Lane Ender
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Half of that lot have to goIf he plays this lot then I won't because we will be in the bottom half of the table!
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Half of that lot have to goIf he plays this lot then I won't because we will be in the bottom half of the table!
So you only get behind them when we are in the top half of a table then ?If he plays this lot then I won't because we will be in the bottom half of the table!
So you only get behind them when we are in the top half of a table then ?
Interesting that all the people off here I see at most games ,Silent ,Foxy ,Raul ,P Albert , BOSS and others dont bust their gut a couple of hours after a game to compose a novel full of bile and abuse of our football club ,its players ,management and even supporters who dare to have a different opinion. But if thats you guys way of self gratification crack on. Cue another novel of big words and abuse so all the Pommpeyfanboys can blow smoke up his arse.
Oooh. Triggered?
If you are talking about the pitches opposite the old fire station I can assure you they have not improved!In a time long ago, so long ago that every team in the land played 4-4-2, your correspondent played up front for a shite side whose home ground was the playing fields on Ringinglow Road.
The pitches, naturally, on slopes with angles Pythagoras could not conceive, and the wind would drive through like spears of ice. For the most part the surface would be clods of sloop, long studs disappeared in it within less than a minute adding about 3 lbs of weight to each foot I would guess at.
On these days, I would gather up what strength I had when, say, the right back had the ball, and make a run into space, darting away from my marker in slow motion due to the conditions, only to find the ball sailing 20 feet over my head and bouncing thirty yards away where a different opposing defender had plenty of time to recover the ball under no pressure.
This scenario would play itself out with the unwavering, demoralising regularity of Comedy Central running repeats of Friends.
Although this took place almost 40 years ago, it came back to me last night when I watched McBurnie having to deal with the balls played up to him.
Poor kid.
Ey up ommpey. You eed a new keyboard mate. Great read but quite a few issing letters. XxxxAnother deeply disappointing and very predictable outcome. It's no wonder really. We are down on options and down on capability, now playing like the found-out, Championship evel team since the first kick of the ball versus Villa after the lockdown. Aside from small spells of looking like we can do it - Spurs, Chelsea, Man U ... we've been dismal and beaten for ages. Step forward Mr Wilder. This is your shout.
Fulham play a game full of chance, error and some mistakes. It's still 'just-up-from-the-Championship-dice-shaking' but fuck me don't they do it well? White shirt - white shirt - white shirt - white shirt, it is no wonder they out possessed us all fucking game. When we got it it was panic stations and look for the players that weren't there, so pump it long to McPub, the telegraph pole we bought for twenty odd million. Fulham however played it into the spaces we weren't, namely our ineffective, consistently overran midfield. Wilder thought he'd give Norwood a break this eek and start with the frankly useless Lundstram in CM and Basham RM but it was abundantly clear Lundstram is worse than Norwood in that berth and the only player who could fill the requirement was Ampadu. So the swap out happened. It didn't make much difference. The return of Jimmy Fleck from hospital and Ampadu basically covering for Lundstram too meant we were simply - once again - passed around and beaten all ends up in the middle of the park by Loftus-Cheek, Zambo and Reed feeding the dangermen in front of them or just running on past. They are so ineffective, that our only outlet is to pump it long and readers, tonight I counted one header out of about eleven or twelve which went to a green shirt (Fleck, first half) So why fucking do it? Oppositions just know that when he's on the pitch it's 'back to Ramsdale, BOOM! BOING! Thank-you-very-much'. There's a statistic that in our first half, our team
'DIDN'T TOUCH THE BALL IN THE OPPOSITION'S PENALTY AREA IN THE FIRST HALF'
Just hoist that in for a moment. Our strikeforce at the moment is an expensive lanky foul-claimer, a stout, 35 year old veteran, another veteran who kinda plays his own mellow game against the opposition, Billy Whizz with flip-flops on and what looks like a 14 year old schoolkid. Oh, and some fucking fraudulent footballer more keen on fast-food than fast-goals. And we play a system which has three inept individuals who are there to impose and make a difference on the outcome of the game in the middle of the park and a variable backline leaking injuries and confidence. And we can't even get a Sheffield United boot on the ball in 45 minutes, against what will be, one of our main rivals next season for getting back into the Premier League. It's dogshit, with mayo-fucking-nnaise on it.
