alpine_saint

This. It really is time for Pompey fans to say goodbye to this terminal basket-case of a club. This situation now needs to be quickly and smoothly put out of its misery. Start again 2013/14 (too late for this season) It is OVER....

IMO something has gone very wrong at the club over the second part of this close season. What, I dont know. From appearing energetic and proactive in the transfer activity, we have disappeared off the scope. Maybe we blew our budget on J-Rod, I dont know. But the team has significant weakness still, is playing a new system and struggling to come to grips, so if it all goes tits up over the first dozen games and we part company with NA, I would not be surprised. Would be a real shame.

Stupid as well as a troll...our sevicemen and women's professionality and dignity has nothing to do with the way the Government treat them - they continually demonstrate that.

Completely agree with both points- Our lads did their job with the professionalism and dignity we've come to expect from them.

As with all good quality sarcasm, this works well because there is more than an element of truth in the sarcastic points.

My eldest two train three times a week and play once a week - football. But I would be delighted if they turn round to me and say they want to stop in favour of something they've seen at the Olympics. One had been murmuring about boxing and the other once mentioned fencing, but not said anything since, so I've planted a little seed about rowing, because hes going to be 6ft + and has quite a stocky physique.

Unease is rising by the day. Feel we will be tonked on Sunday. Feels like we simply havent done enough over the summer to reflect promotion to the PL.

Beckham would have to replace Bobby Moore Duncan Ferguson to replace John Wark Cristiano Ronaldo to replace Ossie Ardiles Dennis Bergkamp to replace Co Prins Wayne Rooney for Mike Summerbee Mario Balotelli to replace Pele Michael Laudrup to replace Soren Lindsted Shay Given for Kevin O'Callaghan Vin Diesel to replace Sylvester Stallone Andreas Möller (that oily c*nt from the Euro 96 penalty shoot-out) to play Baumann. Or Michael Ballack.

It wasnt a prediction, bell-end. It was Lennox Lewis's round-by-round reaction.

Anthony Joshua being stitched up by the scoring...... EDIT : take it back........

Wow, perceptive poster; they havent even know him as long as us.

Yep, and I complain about it every summer.

I suspected we blew our transfer kitty on Rodruigez at the time, and said those expecting a 25m tranfer window were lunatics. Consdiering we already had a few forward options, that business is now looking like an act of suicide. If we still had significant money available we'd have our CBs by now.

This. My hopes and expectations have plummeted the last couple of weeks on news that Lambert and Lallana are playing like carthorses and the transfer activity has not just petered out, its hit a brick wall.

Sort the spelling out first though......

Daley guaranteed silver or bronze. Helluva comeback from yesterday.

All I can say is Jesus, we are in for a long, tough, painful season.........

Yes, my mind wandered to down the road and considered the possibility we would be losing 5-0 to Gibraltar too..

I agree, it doesnt seem to be NCs style. Sounds more like agent skulduggery - trying to wrangle a move, but got caught with hand in cookie jar so fobbing blame off on club. That was quite a severe punishment though - such an embargo could get us relegated.

I wonder where we would be without his intervention. I shudder to think. Thanks, Markus.

Thanks for the bump and the other activity on this thread

On a lighter note, Anthony Joshua has got through to the final of the super-heavweights, beating the world #1.

I understand Cook's resentment completely. He felt GB Taekwando's training programme was awful and decided to train outside of it. He got the results, they didnt so they stopped selecting him for what can only be described as a mixture of revenge and jealousy. There are ways to communicate this though, and I get the impression from what you have written that he came across as a billy big-b*ll*cks, which shows a lack of class, especially on the day the poor sod thrown into the middle of this sh*t-storm has to fight.

Of course you are. You must point out where I called someone a "fat c**t"