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My best 5: Niemi Beattie Lambert Morgan Kelvin Davis (notwithstanding his difficulties at times this season and initially, he has been instrumental in our back-to-back promotions) Honourable mentions to Pahars, Fonte, Michael Svensson, Claus (may have been more than 15 years ago actually) Worst five: Davenport Jakobsen Forecast Pulis Wright Phillips

Looks athletic.

Sounds like an unintended consequence of some rules which appear to attempt to place some sort of defined parameters around what constitutes a disability (which is clearly a reasonable thing to try to define). I expect and hope it will all be fine.

You really are the most monotonous plonker on here.

I need to arrange a stag for late Oct/early Nov. Any suggestions for good venues apart from the obvious?

Fear not; the business plan is robust. In fact, it is so robust it could easily withstand another re-write.

Villa away we played a pretty standard notional 4-4-2. The fact is that Rodriguez has hardly played at all as a central striker. I would have liked us to have given him a go in that position a bit more towards the end of the season as Lambert was clearly knackered and/or injured and pretty ineffective. I think Rodriguez has all the attributes to be a very solid Prem player.

Yeah but so what? You only pay 40% on the excess above the tax threshold so there is no sense in waiting just for that reason.

Affordability is a personal and subjective question. Football is fairly expensive in terms of £/minute, no doubt. When you're looking at German prices though it strikes me that you need to think about the wider league pyramid. I know very little about German lower league football but I'm going to hazard a guess that their fourth tier is much less "professional" than the English fourth tier with lower overheads, cheaper players, probably regional etc... Now, £2million in ticket revenue maybe inconsequential to Bayern Munich but it isn't to Bristol Rovers or Lincoln or York etc... They do need to squeeze whatever funds they can out of anyone willing to provide them or they will go bust. I just had a look at York City's ST prices. Last year a new adult ST ranged from £255 to £325 - that's in League 2. So, when League 2 teams are charging £300 and paying some of their players £40k a year it hardly seems fair to expect Premier League teams paying some of their players much more than that each week not to charge a bit more. I guess my tentative conclusion is that the large size of the English professional pyramid is bound to have an inflationary effect on tickets, especially when those at the bottom are largely in financial strife.

If we sign Honda does that mean one of our current squad will be on their bike?

Hear, hear. I thought a few of our players looked off the pace yesterday as though they were a little preoccupied. As it turns out they clearly had good reason to be. :-(

He shouldn't be in the team at the moment, given that Puncheon is much better than him nearly every time we play. Not sure why Pocche keeps picking him as he offers very little.

Clyne always slips at least twice per match at home. Hooiveld often slips. Either way, although the surface looks amazing, some of our players do seem to struggle to get to grips with it (lolzz!111!!) at times.

If I took a job on the back of a vision and promises of commitment to back that vision and four months later it all turned out to be baloney I suspect I would consider my options. I really don't see the issue. It's only parochial, tin-pot outfits like Pompey that would even bother running the "here for the love of the club" ******** in the first place. I suspect this was never a big deal. I reckon some journals got wind of the strategy talks and it all escalated. I think Cortese may have played it up a but for the Lolz to be fair.

Is that Guly's signature on the back board?

This forum is moderated awfully. Genuinely disruptive and monotonous tits are allowed to dominate whilst genuinely entertaining posters end up getting banned. Hence I no longer waste five quid or much of my time on here.

Would like to see Rodriguez have a go as the central striker. Shame Ramirez is out though as I think they would be a great pair.

Paul Hart and Arrigo Sacchi dream team.

Not so sure. I think it's quite feasible that one or more of Newcastle and Norwich will lose their last two games meaning one Wigan win would probably keep them up, as long as they don't get hammered in their other match. I can see a Wigan win against Villa sending one of the Ns down.

Well, ok, not quite mathematically but we would need to lose by at least 13 goals. So virtually safe. Which is mathematically certain, virtually.

Yep, if we draw and Villa lose we are mathematically safe regardless of what Wigan do in their last two games.

Tv deal is completely irrelevant. The relevant factor is the demand for tickets. If people will pay it, it will be charged. Why would you lower prices just because you are earning more from an unconnected revenue stream?

Some more bestests! Kit prices, programme prices and meal prices. They are the uber-bestest. Biggest ground of its capacity too. Awesome. "Pompey meal". Pie and bag of crisps. Gotta live the dream.

Agree, with Clyne at lb and Richardson at rb

Puncheon has been consistently far better than Lallana. If I were Jason I'd be absolutely gutted to be sat on the bench.