NickG

maybe most don't know, realise the club did well in getting him on loan,made an effort to sign him - don't know the facts so decide not to slag the club off? Tempted?

who was the last one posting on here as a joke/wind up project???!!

I'm lost???

and that we concentrated on the cup too much!

got to laugh haven't you!

perhaps we did "insist" but they said no? perhaps we will get someone a lot better no its a puck up

it was his birthday yesterday. not very interesting but thats all I know about him!

or that they can't take the p1ss over charging

Can someone please explain Pardew's reluctance to play Patterson over Lambert? Patterson was hardly used, this clearly show a rift within the club and Pardew's poor management.

Papa made 18 starts last season and 26 as sub. Our wide players were Lallana (IMHO best wide player in league 1 and who scored 20 goals) Puncheon - our highest provider of assists and wide player in league 1 team of the season We also had Antonio, who you and others think is a huge loss as 3rd choice. Where is the confusion?

agree, 20 years old, year ago playing non-league football, total of about 30 start at league 1 level.

There are not massive gaps in the squad - this squad should be good enough to get promoted, hopefully will improve a bit further. I bet that opposition supporters would look at our squad in envy already. We are getting greedy. This first 11 (but with a worse RB) was doing well enough for promotion last season. Yes we are lacking a fast impact sub (although don't know why sub is suddenly the most important position!?) but not much else.

and are correct more often than not

you shouldn't feel guilty, sure NC would not expect it! If you fancy going go, if not don't - always been the way!

http://bettingzone.oddschecker.com/football/english/league-one/promotion these odds just don't make sense??? I appreciate that we started the season as favourites for promotion but cannot understand why one of the bookies, let alone all of them, still - even though we clearly are not now going to get promoted - still have us as favourites?

Barclays Premier League table Barclays Premier League : Table Monday, 23 August 2010 21:57 UK | Home | Away Team P W D L F A W D L F A GD PTS 1 Chelsea 2 1 0 0 6 0 1 0 0 6 0 12 6 2 Arsenal 2 1 0 0 6 0 0 1 0 1 1 6 4 3 Man Utd 2 1 0 0 3 0 0 1 0 2 2 3 4 4 Man City 2 1 0 0 3 0 0 1 0 0 0 3 4 5 Bolton 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 1 2 4 6 Birmingham 2 1 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 2 2 1 4 7 Wolverhampton 2 1 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 4 8 Tottenham 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 1 1 4 9 Newcastle 2 1 0 0 6 0 0 0 1 0 3 3 3 10 Blackburn 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 3 11 Blackpool 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 4 6 -2 3 12 Aston Villa 2 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 1 0 6 -3 3 13 West Brom 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 6 -5 3 14 Fulham 2 0 1 0 2 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 15 Sunderland 2 0 1 0 2 2 0 0 1 0 1 -1 1 16 Everton 2 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 -1 1 17 Liverpool 2 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 3 -3 1 18 Stoke 2 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 1 1 2 -2 0 19 West Ham 2 0 0 1 1 3 0 0 1 0 3 -5 0 20 Wigan 2 0 0 2 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 -10 0 few things come to mind 1) we just played well against the team that is 5th best in best league in the world 2) Liverpool's season is over and are in relegation battle 3) Man U have lost the title and can only hope for European place.

Agree, sure most of us hoped that we would be off to storming start. Pressure will increase if we don't go on a winning run. However Saturday was not a "must win" game despite the crap put on here and the season is far from over.

So what was wrong with the subs last night? what did you think of the different formations he tried last night and Saturday?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/p/portsmouth/8943012.stm

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/frattonlatest/Cotterill-I39m-powerless-to-stop.6492726.jp sounds like manager not knowing whats going on and the one player who was not for sale being one of few to go?

thats not why you got abuse.

Lambert was poor last night.

He is more of a MLT winger than a Rodney Wallace - looking to do something different, make a goal, use skill rather than speed - if you expect out and out speed no wonder you are disappointed. (comparison is on style rather than complete ability!)

two passes into penalty box, in first half, both I think for Lallana were excellent and could easily have made goals from nothing

possibly our best side at the moment