OldNick

a very good buy if they get him. Yet again Pompey clear the decks of the young players and then try and buy in a player. It is unbelievable but nothing surprises anymore

He's hardly Comical, he has saved Pompey and his boss. With clever taking the rules to the limit he has shown everyone what an ass the law is. The creditors in the main gave up on the money owed ages ago, and i suspect most are fans of the club and are happy to be raped by them. It is only fans like us who get up in arms as we can see they are putting 2 fingers up to the authorities and football and getting away with it. You have to admire how good he is, and has a quick mind to find every angle to get around problems. Whether he can now find other gullible fools to fall into the same trap is another thing.Im surprised any business is supplying them

surely being on chelseas books his wages would be pretty big

lol I was there but that side was never in with a shout of going up. IMO it is a pertinent concern, but we are where we are, posters do not seem to understand the thread title as Man Utd an unwanted distraction? it was not a statement but a question to debate. I await the gnashing of teeth if the games pre and after effect our automatic chances.

lets hope HR's accoubnt has been leaked, it would be good if the Nazi gold was mentioned as well. The Swiss banks never had a conscience regarding that issue either

there is no need for him to hit the stewards and it was right he was thrown out. It does irritate when we are told to sit down all the time. When Man u come their fans will not be told to sit down. I was watching the Liverpool fans on the Kop and they all were stood up the whole game and their stewards did nothing to try and make them do so. Is their health and safety different up North or is it a case we have jobsworths in charge of giving orders to our stewards? It is time the club sorted this out. Unless the club take a zero tolerance to all fans home and away sections we should be allowed to stand.

i'm always right and surprised anyone dare have another opinion.

thats fine in your mindset. I thought that the thread may get some reasonable replies but it seems posters thoughts are just dismissed. I truly hope we do well against Man u and we win at Exeter and the games that follow. As for enjoyment of being a fan Lol, over 40 years of seeing the team do well one match and them disappoint has stopped my real optimism that a lot of the youngsters on here still have.The club will make money , great, the chances are that we will be totally outclassed (aka The last time we played them in the cup) and watch them have plenty of possession as they run the clock down. Perhaps I will be surprised and we outplay them and win but I just hope there is no cup hangover.

it is not about losing or winning it is about the distraction as per the opening thread title. We are where we are and so have to get on with it, but had we drawn a L1 team or even a Championship team many of the posters on here would have a different view on how important the game was compared to winning the league games. The energy of the team leading up to and after the game will be drained more than if we had a normal league fixture.If that spills over into a bad result on the tuesday, i expect many of the critics against this thread will be up in arms and at the end of the season it could also be crucial. Please do not try and tell me that playing Man u will not spill over one way or another.

Lol so true> I have told someone that i may get a couple of extra tickets but they are tied to getting tickets for the Carlisle game.....they didn't phone back Lol

Good sentiments, similar to those we had before the Pompey game,

Nice one Scud, I'm getting on the bus but i wanted the express not the one that stops every few minutes. I can't keep smiling as it would give me too many wrinkles and may blemish my good looks

you wanted to win the Forum game as well but it didn't happen! i want us to win the FA cup and the league but you have to be realistic and spare your resources for the most important games IMO

shows he doesn't really want to sign or play for them. Always a good start Lol

lol

FFS you can't voice a concern without the over optimists who don't seem to understand how the Man U game is a draw on our energies having a moan. It is great that we get a bit more column inches but NA said after saturdays games that we looked leggy after the Oldham game. I am putting myself out financially and timewise to get to Exeter to watch us, and so am right to wonder if the Man u game could take our focus. Our priority should be promotion, not worrying about the vanity of parading on tv in a game we have less than 5% chance of winning if United show up. We are here and so be it but it is right to question whether it may affect us.

Sorry to have brought something up on a forum that i was wishing to mention. I will keep to discussing ' If it's any consolation. I sit in block 41 and it annoys me too. As do the people who only sing the la la la la bit of Lamberts song. That is all. '

Put yourself in KD's shoes, you have the ball, the opposition are pressing our fullbacks and so there is no outlet, so he has to kick long. His number 1 priority is to stop goals, not create goalscoring chances. if he throws or passes out and we lose possession and perhaps a goal who gets the blame? The constant negativity to the keeper by one or two on here is ridiculous. It is down to the palyers to make themselves available for him to find not him taking risks.

The Man u game I fear is an unwanted distraction in our quest to do get promotion. We play Exeter the following tuesday, and that is far more important a game IMO. NA has a problem as he will most likely field our best 11 against Man U and so the players could well be tired for the Exeter game. This is so much like our cup run last season that eventually cost us in the run in.

what is it about him, so many clubs yearn to own him as a player, but he never quite does it. He has had so many signing on fees. I notice at least 2 clubs are trying to get him now, yet he has never quite done it.

the rush by the West to re modernise the Chinese economy with our expertise was always a short term folly. For 10years of cheap imports we have awoken the dragon.Its dominance will have everlasting effects and we will not be able to get it to sleep again. 20 years on and we will be the lap dog of both Russia(we are going to be so reliant on their gas supplies they have got europe over a barrel) and China. Typical shortermism by the west for small time gain.

They came and got a draw that they wanted/deserved. What has to be instilled into the team is that we must be clinical with the chances early on at home. Golden opportunities dont come along very much against teams who defend like County did and so when you get one, you must put it away. If we had scored ,the game would have changed dramatically and their defensive mindset would have to change Overall the ref was out to prove he was not a 'home' ref. To be fair i thought Richardson was fortunate to get away wth a yellow. How he missed the pen on Ox was scandalous. Their cynical defending when Ox and Guly pushed the ball their defenders only to be brought down reminded me of the old Leeds tactics. it is good defending, bringing dowm the attacker before the move can build, and at most you only get a yellow. I felt pre match that it would be hard. I missed the Davis save at the end, it would be sickening to have lost. I have been a critic of MS, but felt he played well saturday.

Fantastic stuff, and that is only from his stuff still on the database, if only we could get the stuff from when they were really riding high, that would be entertaining Lol

probably the same mate who told him that they were up on s/t sales from the season before (start of last season)lol 16000 he said Lol

so i may have been correct afterall