Torres

We knew this when Euell said the same. :confused:

Sweet, Cortese is going to show how he's not going to put up with it by keeping the managerial staff and bringing in some kids on loan. Sure Alps, that's exactly what you meant.

You know what time we equalised on Saturday, right?

How utterly unsurprising to read that as people who were actually at the game have joined this thread, the hysterics have died down.

How long has Trollope had to put it together? Did he have to build a team expected by a huge number of fans to overcome a ten point deduction and finish comfortably midtable, at worst, in the space of a few weeks?

Given that we can't buy or sell anyone in the next "couple of months" to which you referred, that's hardly a surprise is it Genius?

Would you give him as many games as you gave Pardew? 3, wasn't it?

A message that says, "Do what you like as it's not you that will be blamed." Your name is something of a misnomer, isn't it?

Waigo should be up front to give us some pace. Waigo should be wide right to give us some width. FFS.

FFS

Are you his agent?

A likely story

When will Kalinic make his Pompey debut?

Normal Friday night for me

Not at all. I was sharing your sense of despair that a player of unknown quality and ability and who has played a total of 20 minutes for us this season may now be a bit injured, meaning our season is over for sure. I'm distraught and nothing anyone can say will console me.

I'm up for that. What do I need to dress as?

I see we have reched the definitive point of the season already, Saints throwing it all away.

It should be actively encouraged for some, imo. End their suffering as all that...

Can players only score goals when they start a match? Mentalist. Wotton - a ****e centre-half/lumbering defensive midfielder. Schneiderlin - must do better, agreed. Mills - has played what, 40 minutes this season? Holmes - hasn't even played this season. Murty/Harding - are fullbacks judged on assists now? Hammond - 3 games? Thomson - 90 minutes? Yeah, it's all their fault that Saga hasn't scored. I'm not going to pretend that he is something that he isn't. Perhaps you should try the same...

I have to ask: why were you looking at other men's profiles on lonely hearts.com?

Lol, so the statement should have read: Lol. 'tards.

I'm not chopping it out because it doesn't suit my opinion - I'm pointing out that his overall goals/games figures are wildly skewed by one burst of goals in a very short time span. Remove what increasingly appears to be a lucky blip (indeed, most statisticians might be tempted to remove those figures as statistical outliers) and you're left with the stats of an achingly average striker, at best. Interestingly, and not at all surprisingly, it seems that he has managed just one shot on target this season. That is awful.

Why does it not surprise me that you have managed to miss the point entirely? I'm discounting one spell of 7 games since he signed perm. Other than that brief spell, he has 3 in 43. Now, which of those 2 runs do you think is likely to be more indicative of his true form and ability, a run of 7 games or a run of 43? In addition, when he's not socring goals (most of the time) he doesn't really contribute to the team. Beattie seemed to be similar when he was with us in that he too scored in patches (in fact, a lot of strikers do) but the difference between them is that even when the goals weren't coming, he was worth his place in the team. Saga just isn't. If you're happy to play him in every game this season knowing that he'll contribute nothing in 40 of them but will have a hot burst and score 5 or 6 goals at some point then you should be a little worried.

He has done it consistently. Sadly, what he's done consistently is be crap. Two hot streaks in 2 1/2 years, during which he has scored 16 of his total 19 goals for us, us just not enough to justify his continued presence in the side. Take the second streak out of it and he has scored 3 goals in the remaining 43 games since signing perm, for crying out loud. That is simply awful. Well there's been no sign that he's actually getting better in this new look team. Neither would I, nor you, but that's not a great reason for continuing to pick him, is it?

More than enough to fully evaluate a player's contributions then.