OldNick

Howe has now snubbed quite publicly Saints (apparently) Charlton and palace. If you were the chairman of any other club would you give him the opportunity to do so to your club. He has made Palace and Charlton look numpties and has strung them along a few days. Choosing Bournemouth to Charlton Palace and allegedly Saints, im sure their fans feel great about it. I still feel he has burnt his boats unless he has another job lined up

he has burnt his boats, i doubt many other clubs will risk him snubbing them.

really?

he is brilliant at spotting good players. I believe he will do a good job. Bournemouth will not recover IMO

I voted for it to happen. Unfortunately many do not/cannot see that the Northam can be drowned out by the away section. The fans in the itchen cant hear the Northam when the away fans are singing against the Northam. If we had a chance again to have a kop end then we should embrace it sadly i cant see the majority agreeing.

It is hell of a risk dropping KD and putting Bart in. If you do, you knock KD's confidence and then if Bart messes up you bring back a keeper who has been kicked. Derry has never had a good thing to say about KD and is under the impression that every other keeper in the league is better. Crucial 6 pointer , penalty save that saved us a point and stopped out major rivals getting 3 more points....at the end of the season that point saved could be very important. Read the match reports over the last few seasons and see the amount of 'fantastic save Davis' against the amount of times 'Davis howler' has been posted. If Bart plays then i will support him, but I still have flashbacks to the Exeter game in the league cup a couple of seasons ago and experiencing the worst and most comical goalkeeping display by a Saints keeper.....and Ive seen a few over 40 years of watching

the club need the money and he must have ambition to prove himself at a bigger club. They still have an embargo FFS. He can only do so much, and so far he has done an incredible job. His win ratio must be good as well

on the highights he made a very good save and then flapped at one and they could easily have scored. Its all very well going and taking crosses but you have to get everyone not 80% if you go for them.

he should have respected us first by putting his best team out.

kicked to the Northam second half, yet again a win

[quote=rallyboy;930364 Was that 1-0 win over a midtable and bankrupt championship club still worth the £100M it must have cost? Was the illegal acquisition of players for the 4-1 win at St Marys worth sending the club back towards liquidation? 'we beat the scummers!' - yes, and it might yet cost you the whole club. Brighton and Southampton are flourishing, it might be time to admit that the cup wasn't worth it. There are certainly some big gamblers down that way - and like 99% of gamblers, they fail. Having seen Saints on the brink of closure I wouldn't gamble the whole club for anything.the 250000 on southsea common dont give a f### about now, they had their day out and would say it was worth it, the fans like Mero and Mack who have been there all along are the ones who might be more subjective. It is difficult, the club i would like seen to be ground into the dirt, fans like those 2 just are football fans who love their club and were just unfortunate to be born in Pompey. They dont deserve the c### .

yeah and when they do Cotterill will come on and complain that they were short on numbers and so will the FA make sure their next opponents only start with 8 players, they want an even playing field afterall

He is a loan isn't he, so surely stoke is his parent club???

can you catch it twice, thats the risk you have to take

of course it could be a clever business move. All of a sudden a player who could walk for nothing in the summer will have to be prized away for big bucks if anyone wants him. The club win both ways, we get a good player who can settle and if we get a fantastic offer there is a good payday.

the national papers were stating that Pompey were in more than 50m in debt when MM was there. of course PS came out and said it was not true....so of course they weren't Lol

Yes i knew that they still have their contracts but until when? To get a comparable wage on an extended contract they will need to leave. of course if they still have a year or so to run on the old one they can take their time. Lol

Frankly I can't stand him or his music. Singing about socialist ideals seems to be a moneyspinner

I thought he had a big fall out with Crosby and so I doubt he has a future here.

DS is ok, and if a team the division above him rates him then we can't be doing too badly having him.

Pompey withdrawing the contract offer means that the 2 players are forced to leave in this window. bad news as that takes a massive amount off their wagebill and they can strengthen with the said money saved.

I think many stillc would support both. I think the Cherries are the ones who think about rivalry

You are correct , a good first 11

I think we need to bowl at the stumps when we have players like Johnson and Hilfenhaus in, we tried to bowl great balls at them when we only needed to have the 'you miss we hit' mentality. I can't recall us trying yorkers. i went to bed after watching us plodding away at those 2 and you could sense they would make a decent stand....as for Gower's arrogance saying that johnson would score nothing. They got 80 more runs than they deserved 1st innings. Still a great day today (I didnt stay up this time) and hopefully we can go on and grind them into the dirt Still a superb bowling attack of course.

Perfect World with Paul Kaye. I only saw bits of the 2nd series and was hoping to catch it on a release but it flopped and so they didn't release the dvd.