Legod Third Coming

Lol, sorry Nicola...

I like Lambert, a lot. But if he was going to play Premiership football, he would have done so by now or have all the Premiership scouts been asleep for fifteen years? Trundle, Eastwood, Earnshaw... all players who are not quite Premiership standard but still bloody good strikers. Lambert doesn't have the pace for the Premiership so calm down everyone eh...

Do you think Hammond, Lambert and Fonte joined on the basis we were being promoted then?? Or do you think they signed up to a plan?

The days of us being raped and pillaged for our players are long gone, thankfully.

+1 Why would anyone go there?? Going bust, going down... he might as well join Pompey! The reality is we alredy trebled his salary, according to Lenny Lawrence, and changed his life. If he goes, he would go with my blessing but I hope he doesn't. He can be a hero here, earn good money and win a trophy or two...

You give up too easily! 15 points, game in hand, 13 games to go... is that not an exciting prospect? Many a slip twix cup and lip and all that.

Patently not true. On last 8 game form, we are 4th in the league. Since December 1st our league form is: WWWLWLDDWDWDWWL That's 15 games and 28 points - with nine of those games away from home. I would suggest that is probably top two/three form.

Just seen their penalty on TV, what a bloody joke!!! The guy goes for a speculative overhead and fecks it up. Even he was shocked he got a penalty!!!

Why?? Look at the relative size/wealth of Southampton, Charlton, Norwich, Leeds to a team like Swindon, Colchester, Southend... To win a league you have to win matches - lots of them. Why is it harder for Peteborough to beat West Brom than Tranmere to beat Southampton?? Teams drop from the Premiership and lose most of their Premiership players for obvious reasons. I think the 'Championship is the hardest league to get out of' is a total fallacy. Every year three teams manage it and those teams have included: Derby, Reading, West Brom, Watford, Hull... Or do the relegated Premiership teams go straight back? Boro, Southampton, Charlton, Norwich, Reading,.... see how the facts would appear to bulldoze this theory? Only Newcastle are a different class in this year's Championship and they have money without the parachute payment, loads of it.

I agree entirely, we have championship winning form since Xmas. The odd defeat - and it is odd - ie the first in a calander year on the 6th fecking March!! - has not dented my hopes either for this season or next. And for the record we are joint 4th in the 8 game form table, along with... er Tranmere!!! Who knows what they might do at home to our peers?? I also don't get how no-one is suggesting Tranmere might be our bogey ground... And EVERY team has them. Arsenal at Bolton most seasons, United at the Dell and so on... We are now finding fault with a team in great form, what a difference from the last six years!

Promoted from the Premiership, to where????????????

I'm not convinced it is a 'trend'. Earlier in the season we had no problem winning away anywhere! Nor do I believe it has anything to do with the pitches - I think Pardew used that for convenience. I was at Wycombe and their players seemed perfectly able to run with the ball AT US!! down the middle of the pitch... Now I'm not saying it was a bowling green but it sure wasn't the Somme. It was better than Wigan's pitch and Spurs managed to play on that ok... I think it's about our tactics when we go to some of these places and the players believing they can win too easily without doing the simple, basic things well. However, I trust Pardew to work this out or sort it out. I haven't seen a signing I didn't think was excellent. And I've only seen one game where I genuinely didn't think we were by far the better side, irrespective of the result. I do still think that draws at Exeter and Brentford were far from the disgrace some do given the comparative results of our peers. Yes, I would like to win there! But our current form (today aside) is first class. If it continued throughout 2010, we will be top by Xmas of one league or another...

They should know their roles - he only has two systems!! But he says he doesn't care about systems because a winning mentality is more important and I tend to agree with him - good players can make any formation work and should be good enough to change it on the pitch if needed. I am not too worried about today, given the form since we got our first eleven on the pitch and what I read on the thread of those who saw the game. Sounds like a bit more luck and better refereeing would have made a difference today. I am more worried by the woeful display at Wycombe where nothing worked but we simply didn't appear to be 'at the races' and were second to everything...

I think you have hit for me what the problem could easily be. The ability to win when it is expected, each and every time. That kind of winning mentality does not develop overnight.

Says whom? have you seen them? Did he miss, did the keeper pull off blinding saves?? Christ, have some evidence first eh?

True, we are the second richest.

We lost. S H I T happens. Why is one loss in 2010 a worry for you? If we lose the next three games, worry. If we don't refer to line 1.

Why is Lallana a problem when we beat Norwich, Walsall and Huddersfield with him? Why was today his fault?

Crikey, first we weren't beating enough of the top six, now we are, it's the bottom four that are the problem. Tell me, is there anything we can do right?

What teams like us, and Charlton, and Norwich and er... Boro, Reading..., Watford, Derby and er... all those other teams with oodles of cash in parachute payments who so dominate the Championship or not...

Lallana gets into the places to have shots. Some miss. With eleven goals in the league he is already one of the top scoring midfielders. He is also still learning. Against Portsmouth he outclassed a Premiership side and was denied by a brilliant save from David James (of course in the mind of some, he 'fluffed it' although I'm not sure there's a neutral in the land with that view). He isn't consistent, not many players his age are. Those that are, play Premiership and international football.

Correct. But today's is being blown out of proportion by the usual suspects. Tell me when did we last lose a league game?

Antonio - that goal scoring machine eh...

The point is, we let them win five games between August and September when we won none or maybe one. That's what is costing us, not the occasional crap result at Tranmere. That's just life.

Earlier in the season you were forced to 'confess you were wrong about both of them'. And guess what, you are again. Congratulations. (PS how did they both do against Norwich, Walsall and Huddersfield...) They are both in our best 11. Live with it.