Second half the changes, even when forced through losing Basham made no difference, in fact it made it worse. Okay, Stevens broke through but did you actually think he'd coolly pick his spot and drill the ball in the far corner? Did anyone think that Norwood's frankly brilliant cross would result in the net bulging? Nah. We are resorting to whinging about what was to me an obvious penalty as some sort of safe mattress to land on to spare our deep seated embarrassment and disappointment at being, once again, rolled over in the flour and batter, and dropped in the oil. We didn't do anything in that 97 minutes to suggest we deserved a result. We were simply crap, again.
Lastly, anyone deluded enough to think that armed with what they think is a Championship set of title-winning galacticos next season needs to have a big old whaft of the freshly ground beans. Playing like we did tonight, against one of our rivals, we're very likely to end up disappointed. We need to shed the deadwood, pay off their mistakenly-signed contracts, and start buying playmakers and goalscorers and play like we did in 2018-19. Right now we are a billion miles away from that and we have a hefty amunt of those players still pulling on a shirt, and the same management team. Blame COVID, narrow margins and 'lack of confidence' all you want, but this is down to them and Wilder, Our team's failures is their fault, and certainly not ours.
Ramsdale 7/10: Thought he had a better game. Good, confident stops and no fuck ups. Distribution was billy bollocks at times though, with most of them going via Pubby's melon or into empty space
Baldock 6/10: Nice to se him back. Aggressive and committed. Hope Furious is one of the players he especially intends to keep next season
Ampadu 5/10: Still working his ticket and hoping for home, back to Chelsea. Better than Lundstram in CM but horrific fuck up with Lookman for their goal
Jagielka 6.5/10: Poor old feller. Shows proper PL defensive class at times with key interceptions and headers, but at times, because he's 52, he's easy to skip round
Bryan 6/10: Didn't think he did too bad. Had his hands full at times with the likes of Cavaliero and Maja, but it was a passable display
Stevens 3/10: Shit finish when clean through. His game was proper Pompey too.
Basham 6/10: You know you'll get 100% out of him, even if RCM is not his bag. And tonight it wasn't, because he had no support or connectivity and was largely firefighting in the centre of the park, trying to get a way forward. Obviously better when CW switched him to RCB
Lundstram 1/10: Very poor, ineffective and frankly switched off performance in both positions. Can't wait for him to fuck off, to be honest. He's gone from Nicky Montgomery to Michael Doyle, in fact, Doyle was possibly better, in honesty
Fleck 4/10: Mysteriously back from hospital when everyone feared the worst. Was this John or was this Jimmy? You decide. I though like Lundstram, there as nothing to show that did anything to make us have an effect. One good free kick in the first half, that was it.
McBurnie 2/10: Pretty abject and no real positive comments. In fact I am wondering why I am giving him '2'. I suppose it's just in case he comes on here full of rage and gets stuck in to me again. '2' is slightly more 'respectful' than '0', I suppose. Tonight he was a fucking phone mast which every green shit bounced the ball off to surrender possession. If you think, with this system and tactics, he will be 'amazing' and 'rip the championship to bits' next season then you need a fucking terror shake. Unless we paly a different system and use him as a proper target man, second ball for striker #2, he's redundant. Twenty million.
Sharp 2/10: As ever, Billy gets a low mark because Billy got no service. You can't give him 7/10 for simply unning after the ball and hooking a cross over the top
Norwood 4/10: Typical weak performance. Two corners - first ma. Next one far post (okay, it found Bryan, but it needs to go into the triangle drawn from penalty area to posts, Gets an additional point for that superlative cross in that Sharp spooned, but I guess that's it for this season. All his fanboys will be hoping he gets kept on next season on that on single flash in the pan, when for the rest of the game he was simply passed around and bullied.
