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03 Nov 2025 19:23:06
Rumours are Romeu is coming home!
Would welcome that leadership and grit.
1.) 05 nov 2025 09:29:02
quick and no nonsense answer is steve cooper, still out of work. did brilliantly for forest to take them up. probably not quite premier class yet. should be able to at least stabilise us. shippie
2.) 06 Nov 2025 03:27:53
Pretty good call shippie. KOM.
22 Jul 2025 07:05:15
Downes, THB, Bednarek, Matsuki and Dibling are all out for 'injuries'.
Any intel on who is about to leave and who might stay?
1.) 22 Jul 2025 20:33:57
Matsuki is apparently going out on loan. Would not surprise me if the other four all go. THB thinks he’s better than he is, Downes isn’t great unless he’s playing for Martin, Bednarek is another year older, Dibling probably isn’t interested in playing championship. The fun is only just beginning!
2.) 24 Jul 2025 06:55:41
Shame about Matsuki, could do with another CAM.
We are overloaded with CBs, so need to move some on or even try Wood or Jack as a 6, if Downes goes.
18 May 2025 10:38:21
The Independent is quoting Will Still as favourite. He has just left Lens.
What are people's thoughts?
Seems to have done well in France.
Young guy, new league, partner with medical issues and a club in crisis. It's a lot on his shoulders.
1.) 18 May 2025 19:39:02
This would just be another punt - and the others didn’t work out well.
We need someone who can rebuild a totally broken spirit - our team are damaged beyond repair. As I have said previously, it will be a good 3 years before we are able to compete for PL status. Once our squad has been asset stripped we will be on the same level as Norwich, Blackburn, Millwall and QPR.
04 May 2025 12:11:36
I combined the squad evaluation from Glen De La Cour and intel from 2408 and recent rumours into our potential squad next year. What do you think?
Patterson*
van Ewik Jack** Edwards Wellington
Downes. Charles
Armstrong. Fernandes*** Archer****
Onuachu*****
*McCarthy or Patterson (rumour)
**Bednarek, Jack, THB (unlikely), Wood
***Fernandes (hopeful) or Rudoni
****Archer or Sainz or Diaz
*****Onuachu (doubt), Sargent/Conway or Stewart (if fit)
SUBS/SQUAD
McCarthy
Bree
Wood/Stephens
Sanda
Manning (or start)
Smallbone
Matsuki or AM loan
O'Brien Whitmarsh
Sulemana or Edozie (start or sub)
Fraser
Robinson
Stewart
New Striker (15m - push to start)
SELL 150m+
Ramsdale. 20
Bazunu. 10
THB. 20
ABK. 8 (keep if attitude changes)
Bednarek 6 (rumoured clause)
Sugawara. 7
KWP. 0
Taylor 0
Dibling 40
Aribo. 5
Diaz. 10
Amo. 8 (should have kept)
Larios 5
Edozie or Sulemana 10-15
Onuachu (8m.- if sold)
1.) 05 May 2025 22:59:24
With that bunch of underachievers we’re all going to Hell in a handcart. Seriously, where are the winners amongst that lot?
We are also making assumptions that clubs will want to pay serious money for players who have proved they cannot compete.
Guys, please get real - we are where we are for many reasons and not least because they are simply not good enough
2.) 06 May 2025 07:07:18
Hi @Millertime,
I am going on what I think will happen, not what I want to and I share your deep disappointment.
I think two or more seasons in the Championship might actually be good for us. Bring through promising youth, gel a new generation together and ease off the pressure.
I think the above could snatch us 6th with a good manager.
3.) 06 May 2025 21:57:58
A root and branch culling is certainly required. We need a cultural reset - we are devoid of ambition in the Board Room and that translates into low expectation through the club and onto the pitch.
A couple of seasons in the Championship may well be the answer - I don’t know?
4.) 07 May 2025 06:47:06
In an ideal world, we would keep KWP THB, Dibling and Fernandes, sell a lot of struggling players for 100m and bring in some quality players on loan to buy deals.
Remember the Cortese, Fonte, Lallana and Lambert days?
26 Jan 2025 10:50:39
Any good Championship players outside the top 10, who we can snap up now, with the carrot of playing in the Premier League and better hopes of promotion next year?
Norwich player is current league top scorer for example.
1.) 26 Jan 2025 15:19:51
It’s a good shout but then again Armstrong is decent in the champ but dog sh! te in the prem.
2.) 26 Jan 2025 15:46:23
Van Ewijk, Rudoni, Hume, Sainz, Sargeant, Morris, is about it if you take away clubs that will probably be promoted and players already owned by premier league/ foreign clubs.
3.) 26 Jan 2025 18:57:44
Some interesting options there. Thanks @2408 I am thinking players for next year and could make the full Prem step up in a year or two.
Could do with a RB like Van Ewojik/Hume if KWP and Sugawara go,
A scoring winger like Sainz if Sulemana/Dibling/Edozie go
Rudoni for Aribo, if he is really on his way
Sargent/Morris to replace Archer/Onuachu
Let's be honest, the good ones would prefer Leicester or Ipswich at the end of the season, or a promoted side but maybe can get a jump on and secure one or two.
