S-Clarke

One thing you get with Gillett is 110% effort and passion in his performances, you cannot fault that. I would say he's lacking slightly in presence to play consistently and regularly at this level of football, not because he's not good enough for it...but simply IMO he doesn't have the stature to give us what we need in midfield. replacing him with Hammond is fair IMO - he's also full of heart and effort, but Hammond is much more suited to this level because of his physical presence.

fantastic to see McLaggon included! Will be interesting to see how many mins he gets.

Top post - agree with all of that. If we don't manage it but we've given it a good shot, then it'll build alot of momentum for next year....then we could finally ''walk a league''

even more mental (no offence robbie) that he believes that we'll still have him as a manager, if he succeeds in scraping survial this year. come on robbie...!

If we stay up, he may have delievered that, but his position would be very unstable. Scraping survial would be a disaster for this team, the money that has been spent, the players we have..... if that's all we can manage this year, what's to say we'll be better prepared next year? Confortable top half mid-table is my view, we've left it too late for the playoffs IMO but we're too good to be anywhere near a relegation scrap come the 2nd half of the season....and if we are, something is wrong.

Blackberry's are brilliant. I've got the Bold 9000 and i really recommend it. It does pretty much anything you need a phone to do..and then more - and has an v good quality HD screen (ok, it's not a big screen but the quality is still v impressive) the built in GPS is a good bonus, and if you get it with vodafone you get a free 24 month subscription to their satnav application, works just like a tomtom. i've fiddled around with alot of blackberries over the last year, as i support them in my job - best by a long mile is def. the bold IMO - go for it.

i saw that...scared me. I thought it was our new one for a second, looked a bit closer...had a horrible feeling that this ML/Cortese/AP setup had been a complete dream!!

Why did you not take up your season ticket to arsenal? (i think it was them..) Every single post you make is complaining or criticizing any aspect of this football club - i don't understand what the hell you want from this club? If you want pardrew out - who exactly replaces him? Go on..enlighten me. I expect you're questioning Cortese and ML too - wouldn't surprise me in the slightest.

Notts county fans should be very nervous. They just seem to be a middle eastern plaything, as soon as they get bored (which they will, should they hang around in L2/L1 for more than 3 years) then they'll be left hung and dry.

damn. (bloody sky..!) we could have had a decent gate for this tie, i'd imagine this will knock a few thousand off.

Absolutely agree. Im not getting too carried away just yet. I remember these threads poped up when we went on a 5 match winning streak in our playoff season ''We are better than our relegated premiership side..'' etc. Still a long way to go before this lot can be compared to any past team!

Explain this then Skates... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1219527/EXCLUSIVE-Portsmouth-facing-financial-ruin-unpaid-tax-bill.html You cannot pay the TAX up front, and you are you still trying to stagger payments, why would you do that if the guy who now owns you is full of cash? It still stinks, something isn't right.

+1 i agree with this and it annoys me when people say ''We just need to survive by 1 point'' that would mean we're still loosing with regularity in L1 ffs...we shouldn't be anywhere near the bottom half of the table with this lot. ..and we won't be.

Jesus, that would screw us over if he went. You can see the difference he's made so far. I'm sure if it's serious from Wycombe though, he'd love to dive back into management.

Made his first app. against Yeovil in the carling cup, back in 2005. He did v well - so GB threw him into the next league game (we didn't do v well and he struggled a bit) then he wasn't seen again under the GB regime...on the bench a few times, but that was it.

Agree - although a point at Oldham and a win v MK Dons at home would be a good return for me. Oldham will be a v v hard game, they're flying at the moment....

It's been a pretty good day for us! still just the 1 pt behind wycombe too...and brighton threw away a 2-0 lead at yeovil...

It's amazing really, at how quickly he's fixed us up if you think about it. He saw our weaknesses within a few weeks and had fixed them in a month. At swindon we looked like we were going to conceded with almost every free kick or set peice - but trotman has fixed that. Pard's brought him in to be the 'dominant'' header of the ball - and boy is he that.

Credit where it's due for Wotton. a good professional, who digs in and does the ugly side of the game whilst the advanced lads get on with their passing. It makes a huge difference to the confidence of a team when they know they've got a back 5 really.

Well southend fans rate us. ''At the end of the day Southampton are a Championship side and play like one, their movement, ball control and passing was amazing to watch and they knew we couldn't play at their pace so they hounded our guys as soon as we had the ball resulting in long balls in hope'' blimey. haven't read oppo views like that in what feels like decades. Love it.

10th/11th Nov.

cracking that we've got it at home....tough game all the same though. has this competition ever had a draw like that?

Southern Draw... MK Dons v Northampton Leyton Orient v Hereford Swindon v Norwich Saints v Charlton

Northern Draw... Leeds v Grimsby Accrington/Shrewsbury v Bury Bradford City v Portvale Chesterfield v Carlisle

I'd go with that...