Bogle 7/10: Immediately invoked and should have started in RCM in my humble opinion. He poses far more attacking and positional guile than anyone on the pitch, actually and if any signing Wilder has made has proven himself worthy of the fee, it's him. The goalkeeper challenge was a penalty IMHO. Bogle touched the ball first and the keeper cracked his shins. I think the shysters in Stockley had given up on us by that time and were parked on the pot sliding out a loaf of brown clay because I have no idea what the fuck they were looking at that didn't say 'foul'.
But big deal. We are shit. We lost. Again. I know people say 'you're negative' but where are the positives? There are none, are there. Wilder is like a fucking stuck record both on the field and off the field post match, his signings are failures and his team now patently not good enough for the higher echelons of English football. And if it were Adkins in charge, he'd have been burnt at the stake by now.
Fire away. I'm ready.
pommpey
We had a decent budget, weve spent over 100 mill, its been used wastefully. The comparisson to the quality of players that our competition have invested into is valid! If we want to compete in this league then that is what we are up against and we should of used the funds available (of which there was loads) much better.The comparison is not valid
We have recruited within our budget / wage structure those players are beyond our means
Im sure Wilder would have been happy to be able to sign any of those players. He couldnt
Its a totally different question if you think our budget was not sufficient to ensure PL survival
We had a decent budget, weve spent over 100 mill, its been used wastefully. The comparisson to the quality of players that our competition have invested into is valid! If we want to compete in this league then that is what we are up against and we should of used the funds available (of which there was loads) much better.
just because the recruitment is within a structure it doesn’t mean whats been paid for is of sufficient quality for this league.
And there it is. Proof enough that this is a game to you.
Disagree. 100+ million is a lot of money and substantial even in the prem, it could of been spent much more wisely. If you think wilder has used that money wisely then i dont think we are going to agree.The comparison is not valid. The competition have invested in better players but they have spent a lot more than we have in doing so
Its like comparing Apples with Oranges
A decent budget these days for a PL club that need a number of quality players isnt £100m and therefore is not of sufficient quality for this league especially taking the wages we pay into account
We have a limited amount of money to spend on players and wages. Teams like Villa and Fulham have far more
Villa spent £33m on Watkins and will be paying him £100k per week minimum , we didnt get Cash as Villa offered him double what we offered him He probably wanted Wilson went to Newcastle again £100k per week. Wilder probably wanted them all but we were blasted out of the water financially. He wanted Maupay last season he went to Brighton better wages.
As I said previously if you are saying our budget isnt enough to compete in the PL that is a totally different question
Wendy fans loving your posts!Not at all. I can do without the snarkiness and people such as yourself, joining the pile on. I'm here to discuss the game, Silent's mascara is streaming down his face because I call McBurnie 'McPub', and Sitwell is waiting in the wings to fire across my bow. I have said nothing to Sitwell, yet he seems to be reaching for the Lilletts as well. You also?
Fuck me. I thought it was all a myth about 'herd mensturation'.
The ignore function is a mouseclick away. Please do it Geordie before you get further inflamed at my 'gameplay'. You, Sitwell and Silent can all put 'BLADE FOR LIFE, ME!' banners up and such tosh. Meanwhile, some of us need to discuss football.
pommpey
We had a decent budget, weve spent over 100 mill, its been used wastefully. The comparisson to the quality of players that our competition have invested into is valid! If we want to compete in this league then that is what we are up against and we shouldofHAVE used the funds available (of which there was loads) much better.
just because the recruitment is within a structure it doesn’t mean whats been paid for is of sufficient quality for this league.
Just a question. If prime Nick Montgomery were available for our next game, would anyone put him in the starting lineup?They are playing like a team of 11 Nick Montgomery's and I cant give them any lower rating than that.
Villa paid 28m rising to 33m depending on performances for Watkins. There is no club that would not be happy to pay performance payments as it means the player is scoring goals / club avoids relegation / England call up etc. All reports say Watkins is on 45k to 60k a week. So a maximum of 1,5m a year in wages extra than Brewster. Are you really suggesting Blades couldn't afford this? It seems a lot better value than 30k a week for someone to warm the bench. Wilson cost 2m less than Brewster, which could have been used towards wages. Lookman and Lingard, both loans and well within Blades financial muscleVilla spent £33m on Watkins and will be paying him £100k per week minimum , we didnt get Cash as Villa offered him double what we offered him He probably wanted Wilson went to Newcastle again £100k per week. Wilder probably wanted them all but we were blasted out of the water financially. He wanted Maupay last season he went to Brighton better wages.
