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De Riddder's one yellow away from a suspension, isn't he? That's some going, given his role and playing time. And a big loss.

I want Saints to succeed more than I want Pompey to fail, so a Pompey win would work for me. Heresy?

Thank God the refs are full-timers now. Imagine how bad they'd be if they were still part-timers. What a frigging rip-off that is.

Well, they say a team comes to assume the personality of its manager - never mind two of them. It sure looks that way with BHA - and I still haven't forgotten Dunk's horror tackle on Billy Sharp at the start of the season.

All of the above, but we're playing less of the square and meaningless variety and more of the kind that really pull and stretch the opposition and test their fitness levels. And the willingness and ability to hit long, crisp and accurate diagonal passes every so often keeps the opposition guessing and makes out short game better.

Deepest sympathies from me, too. You have them all your life and then suddenly they're gone. But I'll bet you have a million great memories of time together.

If we're figuring out the best response, I'd settle for a Guly hat trick.

You'd have thought so, but the players always had the "Teams a player short play above themselves" excuse. Nigel has to make sure that this lesson is taken on board a lot better.

Maybe Nigel needs to get that boxer video out again. If we can grab a winner, this could be a valuable lesson without a big cost.

Dave's brewing up for another shot of staggering insight such as "The next goal could be a really big one."

It doesn't really sound like 61% possession.

As long as Rodney doesn't know it things could still be okay.

"Simples"

The same happened to me - I think they might actually penalize you for repetitive voting.

Who'd eat all the pies?

They showed Summerbee in the directors' box at a recent Man City game and I laughed because my foremost memory of him was not a goal or a mazy run, but of him trying to climb back over the wall under the West Stand after Hollywood deposited him into the crowd. IIRC that was about 90 seconds into the game.

I would have thought that the PC brigade in the UK would have outlawed the term "fat" by now, and replaced it with something like "abundantly proportioned".

1 Follower. Says it all, really.

Excellent. After watching that - us making a good (top 3) team look poor, I'm going to offer a long distance opinion about our away form. I honestly don't think we've yet realized how good we are. In away matches we set out to deny the opponents space instead of doing what we do at home - concentrate on making our own space. It was very clear at Reading, and it enabled them not just to stay with us but cause us real problems. We have so many attacking permutations that it makes you head spin, and I'd like to see us start using them more in away games. Still, three at home and one away will win most leagues.

I think it's three points behind (MLG moment ).

I'm an optimist () and I'd have bitten their arms off if someone had offered me 8 points from the last four games.

One of the biggest measures of our season so far - they were second and had only conceded 8 before this. After the last four games, so much for "We haven't played any good teams yet".

Hammond has been pretty quiet today.

Chappers is one of the fittest players I've seen.

Three CBs will often do that for you.