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Is there any comment from our club on this yet?

Don’t know if it’s the same lads but there was always a decent bunch of old school Pompey lads who we always met up with at England away days. Pete Mayes and his mob. Thoroughly good blokes.

Don’t think they do the topless barmaids any more though

That 3-3 in 1992 was an interesting game - both on and off the pitch!

Hi Bart. Do you guys have any rivalry with Royal Antwerp? We have a couple of Antwerp fans who come over and watch us quite regularly (a strange connection that started with an online disagreement after they visited us for a friendly but ended with a good friendship - a few of us were treated very well when we visited Antwerp too). For pubs - guess it depends what you’re looking for. The Mardyke was suggested above - good cheap pub that is often frequented pre match by ‘lads’. The Nova Scotia is a nice pub with outdoor seating by the river. Your more discerning gentleman would be present here. El Rincon (otherwise known as The Spanish Bar) is a small pub but the lads in there are great and here you’ll find some of the Section 82 lads (those who you’d likely call Tifosi). I’m sure they’d make you feel welcome. @James For just a more normal pub near the ground there’s the Rising Sun or The Robins. And course nowadays there is the Fan Zone at the ground with lots of food and drink available. Loads of other pubs and bars, especially on North Street for before and after. Here’s the contribution by one of our Antwerp chaps when we played Man City in the cup semi final a couple of years ago …..

Yep. And being on the sub goalie and a kid. Ridiculous behaviour

Personally I like football being on every day. When there’s no fixtures, like I think there was last Monday, it feels a bit odd.

Which was exactly why we used some rather colourful language when he was filming in earshot. I didn’t give my consent so I didn’t wanna make the cut! Our conversation this morning recalling the moment :

Yeah could be. That’ll be hilarious, if Liverpool want him but he goes to Madrid. Those humble scousers won’t understand, as they think they are the only attraction

Who wants to follow Klopp though? It’s the poison chalice that was following Wenger and Ferguson. I think Alonso is being very clever avoiding it this time around and they’ll be clamouring for him in 2 years time once the Klopp successor fails.

Spotted Mark Shail before the game as well. Not sure of there was a reason he was there too?

Figured it might have been. One had one of those ridiculous top knots on his head as well. Gave me even more reason to swear

Very true. My daughter and her friend went into the girls toilets a few games ago and were accosted by a 6 year old girl who threw her coat over my daughters head! They call her the scary goblin now.

Anyone know what the 2 guys with cameras were doing? At one point one of them sat behind us and was filming. As I don’t know what it’s for it made me uncomfortable so I decided to say “please do not say **** or ********” so hopefully that footage won’t make the cut No seriously though - anyone know?

Didn’t know Tanner had signed a new contract

Since when has “on the grass” come into the game? They all bloody say it nowadays. It’s probably only been the last 2-3 years I’ve heard it and now everyone says it! They used to say “on the training pitch”. And in those days, the training pitch was actually made of grass. Now they say “on the grass” when in fact the training pitch is now made of artificial fibres!! How stupid. Surely they should either say “on the training pitch” or “on the desso”, because saying “grass” is not strictly true!

No. I don’t believe it’s got anything to do with James being a Pearson player. It’s more to do with the ‘identity’. Sorry. There’s that word As far as I was aware, we want more “knight-types”. This is a direct quote from someone “we need to get quicker in centre mid”. And that’s why James was not going to be in the plans. Now, this is all dependent on how you interpret what our ‘style’ is. If we want to be an out of possession, counter attacking team, then legs in midfield is definitely required. But if we want to be a possession dominant team, then we need midfielders who can pass and retain. “More Knight’s” is good for option 1. “More Knight’s” is not ideal for option 2. So for me it’s a fundamental shift of plan/style/philosophy/identity if we go a certain way on this. Which of course has always been the major issue with moving from one managerial ‘type’ to another.

I do frequent Boswell’s sometimes for lunch. But I only do takeaway. I don’t like to sit inside with the other mutants. I have taken KITR to the Vintage Birdcage in Charfield, which he enjoyed. But he did seem very twitchy and out of his comfort zone. You see, as he’s a resident of Long Ashton, he seemed like he was half expecting someone in the cafe to be shouting obscenities, drinking cider so cloudy you couldn’t see the brewers foreskin in there, and for a disturbance to occur between a group of teen moms. So the next time he visited he preferred to stay in my house for a cuppa instead.

Yep. Could go either way. All I know is that the James contract extension was definitely something that Nige and “the club” disagreed on.

when are you next coming up to glorious Glos mate

If James get a new contract then it means Manning has managed to persuade the club to do so. I know for a fact that Nige had disagreements with “the club” over renewing James’ contract. Nige wanted him, “the club” did not want him. This was one of the things that began numerous spats between Nige and “the club”. If Manning has managed to persuade “the club” to renew James then it makes an even further mockery of why they sacked Pearson.

The club have been made very much aware over the past 15 years of the link. Those in charge at Willem have been very open to dialogue and arranging some sort of official link but those at our end want nothing to do with it.

Ha ha. You South Gloucestershirians needn’t worry about the opinion of a North Somersetian. The only time KITR visits this far north is to come to my house for a coffee and biscuit and tell me how many more housing developments he’s got planned for what used to be my lovely small village!!

“Doing our business early”. They say that every bloody window and it’s only ever happened once. In 2014 when we got Wade Elliot, Mark Little, Korey Smith & Luke Freeman before the end of June, and swiftly followed by Wilbraham and Ayling a week later. We were all done and dusted by 8th July! It’s never happened since……..and it ain’t gonna happen this summer either, not with tweedle-dum and tweedle-dee doing the deals.

The survey asking for my opinion. Whilst what you say is true, it’s my desire for it to not be that way