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05 Nov 2025 15:29:43
Who do people want for manager?
We have the good but unlikely Lampard, Robbins and Rogers
The divisive Martin and O'Neil
The wild card Eckert, Carsley, German leagues and Revell
The nostalgic Adkins and Hassenhuttl
Then Carrick.
Who would you go for?
1.) 05 Nov 2025 17:19:41
Good summary.with a few to add.
Potential: Lalana
soon to be available: Farke
Pipe dream: Gerrard
I think at this stage we should forget about playoffs and focus on the relegation threat.a proven manager specifically in the championship is necessary. Accordingly, Mowbray wasnt such a daft idea, even if a tad uninspiring. And Farke would be a good option when Leeds can him. Priority is to get to January in better shape than now, then exit all the sabateurs who made Stills job even harder than he made it
2.) 06 Nov 2025 09:10:04
Carrick, Farke, Mowbray, Ralph or Copper would be a sensible shortlist but we will probably get Spor's second cousin from Germany!
Also depends who the players play for. Anybody with blunt talk or who pushes for fitness seems to have sabotage operations against them.
3.) 06 Nov 2025 17:13:00
Right now I’d take Carsley in a heartbeat, had his teams playing superb football but he wouldn’t come to this clown show. I’d take Carrick, I’d take O’Neil, but the outsider coming in seems to be Carlos Corberan.
Given the perverse world of football management, he’s expected to soon be sacked by Valencia and has done well in the Champ before - his WBA side are who we beat in the play-offs and he did well getting them that far.
Honestly I don’t expect anything of the sort. It’ll be an obscure Swiss who managed Magdeburg and we’ll scrape survival. What I worry about with a win on Saturday is they appoint Eckert, and we get back on the Selles/Rusk ferris wheel which went horrendously.
4.) 07 Nov 2025 07:45:50
Carsley is an interesting choice. He would bring on youth and does have some limited championship experience, which I just found out about.
Corberan could get the best out of Fellows. I am nervy about the SR left field appointments. Cortese pulled them off, SR do not.
31 Oct 2025 16:16:30
Best starting line up tomorrow given injuries and suspensions?
McCarthy
Roerslev. Wood. THB. Manning
Jander. Downes/Edwards
Fellows. Azaz. Scienza
Armstrong
With Azaz pushing further forwards when crossed high.
1.) 01 Nov 2025 08:33:11
It’s probably as good as it gets now that Charles is out injured.
Watching Wrexham last night - what a gutsy winning performance.
It made me think - if you had a mixed Saints/Wrexham XI, how many Wrexham players would start. At best maybe 4 or 5, yet they perform with fight and spirit, week in week out (they all but beat is on the first day of the season) .
So what’s their formula? IMO it is the manager Phil Parkinson. If you watched the TV series about Wrexham he is master class in player motivation. He doesn’t suffer defeat well, so he does everything to about it. Which brings me all the way round to Boy Still - wrong place at the wrong time.
I’m feeling a rare 2-0 home win today!
2.) 01 Nov 2025 11:19:05
Completely agree.
I have seen Still be quite tough in training but the passiveness with the press does not inspire me.
Like to see Aribo back in the mix too if Downes is injured.
Big game and no idea how to call it. Preston are doing well but poor away and have injuries at the back.
COYR! Would love a 2-0!
18 Oct 2025 17:12:32
I would be tempted to go 4 4 2 with Scienza, Fellows, Arma and Archer. Trouble is, we have good wingers but no height or reaction speed for balls in the box.
We could go 3 4 2 1 with Azaz and Scienza central and Fellows pushing up in attack but we have no 9.
Or we go 4 3 3 with Azaz at 10 and Fellows replaces Armstrong late on.
How did we not score today?
1.) 19 Oct 2025 07:25:23
Or a flexible 4 2 3 1 / 4 4 2
Azaz as a 10 when we play it central, then he pushes up to a 9 when we cross it in or play it long to give some height.
Start with Scienza, Arma and Fellows. Then bring on Fraser and Robinson in last 30 mins.
Thoughts?
14 Sep 2025 11:09:14
Starting line up I would have picked. 4 at the back. Robinson, Scienza to come on. Let's go!
1.) 14 Sep 2025 13:58:39
First half was appalling. Don’t know what we were doing, just seemed to want to play keep ball and nothing else. Second half was better but it shouldn’t have taken that long to work it out. Was all just sloppy, disjointed, and I don’t recall us having one decent chance given Archer chose not to shoot into an open goal.
New signings looked composed and will help us improve, Fellows decent, Scienza clearly has a spark, Azaz anonymous, Roerslev looked to be the only one wanting to pass forward all game. Otherwise we just didn’t want to look forward at any point in the first 75 minutes other than hoofing it and hoping it would create something.
At least he went to a back four. Hopefully with time they’ll start to gel. And at least we didn’t lose.
