Lighthouse

One of these (Kalashnikov 1000) Looks pretty good, rhobust and keeps good time. All I need really. Not into bling at all, although I think wearing a cheap plastic watch looks a bit tacky sometimes.

They were probably hoping you'd kill yourself with it.

That is the nature of accademies and indeed football. It's nothing we should really regret, players who slipped through the net and ended up in the Premier League are rare. Leon Best has shown a few glimmers of potential for the Barcodes, but has yet to trouble double figures in the scoring charts. Scott McDonald was pretty good in Scotland. Other than that I'm really struggling to think of players we've let go, who then set the world alight. For every player there are several dosen Craig Richards, Leandre Griffits and Simon Gilletts who drift off into obscurity.

Both. Wright was a below average player, well past his very limited best. Yes he was sh*te, but he got a lot of unfair stick because he was engraved on Burley's team sheet. Don't think I've ever been as angry at a game of football as Saints 0-3 Watford in 2007. Wright played LB, Euell played LM. Both were complete gash and we had Vignal and Skacel on the bench. Dear God, those were dark days. I actually hated the last season of Burley's era more than the Wotte/Portaloo era. Euell seemed to play 30 odd games a season and put in 5 decent performances in each other them. Some people were fooled into thinking he was alright. I always thought he was a donkey. Completely forgettable scoring record too. Guly is inconsistent, but seems to chip in with the goals. He's a bit like Rasiak IMO. Yes he scored 2 goals, but he isn't beyond criticism for his performance just because of that. A decent performance against Palace doesn't erase his Pompey performance, or prove his doubters wrong. Similarly a poor performance on Friday wont make yesterday's performance crap. How about a player we can all agree on. Darren Powell. Christ alive he was dreadful.

I see no reason to go blowing up innocent civilians just because they had a complete nut job as a leader. The Falklands was just a diversion to try and boost public opinion because Argentina was in the toilet ecconomically. Can you imagine if we'd gone into Iraq with Bush and Blair saying "we're going to bomb the sh*t out of the guys in Baghdad". There'd be outrage. Agree about the Belgrano. If you're in a war, you're in a war. You can't just turn your arse to the enemy and claim innocence.

Rest first team players and give it our absolute 100% best with whoever's left. Bear in mind that pretty much everyone rests a few players for Cup games, so you can go a long way just by turning up and putting a decent shift in, even with a reserve team. If nothing else the prize money isn't bad and when you add the match day sales on top of it, the balance sheets can look all the better for a good cup run.

I've seen you say this quite a few times. I was at that game and I really can't fathom where you're getting that from. That was by far the dullest, most uncreative game we've ever won 3-0. The first goal was a long hoof from Davis which Lambert just nodded past everyone, the second was a penalty after a corner (looked like Fonte dived to me) and the third was pure brilliance from Lambert with that lob. Morgan played alright in that game, but we were largely uncreative throughout. Don't remember him making any telling passes which unlocked their defence.

Early kick offs are always a bit subdued. Most normal people haven't been to the pub for a couple of hours before the game, so aren't particular well oiled. That and it's boxing day, people are a bit hung over and there are a lot of people who don't normally turn up.

Or alternative, Hull are losing. A draw would have been nice there, but TBH I'd always have that one down as a home win. Boro have always been a home team, just like us. All we can do is keep winning. Saints won Leeds lost Hull lost Cardiff drew Leicester drew Only Boro, Blackpool and Reading won out of our rivals, so far, and the latter two are still 11/12 points adrift of us.

Coventry away really shouldn't be all that, even for our 'B Team'. If we get through that, maybe we'll get a League 1 side, or another disinterested NpC team at home. Who knows. I'd rest our key players, but you can go quite far in the FA Cup these days just by turning up. If we rest our first team we've still got Bart, Butters, Martin, Harding, Connolly, Holmes and one from Cork/Dean/Morgan. Even without our injured players that's not a bad start to a team.

He actually said "in the second tier of English football" so he was technically right, although that's a bit of an obscure stat.

Just to add: Pompey lost Leeds lost Cardiff drew Boro play Hull later, so at least one of them will drop points. Draw there would be brilliant Reading play Brighton, so again points will be dropped. West Ham have a trip to Brum in the late KO Basically we could well be the only team in the top 10 to win this afternoon. Merry Christmas indeed.

Needed a win after our recent form. Congrats to Guly on a strong comeback from the Pompey game and De Ridder, who sounded like he put in a blinder. On to Bristol on Friday.

Not quite. Wham have got Brum this afternoon and Derby on Saturday. If they win both and we don't beat Brizzle, they go top on NYE. All assuming we don't f**k this up of course.

JD Sports don't sell sports clothing, they sell casual wear for pikeys. The only thing I've ever bought from JD sports is socks.

All about De Ridder according to the 5LE 'taters.

Davis - FR, Fonte, Jos, Fox - Steve, Morgan, Cork, Lallana - Guly, Lambert Subs: Bart, Harding, Martin, Hammond, DC

Can't see one anywhere else. COYR!!!

Surely a factor in this has to be when you shower. I shower in the evenings, so I'd imagine my sheets are cleaner for not having BO from my day to day adventures wiped all over them. I try to cange them every week but can never be arsed, so it often ends up being every 2 or 3 weeks.

My photo got a reply from Jos today. Not sure it's really 'competition winning' material, but it was a good laugh none-the-less. Liking the photo of Fratton Park. Not sure I've ever said that before.

I think all the ingredients are there for Stief to become a top player. The good thing about this situation is he has the attitude and the tallent, it's just finding the consistency and fitting his game into our side. It's not like Jermaine Wright or Neil McCann when you thought, 'he is this good, he won't get any better'. I don't think we've really seen him start any games which weren't either reserve cup games or sh*t away games when the whole team was crap. Still, he's had some decent appearances off the bench, like Coventry and Reading. I vote we give him a run of about 5 to 10 starts in our strongest team before we cast judgement.

Good grief, you're all still biting on Dalek's troll posts. I can't believe the number of people who still try and construct a coherant argument with him when it has been apparent for years he is a complete retard. THERE IS NO POINT TELLING HIM HE IS WRONG. HE KNOWS!!!! He's just pretending to think these stupid opinions so he can pass away the time with endless pointless arguments. Put him on your ignore list and don't respond to his posts. It's that easy.

The zero alcohol approach is completely unfeasible IMO. On Tuesday nights I stop off for a pint of shandy or two after 5 a side footy. I don't even come close to being a danger to road users. Why should my evenings be ruined just because a small minority of idiots can't stick to the rules. If people can't stick to the current rules and just have one pint of beer, glass of wine or whatever; what makes you think they're going to stick to the 0 alcohol rule?

Agreed, although Lambert gets the nob because without him we just look useless. Honourable mentions to Chaplow and Hooiveld too.

It need not be someone better than him right now. If we can find the next Beattie or Kenwyne Jones from somewhere. A young lad with a physical presence, who could develop into a Premier League striker. Hopefully our scouting network can show a bit of it's mettle here.