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Reply | Heyho
at 11:07 3 Nov 2024
I felt silly afterwards, walking home in a T-shirt that just said "Down", especially when I was passed by a fan of the band S Syndrome. |
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Reply | Heyho
at 09:20 3 Nov 2024
Meanwhile, Everton flops, Ademola Lookman and Moise Kean, are in the form of their lives in Italy.
By the way, I respect the stoicism you always show when Everton lose to Saints. [Post edited 3 Nov 9:25]
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Reply | The fight is there
at 08:25 3 Nov 2024
2 wins in a week, both won with late goals and we have a proper home end at last! The Northam was rocking. |
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Reply | Ross Stewart
at 19:06 31 Oct 2024
Whenever I see the name Ross Stewart, the song 24 Hours from Tulsa springs to mind:
"And he was only 2 weeks away from St Mary's..."
We've bought 4 forwards who collectively are about as much use as a chocolate soldier.
What adds insult to injury is the fact that the people who are bringing all these wheelchair cases, has-beens and never-will-bes here are actually getting paid to do so. A random group of fans could do a better job than they do. [Post edited 31 Oct 19:25]
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Reply | Good advert for The Championship
at 09:00 30 Oct 2024
It's a bit like saying Saints were a good advert for Premier League football. Stoke are 19th in the Championship; Cardiff are 20th. Those 2 teams could be joining Pompey in League One next season. Bring on League One football! [Post edited 30 Oct 9:05]
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Reply | Northam Wall - Stoke game
at 17:53 29 Oct 2024
True.
The Dormund spotters will be the ones in the yellow shirts; not the fat people in the pink ones. [Post edited 29 Oct 17:55]
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Reply | Northam Wall - Stoke game
at 15:21 29 Oct 2024
Obviously it's a bit later than when you did it, but there are 3,821 tickets left now. It's a fairly quick and easy process if you place an online calculator over the seating plan and just type in the numbers and plus signs. The Kingsland has about 10,000 seats so the 3 stands available would need to be sold out to get a crowd over 20,000. So you and Nick are right with your estimates. It's going to be somewhere between 15,000 and 18,000.
I still think the Club made a mistake closing the Kingsland. If they hadn't, there would have been a bigger crowd - probably over 20,000. I also find that when you are in a packed stand staring at an empty one on the other side of the pitch, it spoils the atmosphere, and makes it seem like a pre-season friendly, and that in itself has probably put some people off going.
The Club certainly doesn't make much of an effort to sell tickets. I guess they feel they don't need to as the league games sell out anyway. [Post edited 29 Oct 15:40]
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Reply | Northam Wall - Stoke game
at 09:51 29 Oct 2024
Way more?
Yes, it looks like it's between 3,000 and 4,000. There's one block which is mostly empty: the one in the Chapel that's next to the away fans. Not many fans want to be in that on, so why put it on sale, when they could have opened a block in the centre of the Kingsland instead? [Post edited 29 Oct 10:03]
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Reply | Northam Wall - Stoke game
at 09:11 29 Oct 2024
Less than 3,000 tickets left. If they offered a last minute deal for a fiver, they could sell out. Of course, they won't. They can't be bothered. Similarly, if they'd opened the Kingsland instead of the Chapel, they'd have sold more tickets, When it's one price, the seats at the side always sell out first, which is why the Itchen has been sold out for days.
Like many things the Club does, not opening the Kingsland is a false economy. The extra tickets they'd have sold to people who don't want to be behind the goal - and that's a lot of fans - would have more than covered the cost of the stewards. Once the Itchen was sold out, that's what they should have done. [Post edited 29 Oct 9:32]
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Reply | Ten Haag sacked at Man U. Who's next for them.
at 06:22 29 Oct 2024
Yes, I remember that game well. He played all alone up front, kept 4 defenders busy and still scored against us, playing a neat 1-2 through the centre of our defence and slotting the ball into the bottom corner.
As for the quality of our scouts, most scouts are in their jobs more because of who they know rather than what they know. Ross Wilson, our former head of scouting, became a scout because his best friend's dad, who worked in the media department at Falkirk FC , knew he was a studious lad and asked him to write reports on U18 games. You probably could have done a better job than he did here. Just because someone is in a job, doesn't necessarily mean he is any better suited to it than the next man. [Post edited 29 Oct 9:50]
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Reply | How many points will we get this season?
at 06:13 29 Oct 2024
Premier League Lowest Points Totals of All-Time:
Derby County 2007-08: 11 points.
Sunderland 2005-06: 15 points.
For comparison, after their first 9 games, Derby in 2007/08 and Sunderland in 2005/06 both had 5 points. We've got 1. [Post edited 29 Oct 6:13]
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Reply | Ten Haag sacked at Man U. Who's next for them.
at 22:34 28 Oct 2024
I guess he'll be taking Gyökeres to Old Trafford with him in January. He was his record signing at Sporting and he's been scoring a goal per game. If only we'd bought him from Coventry when we had the chance...
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Reply | How many points will we get this season?
at 14:09 28 Oct 2024
Anything above 30 would be miraculous, especially as newly promoted teams usually get more points in their opening 10 games than they do in the later ones. We've got 1 point from our opening 9 games; we'd need to get at least a point per game from the remaining 29 to achieve that. Can Russell, Captain Jack & co pull off a miracle? What do you think? [Post edited 28 Oct 14:10]
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Reply | Northam Wall - Stoke game
at 11:27 28 Oct 2024
The Itchen is sold out. If they'd wanted a bigger crowd, they'd have opened the Kingsland instead of the Chapel. When tickets are one price all around the stadium, people are always attracted to what are usually the more expensive areas. For many of those undecided as to whether to go or not, that would have been a clincher.
I don't think half-term makes any real difference. There are never many children at night games.
Considering the results, our support has been good this season, with league games selling out home and away. With so many negatives this season, the one thing we can be positive about is our support. [Post edited 28 Oct 13:04]
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Reply | Bereton Diaz not even on the bench against City
at 21:28 26 Oct 2024
U18s next? We should bring back the A team so our new signings can play other players their level. I wonder if the FA would let them play for Sholing and Totton. Cornet could sell ice creams at half-time. [Post edited 26 Oct 21:32]
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Reply | Shea Charles...
at 21:58 25 Oct 2024
Yann Valery with the assist for the winning goal.
It must be a huge disadvantage having to play home games at Fratton Park. No Pompey team (men or women) has won there for more than half a year. |
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Reply | Manning voted 3rd best looking player in Premier lge
at 15:48 25 Oct 2024
If Jamie Vardy finished 2nd, it has to be a joke. Vardy has one of those ugly faces you see in gurning competitions.
It would be quite funny if Manning played with a sticker on his back, saying "3rd best looking player" |
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