benjii

Markus, I love you. Seriously. I want to eat Werthers Original on your knee, look at your electric train set, go fishing, do wordwork and sniff your pipe.

Anyone know how tall he is?

Usually Fratton Park but if we're in it it will be at Plymouth instead.

Yeah, I thought he made the wrong decision a few times but that is probably down to the lack of match "sharpness". The main thing that reminded me was that I wasn't sure if he was right or left footed. I'm still not sure if Marian was left footed or right footed!

MOM for me was James easily.

Ok, fair enough. I just think we have played a lot better than that this season.

Sign of a team that's better than most of its opposition! Well done chaps!

Sign of a team that's better than its opposition, indeed.

You're having a laugh mate. We would get beaten by 70% of Championship sides playing like that. Pardew agrees with me.

Ha! Pardew: "I thought we were a bit sloppy at times" Told you all. I rock.

Wayne Thomas is massive. Made Lambert look a bit weedy in the interviews!

I thought we were distinctly average and sloppy but nevermind!

I thought he was faultless tonight. Didn't need to do that much but was spot on with all of it.

Lol - seriously?

Thought we were pretty sloppy but Charlton were smelly gash. Onwards and upwards!

Could he be the English Robbie Keane?

Lol - big Markus is there! Fair play. We love you Markus.

Lovely goal.

Thomas to RB, James in midfield I expect.

It's funny because I think most of our team have been playing below-par. Schneiderlin, Thomas, Harding and James have been excellent (and Bart has been faultless) but the rest are playing at about 65%. I'm not having a go because it looks pretty slippery out there but I think it's a good sign that we can restrict Charlton the way we have and grab a goal. Would like to see us playing a lot better than this when we have the ball though.

He's reminded me of little Marian (although obviously not as good) tonight. Seems pretty happy to cut in and use either foot. Nice.

If you are one of the incredible bunch I suggest you start a thread about how you're leaving the forum because someone is insinuating you're a bull****ter.

Absolutely - one of my pet hates too. It always amazes me that people paid to talk about football are so ignorant of it. "He lost control of the ball" - so the defender's knee high two footed assault is not a foul then? Plonkers!

Absolutely. Unfortunately there are too many tin-pot clubs in the Premier League at the moment who have to stretch beyond their means to try to stay there. Rather than address the real issue (lack of financial controls, inadequate cascading of money through the pyramid, the interests of the clubs being mislaigned with the interests of the sport etc...) they prefer to create a tighter little cabal. I support his proposals provided that Bolton, Hull, Wigan, Fulham, Portsmouth, Birmingham City and Blackburn Rovers are mandatorily removed from the new league and replaced with Derby, Notts Forest, Leeds, Sheffield Wednesday, Saints, Norwich and Newcastle. Seems fair to me.

What a bizarre analysis! "Spite" - quite an extraordinary and totally incorrect use of the word. I suppose voting against a shoe-in in a safe constituency is also "spiteful" then?