Dibden Purlieu Saint

You're scheming on a thing that's a mirage, I'm trying to tell you know it's a Sabotage. People don't realise the influence the Beasties had...

Gutted. Never saw them live. RIP fella, true Hip Hop legend.

Blimey, that is dodgy as hell.

I think the issue is some people on here are right ***** and get peoples backs up purposely.

Cricket, Euros, Olympics, Ibiza, installing decking and organising a wedding. Should keep me going...

To be fair he's been great for ages, he was brilliant in Germany.

Lol, you're so wrong.

Imagine how positive it would have been had we not ******ed the Echo off, eh Turkish/The Kraken?

Butland would be amazing but can't see it happening unfortunately...

Yep, but they'd come to fight. This is good to look at for those wanting to see keepers based on stats in the Championship. http://actim.pressassociation.com/

Schmeichel is so damn over-rated. I would go for a young backup keeper along the lines of Scott Loach , Mark Bunn or the Boro keeper (Steele).

This was when we were in League 1... It's a fact is it. Where is this 'fact' from? I assume you were in the meeting with them?

The Echo is tat, edited by a Pompey fan, sensationalising and accentuating any negative stories that they can. I believe that for a local paper there should only be bias towards the club, not against it. Secondly, considering what Cortese was trying to do with the training ground etc, and the considerable investment etc, I feel it would have been a good thing to do, showing complete synergy with the club, if they had waited for the club to announce it, and then reported their story on the same day with the official pictures/plans etc, like the deal the club mooted. They didn't, so they should have to deal with the consequences.

I don't agree, I think Cortese would have continued with this stand. Since the disagreement, the Sun have been extremely positive about us as a club, we have had a larger coverage than we had previously. I feel that Cortese said he would retract the photographer issue for a larger and more positive media spotlight on the club, and it has worked.

Well then we just have different opinions on the matter, and we'll have to agree to disagree then.

Laughing stock with who?????? A lot of people weren't aware of it, and didn't care even if they did. You seem to think everyone worries about this kind of thing? It was like the global fall out of when Gillingham Chairman Paul Scally fell out with the Medway News. I remember going to China that summer, and everyone who I saw there was bringing it up, it was mental. Oh no, that's right, they didn't.

I never said this!!! Which is why it is not a good point in the debate we're having. Reflected badly on the club to who?? I think we were right to stand up to the Echo, and I was proud of that.

Please capitalise you're 'I's. Give me an example of a football club that has had a bad relationship with the press, and tell me how this has affected them. Give your arguments some evidence.

I disagree, because it is the papers who are making this choice. It makes them look tin pot and unprofessional. It makes us look like we are trying to maximise our revenue streams, which frankly, looks professional.

Why don't you leave the arguing to Kraken? He is actually answering our questions with well thought out posts, instead of answering our questions to you with further irrelevent questions (like the above - I wasn't arguing that point, and you know it). You just don't seem to have the intellect to do this properly, and frankly, I feel a little bit embarrassed for you.

You don't think that having cartoons every day in a paper would get us recognition, actually worldwide recognition. It would go viral and would actually be a good thing, getting us recognition.

I notice a lack of issues...

Oh no, someone was calling us 'South Coast Club'? What a nightmare. In what ways does this actually affect the club/company?

I never said they didn't. But frankly, I don't care. I don't read the papers apart from the Indy, so why would I be bothered? What situations may occur?

I really don't get why people care so much. The press are bunch of ****s, an old boys club that's life is coming to an end. The use of the phrase 'National Joke is massively exaggerated. Frankly, I couldn't care less. I don't read 95% of the printed press because they have no real idea what they are talking about. For those footb)) fans who don't know much about football and like to be told what to believe/think.