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In which case I would question what we said earlier about only signing players that will improve the first team.

He's probably better than the other options to replace AOC. I'm only speculating whether he was the absolute best available given some of the other names that were being talked about and I was speculating whether we are being fully backed with regards transfers considering the amounts we were spending in comparison to this year. I appreciate that we had to sign some more last year but what I am saying is that Forte is clearly more of a gamble than the proven quality such as a Fonte style signing (or CMS). I think we should be minimising risk seeing as it is so vital for s to win promotion this season.

Just because Adkins likes a player does not mean his quality is beyond question.

Exactly and yet for some reason you are branded moronic purely because people don't like your point of view! Crazy.

Why is it moronic to give an initial reaction that you are underwhelmed by a signing?

I very much doubt that he is writing him off before actually seeing him play. At the moment it's an initial reaction and one of the things you use for an initial reaction is the comments of people who watch him week in week out.

Well considering the names being talked about (and considering some of the names we signed last summer) I was possibly expecting someone with a better pedigree.

Cheers Baj, good response. Whilst doing that, how about also looking at my pompeyonline thread in site suggestions

OK so how hard is it if we look at the most amount of people on at one time, say 800. Is it not possible to cater for say 1000 people, thus never making the server go down? Serious question.

I think if it can't be sorted then they need to look at removing the fiver a year. No one really wants it in place to be honest and you can have a perfectly good forum without charging for it.

Yep. I think saintsforever was only marginally worse than this at that was free!

Yep. I think saintsforever was only marginally worse than this at that was free!

I'm sorry but this is just ridiculous if we can't access the forum when it is most useful. I appreciate it isn't your fault admin but someone needs to look at a permanent solution, we keep being told it's fixed but nothing seems to be working.

Hopefully you weren't referring to me but in case you were I just wanted to highlight the fact that I wasn't complaining.

Good good.

Again this forum is ****e. Getting beyond a joke.

Do you think Brighton and Huddersfield are bigger clubs than saints then? In terms of fanbase, facilities and personnel?

You aren't allowed to have an opinion which goes against the accepted view or you get personal abuse or told you are a plant. I thought you knew that.

We are league one yes but we do not have a league one fanbase, facilities or (in the main) players and setup. Hence why we are not a normal league one team (normal being the likes of Orient and Bournemouth.)

No need for personal abuse. I said it wasn't a view I totally agreed with. If you remember that story correctly, I also said that we were unaware that Adkins was there at the time and were suitably embarrassed. If however he heard what we were saying at it spurred him on to our christmas form then really you should be thanking me

It's realistic. Just look at our gates and try telling me that what I said is not the case.

Again, I would say the majority of our team is better individually than a large amount of Championship teams (skates for a start). Some of our players have gone on loan to the NPC! Playing in a division higher is absolutely no guarantee of quality. Hope he is good though.

And yet were linked with players of proven quality who would have cost significant amounts. And lets also be honest that we are not a normal league one team. The majority of our purchases could have been made easily with no support from the Liebherr family.

If you search for forte on their forum then topics come up from the past few weeks and months. The majority are pretty negative to be honest. Maybe he will do a job this season but in the championship? It's a gamble at any rate.

You would be surprised how many fans I talk to who are still underwhelmed by Adkins and who feel the team should be higher in the league with the money we spent. It's not a view I totally agree with but you would be surprised by the number who think that.