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Or maybe he got called up by a journalist and offered his opinion. Shock horror. LM has no official attachment to the club so, quite frankly, is under no obligation whatsoever to do the "best thing" and "say nothing". And it's not as if his opinion is massively out of left field; most (sane) people would actually agree with what he's saying.

That's fair enough, and I agree that there's little doubt that IF we get rid of AP then he will be replaced with another high quality manager. However, to replace him would be an indictment that our form since October has been sub-standard; despite that level of form being otherwise good enough over a whole season to gain automatic promotion or even win this league. It took AP 3 weeks of pre-season then 10 league games to hit any sort of form, and that was generally considered to be a very quick turnaround of out fortunes. Its therefore a huge gamble to expect us to be able to replicate that in the off-season and I think its a risk that, at this stage, is not necessary to take. AP has shown he is up to the task of automatic promotion type form, so why change? I think its a moot point anyway as this is just a national newspaper raking up an old local story without any new substance, quotes or information.

Three restaurants that I've been to recently and would recommend; I'm sure you can google them to find menus etc.... Zen: Japanese, below bar. La Regata: Spanish, opposite Town Quay. Thai Cafe: Thai, Oxford Street.

I'm not sure that he's found his level, but I'm not surprised he hasn't had instant success there. I said when he was appointed that I didn't think he was the right type of manager for them with the players they had; their team under Southgate had a few too many flair players and were a long way away from the type of hard working grafters that WGS seems to predominantly go for. Perhaps with a full pre-season and a significant change of personnel he might get it right, but I still don't get the impression that he'll achieve success at that club.

The balti pies are the shining light of a selection of otherwise low-grade rubbish.

Admittedly Carlsberg in a bottle is not the best; but its infinitely better than the stuff that comes out of the taps at SMS. That barely qualifies as lager, and having to wait 15 minutes for the "pleasure" of drinking it just adds to the insult.

A few years back they used to have a separate bottle bar; it only sold half litre bottles of Carlsberg for £3 or £3.50, can't quite remember. Cash only. It was a great idea and meant you didn't have to queue for ages for a very poor pint. They should give it another go.

Stupid question. He's not even as good as Paul Wotton, and Wotton can't get in the first team. Would be a poor signing.

Highly unlikely given Pompey's shambolic mismanagement and total disregard for financial discretion when offering contracts.

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.