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Similar, but I'd say I'm probably about a 7 or an 8. Think we've got more than a 10% chance of sticking around. We're one freak win for Sunderland or Hull away from being dead and buried. I think 10% is being pretty generous.

I'm pretty sure the atmosphere will be horrible. They got the crowd all pumped up for Pompey and then the players let them down horribly. Crowd will be very subdued and will start jumping on the players' backs the minute the first mistake happens.

Alves... Scoring? Does not compute

One of the Rosenborg ressies told me a few days back that Skjelbred had said that if we came in for him in the summer, he'd come regardless of our division status as he wants to play under Shearer. It would be just like this club to fail to sign one of Europe's up and coming talents when he's practically begging to come here even if we're in the Championship.

I foresee an epic 0-0 draw condemning both clubs to relegation.

It's a bit of a travesty that two of us, Sunderland, Hull, and Boro get to stay in the Premiership. Four absolutely hopeless, irredeemable piece of shit sides.

On a parallel world somewhere, he would have overcome his mental problems, avoided injury, and become a cracking player and England international. Instead, the next time he plays football it will probably be in the Championship either with us (hopefully not,) or some other desperate club.

aye, he has to be sacked now Motherfucker should be given his marching orders in the morning. Idiot.

It was never a red but there was absolutely no reason in fucking hell to make that challenge when the game is gone, the opposition player isn't in a dangerous area, and your name is fucking Joey Barton. Stupidity of the highest order.

what. the. fuck.

how the f*** was that foul not given I would be fucking livid if we had any chance of getting something out of this

I just saw Mark Viduka running. Fuck the match, this is like witnessing a minor miracle.

I just got up after getting wasted last night. Would it be worth it to turn this on or not?

Yeah, I've seen that. He plays in the American 4th division and for his college team Apparently he had a 10 day trial here and impressed against the first team in training though, so who knows. There's a little article about it here http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2009/apr/30/a-life-changing-trip/ We've also got two youngsters coming in the summer- Femi Orenuga, a winger from Southend that Man Utd also offered a contract to, was tied up a while ago. I was reading today we've also got a German U17 lad from Hamburg that yourselves and Man City also wanted. Some people are saying he's a centre half and some are saying he's a defensive midfielder. It's always good to see your club going for youngsters who can develop Given our current predicament, that statement doesn't sound nearly as straightforward as it should be

Hopefully Shearer has learned that it's far less damaging to our overall play to just play four at the back with somebody like Edgar or Ryan Taylor or Duff playing out of position on the left side than it is to try to shoehorn the side into that awful 3-5-2 formation.

All of these Asian minnows seem to have brilliant goalies who make crazy saves whenever they play us. ("us" in this case meaning South Korea) I guess this is why.

Insomnia would've been class if we didn't buy damien duff/play him out of position.

I would like to see Taylor get the armband myself. I don't think he'd make a good captain given that he's thick as mince. Wouldn't command respect. Plus, His injury looks to be a bit worse than we thought so probably won't be back in contention for a while. Dear God, Steven Taylor might have played his last game for us

shocking the lack of leadership and passion in our dressing room considering how many captains/ex-captains/vice-captains we have. Nolan (Bolton) Cacapa (Lyon) Owen (captain) Geremi (ex-captain) Beye (Marseilles) Butt (Vice-captain) Taylor (England U21s) Viduka (Australia)

The thought of him in the Prem on the other hand is quite tasty. Championship though, he'll get raped anally. Surely if he's good enough he can figure out a way to get through the talentless cloggers who try to rough him up? I wouldn't think that the defending in the Norwegian league would be nice and fluffy compared to the Championship either.

Just asking the players to take it easy would probably work just as well and look a lot less suspicious than Beattie, Etherington, Delap, and Faye(s) all suddenly succumbing to "injury"

At the very least, Carroll's already made it, Vukcic looks like he's going to be pretty damn awesome, and Kadar would have probably made the first team by now if he didn't break his leg. And even if only one or two of the others get anywhere near the first team, we'll have done about as well as most of the youth academies in the country. So while there's no sense screaming "play the kids," I wouldn't lose all hope quite yet

well, there goes the "just stick the kids in, they can't possibly be worse" theory.

why did we sell ab faye again? stupid. Because he didn't get along with a manager who was going to walk out of the club 2 weeks later.

I wasn't there but from my experiences at SJP I'm relatively certain that the vast majority of the ground wouldn't have been singing if Danby hadn't got them started like that. It might have been "cringeworthy" or whatever, but it did accomplish its purpose. (Well, at least for about 45 minutes it did) It's an unfortunate reality of out times: the vast majority of home fans are always going to be silent. And if throwing a fat, drunk opera singer out there to get them riled up is the only way to change that, I don't mind it one bit at all.