Lighthouse

No, some people were cautiously optimistic based on a fairly respectable recent record, at a decent level in Europe.

Alright, calm down. There are plenty of other websites where you can find a bit of that.

I've got mates who support Spurs, Pompey and Newcastle (I'm sure most of us have) and ahhhhh... it's just glorious. I don't know who to laugh at hardest.

They could always distract people from the war by releasing some more Epstein files. They distract people from that by invading Russia. Sort of an 'old lady who swallowed a fly' strategy.

Just copying my own post from the match thread. Glad to see the MK goal getting remembered by other people. It often slips under the radar because it was away in League 1 but it really was a cracker. Tiss vs Blackburn - esq in awareness and precision.

I can't fathom why people are incapable of opinions on Bazunu which aren't hysterical over exaggerations. He's not even been at the club for several months and yet every match thread seems to have a couple of dozen references to him being, "a disaster, crisp packet wrists, literally never makes a save, the worst goal keeper I've ever seen play football, cost us automatic promotion twice," etc. and hardly any about other worse players or the change in formation. Why can't it just be a modest improvement, along with a back four, a target man striker, Bree back in the team, Wood and Romeu dropped and no Fellows at WB? Two years ago we averaged 91 points with 'the disaster' in goal, which is better than we managed with Kelvin in 2012. I can live with that personally, I don't feel the need for hyperbole.

He might save one of them, we'll never know. They're certainly no worse than the goals Peretz conceded against Wednesday and Charlton. The team is set up different now and we aren't still trying to pretend Romeu is a professional footballer. We're defending much better as a team, have a better shape, a large physical focal point up front and the likes of Wood and Romeu are out the team. They're all important factors in our improvement.

We lost because our finishing was dreadful, we only scored once from a set piece and we ran out of ideas. Then at the end of the game we allowed one of their players to basically jog straight through the middle of our team and score from about eight yards out. Some people feel the need to blame Bazunu for everything, so I can only assume in this game he was wearing an outfield shirt with 'Romeu 28' printed on the back.

I was late to the party and only watched the last series to see what the fuss was about. There were some decent individual performances but the actual storylines just had me a bit 'meh'.

It's hard to put them in order but for games when I've actually been in the stadium it's competing with: Osvaldo vs Man City Thomas vs Ipswich Lambert away at MK Dons Lallana vs Hull Pelle vs QPR Plus a whole smorgasbord of free kicks from Lambert, Vignal, JWP, Bale and randomly Chris Baird.

Remember in 2011/12 when Bristol City beat us home and away and those six points, plus Pompey's deduction, sent the latter down? Be a shame if that happened again.

Peretz is a better keeper than Bazunu but it's nowhere near this level of hyperbole. We might have a few more points but if you think we'd be automatic promotion candidates with Will Still in charge and Peretz playing behind a back five, with Wood in the middle and Fellows and Manning as wing backs, I disagree.

Ramsdale in danger of double figures at the Nou Camp.

Our soldiers wouldn't be any help anyway. They always hide away from the front line, apparently.

Any result which benefits Saints is always the preference, Pompey are an after thought. Having said that I don't really see Derby finishing the season above Wrexham anyway, if we finish below the former then it'll be in 8th not 7th IMO, so it wont matter.