Jimmy_D

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.

I think Chaplow off a two week rest will destroy their passing game and we'll win quite comfortably. If they try and sit back like they did last time I reckon we've got enough to unlock them now.

There's a tiny little thread in The Lounge that deals with this sort of stuff...

I like how there are so many Pompey fans waxing lyrical about how good an appointment a coach they'd never heard of until 5 minutes ago would be. Also... so you like it better when no-one replies? The very post after you used up one of your three posts for the day trying to get replies? The only one getting embarrassed here is you Corp.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/15616925.stm Is it just me, or does Roy Hodgson sound like a saleman in that article?

More like any credibility you once had has long since evaporated. It really doesn't matter whether you're right or wrong any more. The fact you're so desperate for us to comment suggests you're trying to convince yourself as much as us. That's ok, you can keep burying your head in the sand, we'll keep watch. How's your search for a new manager going; surely you're at least fulfilling the first requirement of him having Championship experience right?

So you think those teams that won those titles way back then could compete in today's football? Heh.

Yes, yes, pfc... you've stabilised back to your normal status of having outgoings that exceed income... with your bumper crowd of 14k (still below what you need to pay the CVA, btw) due to the return of Cotterill, you must be really confident about your future.

Ironically, despite how much everyone moans about it, the non-3pm kickoffs are to protect the 3pm kickoffs, as it allows games to be shown on TV around the 3pm blackout that encourages people to actually go and attend a local game instead of just watching the football on the TV.