The Kraken

A certain George Burley took that approach and rightly got castigated for it.

Who on earth thinks we have a tight wage structure? Show me 1 person on here who thinks we're being frugal in terms of wages, and I'll show you an idiot.

Football fans are an extremely fickle lot. Score a couple of goals and he'd be welcomed just fine, as bad as his going on strike business was. Whack the goals in and most people would forget, if not forgive. Not that it'll ever happen of course; though he's be a damn good signing for anyone in this division.

Can't say I'm particularlly bothered either way. But that's because I struggle to take the OP anywhere near seriously. Rarely have I encountered such history of being so regularly blindingly wrong, yet so unable to recognise the sheer ignorance of his posts, than the drivel that presents itself in the form of Alpine Saint's posts. Gems posted with such sincere definition, such as "we'll finish 18th in League 1", "we might as well consolidate for the playoffs rather than try for automatic promotion", "we'll lose the ashes 5-0" and goodness knows how many other such idiotically boorish claims, yet still not one ounce of self-deprecation or humility. I find it best to laugh at Alpine's little outbursts, as they are good for not much else.

It really isn't. It's a fairly bland design that has been used for quite a few stadiums, but it's not sh*t in the slightest. Every seat in the stadium offers a good view. It is close to the city centre. It seats 32K with the potential to raise that to 48K if it was ever required. I personally quite like the symmetry of the bowl. And when full it creates a decent atmosphere. I'd take our ground, however bland and unoriginal it is, over any of the unique out of town designs there are (Amex, Reading, Bolton etc etc).

Yes clearly it was. I only deal in facts from you MLG, not emoticons.

If you want to be pedantic (and we all know how you love to do that), most of Australia's players from that game do not play in England.

Fair enough if its planning, but I still think its a weird gamble to leave such enormous corners without any seats. If planning permission is not granted you're left wioth a wonky stadium that just looks wrong. Not a great result for £90M. If planning is granted then of course i'll reserve judgement until then, but it seems like an arse about face way to go about things to me.

I don't see the point in spending all that money to provide a stadium that isn't complete yet. Just build it all in one go, if that's the plan. I think it looks a bit daft at the moment, far too much empty space where there should be seats; even if they're empty its better than the current configuration. £90M not that well spent, IMO.

Top of league, and we have a manager with no tactical sense. Ok then, genius. Well done on adding to the brigade of dalek, alpine and all the other ridiculous bet-wetters.

Precisely right. Show some passion Hypo, and give up believing in your side before half time. That's what passionate fans do.

Come on, show of hands, who thinks its necessary to throw the towel in at half time?

5 Saints shots against BC's 3. Not even half time yet. PANIC!!!!!!!!!!! EVERBODY PANIC!!!!!!!!

Yes, obviously not interested. Spot on as usual. Adkins out FFS.

I went on a stag do to Berlin in October and it was fantastic. Took in a Hertha game, the clubs are superb, top weekend all round.

No you couldn't. The safe standing system in germany uses the exact same amount of space as the regular seating. The standing areas have to be converted to fixed seating for European games, which their system does allow for.

Don't bother with facts with him, he only believes in self-indulgent b*llocks.

You mean if you negate a side's top 3 attacking threats that they may struglle to score? F*ck me, that's some insightful information there. It's a complete wonder we've scored any points at all considering we're so easy to work out.

I had one of these: Loved that bike, until it got nicked. And instead of replacing it like for like, my mum and dad got me an Asda own brand BMX. Happy, I was not.

Feature talking point on TalkSport right now. BBC Sport feature. Football 365. Pretty much all major media outlets are covering it.

No it wasn't. The term "n****r" originated hundreds of years ago as a slang/derogatory reference to black people. That the term has been "reclaimed" in the past 30 or 40 years has nothing at all to do with its original inception.

I shouldn't laugh, but it's so difficult not to. From Pompey's message boards: The majority of the others are convincing themselves it's nothing to worry about, and won't affect Pompey too much if at all. Bless.

Edit: I can't be bothered.

Exactly; it's not that difficult to comprehend, is it?

So you're speking for others who want to go to a fans forum (which they previously could) when making your comments? Face it, a significant amount of people wanted to and did go to these events. A significant number listened on the radio. That they don't exist any more means that the avenue of dialogue between fans and club has shrunk. You may not care, and I'm not even asking you to, but it's not too difficult to see how it might impact on someone who previously did look out for them. and it's nothing like this message board, a fans forum is an opportunity to hear directly from the club's owners; an opportunity we now do not have. And yes, that's two ways which have always been used as an overall monitor of a club's success. As well as many other measures, including fans forums. I truly don't understand why people are so defensive about the fact they've been scrapped, and will put up such spurious arguments in defence of it. the fans forums were a good thing; even Rupert Lowe realised this, even if they were just a way of appeasing the fans (which is exactly what these fans dinners are to, but to a much lesser extent).