Give it to Ron

Did anyone think Ramirez was worth 12m then on his performances so far - yes the odd flash and obvious talent yet £12m???....Michu was signed for £2m yet Rodriguez gets slaughtered for not being worth £6m when he is work in progress. He was good today yet just needs a goal or two to up his confidence.

Puncheon ..not for his goal but his covering of Clyne when he went forward - one time he ran 40 yards to get back and cover an out of position Clyne. Good performance from the whole defence and I thought Rodriguez had a great first half - needs a few goals but its coming.

Just like your football team...utter twaddle.

What a great post...I know I am biased as explained above. The thing is if you didn't have TV, analysts watching it over and over again then you wouldn't get this slaughter of officials. Rugby now get the advantage of action replays and its time our refs got that as well as making that split second decision is nigh impossible and they then get crucified later by some numpty has watched it 20 time from every angle. A ref can only give what he see's...the problems come when he doesn't.

Can I butt in and say "Pompey fan on a string" that makes me cringe every time its sung...its embarrassing.

I can't answer that from that level...I can at local level and yes they do a great deal in Hampshire for the referees especially the young ones. Mentoring, refs associations, training, fitness etc all available for local refs and that helps them push on if they want to do professionally or up levels.

Yep and he would of done it with a smile on his face as well. He had a way of dealing with it in a friendly way....the voice of experience here as I was ticked off a few times by him for some of my agricultural tackling.

My lad has started this year, its a chance for him to earn a few quid - he earns in 1.5 hours what some of his mates earn on paper rounds or MacD's in 9! He told me he also had enough of getting rubbish refs and felt he could do better. He has done several Saints academy games this year and loves the fact he has possibly officiated some future Prem stars from West Ham, Chelsea, Saints etc Although he only does youth games at the moment he has had to control some right planks on the line. Oh Chorlton he also wants to be a copper ....and that is comical.... authoritative when compared to him!!!

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Sorry to take off topic but watched Chris Eubanks son Jnr fight the other day. Not bad but that posing......think until he actually achieves something he should keep his chin out of the way!

Rule 1 for us pervs ?

+1 Money could of been better spent elsewhere...like Michu, Curtis Davies, Bassong, Turner etc

Agreed but I tend to look for ones that stand out from the rest, Cropper and Reeves did, Man Utd number 10 did. I am not being too hard on Mayuke as he had very little support or quality pass ...Lee as others have said was abysmal I wonder if the injuries he has had have diminished what talent he had - he certainly didn't want any physical stuff.

Fair enough football is about opinions I just didn't think our centre halves looked like that is a natural position - having played that position myself only at Hampshire league level though they to me looked as they it was all reactive rather than reading it and positioning themselves for it. Mayuka is all about pace ...how many passes or through balls did he get? I could count them on one hand the rest were just lumped up to him or last resort after going backwards and sideways 5-10 times every move. For either Lee or Mayuka to be effective they need either flick ons from a big forward or quick early balls through from midfield or defence...they had neither last night.

Kept us in it first half made 3 or 4 good saves - poor kicking though. Light years ahead of Forecast.

I agree with that but Stephens is a converted right back and never a centre half - do we actually have many in the club? Macheda was as bad as Tadanari if that was possible. The service to Mayuka was abysmal no wonder when he got it he just ran at them. We pass it backwards and sideways so much we dont know what to do going forward. Man Utd goal came from a needless backwards pass that put Turnbull under pressure when we had other options forward. I understand the need to keep the ball but we didnt do anything with it when we had it...sideways and backwards is all we did.

Royal family blanket news coverage...now Kate is up the duff thats all we will hear now for the next week!

keeper with the most saves is Al Habsi.....that well know footballing nation Oman!!

Family...or more to the point hers....why are her's so bleeding difficult, impossible and in need of a slap....things I can't really do despite everyone agreeing one of them needs it badly!

You don't rate Friedel then...a US foreign import?

That was a guy named Barry who also used to do the kit at the Dell as well - I was in hospital with him in the early eighties.

I think the Welsh are in trouble.....baah

No it doesn't really does it..... now this does