beatlesaint

That just about sums up his night by the sound of it !

About bloody time !!!

Superb.

According to BBC text assist was by Saga.

He made the second goal didnt he ?

are you trying to steal Saint J 77's thunder ?

You would like to think so, at home, against lesser opposition. Cant work out why AP doesnt see it tho.....................

Thats ****in brilliant....how do you do that ??

After that ridiculous thread that slagged Papa off after just 20 mins I get a nice smug grin on my face everytime he scores or does well. Come on Papa !!

Wonder what the attendance is ? I dont feel quite so guilty about not going tonight as I usually do when i miss a home game.

I thought you were about to quote a Roy Orbison song there with the "only the loanee bit"

I am a little bit annoyed that Torquay have obviously not followed the plan. We are supposed to be going to Wembley and winning this comp !!!!!!

Well I didnt like to say that in case I was taken out and shot but he has looked a little more shaky of late than he has for a long long time.....I guess its just a thing all keepers go through like outfield players, but they get away with it !

should have played Bart

Ignore the sarcastic response above - he was on an emergency week loan which ended yesterday.

well toss pot, the fact he never chased back or helped out the full back was a pretty bloody big clue, the fact Harding and the bench kept shouting at him to work back and cover.......jesus, I only asked if he was dropped or injured !!

I think a gate of about 7500 for this competition at this stage would be awesome.

All depends if AP is going to teach some of these younger players sharp, harsh lessons as he has indicated he would, if he thought his 20 mins was totally unacceptable.......didnt he say some of them think they are better than they are after all ?

anyone know where Mills was yesterday ? Is he injured or has AP dropped him after his awful cameo against Bristol Rovers on Tuesday where he failed to help Harding defensively and generally looked totally uninterested ?

Yes, fair play to him, I have to say I was worried that the insistance on playing him was upsetting the structure of the team but the manager and coaching staff have found him a role, worked with him, and its begun to play dividends. Thought he was very very good yesterday.

Somehow I dont think its been painted as a tribute to him......more as a "danger - this could be you !" warning if a hobby becomes an obsession. But thats art........lets hang up a picture of a ***** who urinated on the seats at St Marys and is regularly removed from grounds for drinking or bell related offences Do Portsmiff fans actually like this guy or are they embarassed by him ? I'm bloody glad we haven't got any supporters who dress up like that.

I thought he did well. Took a while to adapt to the pace, cos this aint like Italian football in any way, shape or form, and tired from about 75mins, hence coming off, but to me he got better as the first half wore on and looked quite useful second half. Lets face it if he was the next Ronaldo he wouldn't be here would he !!

which ironically brings me back to my original point that we are losing either a forward or a wide player to play Lallana. why not just play Lallana as a central midfield box to box player and see how he does there.....or does AP know his lack of discipline will leave bloody great holes through the middle ?

cos he isnt getting the service from out wide and he isnt playing as an out and out striker. Just watch on Tuesday night how deep he has to come to get a sight of the ball, its noticeable and has been in every home game so far. When he was playing up front with Patterson the young boy was further up the field than Lambert was every time we went forward. Why ? Patterson is not our £1 million goalscoring machine, Rickie is, yet we are not deploying him as an out and out striker.

Oh sorry, I thought the idea was to have a debate about formations,players, the manager etc. I am not saying he is rubbish or slagging him off, I am just asking what his best position is and wether AP is so desperate to play him that we are either sacrifycing a second striker or a natural wide player to get the ball in the box, in line with the heading of this thread about our goalscoring problem. The difference is, since you want to bring MLT into the equation is that Matt was more disciplined. If picked out wide he stayed out wide, if picked up front thats where he played. Only when older and established was he given the free role, once he had shown what he could do - pass, shoot, pick out players making a run, take corners (!!). Adam is miles from that at the moment.