bluebruce

I don't believe that at all. 5 million minimum. He's been excellent and is still young.

You don't think we will be paying a higher wage on this new deal now he has been solid in this league? Because I do. Nothing smart about it, we didn't even put an extension option in the initial deal. If he'd decided he didn't like the circus here, or he'd grabbed another club's attention, we'd have essentially been trialling him on someone else's behalf. It was obvious from game 1 that the length of the deal was a mistake. And Forshaw is old and was performing poorly for a poor side. A 1.5 or 2.5 year deal would have clearly been a mistake before he kicked a ball. In fact signing him til the summer was a clear mistake.

Christ, every half decent youngster we produce gets linked away before they've played a first team game these days, this is getting ridiculous.

Forshaw should be offered the door if he wants to stay. I'd rather put the 2 grand a week into retaining Travis and Tronstad.

When Ribeiro played the first time, it was immediately obvious that the 6 month deal he had been given was a joke. Now the club are rolling out this extension, which merely gives him the contract length he should have been given in the first place, to try to alleviate the pressure they've been under. But it's merely a correction of one of their own fuckups. I'd be very surprised if, after proving he is a capable Championship LB, he hasn't received a pay rise too, so this is probably costing us more than the same contract length would have in January. But it's an easy way for our terrible trio to get a bit of positive PR to keep their jobs, so I'm sure the budget can stretch.

Funny how there's talk of a breakthrough on contracts in the next couple of days...didn't they only just say in the interviews that they're not discussing new contracts yet as they don't know what league we'll be in? Sounds like we lit a rocket up their arse to try rush contracts through for positive PR.

It's worse than that, they essentially want 7 times the amount as when it was new. Potentially more like 8 really (I didn't actually add anything for the sale value of the club as I don't know what they would value it at, plus we aren't clear if the alleged debt is 250 or 300 mill).

Exactly. So if that's what they insist on, we are in for another long road.

Christ, I hope they're flexible on that or we're never getting rid. They should thank their lucky stars if someone pays half the debt, and none of the value of the club, for a Championship outfit that they were able to buy in the Prem for £43 million including its debts, because it had been well ran. You can't fuck up an asset and expect to get in excess of 7 times what you paid for it when you've left it in far far worse condition than you found it. Further signs that they're deluded and terrible at business.

Is that a direct quote, or just the gist of it?

We should register en masse for the LT and pack the comments with the truth. We need to dictate the narrative towards accuracy and moving on from these charlatans.

I'm saying the thumbs down doesn't work. It doesn't counteract a thumbs up. It's basically there for your own satisfaction. It influences the algorithm in one way - it affects what you, the person who left the thumbs down, may see in future. It doesn't affect other people's algorithms. Comments are useful though.

Thumbs down on YouTube don't do anything.

Wow, every single second half of the season worse by a minimum of 0.3 points per game. And even before this season (currently almost exactly half the PPG of the first half of the season and on set to be the worst on this table) by as much as 0.66 PPG.

There's been plenty to back it up, he's a talented player. However, he can't seem to stop getting injured, so it will amount to nothing for us.

Wolves had someone sent off at 26 minutes, with the score at 0-0. Imagine that was a factor.

Point is we need to develop them anyway, to sell them. And need to avoid losing them as early as we are. Until we can get new owners.

Literally never. It's this club or nothing for me.

The Adam Wharton sale suggest otherwise whilst the court debacle trundles on. We need to develop Premiership standard players to sell to keep the lights on. God I hate this period in the club's history, why the fuck does it have to have been while we're alive.

It's miraculous how we've been so poor for so long, attaining so few points, and that we're somehow still only 5 points away from the playoffs (though at this stage that's a lot with so many teams inbetween us and there). This has been such a missed opportunity, the playoffs have been there for the taking and we've capitulated pathetically.

That second half was especially tedious. The Carter effort was basically all that happened.

Tbf it's a long time since Ohashi did anything. But, same can be said of Cantwell.

If that's the letter of the law, fair enough I guess. Seems a stupid law, to remove context from the decision. You should just be able to play advantage like with a foul.

It struck me how casual Murphy was in celebrating the goal. With their league position and ours, going ahead after 20 minutes should've seen them overjoyed, but I got the feeling they fully expected to win today.

Wtf was the point of that from the ref? Ball struck his heel, slowing our attack but still landed to one of ours in space. Blows the whistle, insists on betting the ball then does a drop ball to us, slowing the counter even more and giving Pompey time to get all bodies back. Are there any half decent refs in this league at all?