WE ARE STAYING UP!

[mattytheshrimper]

tommy should you not be doing some work?

?lol

haha

 

[Smiffy]

Quote[/b] (tommytwoholes @ Dec. 01 2006,14:21)]I am all for giving riera a go , but dont expect him to be top drawer. I have a feeling he will be total ****.

That's the sort of comment I'd expect to hear from Dave The Shrimper, not you Tommy..

 

[tommytwoholes]

I just think that a player with little or no experiance is not what we needed at all. We should have signed a 30 year old midfielder with lots of championship experience. I may be wrong about riera and i hope i am .

 

[silentshrimper]

Iv said wed win for the last hundred games. Nothing will change tomorow. 1-1 draw I think. Which is not enough.

 

[fbm]

Quote[/b] (tommytwoholes @ Dec. 01 2006,14:34)]I just think that a player with little or no experiance is not what we needed at all. We should have signed a 30 year old midfielder with lots of championship experience. I may be wrong about riera and i hope i am .

Why is it that everyone thinks we weren't trying to sign someone?

Do people not realise that you just can't sign players?

You have to a) agree personal terms and b) they have to want to come here.

I can picture the scene now... Tilly rushes out and gets 4/5 loanees in. As with most loans, they are not completely productive and prove to be a drain on the cash resources. The same people clamouring for the loans now criticise because the wage bill is too high and the budget has been used up so we CAN'T get anyone in, even if we want to.

I suspect that 90% of Tillys targets didn't want to accept the wages we could afford to pay and/or their clubs wouldn't agree to make up the difference. The other 10% just didn't want to come here.

We have to accept that, financially and image wise, we just cannot compete with all but one of the other Championship clubs.

 

[tommytwoholes]

all but two. Luton and Col******r united.

Did we not make 500k from man utd and Totenham?
Did we budget for this money?
Could we have used this extra cash for wages?
We are in the championship NOT league 1-2. Players of this calibre need paying, if you cant afford wages then whats the point being here?

 

[mattytheshrimper]

true we could have 1 or decent players in with that money.

 

[The Sudden In Out]

Is such blind optimism conducive to resilient loyalty? Where do the two separate as individual entities? We're bottom of the league and, as far as I can see, there is no strong fight or spirit in the team at the moment. If we collide with lady luck and accumulate required victories to haul in the point difference, is it too late to match perceived safety?

 

[Rayleigh boy]

As Mourinho knows and has said its all about spirit. Portsmouths great escape was built on self-belief and led from the terraces (as were) -

We are staying up because we're good enough as a team, as a club, as a footballing community, as individual players and because we've got the spirit to !

we are staying up -

and having great cup runs - it wasn't a fluke against Man U it
was a bunch of players playing to the very limits of their own ability and great sport watched by a very select 11.000.

Looking forward to saturday - come on the Blues.



No looking back and no going back.

 

[tomasufc 4eva]

Quote[/b] (fbm @ Dec. 01 2006,15:31)]I can picture the scene now... Tilly rushes out and gets 4/5 loanees in.  As with most loans, they are not completely productive and prove to be a drain on the cash resources.  The same people clamouring for the loans now criticise because the wage bill is too high and the budget has been used up so we CAN'T get anyone in, even if we want to.

Isn't that the point with loan signings though? If the player doesn't come up to scratch then he can be chucked back to wherever he came from, thus leaving the wage budget in good condition.

Whilst I accept that we don't have the largest of budgets, surely the ilk of palyer Bansley and Stoke brought in recently might have been wthin reach if you consider my initial paragraph?