The Kraken

At the risk of asking a stupid question..........what's the difference between web design and development?

I'd definitely be interested in that.

Pompey aside, I think this is great news for football.

I was signed on to do one of these types of courses at Itchen College; supposed to start mid April but the course was cancelled due to lack of numbers. So I'll either be hoping they run the course again in the Autumn (summer months maybe not great for night school with holiday interference) or need to look around for an alternative.

Nice idea in principle, but with the advent of the internet you're always vulnerable to a load of Pompey fans voting for the worst one (like the previous time we did this with the Glenn Hoddle Monaco short). Saying that, the Blue Few's numbers seem to have dwindled to such an extent of late that it probably would only have a minimal effect on the vote....

Oh God, its this isn't it.....?!

You can certainly learn the basics of html coding and simple web design yourself, it's what I did quite a few years back. There's quite a few html editing software out there so that you don't necessarily have to understand the coding to put together basic web pages, but I'd suggest its a good idea to learn about html if you want to progress. I learnt using MS FrontPage and bought a book for it, then just played about with it a fair bit (I put together a site for my Sunday morning footy team and just improved it every season as I learnt more and more). Take this book for example: It comes with step by step instructions but there are usually quite a few tutorials with them so you can learn at your own pace. Distance learning has become such a feature now that, as long as you've got the time to put to it, there's plenty of products out there to help you get as far as you want.

He'll get snapped up by a Premier League club this summer, no bother at all.

It's still staggering that a man with his premier looks would have to pay for sex with her....

Let's not forget what wages Mullins will be on. First lets consider that he's been part of the insane revolution down there that has allegedly seen such luminaries as John Utaka on 80k a week. Then previously Crouch, Defoe, Johnson, Krancjar, Muntari, Diarra et al have been on God knows what. Who knows what Mullins is on, but it's bound to be way in excess of our higher earners. And he's not even out of contract, so can just sit on his arse and see out his contract for many thousands per week. I'd say that, unless he fancies a challenge at a lower level, our price structure just won't fit in with hi,

Rubbish paper talk on the value. Pompey have, in their ridiculously inflated valuation of their squad, put him at £1M. In no way whatsoever will we pay that much. Decent signing at a knockdown price, which is what we'd look to go for. And just because he's played for them down the road, it doesn't mean he's a skate. Do we have to go through this tedious rubbish every time? Crouch and Fuller had to put up with needless sh!t before they proved they more than up to it, why do it again?

Have you actually read any of this thread?

Not neccessarily; that's just spin and speculation from the article, it offers no different quotes other than those we've already seen, so it's still utter speculation whether they want to use him or are trying to extract a transfer fee.

Christ, is there any chance of this thread not turning into the usual SOG v Alpine borefest? Please? Your continual tedium of baiting him and his continual monotony of responding turns every other thread on here into a complete waste of time.

It could go either way. Puncheon has been brought in and Pardew is clearly intent on having a reprisal of the Fabrice Fernandes role (a left footer even more one-footed than I am playing on the right). Saying that, Antonio is a great impact player and he is more direct in terms of running at defenders with pace than anyone else we have. So who knows...

I've already stated a page or two back that it's pointless speculating about what will happen until Reading's intentions are known, so I won't do that. But Antonio obviously has a choice to make; whether to carry on with a side that has, as you say, improved his game (and at just 19 he's only going to get better). Or whether to take a chance with his previous club at a higher level and risk getting less game time than he got here and therefore potentially hindering his progress. Like I say, without knowing Reading's intentions its an impossible one to call. I hope he stays, but if its set up for him to return to Reading's first team squad then you maybe wouldn't blame him for leaving for a higher standard of football. I hope he stays put. But either way, if we do lose him I have full faith in AP replacing him adequately.

Being as Reading offered him barely any football whatsoever other than for another club, I think we just might possibly be covered on that one...

Until Reading's intentions are known it's complete guesswork as to where Antonio will be next season. Reading may have seen his progress as a positive and want to give him a chance at a higher level. They may want him to come back to us on another long term loan with a view to retaining his services following on from that. Or they may just be being business-like and, knowing that we want him, have signed in so they can negotiate a transfer fee with a rich club rather than claim compensation. I hope he stays, but the signs aren't great; if they didn't rate him we could have just come to a financial agreement that they would have opted out of the one year extention. With Antonio on Reading's books (the Reading OS seems to state that he definitely is) then they hold all the cards.

Personally I'm much happier seeing the owner of the club stay in the background; there are too many self-publicists in football as it is. You only have to look at the gobsh!te nature of David Sullivan, Dave Whelan, Phil Gartside, Mike Ashley etc etc to realise that we are very lucky to have an owner who carries himself with an air of reserved dignity.

True. The 6 nations gets pretty tasty as well.

Yet on the flip side it can have worse repercussions....

Semi, agreed. But Harding has been excellent all season, and is far better than "OK" for this level. I'd be more than comfortable with him at left back in the Championship.

I'd just like to see them actually get punished for their financial irregularities and criminal financial mismanagement. So far, all they've had is a minus 9 deduction which is going to make no difference at all as they'd have gone down anyway. The scale of their debt is that ridiculous (and clearly shady) that I'd like a few things to happen: The club to get deducted further points next season unless all creditors are paid back in full. Peter Storrie to serve a prison term and to be barred from football for life. As much as we should be patting him on the back for totally screwing them over, the man is an odious, obnoxious and incompetent turd. Harry Redknapp to be implicated in the financial irregularities and also serve a prison term. The club to be wound up and AFC Portsmouth formed in the nether regions of non-league.

Wise or not, it has been common knowledge since he was brought in that AP would be judged after 18 months. I doubt very much that he's been set an actual target to hit by a particular date. But clearly NC will take a decision around Xmas time, and if he feels we are too many points away from 1st and 2nd I fully expect him to wield the axe. How many points that will be, or exactly when, only Mr Cortese knows.

It's in the article linked. AP: "The owners have said to me I'd be judged after 18 months because obviously they want to get out of this division and I've never waned from the belief that I will do that."