Lighthouse

Useless Safri scored an absolute belter once. The rest of Shane Long's Premier League career would suggest he is anything but prolific. Everything he has done to date would suggest he is a 6 or 7 goals a season player and for £12m that seems pretty disappointing to me. Yes, we could have hot dogs instead of Forster but I think Forster was decent value for money.

Obviously I'm not suggesting it as a serious business proposition. I'm just illustrating to the people who say 'well it's not my money so I'm not that bothered' (I'm not aiming this at whelk specifically) that transfer fees ARE important and that the bottom line on the balance sheets is always the fan's wallets.

If it meant another £12m to spend in January as we see necessary then yes I would. However there are better options out there for that amount of money. For £12m we could have given out 20,000 free season tickets. I'd rather we did that.

I can't put into words just how grateful I am. If there is anything I can do to say thank you, don't hesitate to ask.

Yoshi has done alright but I can't imagine Toby wont go straight into the starting line up. Mane probably on the bench.

The only disappointment for me is signing Long for £12m. However you try and dress it up with regards to Gaston's loan fee, £12m is double what he is worth and it stinks of a panic buy a bit to me. Overall though, very positive. I think overall our squad is stronger and we've made a profit of about £30m to balance the books and pay for the developments at Staplewood. I posted this in the locked thread, so I'll share it here again. Tadic replaces Lallana Pelle replaces Lambert Mane replaces Gaston Alderweirald replaces Jos Gardos replaces Lovren Bertrand replaces Shaw Long replaces Osvaldo Forster in Chambers out That's a pretty decent window IMO.

So Tadic replaces Lallana Pelle replaces Lambert Mane replaces Gaston Alderweirald replaces Jos Gardos replaces Lovren Bertrand replaces Shaw Long replaces Osvaldo Forster in Chambers out Not bad overall I think.

Do you lot seriously think we'd have let Jos and Gaston go if the deals for Mane and TA weren't all but complete? Patience.

Ignore him, he is a complete plank who posts nothing but meaningless nonsense.

Probably has double the shelf life of Defoe.

Not sure about James Beattie's shirt and tie combo. Looks like an extra from Anchorman.

Good call. She speaks fluent German too, which is good for my Nazi, S&M fetish.

Forren, Tejera, Sarmiento, O'Halloran, Ian Pearce (played away at S****horpe under Pearson), Flakey (that Spanish kid from Spuds), Kanchelskis, Marcus Hall, Bledelis (came on in that Tranmere game), Kleber Challa, Yahia. I'm sure there are more out there who played 1 game or not at all.

It's all about Natalie Sawyer as far as I'm concerned.

COYR!!

What a bunch of helmets on SSN. On the upside, I'm liking the new wooden fencing around the ground.

We put up a much tougher test for Liverpool than Spurs have this afternoon, at Anfield too. I know you can't compare 2 different games and say 'Well team X must be better than Team Y' but we've looked better in the games against West Ham and Liverpool so far. This game reminds me of performances like Cardiff at home last year, where we passed it around nicely without offering any real penetration.

I never understood why Yoshi was suddenly labeled as substandard, just because he was replaced by Lovren. I know Lovren is a better defender but Maya was excellent in our first season in the Prem and good enough for a midtable side. We certainly wont find a better 3rd choice CB, assuming that will be the case when Gardos is fit. The problem with being a reserve player is you get thrown in at short notice when a regular started is injured. You are then expected to be comfortable and not make mistakes almost instantly, which is unrealistic. Some do, Tadic is taking to this team like a duck to water. On the other hand Lallana took a whole season to look like a Premier League player. Glad to see he is proving a few people wrong. Please can we remember these performances if he gets replaced by Gardos and not label him as crap without actually kicking a ball.

We were offered obscene amounts of money for them. HTH.

There is no right and wrong as far as he is concerned. It's all about attention. There is nothing he loves more than being wrong, just so long as there is a 5 page thread about him and everyone is engaging in a tedious argument. You can drag up as many of his ludicrous threads from the past as you want, he is just loving it. As long as people are talking about him, that's ALL that matters.

I think most internet adverts are tailored to match your recent browsing history. I once saw a similar post on another forum saying 'OMG they're advertising fetishist sex toys' without realising quite what he was revealing about his private life.

A proper relegation dog fight, a definite 'must not lose' game.

Only Osvaldo is a nightmare. The amount of money lost on the other three is relatively small. If we'd beaten Stoke on the last day of the season a couple of years ago, the difference in prize money would have covered one of their transfers by itself.

If a Pompey fan laughing because a loan player who has never played for us has left, I don't think I will sleep tonight. Seriously, I can't get too upset about a team 3 League below us taking the p*ss. Not when players like Taider would walk into their team.

No, they were never laughing at us to begin with. Apart from maybe Hull fans when we spent £12m on Shane Long. Nobody else is going to give a sh*t about this. The Soccer Saturday panel will probably spend 30 seconds saying, 'yeah that deal obviously didn't play out' but that's about it. If anything people will be laughing at Taider for bottling it after a month.