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We have a genuine opportunity to get to Wembley. Anyone who thinks finishing a place higher is more important is an utter f**ktard.

You lovely people, I know loads have already been so very generous but that doesn't mean I'll stop posting! As you know I'll be riding my first non stop 100 miler for my local hospice (read about their care services here https://www.khhospice.org.uk/care). It's going to be hard & it's going to be painful but it's worth it for the cause I'm supporting. Even the training leaves my legs like jelly and me wanting to puke from the effort so please give a few quid to make it all worthwhile. http://www.justgiving.com/Davidride100 or text your donation to 70070 and enter DCWA66 followed by the amount. Thanks.

Alas yes, 3 times to many but the sheer awfulness of yesterday would seriously take some beating.

I used Corky Morris's season tickets yesterday and sat in the Itchen, towards the Chapel. Great seats but the most depressing place in any football ground in the world. Makes the Chapel look like a seething mass of fanatical ultras.

It's fine but if you have the choice then Newcastle is a no brainer.

I said at the end of last season that he'd make an excellent signing only for the mongboard hordes to declare him crap because he plays for Stoke.

Thought a fit Big Vic would have made a massive difference yesterday.

No, no, no. We should have bought someone. I don't know who but we should have got anybody. I reckon I spotted a bargain on FM13 and signed him easy so it can be done.

Perhaps he was "friends" with a sailor. I think it maybe a discussion you two need to have. Good luck but don't be too hard on him.

Cop out answer. All I hear is spoiled brats stamping their feet because their teams didn't go and buy a striker but when asked who they are totally incapable of answering.

Absolutely.

Who? I keep hearing "we should have got a striker" but who should we have got? Not a single soul has actually said who we could have just gone and bought that would have actually added to the squad.

RN saying.

Well it's getting me out of my scratcher early to head up to the NE which is no mean feat in itself. Hopefully he have a full team out and go for it.

Dour, dour game, not helped by our utter refusal to get our fullbacks in behind theirs. Shaw was doing my nut by coming inside when he clearly had the beating of *name I can't spell*.

I'd love to stand at football by choice. One of the reasons I prefer away games is that everyone stands. It would also allow the codgers the option to sit and watch unhindered.

Teaching in Stoke means this game is this seasons must win for me and my lad.

Oh, I should add, that to be a Cat 3 academy a club has to put up £300k at the start of the season that is audited and can only be spent on the academy, with the FA development fund matching that later in the season. Guess they haven't the wonga to put on the table.

A L1 club up here that whose academy set up and coaches I'm familiar with were planning to take their U11 - U14s on a South Coast tour playing B'mouth, Saints, Skates and Brighton. Guess which club couldn't guarantee putting out a team in each age group? It was also said that the academy staff of the club that couldn't guarantee putting outs teams hadn't been paid but that could just be tittle tattle. As an aside the Crewe academy are taking their U11s - U14s to Spain where they are playing Real & Athletico Madrid and Rayo Vallecano.

Heading towards £800. You lot are amazing. http://www.justgiving.com/Davidride100

Let's face it the mongboarders who actually believe that NA could have done the same job as MP are utter tools who no doubt scream at Guly and long for the days when we just hoofed it forward as they think that it's real attacking football.

No. It would be a step backwards. 99.99% love then man for what he did with Saints but MP has shown the way forward.

Wouldn't worry, they'll be sh*te anyway.

They don't think you're wrong, they know you are.

Utterly insane decision by a bunch of gutless wa*kstains.