Wes Tender

Puel gives the impression of being more cerebral than Koeman. As a disciple of Wenger's he has that air of the professor about him. Tactically he seems to get everything pretty well spot on so far. When he brings on substitutes during a match, you find yourself applauding both the players involved and the timing and soon after, the results on the pitch are palpable tactically, whether it is introducing a fresh pair of legs, minimising the chances of a second yellow card, or neutralising a threat down a weaker flank or strengthening the midfield. The juggling act required to rotate the players over the additional matches because of the Cup and the Europa League shows that he is able to manage the players and their egos very well, and that they understand that their team mates, even the youngsters, have to have the opportunity to step up to the breach for the greater good of the team. He must therefore command the respect of the players and have earned their trust. It is still early days, but on the face of it, we have pulled off another managerial coup. Personally I am finding the style of play more entertaining and exciting than under Koeman and surely that's what it's all about.

I'll admit it does. It makes me want to retch.

http://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/football/portsmouth/news/16115/great-pompey-myths-debunked--no-1-the-origin-of-scummers/page:1/ veracity added 15:59 - Feb 22 The earliest recollection I have of the SCUMMERS handle was actually in 1976, just after the Saints won the Cup and pre dates the Thoresen/P&O Ferry move to Pompey in 1983/4 which, to my mind had little to do with the SCUMMER story. As mentioned in one of the earlier posts Southampton had a very unionised and large Dockers contingent Portsmouth's commercial port was smaller than it is now but had begun to expand from the Albert Johnson quay area into what is now the Ferry Terminal. Meanwhile Brittany Ferries (which had been started by French farmers to get their produce to the UK market) had commenced a largely freight only service into Plymouth The Soton Shop stewards ran a South Coast Dockers Steering Group (all TGWU members) led by Ritchie Pierce which included the ports of Soton, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Poole and Weymouth. There was an agreement that the fledgling Brittany Ferry service would not move out of Plymouth to Portsmouth, which was not part of the highly unionised National Dock labour Board The Portsmouth men initially agreed to this then, for some reason, reneged on the agreement and agreed to take the Brittany ship. To support Plymouth the Soton Dockers picketted the Portsmouth Commercial port towards the end of November 1976 This can be verified by looking in the archives of the Soton Daily Echo and the Pompey News. So this is fact not conjecture and was fairly high profile news in both papers The picketing went on for 3-4 days and the police had to be called in to rescue the Pompey Dockers as the Soton men turned up in force. There were several arrests including the brother of Bob Charles who played in goal for Saints in the 1960's. As I say the story of strike breaking by the mythical Soton Company of Union Men seems to have started from this time. I once spoke to a journalist at the Pompey News about this particular event and he reckoned the accusation of strike breaking by Soton Union members was fabricated by a Pompey FC fan by the name of Hughes (who was working in Pompey Docks at the time and was known as 'Docker' Hughes) to overcome the embarrassment of having to call the police for protection against Soton Dockers on 'home soil' Certainly the facts about the Ppmpey Dockers strike breaking is a matter of public record if anyone wants to research the story Unlike, of course, the Pompey 'Scummers' story which is pure fantasy and fabrication. Hopefully someone will have the time to visit the Soton/Pompey libraries where copies of the local papers are kept on mico filche to verify this

Yours and other posts suggesting that Kora looks very normal, lead me to believe that you didn't look back to the pictures posted of her on page 1820. I apologise for posting one of them up now, but needs must. Yes, undoubtedly we have our equivalent versions in Southampton, but this is a thread about Pompey and their supporters. They are welcome to reciprocate on their forum if they wish. Is this unfair targeting of an individual? Well, she has apparently been banned from Krap Nottarf for refusing to sit in the stands, even being a "ring leader". It isn't the first time she has hit the media either, so she sets herself up for attention.

