hard to think of many succesful russian prem players tbf im torn between him being better than many of our players, and also not the type we need in a battle Smertin and Zhirkov won Premiership winners medals with Chelsea and I would have called Pavyluchenko reasonably successful. really?! i wouldn...

Yesterday in the post match interviews he said something like " we know what our agenda is this season and we're sticking with that".... Anyone have any idea what our agenda is? Is it to try and stay up at all costs or Have fun while knowing that we will inevitably be relegated It would m...

Well BM (BBC interview) believes that he has the quality in the squad to keep us in the PL. He further suggested that he does not need to buy in January. Exactly what any manager would and should say to try and avoid unsettling/demotivating their existing squad of players, Harry Redknapp has said m...

Church is woeful. He didn't shine in any of his loans in League 2 and League 1, and looked out of his depth in the Championship with us; with exception of one good season where he scored something like 12 goals? Thankfully he's refused a new contract here and is likely to go on a free in the summer...

Again, just a difference in opinion. I appreciate the tactical side of the game and like to see the implementation of a viable gameplan. I'd feel happier if we held Utd for 80 mins before letting in a late winner, rather than just going out gung-ho like with obvious results. That is very much my fe...

Well that's a difficult game to comment on in many ways. United, for all their defensive frailties, always looked like they could step up a gear and score if they needed too. That was what I took away from this game in hindsight. Whilst before the game I would not have been too disappointed to lose...

We have the players to play 5-3-2. We could play two holding cm with Guthrir pulling the strings. Cummings and shorey out wide. Maybe, though to my mind you wouldn't want holding CM's in a formation like that. You would want box to box engine room type players...like for example Taylor and Gooding....

93/94 - I could, quite literally, not believe what I was seeing. The season after was a better team, against better teams, but after a decade and a half of watching ugly and by and large mediocre football, it came as a rather pleasant surprise. One touch, slick, pass and move, er jumpers for goalpo...

Well BM (BBC interview) believes that he has the quality in the squad to keep us in the PL. He further suggested that he does not need to buy in January. I cannot agree with him. I have not seen anything in our play that suggests that we can stay up. There are still far too many mistakes made in ga...

Dont panic!! Mikkel Andersen is actually our best keeper on the books. Given game time he would be better than both McCarthy and Feds. If that fails we have always got Stuart Taylor :oops: Better speak to the Pompey STH's this season. MA is a good shot stopper, but poor with his distribution and ha...

I can understand having a chirp at a player who isn't giving 100%, but what on earth is the point in berating someone who is trying their best and not quite up to standard? What more can someone give than their best? It's fair enough to moan that we would like better players...but it's not the curre...

Shocking subs last night too. McD really is testing the most loyal of supporters waiting until gone the 80th minute before making any changes to his shambles of a side. How come Pog can't even get on the pitch as a f/cking sub? Why take off our most effective forward for a player who hardly merited...

I struggle to see what moaning about players and management will do; we have a lack of options and a lack of quality. We even had Bryn on the bench today. Leigertwood is an excellent example; very rarely looks capable of stepping up to this level. So who can we replace him with? Nobody, until Janua...

For my own part, I actually felt better about that game than say, after the Swansea game. Getting monstered and ripped to shreds by a mid table premier side is far worse in some ways than a fairly even tussle with a relegation rival. Thought the defence did pretty well. The first time this season we...

paddy20 t how many succesful companies are there that are run by accountants?

At a guess I would have said the vast majority? Or am I missing the point?

IMO we looked good for pretty much the whole game, it felt like we had most of the possession in the Villa half but we couldn't create any good chances whatsoever. Compare that to Villa who had at least 3 golden opportunities in the first half, the goal, and a few good chances in the second half. T...

Agreed, and pre season the addition of Pog and Guthrie looked good.[/quote] They looked alright bargain buys, and we trusted Brian knew what he was doing when he bought them. We were wrong.[/quote] I think he bought them looking to play a certain way, only to find other players seemed unable to adap...

If you accept that simply buying a new starting 11 isn't a good move and your squad is weak, then improving where you can is the only option you have. Buying quality additions to add class to a hard working outfit =/= buying a new starting 11 Agreed, and pre season the addition of Pog and Guthrie l...

It must surely occur to some of you that we went up last year knowing our squad was going to be weak for the coming season. Knowing that, is it not possible the thinking went along the lines of 'Lets improve the squad, with top end championship players'? If we were unsure of our ability to stay up, ...

Half-watched on a very dodgy stream, but here goes: - I feel more positive after that game than the Swansea game (and certainly more than most on here), reckon we deserved a draw. End to end, chances for both sides, could have gone either way - generally an exciting game of football & I really ...