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Strachan had agreed a new contract with him only for the board the sell him. That was the beginning of the end.

He was a smashing player too!

A month out looking at the fixtures I was always confident that we'd win that game if we needed to. Same again in 97 was it? Wasn't worried for a second! It was very strange.

As a small club in the PL you might have hopes of winning 1/3, drawing 1/3 and expecting to lose 1/3 of games. In a 42 game season that's around 56 pts. To be honest thats solid mid table and pushing for top half. That is roughly Strachan's record at the club. Could we have expected better...

Loved him. He never took us down - the board can claim that honour! We had no main striker until John Hartson came about mid-February time! Sometimes came into the hotel bar where we drank in Kenilworth (it could be hard to get quality beer in those days) with his wife on a Saturday night. He...

nah, there was no weight on it and it was heading towards the post.

Yes. I think Howe is from the same generation, England side in the 50s then with Bertie Mee at Arsenal. Notice Lampard still has the POMO doctrine ingrained.

Good player. It's a shame he was just that bit too young when we had him. A bit like Ayari was or Clarke-Harris looking back

It was a lovely ball, possibly/probably a foul though.

We need Simmo to be performing like this if we want to go up, it's great to see the fight and the desire back. We need all three of the strikers, Haji and BTA can't carry us for the whole season by themselves.

Bloody Don (Boring) Howe invented the long ball game! We got suckered into playing too long at times yesterday...

Great result. Great night! Missed quite a few pretty good chances there, probably should have had 5 without being greedy. Ward did us proud - two pens, one or both given on another day. Foul by simmo on the half way line for the second goal called by Sky, again probably quite fairly. We did...

It does look odd. They'll be glad anyway.

He's injured. Pulled out of the 2nd Jamaica game. Can't be anything like match sharp either.

Playing our three centre halves when we only have three centre halves is playing with fire. Looks like he's still got last season on his mind!

Ten players say £5m each plus £2m for a year's wages and you're looking at £70m (at least) anyway on top of the current squad and they probably still wouldn't be competitive! It'll certainly be interesting to see what happens, surely the ambition is to be more than a parachute team if the funds...

He certainly wasn't. I was wondering if the shoeing might affect his confidence coming back after being dropped for the 2nd match! Then people started getting defensive about how nobody else would have done any better etc etc but that was to miss the point completely! He was very wobbly first...

This place apparently. 10 mins walk I reckon.. https://www.inapub.co.uk/pubs/in/Hampshire/~/venues/connaught-arms/portsmouth/po15ea/10026

Wasn't on the bench on Saturday so a start seems a bit unlikely perhaps?

It would be interesting to see some heat maps. I feel Grimes often covers the left as it's a weakness for us.