A very good team effort from us. Puel spot on tactically with his formation, tactics and substitutions. We are gaining a reputation as a very difficult team to beat. MOTM Romeu, who was massive in front of the back line and his interception stats must have received another big boost. I believe that having Long up front for half of the match might have caught City on the break, shame he is out. Redmond took his goal very well with a great finish. Boufal showed some finesse and looks a good prospect, but this was a baptism of fire playing in the PL against the most expensive team and he will take a few matches to adjust to the pace. But there were a couple of very good passes into the box and with him and Tadic we have two excellent play makers. McQueen was a little nervy in the first half, but grew in the second. I don't think that we have reason to fear any team particularly, but the days of the top teams believing that playing us virtually guarantees them 3 points are disappearing fast.

Commentator saying that he cannot remember the Etihad being so eerily quiet. And even some boos at the half time whistle

Here she is in all her glory, your typical Skate foul-mouthed tart:- https://twitter.com/kora_pfc What is it with the Skates and foul-mouthed women called Kora supporting them? There was another one called Kora Blagden featured on this very thread, back on page 1820. Or is it the same one? A surname means nothing when your kids might well have different fathers. Edit: Reading down through the tweets confirms that she is indeed one and the same, as her daughter is Chloe Blagden apparently. What a truly dysfunctional family

Romeu has the highest number of interceptions in the division so far this season. Impressive. Do we really miss Wanyama that much? I suppose he would have been useful to the rotation policy.

I'm afraid that the majority of the electorate who voted in the referendum don't agree. Why don't you just call them stupid, in the way that typifies most of the arrogant Remainians. No doubt you thought that we were stupid not to join the ERM too. The stupidity came when we signed the Treaties of Maastricht, Amsterdam, Nice and Lisbon without gaining a mandate to do so.

As you say, I am also entitled to have an opinion, and whereas you believe the result of the Brexit will be a disaster, I believe that after a short readjustment, we will do just fine. The reception May got from EU heads is not any surprise at all. How dare we leave their beloved Federal United States of Europe Project! But to believe that their reaction says anything about our decision being some sort of car crash, is ludicrous. Their anger is probably far more to do with them not being able to count on our substantial membership fee for belonging to their club and the likelihood that our precedent will have set that others are now more likely to follow us out of the door following their own referenda. I note that you don't take kindly to being shot down in flames by GM and that you think that the Chairman's comments in that annual report are to be ignored because they don't suit your agenda. Regarding your ridiculous insistence that just because I have been astute with my pension I can't be sympathetic to the plight of others less well off, it is truly pathetic, so I won't rise to your bait. Suffice it to say, that according to the profiling that the Guardian likes to do on Brexit voters, it seems that many more older and poorer voters supported us leaving the EU, so your position seems to be that if the economy goes tits up, it will serve them right.

You don't have any answers either. Nobody has any answers at this stage, only aims and objectives which will come into play once negotiations begin in earnest once Article 50 is triggered. I realise how frustrating it must be for you, not being able to pour your vitriol onto the Government's plans for Brexit because they don't choose to show their hand to the EU, but you'll just have to be patient. I had to laugh at your feeble effort to cite one small company wanting to relocate to the EU as evidence that the Referendum vote was causing calamity in the business community. Do they do clown costumes? Apparently there is a bit of a craze for them and you would look good in one. Here is one of many canaries in the coal mine singing a happier tune:- http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-handelsbanken-results-idUKKCN12J0HA

The usual semi-illiterate ramblings from you. I expect that you believe that aligning your views with Verbal's will make you look a bit more intelligent. I'm sorry, but it doesn't. You just look like his poodle. Verbal doesn't get anything. As we have not triggered Article 50 yet, his posts are opinion, supposition, guesswork. But at least his has the appearance of educated guesswork, whereas the sort of gibberish you spout, like your assertion that being members of the EU gave us "the best of both worlds" proves that you don't have a clue.

So far so good. Not much threat from Inter this half, but we've lacked the cutting edge finish. Austin and Boufal on the last 15 minutes, perhaps?

Why don't you just wait and see what happens when we have actually triggered Article 50, instead on indulging in your usual Verbal diarrhoea?

Was it a wet dream? If you knew what you were prattling on about in your pidgin English, you would know that whereas we are able to open discussions with other potential trade partners, we are not allowed to conclude them until we have actually left the EU. As we haven't yet even triggered Article 50 yet, your ejaculation is premature.

