn't rate him much either) but all in my opinion.

Football finance and football hooliganism and points deductions are completely unrelated...The only ones who suffer are genuine fans. Ban the fans and fine the clubs though.

Scores of hooligans and between 500-1000 riot police? Have to say the hooligans look like causing an upset and making it through to the next round.

I didn't think their last album was as good as their debut but is that any reason to start a fight?

Nice.....it hasn't worked yet. I'd just like to add that this saints team is very very poor. I can't see us scoring in this game....we're rubbish.....

You can stop posting now.....unless you say Lambert can't hit a cows backside with a banjo....

Gradel is on the bench for Leicester tonight.

Well they have done so far...... isn't it a bit simplistic (and probably stupid) to suggest people would invest because of a logo? I haven't bothered to read most of this thread as I really don't care about Portsmouth - that's not in a nasty way, just that I don't see why I should. Apart from being geographically close is there any reason to care about them? For the record I hope they don't go bust - I don't want any club to go bust. That's about as far as my feelings for Portsmouth go - I do get annoyed when all the pubs are closed when we play them though.

Who are peeps?

Aye, I cried tears of blood back then.....not like the yoof of today but you try and tell them....

pretend nostalgia.....are we supposed to get all dewy eyed about spinning tops and lumps of coal in christmas stockings next? The logical conclusion to this was the terrible internet campaigns to bring back Wispa bars as though they would magically bring childhood back and show those terrible upstart kids (who had the blatant cheek to be born later then me) what a proper bar of worthless confectionary should taste like. Nostalgia wasn't like this in my day etc etc........

You can't argue about a fiver for a game - I'll probably go.

**** me! That Swansea game was a shocker - I'd forgotten all about that.

I gave Saga grief after the millwall game but I thought he did OK today and i certainly wouldn't accuse him of not putting in the effort. Patterson likewise wasn't that bad either but his lack of experience shows. I thought lambert won just about everything in the air though and we could do with someone who can read his flicks and knock downs - that may come from having a settled front line or a new player with a bit of pace.

Just got back and my considered opinion after a few beers is.....arghh! I want to get angry with someone...this is Div 3 FFS can't we beat anyone FFS? Whole team should be sacked FFS etc etc...... If you couldn't tell the above was me joking. I actually didn't think we were that bad though it was gutting to see us draw with a side that apart from the goal didn't really trouble us that much. The problem seemed to me to be that we couldn't really turn possession into goal scoring chances and it's been that way for a while. Our crosses when they came rarely beat the first man. We don't play with width and that needs to be addressed but I didn't see many players out there who were dire or terrible. In fact the only player I'd level that at was Thompson (Thomson?) who was awful. I feel bad criticising a young player but I've never seen him have a good game and I don't think he should be anywhere near the 1st team. As for the rest of them? They were OK and playing together in a settled side should sort them out - we badly need time to coach them to play as a team though. I wouldn't say we need wholesale changes but it would be good to get either Mills or Holmes fit again, possibly a right winger and I guess someone with pace up front but for a team looking to get mid table status then I'd say we weren't too far off having a team capable of that and maybe more given time.

A martyr because he's sacrificed his life to prostate cancer and died in freedom? I think we have a different definition of martyrdom. Martyrs don't tend to proclaim innocence as i recall.

How can he be a martyr and get away with it at the same time?

Did you see him get off the plane? The guy could barely walk...My Grandad died recently of prostate cancer and trust me your "terrorist" is not capable of doing much damage in that condition. You seem to have a problem with liberal and compassionate though - is the world that bad a place for you?

Yep I'll agree with that.

IIRC Iraq disputed ownership of Kuwait oil fields and claimed Kuwait was nicking it's oil by slant drilling. What isn't in dispute is that Iraq was in hock to the Kuwait and the US following the Iran and Iraq war to a massive amount and they were calling it in. Iraq tried to keep oil prices high so that it could repay that debt but Kuwait wasn't having any of it (backed by the US) and in the eyes of the Iraq administration was guilty of economic aggression. This doesn't excuse the Iraq administration but in my opinion (and that's all it is) America and Kuwait could have avoided the war - they didn't need to push Iraq into that particular corner and they must have known what would happen. Still it all ended nicely for them.

I hope you have proof of that? Otherwise it's opinion.

I honestly don't know. I'd hope procedures and precedents were followed to ensure consistency. As for him personally then I wouldn't really be bothered him but it's not him that would suffer - it's his family and they would be as innocent as the people who died. Add to that the cost of his health care during his final months and you'd maybe start to think "why should we pay for it?" There's already enough on here bemoaning health care for immigrants to make me believe that many would actually be in favour of releasing him on those grounds alone. Or would they make an exception for convicted murderers? As I say, for him alone (if there was no doubt whatsoever and he had admitted it) then it wouldn't bother me if he died in jail but there are other factors to consider and in this case specifically there are very real doubts about his conviction.