The fuck are you on about, Silent? Fuck me, you really have lost it haven't you?
The fuck are you on about, Silent? Fuck me, you really have lost it haven't you?
Look, like Geordie, Sitwell and the rest of the mardy arses who can't bear a bit of invective about our dismally shit team (and despite your global mastery of all things United and how much of a badge kissing BaldeyBlade you are, you've still not provided one microgram of dialogue which is prescient and thought provoking as to 'why'?) why don't you piss off over onto your own Temple of United thread where you and the deludeds can circle wank to eternity at how great we were between 2016 and 2019, coming up from the lower divisions where the likes of McCabe kept us for his own means? Just don't read the next 'My take ... ' huh? It will make you rooer and you'll have turds and piss running down your leg and you'll get all dribbly lipped about what I've got to say because odds on, Wilder will play the same shit and we'll end up getting trunked.
Again.
Just scroll past. Or put me on ignore. I challenge you. I dare you.
(he won't)
So when I put it up, just think, 'it's that fat know nowt pommpey and his shit take full of bollocks and swearwords and nicknames. I'm gonna stick another lovelorn paen to the membership of some forum on the internet to a failing Premier League outfit to demonstrate what a fucking giant Blade I am and how my love will never die for them, (sniff, boo-hoo) and pommpey is just a pigfan ... etc ... etc'
Just do that, have a coke and a smile and fuck off, eh?
pommpey
You love dishing out criticism but very poor at taking it arent you?'We'.
Who?
Is this 'me and my mates' Silent?
Good luck. Like I say, unless you've got summat constructive to add to the debate which always follows one of our now predictable defeats, why (exactly) are you here?
Oh. You and your love for the football team. Nice one. Oh, sorry, and how hurt you are at 'McPub'.
Okay. McPub.
I am laughing at you now. Ta ra.
pommpey
Why do you get off on insulting and abusing anyone who disagrees with you. Forums are about debate but you really dont like it do you ? Just make up a hilariously funny name , mention bodily fluids and wrap it up in an abusive monologue 6 paragraphs too long. Then accuse whoever disagrees with not wanting to debate your views and tell them to put you ignore ??The fuck are you on about, Silent? Fuck me, you really have lost it haven't you?
Look, like Geordie, Sitwell and the rest of the mardy arses who can't bear a bit of invective about our dismally shit team (and despite your global mastery of all things United and how much of a badge kissing BaldeyBlade you are, you've still not provided one microgram of dialogue which is prescient and thought provoking as to 'why'?) why don't you piss off over onto your own Temple of United thread where you and the deludeds can circle wank to eternity at how great we were between 2016 and 2019, coming up from the lower divisions where the likes of McCabe kept us for his own means? Just don't read the next 'My take ... ' huh? It will make you rooer and you'll have turds and piss running down your leg and you'll get all dribbly lipped about what I've got to say because odds on, Wilder will play the same shit and we'll end up getting trunked.
Again.
Just scroll past. Or put me on ignore. I challenge you. I dare you.
(he won't)
So when I put it up, just think, 'it's that fat know nowt pommpey and his shit take full of bollocks and swearwords and nicknames. I'm gonna stick another lovelorn paen to the membership of some forum on the internet to a failing Premier League outfit to demonstrate what a fucking giant Blade I am and how my love will never die for them, (sniff, boo-hoo) and pommpey is just a pigfan ... etc ... etc'
Just do that, have a coke and a smile and fuck off, eh?
pommpey
Agree. Wilder should walkWorst performance i have seen for a very, very long time and there have been some shockers. Wilder was tactically shit, signed shit player wasting millions and defended that bollocks - not good enough im afraid. Shocking still fuming this morning that Fulham not only out played us looked levels above us.
