The Kraken

Where in this thread have I "attacked" you for being positive?

Simple answer; put people on ignore if you don't want to read what they have to say?

I don't disagree. Last night's game was the only one featuring Spain in the whole tournament that I actually enjoyed watching. Aside from that I've found watching them to be stultifyingly boring. Up until they lost to Italy I'd found Germany to be brilliant to watch. Very attacking, had a go, kept posession well, I thought they were going to walk it even against Spain. But they had a mare against Italy and that was that. The way England play, and what our fans want from watching, is for us to be fast paced, get it forward quickly, take chances. But that approach on its own isn't conduicive to winning games against top level opposition (36% of posession against Italy is a shameful statistic). We won't get any success on the international stage until there is a change both in the mindset of players in how they play, and in supporters too. I don't see that happening any time soon, as the criticism of Spain shows, our fans simply don't want to watch football like that.

Spain were boring for a lot of the tournament, but last night they were excellent. I can't abide the 4-6-0 formation but last night it worked to complete effect and they were a joy to watch. How strange that what they criticised for most often, tippy tappy football and keeping the ball, are the exact same skills that English footballers seem incapable of. Our "lump it up to the big man" approach is so outdated, yet it seems to be what a lot of the public want. That and "English passion", whatever the hell that is.

Less than 2%.

I look forward to the SFC white knights riding forward and scolding everyone for being so mean about the ticket office and their consistent ability to get things wrong.

Well this was in no way an entirely unpredictable outcome. :lol:

Actually I can just imagine he's been frothing at the gash at the possibility of being immortalised as a Pompey legend. £30K for a statue. Bloody hell, I'd love to see that, over £100K gave us this: Still makes me :lol: every time.

Exacly the same mentality as the nerds you see camping out for the new Ipad, whilst playing on their current Ipad.

F*ck me, they're making an awfully big deal about it. If the statue was such a poor idea and they don't want it hijacked, why have it as an option from the club in the first place? And there's enough gormless idiots on their message boards saying that the statue is the best of the options available. Just give the money to the charities you've robbed and be done with it.

But then we leave out our European cousins from northern France and beyond, what with relative cheapness of air travel these days. This is all very confusing. My Dell-sized mentality can't comprehend it all.

South England Saints.

Perhaps part of a future plan. Would certainly make sense (at least the Eastleigh and Winchester ones), especially as we don't use Sports Direct or anyone else to sell kits. Basingstoke I'm not so sure, at least not yet.

Hmm yeah, you're right. I think maybe Pat has a point, rather than restrict ourselves to the Solent we should make the most of our massive catchment area and rebrand ourselves as South Coast Saints FC. Then we're being inclusive to all of our fans from Dover down to Cornwall.

Solent Saints FC, for when the skates implode and all of their fans take the trip up the M27 for Premier League football.

Dickson has already been told he's being frozen out, and I've read rumours that Harding may be on his way to Sheff Wed. In either case neither player are good enough for the PL IMO, so its natural we look to improve. Wouldn't have classed it as an area that was in most need of strengthening, but plenty of time for more signings yet.

Stop being such a pr1ck; everyone apart from the most anally retentive can see what he was getting at. Even if the "press conference" thing was wrong, who cares apart from you in your desperate and ultimately fruitless quest to be seen as correct about everything and anything?

Stop being such a tedious nit-picking bore.

Why is everyone being so negative? This FANTASTIC NEWS, and should be overwhelming proof for all the doubters about our Champions League candidacy. I can't wait, what a roller coaster journey this is, from the bowels of League 1 to chasing and usurping Manchester City. Great stuff.

The meerkats p*ss all over that fat annoying tosser. Alexander and Sergei

Let it go FFS. You don't like it. Others do. I don't know why the likes of you, Alpine and others want to go so far out of your way to express your outrage at how bad it is.

The poll on the thread you just posted in.

So you raced down to the store to get a 12-18 months sized kit for a 5 month old? I must be missing something; is he massive?

I think because they typically undercut the ticket price. Plus Saints would have to give them a cut of the profits. Sell them at the ground or in the West Quay store and they control the price as well as maximising the profits.