Harry_SFC

Yeah as trousers has said, he had his faults but give me Cortese over any of the current lot any day of the week.

It is. That's according to Blackmore anyway.

Don't want to seem pedantic but isn't it 7 days left?

Horrible challenge. Studs right down his calf.

Plus it's just another million for SR to spunk down the drain

Tbh it seems like we were pretty desperate to sell him in the end.

Not sure if it's been mentioned yet but the £5m add ons are all appearance related, so providing he plays well enough, we'll be seeing that money.

He improves our starting 11 and at the moment, that's all we can really ask for I guess.

There's one week left of the window and we haven't strengthened one position in the starting 11 yet. Utter shambles so far.

Look at the replies from Norwich fans 😭😭

I'm very concerned about this Pompey game

It all boils down to that quite frankly ludicrous contract extension we gave to McCarthy upon promotion.

We probably should've just given Lumley a years extension than sign George Long, who is atrocious. TBH Lumley was never that bad when he played for us.

They actually looked better when they didn't stick to the plan

A figure of fun yet Adams has scored and assisted way more PL goals than our current 4 or 5 strikers combined.

Yet we've got fans saying Still is worse than this chancer 😂😂 give me strength

Re Archer - that's what Still mentioned in his post match interview. We just don't have a player or players that can thread balls through or play on the transition. Azaz/Spertsyan would be perfect in terms of creativity.

Jesus they must be desperate (very unlikely to be true)

Not all of the players - but probably 4/5 of them need replacing for a different profile. Something Spors admitted he wanted to do but has so far failed to achieve.

Totally agree. This is Saints we are talking about so I've got very low expectations for this coming week. The players we have just don't look suitable for what Still wants to do. This is the issue when you go from giving Martin a free reign then changing the approach with the subsequent manager(s). However we've had almost the whole window to change that and are yet to do so.

Do we really need yet another thread on him?

Agreed it was poor yesterday. We shouldn't be playing a back five but I think everyone should give him the benefit of the doubt until the window has closed. If we get the players in for him and he's still playing 3/5 at the back with AA up top then fair enough, have a pop.

Doesn't help when you've got an incredibly one paced team. In terms of options yesterday ahead of the back 3: Manning - slow Downes -slow Charles - slow Robinson - slow Fernandes - slow Stewart - slow Downs - doesn't look particularly quick Fraser & Armstrong - used to be quick but both have lost most of their pace.

I've been saying that a proper CDM is essential but it won't happen.

Manning was awful for that yesterday.