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He could have done but Steve is a fan of Staffordshire Bull Terriers whilst Harry prefers bulldogs.

I agree with the OP. What is the point of producing excellent youngsters if you are too scared to give them an outing in the first team? This seems to have been a problem for us for several years now. From memory, didn't Saggy go out and borrow Calamity Davenport rather than play Matt Mills? That turned out well didn't it. Similarly Burley only trusted Crainie with a starting spot in the play offs when he was down to the bare bones. No wonder so many of our youngsters go off to other clubs feeling there is no way forward for them at St Marys. In addition to Mills and Cranie, players like Blackstock and Leon Best spring to mind as those who have gone on to prove themselves elsewhere after we failed to give them the chance to progress with us. We nurture their talent but don't give them the opportunities to progress. Lets hopewe don't make the same mistakes with the likes of JWP , Hoskins and Jack Stephens.

Having viewed the inhabitants of Portsmouth on December 18th from the top deck of a double decker bus and having read the most recent offering from pfc 123, it surely has to be Shameless

Yes it is.

I wonder where our favourite toy salesman has gone. I would have thought he would have been able to keep us informed as to what is going on at the club. I suppoe he is busy working. After all mid January must be one of the busiest times of the year for the toy market.

Oh thats all right then. I suppose this thread will be shut in a couple of days as there will be nothing untoward going on in Pompey.

Nah. It can't be. Its Friday. Nothing happens on fridays.

Going with my 12 yr old nephew who lives in Brum but supports the Saints. He has a hard time up there supporting the Saints so for his sake we need a good win.

I asked. She didn't know any. On pressing she came up with MLT and "that tall, lanky one". I think she meant Peter Crouch - not Oscar Gobern.

Five live yesterday were amazing. The sports show started at midday and the first half hour centred round whether Spurs would end the day joint top of the Premiership. (By the way is anyone else irritated by this trend to talk about "joint top." West Ham according to many parts of the media are joint top of the Championship - its almost as if goal difference hadn't been invented). There was an interview with Kevin Bond and it seemed as if 'arry's application for sainthood was complete and just needed to be put into the post. After the 12.30 news there was then a feature on "who are the top team in London". Guess who got another mention .... although at this stage I couldn't stand much more of the "isn't 'arry wonderful" lovefest and switched over. I did laugh when Spurs only drew at home with Wolves and 'arry's sheer wonderfulness was proved to be not quite so wonderful.

I know that he missed some good chances for Middlesborough today and they lost at home but dont you think it is unlikely that Middlesborough would sell him to us just 2 days after they signed him?

I presume that your source is a highly placed person at pompey who you see socially every couple of weeks and that your new owners are so minted that they make Abramovitch look poor. We expect our pet Skates to come up with this isort of rubbish. Please do not disappoint us.

and I go 2-1 to Saints.

Its always the "passion of the fans" which wins over the dodgy owners. LOL

Thanks!

That's strange - a fantasist wants us to check the facts. The facts are: Corporate Ho was posting his normal drivel on here last winter. On 7 January he made 3 posts. On 14 January he made 3 posts - the last one being at 1.10pm. On 14 January at 1.48 pm Anothersaintinsouthsea destroyed Corporate Ho with his famous post which pointed out quite a few inconsistencies in Corp's postings. ( post 36357 on page 728 if you want to re read it.). It was hilarious and completely destroyed any credibility that Corp had. We then heard nothing from Corporate Ho for many months. If he had resumed his normal rate of posting there would have been a reply from him within a week. But there was nothing. He was too ashamed to post on here . Corp was often spotted during this time by many people reading the board. Not once however did he post - doubtless aware that he was even more of a laughing stock than normal. He never once attempted to defend himself - which isn't surprising after the savaging that he took. Corp Ho next posted on 1 July - nearly 6 months after Anothersaintinsouthsea's post. His response was so cringeworthy it wasn't really worth the wait. The man is a complete fantasist. He says that "the list was originally posted when I wasn't on here" .... but he had been posting 38 minutes before the post appeared !! It was the post that made him disappear for 6 months!! Just remember Corp that you are dealing with Southampton fans on here - not the normal half wits you associate with in Portsmouth. You are going to have to try a whole lot harder to better us.

He disappeared for 6 months last year after Anothersaintinsouthsea ripped him apart - although in the fantasy world in which he lives A - He replied within a week or so (posted by him last month) B - He never left the site and just posted on here using another login (posted by him last summer) C - He posted using his wife's computer. (posted last summer) I don't know what is the most deluded of these comments - probably the one where he says he has a wife / sister.

His constant negativity and consistent p888 taking of anything positive about Saints back in the summer did get on my nerves - and of other posters. At one stage I even thought he was a skate on a wind up. The Pompey badge has Turkish connations and I considered his choice of forum name to be indicative of a Skate. Clearly I was wrong.

Today's ref was excellent. A Mr Webster from ????? After the appalling Darren Deadman and Andy d'Urso my faith in British referees has been restored. He let the game flow, exerted controrl over the game with an early (deserved) booking of Cramie and often gestured to explain his decisions. He clearly has a problem with his ego - he didn't seem to have one and realised that the crowd had come to watch a game of football and not him!! I wish we could have him every week.

Too right. That is what they should do. But it requires patience from their fans if this approach does lead to a fall down the football League. It requires skill to get the right people in place to build a development structure. It requires time for everything to fall into place. Most teams already do this sort of thing so it even may require a great deal of luck for the best talent to want to come to Pompey. Why bother with this when you can get a money launderer from the mafia in charge and you are as deluded as Corpse and the others of the Blue Few?

Reports did say that the amount of lager that Ricky was drinking was a source of amusement to some of the locals in the pub.

I had exactly the same thoughts as the OP after reading about Rickie's "incident" on Monday. 5 hours drinking after a game cannot be right for a professional athlete. I thoroughly enjoy a good drink but I am not a professional sportsman dependant on a fit body for my living. That C u n t Redkrap was right the other day when he refused his team their Christmas party saying that they had plenty of time to party in their summer break and that they needed to concentrate on their football. Last night was not the first time this season that a good performance has been swiftly followed by a disappointing one. We were poor at Reading after we had that great result against West Ham. Our performance against Middlesborough was amazing and wewere on a high after the 25 pass goal in the last few minutes but we followed that up by being lack lustre against Peterborough.

I wonder if PFC Gaz is really Corp Ho under a new name?

The extra day's rest that we will gain from playing on Friday will be a source of complaint for Gus.

Spot on.The confusion on their faces was perfect.