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I'm looking for a good country pub that's not too far from Portsmouth for a family get-together, Sunday lunch. Can anyone recommend a place? It'll be a meeting point for people travelling from Sussex and from the Westcountry - so needs to be no further East than Portsmouth. But, just to...

I know it's not our problem any more (at least for one season) but surely it's going to be the hardest its ever been to win promotion from the championship next year? Looking at it, I think all these teams would EXPECT (rightly or wrongly) to be getting promoted.. Aston Villa Norwich Derby...

Do you think CH will stick with 442? Or maybe play that at home and something different away? I though last night showed how our present formation is vulnerable to a team playing with a 4231 with a good Number 10. Like Huddersfield away when we never picked up Izzy Brown playing behind the...

Is anyone else a bit uneasy when Paul Barber talks about wanting to 'dominate' the South of England? In his Argus interview he says: "First we have to dominate Brighton, then we dominate Sussex, then we dominate the South of England." Now I know it's his job to sell seats and shirts and...

Were Loose? Sort it out.

In no particular order 1 We need Dale Stephens to sign a new contract. In the first half especially, he was excellent today. Uwe rightly gets a lot of plaudits for an excellent performance but Dale was not far behind. When you play a determined, physical team like Blackburn, you need some real...

Some of the deadline desperation signings going on are utterly ridiculous aren't they? Nothing against Sheffield Wednesday but paying £10m for Rhodes when they've already got EIGHT strikers in their squad? It's like their entire philosophy for the last few months has been "We're only just in...

Stockdale 7 - Couple of good saves in the first half, not much to do second Goldson 7 - looked much more assured tonight in what's not his natural position Dunk 7 - calm and effective, didn't need to hit the heights he often does Duffy 8 - very strong Knockaert 7 - injected pace and urgency when...

Since I'm unexpectedly back at home when I was planning to be taking my seat at the Amex - how about some weather-appropriate choons? I'll start with this...

What did people make of Olsson staying on the pitch? My first thought was he should have got a straight red for putting his head on Muzza. But when I saw the highlights, it looked more 50-50. Then the foul on Skalak. You could make an argument it was a collision rather than malicious. Though...

Just wondering if anyone in the development squad looks like they might be pushing for first-team next year. Is there anyone here on watches them regularly? Hambo, Harper, Towell, that Norwegian bloke?

If the team practice anything in training this week it's got to be our defence at free kicks. I know we went through all this after the home game vs Burnley but not much has improved. Today we allowed Nugent a free cut-back from the far post and they scored. Someone should have picked him up...

Where does Barton's weaselly thuggery put him in the all-time list of people we hate most? Does the dirty scouse ****wad go straight in at number one? Or, once the red mist recedes, will there be others we remember even less fondly. Does Henry Hughton's criminal assault on Gerry Ryan make him...

Why is it that when any team nowadays is defending a corner or free-kick in their box they bring EVERYONE back. It always used to be the case you'd leave one striker up on the halfway line and the opposition would then have to drop two players back to watch him. Which means they've got one...

I think I'd have to say Brentford, if only to see how embarrassed their chairman is after having decided to let Warburton go. Middlesbrough - nothing against them, just a bit dull Norwich - good club, wouldn't begrudge them Ipswich - physical and workmanlike, not good enough to go up I'd say

When things aren't going well, why do we have to always single out one player to abuse and heap the blame on? Right now it's Best, earlier in the season it was JFC and, at other times, Stockdale or O'Grady. It's a team game - when we don't win it's because the unit isn't working. Slagging off...

Anyone on here with kids who can advise on how you help them learn coding and programming? I know it's on the curriculum nowadays but junior crasher, who is 12, says the teaching they get in school is useless and basic. He's no expert but he knows he's not learning much this way. So I was...

I've given this a lot of thought and I'm convinced we should move the date of Christmas so that it falls on 25th January. I know it's tampering with centuries of tradition but sometimes you have to do what's right and this would be the right thing for several reasons. 1. Christmas is too close...

If not us - who would you like to go up through the play-offs? I think I wouldn't begrudge Derby because they're a team of no real stars who haven't spent massive sums and they've got consistently good support who seem to get behind the team.

Personally I don't give a toss about rugby as a sport but today Saracens are playing Harlequins at Wembley and it's virtually sold out - 85,000 people. Interesting article in the Telegraph with the chief executive of Saracens claiming the sport is on the verge of a breakthrough...