stevegrant

Wanyama, like quite a few of our players, is very useful in certain circumstances but a waste of space in others. When we don't have the ball, he's very useful as he's good at winning it back and providing a shield for the defence, but when we have the ball and want to go forwards, I don't think anyone would legitimately try to claim that he's a better passer or dribbler than Romeu. He would have been very useful against Chelsea, for example, where we had very little possession and needed more bodies to win it back. I don't think the issue at Bournemouth was them "going through us", as 99% of their play was down the wings and they only scored because of poor concentration from two set pieces. Despite how bloody awful we were, that was still the only difference. Yesterday was a failure to take the handful of good chances we created in the first half and then a collective lack of responsibility taken by 3 or 4 players compounded by Yoshida getting his legs in a tangle for their goal.

Have we appointed Jaap Stam as penalty-taking coach?

The Wallace transfer would almost certainly come under Wolves' agent expenditure, not Pompey's. Unless a club is actively looking to sell a player, they don't tend to pay an agent when they sell.

The implication in this part is pretty clear. Anyway, this is only going one way...

There is a thread running in The Lounge for you to push your political opinions onto people. Not here.

An away trip to Stoke specifically, I would guess. Given the prices, it's probably a ground most people have done before, but it's also one that most people might think "I've done that one, not bothered if I go there again". Everton and Liverpool are in that bracket for me, been a few times to each, never a particularly pleasant experience, even when we've won.

Disagree. He's been good for them since the new year, only really Martial who's also been playing well for them.

Ugh, confirmed that his injury is a ruptured ACL

It'll also be the most ****ing nauseating experience imaginable for the rest of the country.

No more than usual, I wouldn't have thought. Referees make stupid decisions all the time.

The highlighted option.

Only if those clubs participating in any ESL actually left the domestic game in order to participate, of which there's no guarantee, and I'd probably actually argue the clubs wouldn't see that move as beneficial to them.

And that is where they will think they can make up the shortfall of not introducing the higher prices in the new main stand. With every game priced the same at Anfield next season, but the stated intention to freeze the existing top price of £59, that means that's the price you'll have to pay for a game against a lesser opponent as well as for, say, Man United. The fans have got what they wanted with a removal of match categorisation, but they'll find that doesn't reduce ticket prices - it actually increases them for most games as *every* game is now ranked as Category A.

While the headlines would suggest that to be the case, I suggest people dig a little deeper into the resolutions to see that come next season, many Liverpool fans will still have great cause for complaint...

Problem is you would assume they wouldn't come back every week if they didn't sell enough to make money, probably the best market research available is the experience of knowing you're going to sell X number of **** burgers every week at Y profit. Agree it would be nice to have a choice, but on the flipside, Southampton city centre has a good range and is only a 10-minute walk away.

All three red cards this season were entirely justified. Not necessarily "deserved", in the case of the one on Saturday, but entire justified, i.e. you can see why the referee would make that decision. Not sure which player you've been watching, he's pretty much only bothered performing in a handful of games against Arsenal and Man United. Tanks are slow and ponderous, and show difficulty in changing direction quickly enough to react to things going on around it. Sounds a perfect description...

The problem with the free ticket is that so many people were abusing it.

The people who go to games now will be the main beneficiaries, they are already in possession, they'll just be able to pay less money to do so. It will not increase the likelihood of A N Other who hasn't been for a decade of getting a ticket for a big game. If anything, it will just increase the proliferation of the black market sale of tickets as a wannabe tout won't need as much of a bankroll to buy up half a dozen season tickets in other peoples' names, safe in the knowledge that it's a guaranteed profit every other week.

Do you think if they reduced the price of every ticket that it would stop the tourists? Clearly everybody would, if given the option, choose to pay less for tickets. With most PL grounds sold out every week, the only people that really benefit are those who already go. Most clubs operate schemes which ensure those who attend most regularly get priority, so how would reducing the price help those who can't go now because they can't afford it? All it would do is provide a different reason as to why they can't go, i.e. there aren't enough tickets to satisfy the demand.

So in summary, none of you know for sure. There we go then.

To be fair, this does assume that Clattenburg didn't simply forget which pocket had which card in. The crucial thing here is that there doesn't have to be contact, merely intent. The way he went in was an open invitation for the referee to send him off - exacerbated by the reaction of Payet rolling around and the likes of that little scrote Noble getting in the ref's face.

There's a cost involved in appealing, but if the club thought they had a chance of overturning it, that wouldn't be anything like a problem. The only theoretical issue is the "frivolous appeal" rule where an extra game can be applied to the ban if the appeal panel think the club's wasted their time.

Some Fratton Facts: They've won just 5 out of 15 home league games this season, and they've not yet beaten a team currently in the top 14 of the division. They've beaten the bottom 3, Barnet (18th) and Crawley (15th). This is their third season in League Two, and they have won 25 out of 61 of their home league games in that period, losing 17 and drawing 19. They have only beaten one team home or away who were subsequently promoted that season (Rochdale in 2013/14).

Yep, likely to be this. Corporates get priority access to away tickets as well, I believe.

Looks like there's plenty left. Only 7 in block 24 (right in the corner), but 60 tickets still available in block 23.