Danbert

Another contender for worst Snooze article ever: http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/football/pompey/northstand-nostaliga-my-hair-raising-pompey-discovery-1-7558671?

If the scores stay like this, they'll be at least joint top, so I guess they are nailed on to rip up the league. It's a good thing they didn't sack hero Cook a fortnight ago when he was an incompetent villain.

http://www.portsmouthfc.co.uk/news/article/2016-17/liam-obrien-on-pompeys-checkatrade-trophy-tie-at-yeovil-town-3279204.aspx?

Yet another new adjective - henceforth, they are the bitterest: "Leagues One and Two are not there for the convenience of the Premier League." http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/football/pompey/sos-pompey-powers-that-be-can-t-have-it-both-ways-1-7548520

Hats off to Sir Les - nice one :-)

To be fair, I may have altered the article slightly

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/football/pompey/cook-pompey-working-on-new-system-1-7546268? Pompey working on new system: winning Paul Cook’s vow to change has been followed up this week in training. But it remains to be seen whether Pompey win this afternoon at Exeter (3pm). Blues boss Cook saw his side make hard work of collecting their first three-point haul of the season in last Saturday’s 2-0 win over Colchester at Fratton Park. With the scoreline goalless at the hour mark, a change to winning proved the catalyst for a much-welcome victory. But while Cook has pledged to shake things up on home soil to break down stubborn opponents, Pompey are more likely to engage in an open game on their travels. He said: ‘For the first time in training, we are now working on being different. ‘The reality of it is that last weekend, when we won, we hadn’t done a lot of work on winning. ‘And this is what I must highlight to our supporters. ‘When you are changing stuff you must know what you are doing. ‘We don’t want to get involved in winning for the sake of it or to appease fans, or make out that “oh well, at least we are changing”. ‘We have got to work on our changes in a more pragmatic view that, when we do change, it is because we are trying to go and win the game. ‘And certainly at Fratton Park I believe we have start winning occasionally. ‘That’s in the last third, in their 18-yard box because that is where they are any way – so let’s cut to the chase.’ Key to Pompey’s hopes of a victory at St James Park today will be scoring. Cook added: ‘We have to put teams under more pressure to get a goal. ‘We can’t relax – we have to win. ‘When we score we feel we're more likely to win and that is what we have to get to.'

Tactical genius Paul Cook plans to arbitrarily shuffle his squad in the hope that the cards will fall out right, and a decent team will emerge. http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/football/pompey/cook-to-make-pompey-changes-as-he-bids-to-strike-it-rich He seems to take a similar random assembly approach to the English language: "So we will continue to tinker with it in the reality of it clicking into place."

Nice Snooze article in which Cook tells supporters to keep criticism "in a sane place," thereby inducing a predictably considered and well-rounded response below the line.

Tadic is awesome - I'm extremely happy we'll be watching him for a few more years.

That's a completely different XI to the one that drew heroically with Carlisle.

Apparently this qualifies as a press conference. They're a massive club, really massive.

How heroic, joint top already

That's probably the most obscenely overvalued deal I've seen yet. He's an average to not much kop striker Swansea picked up on a free last season. I think we did very well to get the value we did in signing Redmond and Høbjerg.

They're not deluded at all, Pompey are actually the biggest club in League 1. "I stepped down because of the potential. If we get promoted to League One, who will be the biggest club in that division? I’m already there."

http://www.footballfancast.com/premier-league/southampton/boro-rival-southampton-in-transfer-race-for-dutch-u21-star?

Not a sausage

The echo says Fonte may feature on Sunday

I think basically they've yet to accept that they're doomed to be a small time club in perpetuity and that their players would probably struggle to beat Saints U23s. Corporate Ho, (I know you're reading): this is your level, no more Maradona, no more underwater casinos, no more potty-shaped megadromes; just honest slog against Fleetwood if you're lucky.

Go boil your head, honestly, what harm does it do. I'm sure you have an amazingly interesting life too, seeing as you spend a proportion of it posting on here.

They're the largest fan-owned club in England, Wikipedia says so:

So, cards on the table time people. Who thinks that they'll get promoted this season? For the first time since this thread was started, I actually incline to that opinion.

Nice - thanks for that

Arnautovic is to sign a new Stoke deal according to The Daily Heil. I can't understand how he's turning down a massive club like Everton, especially given how they were the first to install undersoil dugouts, or whatever it was.

I really hope we can keep Dusan, he's the most skillful player I've seen in a Saints shirt since Le Tiss. It would be a sad loss :-(