The Kraken

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).

I simply don't agree that its a better range; you're getting opinions of ten people at a time, so a very closed groups. Forums invited many more opinions than that, and more importantly the results went out directly on local radio for all interested parties. Much more open, much more diverse, much better.

Again, that's your opinion, for the people that went I'd suggest most found them valuable. I know I did. Of course most fans didn't go, but does the fact that they were broadcast on local radio not suggest that there was a significant local interest? As for your comment on plenty of other ways to gauge support reaction; what are they, and why are we not doing them?

That makes no sense. Whoever wanted to pose a question could previously turn up at a fans forum if they chose to do so and ask it. If they didn't want to ask a question themselves they could listen in on the radio to hear what was being said. So every "average fan" had an opportunity, if he/she wanted it, to ask a question. Now, less than 1% of fans get that opportuunity; and they're not even necessarily fans that would have chosen to go to a fans forum. How in any way is that better for the average fan? This is only open to season ticket holders. we have 15,000 season ticket holders amongst a database said to be around 80,000. So unless you own a season ticket you can't even hope to have access. I'd suggest you should try judging it not on what you would like, but on what has previously worked best for an entire fan base. The dinners are a very nice thing to have, but they are in no way an adequate replacement of the fans forums.

You've never been to a fans forum if you think that's how it works. You didn't by any stretch have to be affiliated with a supporters' group in order to pose a question; another myth used to defend the scrapping of the forum. If fans forums are such a bad idea, why do so many other clubs take part in them?

Yes, because football message boards are a completely accurate representation of real life, aren't they? The fans forums previously held were well organised and, once the vociferous troublemakers were identified and barred from attending, they were actually very productive. I don't know why so people try to claim otherwise just to defend the fact that they've been shelved.

I'm answering your question, "what information are you missing?". And basing it on a comparison with the fans forums, which we used to have and you claimed in a previous post were not better than the fans dinners. Given the dinner was last night, it's disappointing that the only information to come out of it was some long term ambitions and 3 or 4 tidbits of information that don't really answer anything. So you can see, there's a lot of information that's "missing", and for people who weren't at the dinner its massively difficult for me to see how this format is not much worse than the previous fans' forums.

You ask "What information are you missing?" As far as I can tell, the one poster who has reported his attendance didn't even seem to ask a single question all night. It looks like the highlight for him was that he got recognised by the chairman and spent an evening of awe and wonderment at such a revelation. The first few of these dinners actually served a purpose; they answered some questions and in some small way started to fill the gap of the fans forums being discontinued. But I'd like to hear if any actual questions were asked of NC, rather than they seemingly just ate and drank for free whilst listening to his dream for us to win the title with 8 homegrown players.