2.) 14 Sep 2025 16:56:22
"Meh" is my short match report!
09 Sep 2025 06:49:27
3 interesting team selection debates for Subday.
1. Defence - Can Bazunu handle the pressure an ex Pompey young GK will get or better to go with the big game experience of McCarthy? Quarshie has the speed and physicality for a Derby but error prone and learning? Starter or sub?
2. Formation - 4 at the back shows confidence. Is change adding risk or start as we mean to go on?
3. Attack - Arma is struggling but he rose to the occasion at the playoffs. Should he get a chance on the right with Archer a 9?
Goals for Robinson, Arma, Fraser and 1 of the new boys would be the perfect script with Bazunu saving a pen. COYR!
1.) 10 Sep 2025 18:33:31
I think Still will stick with a back three. Don’t think he’s right to, but can’t see him changing it for this game.
Bazunu - Quarshie - Stephens - THB - Roerslev - Charles - Downes - Manning - Fraser - Robinson - Archer I think he’ll go for. Then hope for some of the new lads to come off the bench and tear it up in the final 35.
Personally I’d like to see Scienza, Azaz, Fellows, Jander from the off, but that’s a lot of new blood in one game and they’ll need time to gel. I think Scienza and Fellows fresh for the final 20 could cause chaos.
I’ll go for a stressy 2-1 come from behind win but any sort of win will do ?
2.) 12 Sep 2025 11:14:13
Saints seem to average 2 a game and Pompey 1, so I hope for a 2-1!
I can see that line up starting. Hopefully Fellows, Azaz and Scienza can add some magic.
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05 Oct 2025 16:02:19
I am usually a voice of optimism but I agree with your assessment @Millertime.
At 1-0 up and 9th in the league I was hopeful but now with our only target man out and another drab draw, we are a few levels off.
29 Aug 2025 17:04:39
(Profit including the prior sales of Sulemana out, Quarshie in etc.)
29 Aug 2025 08:25:25
Read the following:
OUTS
Fernandes to West Ham for 38m + 4m add ons
Smallbone deciding on Wrexham for 7.5m
Edozie wants Club Brugge
Apparently interest for Diaz
QPR have bid rejected for Edwards
Sugawara, Sanda and ABK on loan
INS
Azaz for 12m +3m add ons
Fellows for 7m +3m add ons
Jander for 10.5m
Scienza potentially for 5m to 7m
If those happen, I believe we are at 70m+ profit to balance the books.
30 Jul 2025 04:52:44
Completely agree @Millertime
A lot will depend on 5 things
1. If our strikers can replicate previous Championship successes
2. If players that excelled at mid table sides like Edwards, Charles and Wood can perform at top 5 level
3. How fast an almost new 11 vs last season, plus young manager can gel
4. How well Birmingham, Leicester, Coventry and Wrexham perform
5. Who comes in and who goes in the summer and Jan.
10 sides have a shot at promotion. I am hedging my bets and predicting 5th/6th behind Ipswich, Leicester, Sheffield Utd and Birmingham, plus maybe Coventry/Wrexham.
29 Jul 2025 16:04:44
I still think we have a good shot at promotion. Our defence is more inexperienced than last time but a Downes, Charles and Fernandes midfield would be solid. Robinson is a good upgrade on Edozie. We have a fit (for now) Stewart, plus Archer, Armstrong and Downs so 4 good 2nd div strikers vs 2 last time.
I can see a slow mid table start as the team and manager adjust then climbing up to the playoffs with our superior squad depth and fitness over the winter months.
With Saints nothing would surprise me though and depends who stays, fights and finds form.
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07 Nov 2025 07:45:50
Carsley is an interesting choice. He would bring on youth and does have some limited championship experience, which I just found out about.
Corberan could get the best out of Fellows. I am nervy about the SR left field appointments. Cortese pulled them off, SR do not.
06 Nov 2025 09:16:04
Carrick is probably the realistic, less divisive and experienced championship choice. But when did we ever go for that!
RM's style will only ever get us so far and players seem stuck in it. So, depends on our ambition.
I also suspect some players are running the show behind the scenes. Anybody who pushes for fitness or is no nonsense gets moved on. Then wonder why favourites get picked and we lose from winning positions.
06 Nov 2025 09:10:04
Carrick, Farke, Mowbray, Ralph or Copper would be a sensible shortlist but we will probably get Spor's second cousin from Germany!
Also depends who the players play for. Anybody with blunt talk or who pushes for fitness seems to have sabotage operations against them.
02 Nov 2025 08:42:54
I completely agree.
Can we get a lawyer deem SR are too incompetent to make their own decisions and let a committee of trusted fans choose the next man?!
01 Nov 2025 11:19:05
Completely agree.
I have seen Still be quite tough in training but the passiveness with the press does not inspire me.
Like to see Aribo back in the mix too if Downes is injured.
Big game and no idea how to call it. Preston are doing well but poor away and have injuries at the back.
COYR! Would love a 2-0!