You didn't write this by any chance? One or two inaccuracies and omissions, but sums up our rise and Inter's decline quite well. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3851008/Southampton-visit-San-Siro-play-Inter-Milan-seven-years-sitting-second-bottom-League-One.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

Plenty of good reasons why our Agricultural Industry will benefit once we leave the EU and using a lot of the cogent arguments that Timmy suggested could be made. https://www.owenpaterson.org/news/uk-agriculture-would-be-better-outside-eu-oxford-farming-conference-january-2016

This illustrates nicely that you really don't have a clue about what motivated people to vote to leave the EU. If voters are unhappy with the Government, they can vote them out in the next election. If they are unhappy with the EU, then this referendum was probably the only chance they would have in their lifetimes to get us out of it. Congratulations though to you, and indeed the grammatically inept solentstars, on posts that typify the sheer arrogance of many of the Remainians on here. Dismissing over half of the electorate who voted to leave in the terms that you did is beyond contempt.

The comment about the continentals sleeping half the afternoon was a stereotypical joke, very much tongue in cheek, hence the LOL. Being half Italian and having holidayed in Italy dozens of times, lived in Malta for three years and also visited most European Countries, I know full well that in the hotter Mediterranean countries particularly, the siesta is followed by work until 8pm or indeed later in tourist areas. Also I know Monfalcone very well where many of the World's largest liners including Cunard's have been built, having been born a few miles from there. However, it must be very difficult to make accurate productivity comparisons between countries with such diverse industries. Whether one was for Remain or Leave, naturally both sides want to live in a successful future economy and each side believes that their position is the one most likely to deliver it. Regarding the rest of your comments, I agree with much of what you say.

I did some digging of my own, my old mucker, and found out that productivity in the UK was ahead of Japan's, didn't believe that was the case any more than I could believe that our productivity was behind that of the likes of Italy or France where they spend the afternoons asleep. Then I reasoned that as these figures covered a period before the Referendum, I wondered what their relevance was to this debate, so i didn't bother to spend any more time on it. Do you think that our productivity post Brexit will go up or down?

I repeatedly posted that I probably cared as much if not more than you for the future of our children and grandchildren. The problem that you had, was accepting the vision that Brexit voters held, the belief that leaving the EU and looking to the wider horizons would in the medium to long term be to the benefit of the Country and therefore future generations. That you were so blinkered as to be unable to see that potential upside and to deny others' convictions is your problem, not mine. Would the break-up of the UK be a price worth paying to leave the EU? Personally I would say yes, it is a chance that I was prepared to take, along with everybody else who voted to leave, despite the best efforts of Project Fear who insisted that this would be a price we would have to pay. I would prefer for the UK to remain together and don't believe that Brexit will cause it to fall apart, but if the SNP wished to try once more to gain Independence using Brexit as an excuse, and the Scottish voters decided to go with it despite the fall in the value of oil, then that is their choice.

I don't have to prove anything to you. If you don't wish to accept my word on it, then that's up to you, I'm not going to lose any sleep over it. I can well remember when your beloved Labour Party got inflation up to 27%, which was when those on fixed incomes really suffered, but maybe you're too young to remember that.

You really are a piece of work, aren't you? Dare to argue that the country could actually benefit from a weaker Pound and be labelled by you as not giving a **** for the poor and needy. Still, it's nothing new from the Remainian camp. CEC delighted in accusing Brexiteers of not caring for the future generations, which was equally arrogant twaddle.

I note that you responded to the bedwetter challenge, as did Saint Robbie below. Interesting how you miss the irony that you were prepared to go off at half cock a short while ago following a slow start to the season when wiser counsel was advocating that you waited to see how a few more matches panned out, and here you are now taking the position that we should await the outcome of a few more matches before assessing the team and manager. The least you could do is to show some humility and admit that your knee-jerk reactions earlier were premature and acknowledge that any sensible person would wait for a decent slice of the season to pass before criticising the club/players/manager. But then again, there are certain posters who have not learned this lesson from precedents set in previous years, so it is probably asking too much for them to change their ways now. Maybe it's just trolling.