Jimmy_D

The whole team is incredibly fit, constant movement on and off the ball not only creates space for us, but also closes down space for the opposition. Not only that, but we have a lot of players with the technical ability to really make USE of that space we create.

If we do get promoted this season, and he manages to step up again, never mind doing well in the Prem, I can see him breaking into the England team, a bit like Kevin Davies did.

I would join in with that chant

Poll added for you. Hard to argue with the hat trick hero for me, although once again it was a great team performance.

Was well outside the box, but the ref had a shocker... one of the few games where the ref managed to get both sets of fans hopping mad. Probably just about evened itself out in the end, but I'd be amazed if he's refereeing a game next week.

The shot WAS going in. I had a perfect view in line with the path of the ball in the Chapel/Kingsland corner and the keeper tipped it round. How a goal kick was given....

20 points and 24 goals better off after 17 games... Awesome ^^

Wait... was that the referee from THAT Leeds game? I said today was the worst reffing I'd seen since that Leeds game, didn't realise it was the same one! It wasn't bad because it seemed biased today... it was just terrible... the number of decisions that he got wrong just kept mounting up and up and up >_

National newspapers and media have picked this up and are running with it. I have to admit the picture the Daily Mail decided to use did make me laugh... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2063168/Gus-Poyet-prepared-court-prove-Luis-Suarez-racist.html

Do you think BBC knew something was about to happen? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15752918

And developments like this explain why this thread exists... why it's become legendary... and why even Pompey fans follow it to keep track of their own club.

The £2M Celtic wanted in the last transfer window was overpriced for the recent form he'd shown. With his form for us since joining, he'd be worth every penny of the £2M Celtic want, if they're still willing to accept that sort of price.

Anyone else play The Elder Scrolls games? First impressions, I'm liking this game a lot! This is Skyrim, so an axe wielding Nord seemed appropriate for my first character...

Winning the Champions League/Prem with Eastleigh is always the challenge I set myself, although might change it to Totton for FM2013 if they get promoted this season. Managed it in FM2010 and 2011, missed out on the Prem title with FM2009 (but still managed somehow to win the Champs League)

I'm not 'ITK'. It's just idle speculation on my part lol.

There's probably still a media blackout on the whole thing.

If Storrie has been found not guilty because of turning Queen's Evidence, I guess it's possible he's dropped Pompey right in it in doing so...

I believe caffeine would fall into that group.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/twitter/8877167/Six-year-project-to-tweet-the-Second-World-War.html If anyone's interested in WWII, you might want to follow that. It's only since following that for a while I've realised that looking back at WWII in history, I never really thought about the fact that they couldn't see what was coming next. I've seen it all in a whole new light compared to looking at the war as a whole and knowing how it turned out.

I guess anyone can dream...

If JP ends up back here for any length of time, it's possible he'll get back in the team. He'd have to prove to Adkins and just as importantly the team that he wants to be here though, that his attitude has changed. He won't be given another chance for free, but it's possible he might be able to earn one if he gets his head down and works hard in training here after his loan finishes.

Awful news RIP I don't think it'll be the end of the Red Arrows. The BAE Hawk T1 (aka the Red Arrow plane) is extensively used as a training aircraft and no doubt will go through a thorough investigation to try and find any inherent safety problems, but it has a very good safety record. It's also in the process of being replaced with the BAE Hawk T2 (Although I'm not sure if this includes the Red Arrows themselves), so this might speed up that replacement, but the Red Arrows are too good a recruitment tool for the RAF to be phased out, even in the face of two tragedies this close together.

So he wants exclusive information on our transfer targets, and he dangles a carrot of writing a positive story about us to try and get it, then goes off on one on Twitter when we don't bite? Sod him, we get positive stories written about us every single week in the match reports. Edit: Hm, maybe my sarcasm detector needs recalibrating again... or maybe sleep heh. Ah well, either way, positive stories will be written one way or the other while we're doing well on the pitch, and negative ones while we're not doing well. Point being, the bits on the pitch come first.

It's an interesting question, and depends on whether you mean in absolute or relative terms. In relative terms, we've obviously had better league finishes, and have been in the past one of the best teams in Europe. In absolute terms though, there's no doubt that as time goes on, the standard of football is improving, especially in the areas of diet, fitness, and sport science. I'd argue that the style our current team plays with is better than some Prem teams. The biggest argument against the original question probably isn't from the teams of the 70's and 80's, which had a similar style, as their fitness would probably let them down against our current team. The more recent Strachan years though, would put up a much tougher fight against us. Their fitness was arguably better than ours is now, and being more recent, the standard of football hasn't moved on so far. I'd probably say they'd just about edge it against the current team. I'll admit though, that this current team is the one I've had most fun watching week in week out in my lifetime.

Really no reason (or need) to lock it (yet). It is relevant (just about) to Saints... Someone will probably produce a list of all the milton stands in the world, including obscure non relevant ones like a milton lemonade stand somewhere or something, there'll be a bit of banter about the value of the information and how the person that did the list had far too much time on their hands, then it'll be dropped off the bottom of the first page and be lost to history... probably to be resurrected at some point when some club decides to call a new stand 'milton'... Alternatively, it might go off track, turn into a slanging match between posters, and THEN it'll get locked.