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Oh for christ's sake, I've got the posh kids on my bus. Holbury 'till I die Langley!

bus 23 - me and saint mikey

Surely a sterile area should cover all of pompey? That way the city could die just like the club......

Nope, frankly I haven't seen him play well since the Derby game. For every good save in a game he's also made a howler. He's nervous, a liability and not good. Sorry if that offends you but I really don't rate him. Of course it's all about opinions but iwould you play him again based on that performance? Why? KD isn't the world's greatest keeper but he never has a defence as nervous in front of him as we saw today.

As always it comes down to a question of judgement, SDR and Jos have ability but prone to mistakes as are most players. Bart has more tendency towards being weak mentally, being prone to mistakes and generally not being up to the job than he has ability. He may be great on the training pitch but when has he shown that in the first team? To sum up it's just sentimentality that justifies Bart and it's undeserved sentimentality.

Ho ho, the sarcasm is scathing but you're right in one thing - he won't get better and won't gain confidence by playing either. He played like a muppet today and it wasn't just one mistake and it hasn't just been one game either. Six years and since the Derby game not one decent performance. You can't polish a turd.

To be honest that's a better plan than playing Bart again.

As much as I hate criticising players Bart was simply awful for us today, and cost us 3 points. What I thought was good was that we didn't get on his back - that was the only plus point. I can't see any way back for him though - we're not a charity and on that performance he's not a goalkeeper.

I have to be honest and say from an economic point of view that the Euro never convinced me because it tried to unite sovereign states that were just too diverse. The latest treaty only seeks to bond even closer a diverse Europe that economically struggles to find a good fit. I guess I'm happy we didn't sign the treaty but I'm not going to jump for joy either.

I guess the only interesting one I had was when I had, and was responsible for, 50k worth of consultants on site in a 2 week period and left 2 days after they started. To be fair it was an exercise in spending money on stuff we didn't need and I was being made to be a fall guy so I had no qualms about dropping my employer in the sh*t. I had a nice little disagreement about my notice period which I won, and I took what I was entitled to. Thankfully I ended up with a far better and well paid job. Other than that I've left every other job on good terms.

Clearly you haven't been on a bus in a while. Standing is pretty much obligatory these days...

Possibly true but since we've been restricted to a shortlist of who we can choose to vote for I've lost interest. I realise why that is and the reason for it but it also plays into the hands of populist sports. To be honest I'd probably vote if I had a genuine choice but I don't, and frankly the last ten years or so the programme hasn't even been that good so I doubt I'll bother watching.

I'd agree with this - there's too much artificial competition in the newly privatised industries that doesn't really benefit the consumer. There are other benefits to a nationalised industry such as decent apprenticeship schemes - as a country we're crying out for skilled labour but private industry can't or won't put in the investment for long term gain. Nationalised industry used to do this and it benefited the economy.

Now you're just being funny!

Are there any funny right wing people? I mean there's obviously Clarkson and........um, Jim Davidson but I was looking for actually funny people.

Clarkson is so utterly boring, predictable and tired. Him and his fellow muppets on Top Gear are like an end of the season, end of the pier show in fact it's more like a pantomime. I honestly despair of anyone who finds them funny because they're not. As for what Clarkson says? Couldn't give a toss what morons say, or what the morons who listen to him think either.

Jon Sopel

TBH I think we've already got to the stage where any striker to improve us will need to be silly money. So it comes down to judgement on an individual talent and potential - Sordel certainly has both but whether he could fulfill it who knows? It's nice being linked with these players though and, only my personal opinion, I think we'll spend the money if it's worth it. Maynard & Rodriguez at 5M+ probably isn't but drop that down a couple of mill and it is.

You'd still win more if we won though......

Bristol City don't actually need the money, or need to sell, and financially a summer move would be better for Maynard anyway so it would be easy to see him staying put. The only thing that could change that is if the player comes out and says he wants a move in Jan and the fact he didn't say that in the summer probably means he'll stay. I'd love to sign him up but I hope we don't chase a deal that isn't going to come off, and have other targets in mind.

Wasn't that the beautiful south?

Just out of interest how do RL and LJ compare stats wise when RL was at the same stage of his career?

I remember a similar thread on a Middlesborough site years ago comparing clubs to the kind of characters you went to school with. We came out as "Decent enough, doesn't say much but you know you wouldn't want to mess with him" which was pretty good I thought. Back to topic though and I'd imagine most other supporters put us in the same bracket as Norwich which is fairly rural, nice bunch but easy to ignore and not much to find offensive.

Stats can be confusing though - you talk about 4M candidates but no one is willing to pay that for the ones you've mentioned (or certainly not us anyway). Sharp has a 3.25M exit clause and Maynard is out of contract in the summer so neither will go for much more than 3M which is what we're talking about with LJ (although that's probably paper talk). Maynard also plays for a team that is 22nd so the ratio is fairly similar but he does have a better goals to games ratio in previous seasons than LJ.

Personally don't see this as a goer at all. LJ would be a decent squad player and probably would improve as well but that kind of money for what effectively would be RL backup is a bit mental. 1M then maybe it's not bad but still really only a stopgap measure and still a squad signing. NA talked all summer long about only bringing in players that would improve the first team and, on the face of it, this signing wouldn't do that. Seems like this is more of an attractive deal for Cov and/or the players agent TBH.