OldNick

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it amazes me how they think he loves the3 club and has done so well for them.He is the architect with HR to the overspending. He is working hard IMO to keep his 1.2m salary as I doubt he'd get it elsewhere.

Of course they are, they need to have a southerner defend their manager from people who are solid bone from the neck up.

i liked your 50m bit, a good lol.Boyd threw his toys out of the pram, he may have thought he had a god given right to play but he had to wait his chance.Is he still scoring lots of goals up there?

What a pathetic post.Gb has slimed his way in keeping his job.Well surely they would have picked up on his drinking habits as he fell out of all the clubs up there.They , a professional football body who know less than Alpine decide to keep the manger when they could have easily got rid. Because it is not how you want it , he has slimed his way to keep the job.What a sad person you are at times

I think a similar thing happened on a cross atlantic flight on BA? where a disgruntled member of the crew set it off deliberately

That is true but as soon as it was running and winning games it was taken apart in pre season.

Thanks he is very reasonable but I dont frequent Skate boards.

i only managed to listen to a bit of commentary.Sadly it was just after they had scored and we were really under the coshI tuned the radio off just after he had made the subs and they seemed to calm the situation down.Ifully expected to lose from th litlle I heard and so was pleased we got a point.So it was job done, -5 instead of perhaps -6 , of course we may have won had he changed sooner but i doubt it.i always would settle for a point away at a lcub on a 100% win rate.

You've lost me a little there.Do you mean if he had got us promoted? if he had we would have had Paul Allen as well of course and Ronaldo etc.It didnt happen and we are where we are now.He did what he said he would, but failed the fans expectations.

I think you will find that you are supposed to go out and win whatever league you are in.Obviously I know you know we all know that is not possible.Gb stated he would get us to the playoffs, not to win the league.You oviously thought we would win the league.Overrating our squad and underrating the opposition. I like to see fans being positive about our chances as i always downplay it myself. I do hope you give AP more time than you are stating by the way.

Why were they brought in then? He did have resources and failed, but he probably earned the club more money than he spent.

Well I suspect every manager is brought in to win the league but being realistic only 1 can do so. I wonder where the season after next came from.I do recall the fans saying we must be patient and give him 3-5 years.That of course didnt last long. He definately failed to do so, that season ended and the team was stripped of its best players to try and plug some of the holes in our finances,due to the new board spinning the roulette wheel and getting it wrong. As for AP only havung this season just shows how things have changed.LM our mist successful manager had us relegated first season and it was 2 years later before he got success.

They talked a lot of stuff, I dont recall much talk like that.Unless it was to get the fans to buy tickets or love them a little more. Perhaps I didnt have such high expectations and so am not so bitter about it. We didnt have pace in the side and no side will succeed unless you have it though the side. It is something i worry about in the current team.

No doubt we all re write history to suit our agendas, but also we all se things through different eyes.Some of what you say is clearly correct.The defender you mention ,has he gone on to do well? I do know that our medical teams had got it wrong about Killers return and that clouded our judgement.May i also say that Bennett played a game and was slaughtered by fans who said hewas the worst player ever to wear our shirt but he proved us wrong and I suspect many would take him back without a second thought. Myself i dont get the played out of position stuff, they are footballers who have preferred positions but surely should be able to adapt.Many forget that WGS was prone to do the same ie Fernandes. We had too many who could play in lots of positions (some of this down to GB's signings and others before) but not be outstanding in 1 set area. As for the play off semi final, there were lots of 'if only's' The way the ref allowed our star forward to be kicked out of the game and so was missing in the 2nd leg was appalling.Best would not have been on the pitch if not for that. He is so self confident that he would ask to take the penalty and if you have that it is foolish to turn it down. I have been a great fan of Kelvin but on that day he did nothing to increase the pressure on the penalty takers and was surprised he didnt try a bit of gamesmanship, i know they did. saga missed a few golden chances in the first leg and in the 2nd we went down in glorious defeat. I cant recall the league games you mention and so go with it, I assume that the Watford game it was bad management, was it the one where we wre dominating until they got a scrambled goal in first half stoppage time? The Scunnygame is a fog to me. It does seem odd but he may have rated Saga at that stage as much as i do, very rarely does he come up with the goods.

Kelvin has been a star, hardly a lynchpin though.Many would say Rasiak and saga (not me)

As i say you had higher expectations than the board or manager.

The season when these players made a name to be sold was in the play off season.The season started with them being fringe players.With his nous he turned them into saleable assets.I never rated Baird and still don't. Bale is a classic case of leaving a club too soon for the bright lights and Kenwynne has done well, and still will improve more.So they weren't worth 20m and still not but we made them look better than they were.At the start of tha season they were not must plays at the end they were so.Thier departure was massive to the clubs players and fans moral, i find it impossible for fans not to see that. GB added players to the squad and in the main were a success.He delivered what he said he would, it is not his fault the fans expected more than was possible.

ye-p pushing the boundaries a bit

no change there then

I thought we made 2 subs at about 65 minutes, that is not late.If we are talking about a 3rd one in injury time, most teams do that when you settle for a point at the league leaders.I just wish HR had done so when we played Boro in the PL instead of having Brett standing waiting and not wasting a bit of time when we were winning to break up the game.

I would have thought with Rasak gone the wage bill would have been reduced dramatiocally add to that the others gone and if Saga goes in jan even lower.

I dont agree he bought badly, there were some very good buys some average ones and some poor ones.Tell me a manager who has only bought well? I cant recall who we bought to be fair, Davis Rasiak the Columbian, Pele.There must be more. As for Bale baird and Jones.Only jones was on the fringe when GB came and Bale was played at a young age, as for baird he had been cast aside and going nowhere.You must admit he trned him from a free transfer to a multi million pound transfer.

I went on page 2 to just see a smiley and a comment about the said smiley

I have said many times that they are Wigan of the South and nothing has disproved that to my mind.A small fanbase with a sugar daddy that has put them above their true worth. Many Pompey fans are decent people and i do like a lot of them, but they are a small time club.If they get real investment and a decent period of success the plastics will turn up in numbers.