VectisSaint

There are Portsmouth journalists?

I should have added Walcott as well cos we got him from Swindon (though he was only 11 at the time, I recall Rupert paying Swindon about £9k when we sold him to Arsenal, Swindon didn't even realise they were entitled to it).

Charming as always...

What makes anyone think we are going to sell Ramirez? He is out of contract in June, he is free to talk to other clubs now, if someone is willing to sign him then he will probably go with no fee, and no paying up his contract.

I think we do and have for a long time. Dexter Blackstock, Leon Best, David McGoldrick and Kenwyne Jones, even Chris Baird we picked up from Ballymena. Jack Stephens from Plymouth. More recently the young keeper from Shrewsbury, but we seem to have slowed down with this intake from elsewhere over the last couple of seasons or so, and this aligns with the downturn in the overall standard of our academy teams. Seems like we are finally addressing this again.

It was the Sun, but it may have been an old item rehashed.

Probably. Just be aware it is looking decidedly possible that it will happen sooner rather than later. There are rumours it will happen today, but that might be complete tosh AFAIK. Maybe made up by A Crook.

When I was an employee, we were always being told that we were the company's greatest assets. Usually this was shortly before they made us redundant of course Of course a player would bring this up when negotiating a new contract as any employee might do whether or not an agent is involved, but nevertheless it is hardly throwing their toys out to do so. Trouble with so many companies these days they keep salary levels private so its difficult to know if you are being paid badly compared to your co-workers or not, whereas footballers' salaries seem often to be common knowledge.

Sounds like there is a chance that Mourinho might be in charge rather than van Gaal. Would be fun if we could get one over the "special needs one" in his first game.

Its hardly throwing their toys out to expect to get paid a similar amount for doing similar job with same employer. Its a very reasonable attitude.

Would be odd if it was 12 for the season given he has 10 already in all comps.

Well if Danny Murphy thinks that then the games up. He really is right up there with Garth Crooks and the Slug Balancer in the thick as **** stakes.

He should have previous. Somehow they could never make it stick though.

He's playing oop north, what do you expect. Its bloody cold up there.

Hungerford.

London weighting. 20% higher salaries needed to live in London

Must have missed that. I'm sure he wasn't one of their used subs.

Maybe our medical staff who gave him a clean bill of health would be a good source.

Closing in on Ronald's tally then...

Boscombe 89-90. One of the events the weasel tries to eradicate from his CV

Another very good game yesterday. He has benefitted a lot from not having to cover for Tadic for most of the game.

He missed one, and that cost QPR one point. Missed against Hull as far as I can see (unless the stats are wrong). Only previous miss was in 2011 for Swindon. Scored 17 from 19 in his career. Doesn't sound too shabby. Seems like he also missed one against West Ham, don't know why the stats didn't include that, so that would be 3 points he "cost" Rangers. Still not too shabby. Still happy to have someone rather than Tadic to take pens if JWP is not on the pitch.

Vic certainly looked up for it today. Maybe Clasie and JWP together might be a bit weaker but that's why I said we had two good pairs, of course you can probably interchange but JWP's previous good game (yes i do mean that) was also with Vic in a similar role. Seems JWP and Romeu are adding goals as well now. The midfield is doing what everyone wanted, 4 out 5 goals from midfield this week, plus 2 assists. Now we need out strikers (Long excepted) to do their job, would be nice to see Sadio get on the scoresheet again, his finishing has become woeful, yet everything else he does is fantastic.

Terrific performance again following on from Wednesday. Was surprised to see Vic and JWP but it seems like we have two pairs who arr very good. JWP deserves plaudits, great game today, well taken FK and Pen. The back three were supreme today. This system works great and shows Ronald was able to make a fundamental change to get us out of the freefall. Cedric wss brilliant again today. Davis wss brilliant again his dawdling runs made some great openings. Like Shane he never gives up and really makes the team tick. Another assist. For me Long was MOTM though, his tireless running even when getting clattered was brilliant and why beig without the lumbering Pelle has been a blessing in disguise. Forgot Targett, not quite as goid as Wednesday but he is so suited to this position.

To be fair he was never going to be the most prolific shooter there . Sorry, bad taste but had to be said.