The Kraken

Frattoniser has take on PompeyScot's role of not giving a sh*t about scummahs and never, ever going on a scummah board, except by today coming on this thread to have a good old read through and commenting about his foray over. Hi Fratts Keep up the good work.

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Its all very well saying "lets build for the future" (and I do believe we should), but there simply has to be the players in place to do that. You may not like Rooney, but he scored nearly 30 league goals last season. His closest contenders had around half that or less. Gone are the days of having the likes of Shearer, Owen, Sheringham, Ferdinand, Fowler, Wright etc etc to call upon. Our strikeforce is something of a joke, and Rooney is the stand out player amongst them. His performance at the Euros, well a bit pointless really. He wasn't fit, and couldn't play in the first 2 games anyway. But there isn't anyone obvious who could fill the void he leaves, we really are that short of options up front. I think Roy will put a new plan in place. Starting with the formation, he's either going for 4-3-3 or 4-2-3-1. Either way a deviation from the rigidity of the 4-4-2, and more inline with the systems players are used to at club level. Despite being ranked #3 in the world (guffaw) Roy knows as well as anyone that the England team is in need of a major rethink. I don't disagree that we should plan ahead; but the England U21 squad is there for a reason, to develop players until they are ready for a full call-up. Young players shouldn't IMO be rushed into action unless they're absolutely good enough, as testified to by Theo Walcott's elevation to the England World Cup squad before he'd even played a league game for Arsenal. So there is a definite balance to be made. And I don't really see anyone from the U21s who should be fast-tracked into the senior, if anything Welbeck and Sturridge have been thrust into the reckoning too soon, they're not even starters for their own club sides (which also kind of reinforces the opinion that our backup options to Rooney are extremely limited).

He'd be an idiot not to stick with Rooney. And i don't think Roy should be judged at all on what happened at the Euros; he basically inherited a squad that had qualified, playing a certain way and formation, with players who had proved themselves under a former manager. It was a no-win situation for him, if he had made sweeping changes he would have been criticised, he played a very safe game by sticking with Capello's plan. If the system doesn't change from here in, then I'll start to worry. But I think we'll begin to see a change in the formation and makeup of the England team from now on, but it will come step by step, he can't just ditch all the old guard unless there are replacements who can come in and do a better job. Currently, we have few options in certain departments.

At least the seats at the bottom of block 3 are all on sale; there was a big block empty down the front of that for Man Utd. Looks like the first 3 or 4 rows were held back from purchase for season tickets as none of them are sold, so it looks like we could be making a little bit of progress.

We're lowlife scummahs and not even worth talking about. Except in the new section they're going to specifically create on POL which will be exclusively for talking about scummahs. Go figure.

I'm not sure he gets the idea or notion of what happens when you put something in the public domain. Like your own name, on your own (very public) twitter account, linked to the football forum site that you own, and with details of what job you do and for whom. It's most odd.

Poor old Fr*tton*ser (there we go, I edited it to protect the innocent) seems to have lost his marbles over the whole affair; quite sad, the dear fellow. The idea of the "lets never talk about scummahs again, apart from a new place we'll create where we'll only talk about scummahs" is simply brilliant.

Cry me a river.

They see it differently on POL. Yep, getting absolutely battered (9 shots Pompey, 19 shots Bournemouth), at home, by the club currently in 19th place, who played 3 or 4 of their reserves. What a shot in the arm :lol:

Pompey are bound to take this on pens now. Bompey should have been out of sight.

"You're going home in a Pompey ambulance". Classy and original to the very last.

Howie really is too good for League 1 football. Quality player.

The Pompey Trust will be disappointed that they're only just over halfway to their 10,000 estimate for the cup games. In addition to the 5,318 for the Plymouth League Cup game. Can anyone smell bullsh*t??

What a goal that is.

Silly rule. Our second GK is an U21 so it shouldn't matter how many overage keepers are in a squad.

MK away for the semi first leg, there was around 7,000 in attendance (probably about half made up of Saints fans). Makes Pompey look good.

Without wishing to stick up for them............no, Mike. No it isn't. Let's not be silly; there's plenty to mock down the road without making things up.

I wouldn't get too boastful. In our first ever JPT game (2009-10) against Charlton we got just over 9,000.

Chas: Wow, you do spectacularly miss the point very well, don't you? I wonder if its deliberate or just a concerted attempt to be obtuse and misrepresent other people's views. I've made my point on this one, and stand by it. Agree to disagree if you will, but I have no desire to engage anymore with someone who either doesn't get the point or just wants to twist it to their own ends.

St. Mary's was packed to the gunwales. Fact.

It was close, but no, in the end I went with Keith Granger.

On the sub's bench with Marcelo Sarmiento.

I've previously done a "best Saints XI of players of my lifetime", ie players that I can actually remember seeing for Saints (pretty much 82 or 83 onwards). It is: Peter Shilton Jason Dodd - Michael Svensson - Mark Wright - Mark Dennis Jimmy Case - Steve Williams Rod Wallace - Matt Le Tissier - Danny Wallace Alan Shearer