“Sheff Utd deserve to go down, banking on a long ball and a flick on! Glad football won!”
that sums it up!
Recon 11 Nick Montgomery's would tonk 11 Bobby Ford's.Thanks Pompey for an entertaining precis of the game. Lot more fun than watching it. Ive decided now am not watching any more SUFC matches on TV this season. I have had two major heart operations ( mitral valve ) and frankly dont want another - or worse. I shall always be a Blade, as we all will on here, but any interest in watching this lot is now fast running out. I cant keep on shouting at the Tv and kicking the cat every time we play like prats. They are playing like a team of 11 Nick Montgomery's and I cant give them any lower rating than that. Not going to aim at any one player, they are a team and will have to take the stick as a team. CW - I dont know- I was a big supporter but hell he's got to improve on this. Lets go down with some dignity FFS
Well do it then? Both of you. If you don't like it ... don't click it. Jesus, it isn't rocket science for either of you, is it?Why do you get off on insulting and abusing anyone who disagrees with you. Forums are about debate but you really dont like it do you ? Just make up a hilariously funny name , mention bodily fluids and wrap it up in an abusive monologue 6 paragraphs too long. Then accuse whoever disagrees with not wanting to debate your views and tell them to put you ignore ??
You really arent that important ,and youve used the line you arent Sitwell/Silent/whoever line so many times now ,what does that even mean ? Hey put me on ignore . He wont. zzzzzz
The problem with the ignore button is that the posters I put on ignore can still see my posts. If it works both ways then I would use the ignore buttonWell do it then? Both of you. If you don't like it ... don't click it. Jesus, it isn't rocket science for either of you, is it?
And like most things, you're wrong. If people disagree on what is happening in the game, it's a fair call. As said before (but you weren't taking much notice through all the tears) I don't expect people to agree with me. It doesn't say 'My take ... and best you fucking agree with me', does it? Yet when I call a player a cruel, unforgiving name which wounds them so bad, when I mention shit, dicks or menses (staying on topic here for you two) people like you who doubtless stand in football terraces regularly and hear some pretty ripe comment week in week out are suddenly all needing a nap and your dummy over it. I cannot understand why you take the trouble to open 'My take ...' in the first place. It's not for you. It's for more robust individuals who either think 'pommpey is a cunt' and rate me unworthy of their time, or people who generally have the potatoes to field the darned hurtful and unfair content and ... and ... and ...
(sniff ... sniff ...)
Grow up Sitwell. Like Silent, you yourself have a decent past reputation stretching back some years on these boards. Don't ruin it getting wrapped round the axle of an argument you don't need to have. I'm not gonna stop, least of all for you, love. Just move on, scroll past, ignore, and sod off.
pommpey
Whats the point of joining a forum to ignore people though ? I thought it was about debate ,but soon as you disagree you are a mardy arse ,deluded ,a bladey blade amongst many other insults ,and apparently should dry your tears ,grow up ,grab a coke and fuck off. Is that how debate works now ?The problem with the ignore button is that the posters I put on ignore can still see my posts. If it works both ways then I would use the ignore button
Whats the point of joining a forum to ignore people though ? I thought it was about debate ,but soon as you disagree you are a mardy arse ,deluded ,a bladey blade amongst many other insults ,and apparently should dry your tears ,grow up ,grab a coke and fuck off. Is that how debate works now ?
The problem with the ignore button is that the posters I put on ignore can still see my posts. If it works both ways then I would use the ignore button
Villa paid 28m rising to 33m depending on performances for Watkins. There is no club that would not be happy to pay performance payments as it means the player is scoring goals / club avoids relegation / England call up etc. All reports say Watkins is on 45k to 60k a week. So a maximum of 1,5m a year in wages extra than Brewster. Are you really suggesting Blades couldn't afford this? It seems a lot better value than 30k a week for someone to warm the bench. Wilson cost 2m less than Brewster, which could have been used towards wages. Lookman and Lingard, both loans and well within Blades financial muscle
Disagree. 100+ million is a lot of money and substantial even in the prem, it could of been spent much more wisely. If you think wilder has used that money wisely then i dont think we are going to agree.
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