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Sigh. Both sides are provincial "other 14"s who regularly sell out their 30,000ish capacity stadiums. They have the past success, we have the infrastructure and players right this minute, so it depends how you want to measure it.

I'll give you Liverpool but Man Utd are shite. We should have beaten them on Sunday tbh and they really weren't much better than mid-table. As for your first point, it is indeed "a big IF", because if they're that good then at least one of them will be sold. It's that simple. Two years ago...

Good analytical work there @Eeyore. It's fair to say that 8th-14th is where we need to aim to be, and what that gives us is a genuine chance of winning a cup, as well as the very occasional exceptional season such as the one we enjoyed in 22/23.

I don't really see the point of these "bigger club" conversations. It's the sort of thing Portsmouth fans talk about to make themselves feel better while they spend a decade of successive seasons in leagues one and two. The fact is, Ipswich have a more storied history in our lifetimes than we...

The truth is, the big clubs have always taken good players off smaller clubs. I don't feel sorry for them at all and I bet they don't come close to a European tour. In fact, it's remarkable how many people have decided they'll be really good next year based on six wins against teams either...

Someone I've never heard of but who the club have been watching for 18 months please.

Thoroughly enjoyed my game at The Ring in Earlswood on Saturday. We came second but it was fun. I took two catches at mid off to remove both the openers, one of them one-handed, which raised some chuckles. I then had an infuriating time of it as opener, where I did all the hard work seeing...

No, a disaster would be losing Tony Bloom - not a manager who was only ever just passing through, however good he may have been.

I don't disagree with you analysis of his flaws, but he was a panic signing when we couldn't get Colwill. He's not on the same level of disappointment of Fati is he, and not someone I'd write off as "a complete waste of money". He should've been a backup CB, but injuries meant he played more...

RDZ will go down as the best manager we've ever had. The 22/23 season is the best season we've ever seen, finishing 6th and playing some incredible football. I genuinely think we were better than that actually and could have finished 4th with a fair wind. Potter laid the foundations but to...

I don't think he's been stand-out shit at all.

All these people pronouncing Palace will be really good next season based on them beating half a dozen teams when they were on the beach or bang out of form. 😆😆😆 Annoying that they finished above us (by ONE point) but here's my prediction - with no European football, a decent manager installed...

Fati has been a crushing disappointment, primarily down to his reputation and enormous wages. He sums up the second half of the season for me. Dahoud has been a pointless signing but not the same level of disappointment because we've had loads of signings like him down the years. It just...

Another yes here, and maybe controversially I would say it would take something a lot worse than a relegation from this division to make me say otherwise.

I'm not nervous now and I wasn't nervous when Potter left. In my opinion, there isn't much between a whole raft of good, highly competent managers. What is far more important is that we have a decent crop of adaptable, fit, Premier League class players. I think there are probably 10-15...

A toss up between the Chelsea 4-1 and Marseille at home.

Obviously I want the Stains to win. Apart from anything else, it'd properly piss off Pompey, who'd still be the South Coast's crappiest club.

This. And for that reason, he was always a dead man walking if he hadn't got promoted.

Indeed. I remember the FAC 6th round cup game at home to Southampton. 25,000 in the ground - the biggest since the Norwich FAC 6th round game in 1983 and a huge gate by the standards of the day - and you could hear a pin drop for most of it (not helped by the fact we conceded early and got...

Agreed. We need to start singing "Albion" to "here we go" like the good old days*. Apart from that, people get very misty eyed about atmosphere and always have done. I went to many a match at the Goldstone where the atmosphere was very, very ordinary. Of course the atmosphere has gone flat...