S-Clarke

He's a cracking pro, i don't remember him having a bad game for us - even in the championship. He wasn't the quickest, or the most mobile anymore but his reading of the game was still premiership class. I wouldn't be surprised to see him retire now, wonder if he'd consider staying on as a coach?

White has just suffered his third serious injury, another cruciate - out for 9-12months. Don't know if he'll ever make it back tbh.

Lowe gave Forecast a 5 year deal, so we'd have to pay a bit to release him which is such a screw up. Pulis was offered a 3/4 year i think? might be wrong on that one. I am surprised by Lloyd though, i thought he would have made a decent squad player but the reality is that he isn't good enough to take us where we want to go. That list is a huge statement of intent if there ever was one. I wouldn't read too much into the loan players returning either, we may still try to get them in.

it makes you wonder where the club got the designers from? guys on the web forums came up with a much better design, not a total redesign by any means - just the obvious tweaks. such a shame that it's too late to change it now.

Would expect this to be the case, all the clues seem to point towards this style (+ seeing as it was one of our founding kits!) i quite like the idea, i think it'll look very smart.

On another note, pompey have a nice new away kit. (sorry if already posted, couldn't see it anywhere)

ditto that. whenever I've seen him come off the bench he seems to inject life into our team and he always looks likely to cause problems. He's never going to be the most cultured of players, in fact he can be pretty random at times - but i think we'd be worse off if we didn't have him as an option.

The gold touch is nice, but i agree with pretty much everyone here - the red ''125'' is wrong. The wrong colour and the wrong font. it's just a crest though at the end of the day, it will look so much different when it's on the shirts imo.

This ''rivalry'' they're trying to build up is quite funny. I always saw them as our little south coast neighbours; we helped them out every now and then. All of a sudden it's the new great big south coast rivalry. yeh right.

Great statement from NC, i was slightly worried with all the talk that he was going to do something silly - but obviously not. Interesting section in the statement, where he states he wants to see ''a good style of play that is compelling to watch''. glad it's all sorted though and we can look forward to the summer.

They deserve all the credit for getting there in the first place, and they put up a good fight (didn't see much of it as i was hooked on the PO Semi) didn't ever imagine Baird playing in a euro final!

bit harsh, they've both earned their right this year and have done a good job. Whoever wins the final deserves a place in the PL, whether they're good enough to stay there is enough thing though. but what an utter moron with that penalty. I can see him being the first player released in the summer - 1 goal all season and he's a striker.

broke his leg, left ACL and now the right ACL. utter nightmare. i always thought he could have made an impact here.

3-2 Leicester now. 3-3 on agg. anyone's game.

3-1 to Leicester now the playoffs this year are bloody fantastic....cant' take your eyes off them.

well that's put that to bed then. thread closed? shame - good bloke.

don't think so - i only remember it being announced on the FL Show on saturday night.

pretty much

I don't think people are turning against him, most of us can see what he's done and we'd ben screwed without him and ML - but that doesn't mean he's closed to critisism and i feel there are a few things he could and should have handled much better than he has.

I agree with you. We have alot to thank NC for and he's done alot of good in putting this club back in the right direction, but as you say - his constant alienating of certain individuals and his petty blocking of the echo is irritating alot of people. At the end of the day all the Pardew uncertainty has been caused by his comments to solent a few months ago - IMO chairman should really not get involved in the media like he did, they were some naive comments which rocked the ship and has added a doubt over pardews future ever since. All we need him to do now is confirm either way - keep him, or replace him, because we cannot have a summer of this constant ''the club refuse to comment'' rubbish.

quality, well played blackpool - brilliant performance.

You're right, Pard's has laid some really solid foundations at this club - from the players, to the coaches and even to the scouting network. If you ignore the first 10 games, his performance on the field has been pretty good. 83 points is the real total we gained over 46 games, 3 points behind leeds. I don't count that as a failure considering what we started with. If he does go it must primarily be down to NC and Pards clashing behind the scenes, there have been some disagreements on the targets for some time (if you look at Nicola's statement from February on the league not being good enough, and the cups not a priority etc) Any new manager that comes into this club is lucky, because they take control of a ready made club which they don't need to do much with - Pard's has laid it all ready for them, which is why it's so harsh if he does get sacked. Cotterill will probably get us promoted, but i must say his appointment wouldn't fill me with a massive amount of confidence - he's not in the same league as Pard's anyway, which is why I'd view it as a backwards step in the grand scheme of things. I trust pard's to take this team to the premiership - and i believe he'd make if he's given the chance. Sadly, i don't think he will be.

I'd love to know what AP has done to **** NC off so much! it can't just be our league performance, because that's been ok...

if that's true, then it really is madness and possibly would take us backwards and render this season a waste of time.

****. Poor fella, such a shame - he had the talent to make an impact here, but was ruined by injuries.