VectisSaint

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No we won't. Points are awarded at the end of the game.

Some of them work in the dockyard? Now I know you are kidding. Skates and work, 2 words not often found in the same sentence.

But there's the problem is't it, its not "just a small trophy", its the fecking Football League Championship, the trophy (or perhaps its a successor) that has been fought over since 1888 by the best teams in England, and for many of those years the best teams in the world. It has mostof the great names on it, Man U, Liverpool, Newcastle, etc etc, as well as some crap ones (e.g. Pompey). For anyone with any sense of history it is an important cup. Come 2nd and we are just best losers and don't win anything (again). All we have ever won in my lifetime in the League is the 3rd Division Trophy (hence why I wasn't too bothered last season, we had already won it before) and I don't even remember that. Winning is what it is all about, this being best loser is what is so wrong about this fecking country and the attitude today, oh its ok we did quite well and we played well. ****es me off this bad attitude. I blame Sky for a lot of it and making people believe that being in the Prem League is the prize, its not!!!!

Sad to see the attitude that you don't mind being 2nd best as long as we get to the league which we will never win. Its about being best in the league we are in first, and with that will come the promotion as well, fed up with always being 2nd best, desparately want us to win the League, it still hurts the previous 2 times as "best losers".

Nice, your mate must be a delight to spend an evening with. If I were NC I would be looking for a nice horse's head to return the compliment...

You forgot Chung.

Nah, they lost because their right back couldn't deal with Bale. I agree that Monk was poor though.

Swansea still use Gary Monk. Player that could never get in our team. Problem is that yes Jos/Jose may get "torn apart" by some strikers in Top 4 clubs, but there are 15 other teams in the PL (besides us and Top 4) who have strikers who are really no better than the NPC. I don't think we will plan to be Top 4 PL next season (that would be the season after) as long as we have players who can consolidate in the PL and be supplemented by a few new ones that will do fine. Fox and Richardson will be OK in the PL to start with, as will Chung and Kelvin. So the spine of the team will be similar to current, but we do need some pace RM, perhaps Walcott will come back (kidding).

Apparently we are moving from the Antelope to a new ground in the Archers Road, will be called The Dell.

Unfortunately it is the way with some posters, we have had scape goats for some years, Matt Oakley used to get a lot of stick, some people have a problem with Spiderman, and the Guly is lazy crap that some people come up with is really annoying. To me, in most of these cases it illustrates that some people who call themselves football supporters actually have very little knowledge of the game. I would dearly love to see the Opta stats more often, with Guly for example I suspect they would show categorically that he is actually one of the hardest working players in the squad, especially when he plays in midfield. But it will be very difficult to change the opinion of some people who see what they want to see (or even in some cases probably they don't even watch games). Bill Sharp is a little different at the moment. The criticism of him is very short term, based on the simple fact that he has not (yet) delivered and has looked almost every game like a fish out of water. OK he scored twice against Donny, but in the first half he looked absolutely terrible. Yet I will sit in the stand on Saturday and cheer him, shout encouragement to him (yes, I know he won't hear me) because I am convinced that soon he will prove to be a good buy, although maybe it will be next season before he really shows this. Its sad how some people continually give grief to some of our players, but as I said it usually reflects on them rather than the players. I suspect some of the mongs on here would have had a go at MLT or Mick Channon in their day. The ones I really detest are the ones that text into Solent straight after a match about Guly, I wish Solent would stop reading out these mong texts, they really do not contribute in any way and just make the texters look stupid.

Seems unlikely, usual Sun rubbish putting 2 and 2 together and making 5. I doubt that Adkins has made much headway in identifying players, since he tends to focus on one game at a time. Upson was identified as a short term loan thats all. I noticed yesterday (getting away from CBs) that George Boyd has turned down new contract at Posh and is on the transfer list. I thought last season he would be a good signing, still do.

He would be top class, as he was then. The problem is that I doubt today he would have even been spotted, because he wouldn't have been playing for his local village team (because there wouldn't be one), or for the County Schoolboys and being watched by club scouts.

No it doesn't. The Champonship is the target for this season, and thankfully that is what the team is after. Why do some people believe that settling for being best loser is good enough. The PL is not the be all and end all. That is for next season and you get to play in it whether you come first, best loser or also ran that wins the play-off. Therefore winning the title is the aim and should be what we are all striving for. We have never won a title in my life time and I want desparately for us to do so now. This is the Football League Championship, and has been won by many illustrious teams and I want our name to be on that role of honour as well. Winning League One was not such a big deal (we have actually won the 3rd Division before). It still annoys me that our previous 2 promotions to the 1st Division were as runners-up/best loser.

Rather he played stood.

So how does that fit in this case? The Club have come out and said quite a lot about Lambert. So based on your conclusions this would not be a long term injury. By the way where did all this stuff come about from on Saturday that Lambert did not travel up to Blackpool on the plane? The interviews with Adkins make it quite clear that the team travelled to Blackpool by coach, not plane (and I don't just mean the short journey from Manc airport or wherever to Blackpool, but all the way).

I hope Barnard can do something, but 2 problems, he looked very slow against Donny, needs some match fitness, and secondly he has not scored all season, needs a confidence booster. What we really need is Connors to be back and have one of his season-ending run-ins again. Will sorely miss Chung, not just for his pace and movement, but also for bringing something new and exciting to the team, enjoyed watching his performances, breath of fresh air.

Anyone know who his dad supports? Lets hope its Plymouth and not one of the London Prem teams.

Well, this time it should be. The only thing that is really important is us getting 3 points. Everything else is a sideshow. Really couldn't give a feck whether we send them down or not. They will go down anyway, with or without our help, we should only care what happens to us and that we win the Football League Championship. But I know thats not how it will be, of course.

Although your conclusion may not be too far wide of the mark, your analysis is complete rubbish. Morgan is not supposed to be the attacking midfielder, that's Cork's role. Morgan continuously broke up the Blackpool attacks, then played the simple ball out to set us up for an attack. Yesterday Cork was an absolute waste of space, while Morgan did everything that was expected, although of course not one of his best games. I bet you are one of those misguided people who used to think Oaks was crap while professional football managers put his name on the team sheet first every week (the exception being Burley, but then I did say professional managers, not **** heads). Yesterday we should have pulled Hammond on in the 2nd half for Cork, I am not a great fan of Hammond, but it was his type of game yesterday, a battler, limited on skill, taking control of the MF was what was needed, rather than a lightweight Jack Cork, who was getting bogged down in the mud.

Yes, really , REALLY. I guess you didn't read the original post. They also had a woeful performance, and will be looking to make amends against us in spades. Won't worry them we are top, nothing to lose, they will go out with no fear (and with a bit of luck) get absolutely hammered by us (mor elikely we will win 2-0, playing like pansies in the 2nd half knocking it around with no thought of going out and getting a hatful. I have 10-0 in the Prediction League, but will probably change it to something more sensible later in the week.

It was 0-0 when he went off against Donny last week and we won.

I suspect they may be saying something very similar.

Some people are so gullible. Why would anyone believe such nonsense?

Most of which replays showed were not fouls, simply referee making basic mistake. NA picks Guly because he is the best option in most cases and because he makes things happen. Currently not at his best but his workrate is excellent and he brings a bit of flar to the team. Clearly has much more about him than Barnard for instance, who is clearly struggling now with fitness, and subsequent lack of pace. Would rather have Guly in the team any day than Billy Sharp.