S-Clarke

Played for Sheffield Wednesday last season, but he's a player (wide man) that blows very hot and cold. He can look fantastic and score some brilliant goals one moment, and the next he looks a bit like a headless chicken. He has been on trial with Charlton, but they decided not to pursue it. Will be interesting to get a view from our resident owl...

that works both ways though, Papa might not have wanted to stay here. It's not an agreement that's totally set in stone.

Good signing, they're pretty serious about going up this year. It's going to be competitive which makes it more interesting....but i still think we have the advantage of ''continuity''. Also...we'll probably be the only club in a position to buy in January and teams that are active in the january window often have very good 2nd halves of the season. Wednesday/Hudders etc could be maxing out their budget already, just like we did in our playoff season in 2006.

Technically he was miles better at the end of the season than we we first got him. If you look at his cameo performances at the start v Torquay in the JPT etc and then look at his match winning performance v Charlton, it's like watching a different player. He improved massively and everything points to him continuing to improve if he stayed with us. It's clear to me that he blossomed under our management and they were able to coach and get the best out of him. If we don't get him, i hope he doesn't end up drifting away because he could be a really good championship level winger for someone.

Sounds like they've got a bit confused, i thought the idea was shelved for now because of the cost and work it would take to organize. + we would have been told well before now. ...wouldn't we?

FOOTBALL: Portsmouth end contract talks with England goalkeeper David James _

http://www.football-rumours.co.uk/playersightings.php lol @ that page

anything less than 138 points and i will be disappointed! Seriously though, I'd expect this team to get 90+ points and maybe even break the 100 point barrier if everything goes right for us.

Very, very good player. Where did you find that? not football rumours i hope!

This is what was on there - ''On 21 july 2010 Elokobi signed for league 1 side southampton for an undisclosed fee believe to be between £1m- £1.5 milion pounds after turning down local rivals Portsmouth on the grounds that he wanted to make a protest against that clubs criminal abuse of its creditors trust.'' made me lol

don't believe anything on that website. I've sent crap to that site before just to see, and low and behold it was published within 24 hours you can send them anything. It's like an internet based transfer window for football manager.

he's been made to look a prize tool this morning.

Can't see it being true as Thomo wanted to move up north and had been using Stokes facilities to keep up fitness whilst hunting for a new club.

still not good enough fro most people. was speaking to someone the other day who was certain Pardew wasn't the right manager as he cannot get results. Baffled the hell out of me.

he's not a RB, a make shift emergency option. You'd be the first one moaning if there was a chance he'd be playing at RB.

nope, right back was the first priority as we didn't even have a first teamer to start there before richardson signed.

oh well, never mind

but you do it all the time. a fwiw he makes very valid points. Jury is still out on the 2 RB's, but they're very promising additions based on their form last season (1 in a league above)

we're not, but he's another player to add to the squad that wasn't really around last season. FWIW i think Punch will fill the right sided role, with Lallana on the left. Chamberlain as backup to Punch and Dickson/Mills as backup to Lallana. Our best results last season came with those 2 playing and swapping around.

Good shout on young Chamberlain, i think he may be the attacking wide-player we all think we need to buy....he may be staring at us already.

it's.the.middle.of.flaming.july and we're already talking as if the transfer window is shut and our business is over. one good thing though, when we usually get these kind of discussions a signing is announced the following day.

That's the thing Alps, no one is denying that we don't need backup players. What's irritating people is that you actually seem to think that Pardew is sat on his arse, at home, watching loose women on TV every day, letting the days pass him by and thinking ''we don't need to replace Antonio or papa''. You have such a naive view on how football works at times.

tbf Dickson will add quality as well, regarded as one of the best left sided players outside the prem. I think Huddersfield are stronger than they were last season, they've significantly strengthened in the areas we ****ed all over them (notably midfield). But i still don't get the opinions (mainly from alps) that we need to make lots of signings, that we don't actually need, otherwise we'll be left behind. Just to be sure we need to buy backup for Morgan, but then just in case....we need to get backup for the backup player as well. etc... Don't you already think we have the quality? they're adding to get close to our quality. FWIW it's mid july, the squad has just come back from switzerland and some area lready speaking like we're letting the season pass us by. bit odd tbh

you really are a bit of a bore!

yeh, but what a great time to throw that tradition out of the window! everything is in place for us to have a good start this season though tbf, no excuses.