Lighthouse

Most drunks are highly suggestible. You should take a picture of your todger and PM it to Turkish.

What's the best Lambert and Barnard have managed in the Championship?

That's quite a disturbing thought process you've got there. Well done.

He's done it in the NpC before, he's only 25 so he can do it again. I don't see why Pompey fans wouldn't rate him. His 12 goals so far this season is comparable to Barnards 14 or Lamberts 17 (probably 5 pens in there too). Especially bearing in mind Pompey are pretty average (have scored 50 goals compared to our 70). If he's available on a free, I think he would be a decent signing. I'm not too sure who you think we're going to get. A team newly promoted to the Championship is hardly going to attract Premier League players. I think we need a reality check here. IF we go up, we wont be a big fish in a little pond. There are plenty of similarly sized clubs like Leicester, Derby, Reading and whoever misses out on promotion from Leeds, Norwich, Cardiff, Forest and Swansea.

Think Beatts is one of those players who just needs a little loving (that and not playing top division football). Would be a great alternative to Lambert if we go up (and we will need options up front). I'd love it if we could get Beattie and Nugent on sensible wages. Especially as their would be bugger all involved in transfer fees. Beatts, Nugent, Barny and Lambert up front in NpC... I've just made a mess in my pants.

I did that and it just said "yourself". I tried it saying I wasn't a real character and it said I was Eddie the Head from Iron Maiden. It guessed a couple of random youtube personalities too.

Shakhtar are a seriously good team. It's a shame they had to draw the best team in the competition as I reckon they'd have given Man Utd or Chelsea a run for their money. They've already won Arsenal's group and are 12 points clear at the top of the Ukrainian Premier League. Should be a good game though, if they can keep it to a 1 goal deficit at the Nou Camp, their home form is formidable.

All important jobs, but not half as important as the chairman. Gladys the toilet cleaner... She could turn up to work, take a dump in a sink, wipe it around the walls, tip a few bottles of Cif on the floor and scream obscenities at the stewards. It still wouldn't have any major effect on the club. It's the same with Bob the pie man, Steve the groundsman, Jim the scout etc. They can all get it wrong without majorly effecting the club. The worst that can happen is a few cold pies, a lumpy pitch and we sign some no-hoper for Slovenia who leaves after 3 weeks. Think we've hijacked this thread enough. I don't see a problem with people singing Cortese's name if they want.

I don't want to go digging over old ground as 04/05 has been done to death, but there's more too it than just players. It all ultimately boils down to the chairman. Killer injured - No suitable replacement found - Poor managerial decision - Wrong manager appointed - Chairman is responsible Beattie out of form - Doesn't want to be here - Offers from Newcastle and Villa - Not cashing in on want away player - Chairman is responsible Defence is shipping goals - Defence lacks quality and organisation - Manager incapable of organising team - Chairman is responsible Redknapp fails to turn form around - Redknapp's heart isn't really in it - It's too little too late - Chairman is responsible

Oh what fabulous irony. In response to your second paragraph, I agree the manager is the most important man at the club when it comes to the performance on the pitch. But who hires and fires managers? Who sanctions the million pounds of transfer fees and wages when a manager wants to sign a player? Who's responsible for getting the best price when a big club comes knocking for our best players?

Would explain why Charlton are 3rd.

So, you don't think how the club is run is in any way important then? Getting relegated in 2005 with pretty much the same squad that got to the cup final 2 years before was completely down to Killer's injury? Saints definitely didn't go into aministration in 2009 because of terrible mismanagement in the boardroom? So we should only applaud people who run around a lot and jump around in front of the fans when they score a goal? What about Adkins, he just stands there in the technical area shouting, surely he doesn't deserve any recognition for that. As for Cortese pocketing a nice amount of cash... I suppose Lambert signed for us because he quite likes the Chinese restaurants in Millbrook? As for Cortese wanting to make money from the fans... No sh*t! He's the chairman of a business who has to answers to the owners when it comes to the financial success of the company. I agree the booking fee is a bit of a pain in the tits, but I've bought tickets for loads of stuff when there has been an extra fee of some description. It's hardly groundbreaking stuff.

So we should all sit in silence until promotion from the Championship is confirmed? Why sing songs for Adkins, Lambert or Lallana then? Everyone who is employed at SFC is there primarily for a job. If we stopped paying them, they'd all bugger off eventually. Cortese may never put a 30 yard free kick in the top corner, but his role is more crucial than any of the players. He also seems to be a quietly passionate man in the rare interviews he does give. Don't see why people shouldn't sing songs for him. As for the original post, I wouldn't have clapped BWP if I'd been there. Wouldn't boo him either, but when he was here I remember him looking crap and lazy in most games he played.

Two years later and they've found it. http://www.bea.aero/fr/enquetes/vol.af.447/images.du.site.php Some chilling images there, but investigators are hopeful they can find the black box data recorders.

I don't think Colchester have got much of a chance to be honnest.

I can't remember watching Martin play a bad game. Seaborne on the other hand had a 'mare up against a bit of pace at Posh.

---------------------- Davis --------------------- Frazer ------- Martin ------- Fonte ------- Harding Butters -----Stephens -----Hammond ------Lallana -------------Lambert ------- Barnard ------------ Subs: Bart, Jaidi, Guly, Chaplow, Forte, Dickson, Connolly I'd give Jaidi a rest, especially seeing as their main threat is BWP who really isn't all that when it comes to strength and aerial threat. I'd drop Guly and Chaplow from Saturday and I think Forte is more of an impact player.

Bart in goal, he's the future. Defence looks alright, but I'd replace Jaidi and Seaborne. If Mills stays, would loan/sell Dickson. Midfield pretty good. Keep Stephens, replace Holmes and anyone else who leaves. Don't sign Guess. Up front Barnard and Lambert will be good, need at least 1 more. Nugent would be brilliant (on so many levels) if he'd take a wage cut.

What has Hammond done wrong in the 5 out of 6 games we've won since Morgan's injury?

I said it was impressive. Maybe Texas has a lot fewer stadiums in the 30-50 thousand seater ranges, I've no idea. They certainly seem to like their sports over there.

When I say realistic, I mean players we had half a chance of keeping if we'd made more of an effort. I'm not writing off Forte and Guess yet, I'm just saying I haven't seen anything close to Antonio's contribution so far.

It's important to remember there are 25 million people in Texas. It's not like having a load of 100,000 seater stadiums in Staffordshire or something. Still impressive though.

There's no point in raking either if you're just going to rake stuff into a hedge, 6 inches away from the path.

I was always slightly baffled by the signing of Dickson. We have Harding and Mills who are both very capable LB players and the team sheet comes pre-printed with Lallana at LM. The only way I can see him having a role next season is if we fail to go up and Donny sign Mills permanently. If we do go up, Mills could well be our first choice at LB. In midfield I just don't rate him. Even if Lallana is injured, I'd rather have someone else. Thoughts?