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The clips look very good but what I'm really looking forward to seeing is a photo of our two new signings: Rhys Williams at 6'5' and Dan Gore at 5'7" 😀

Yes, a telling comment. The iFollow away commentators against Carlisle reckoned that Ripley and Garrity were both chequebook ready and Chizzy is also clearly up there on the potential transfer board. All a bit too destabilising for me though; if we want to progress, we have to find ways of keeping the core of our best players intact or we can dice with relegation in the second half of the season like we did last year. We'll see but if we start the second half of the season with a weaker squad than we started, it will be more than a bit disappointing.

Yes, well worth watching. Lots of poor league 2 defending but there's no doubting the quality of this lad. Bradford seem to want a packet for him if even Carlisle's minted owners won't pay the asking, so I doubt he's in our price range. Some nice goals though, making me wonder when the last time was we had such a prolific striker (think he bagged 16 in 20 games).

I agree it's too harsh to say that Carol would be cashing in as she has previously said that all the money coming into the club would be spent on the club and there is plenty of evidence for that. We have good owners who care for the club and are looking after it. Every club will have its ups and downs, even those with more money than us. I was though slightly perturbed last January, when we let some good players go, that she said it had been a good January, a sentiment contradicted by DC. It seemed to me then that Carol was saying it had been good financially while DC was saying not in football terms. That was the beginning of a long hard struggle for the rest of the season. Just hoping we don't have a repeat.

If he does go today - to Wycombe - could he conceivably line up against us on Saturday? Tbh, that would be a hard pill to swallow after his recent performances that have changed our attacking style, making it more direct, less tippy-tappy and much more entertaining. Whatever happens, if a deal is in the offing, I wouldn’t be surprised to see him left out after all the interest that has allegedly been shown in him, making the pill even more bitter with Loft his obvious immediate replacement. Personally, I’d like him to stay not least because we are just starting to show some really potent attacking play rather than our insipid side to side passing approach. For all his faults, Uche is one player opposition teams will always struggle to contain.

Many a true word spoken in jest...

My guess is that's exactly what they're thinking. When you already have L1's top scorer, Uche would be the perfect foil for him. So I hope Vale are bearing this in mind when they negotiate a decent fee for him and have a replacement in the bag before we let him go. Otherwise, it would be a massive act of self-harm. Assuming, of course, that all these rumours are true...

So did Plymouth - four Championship and one Premier - and they seem to be doing quite well on it.

Hume is listed by Sunderland and Portsmouth as a left back. Neither refers to him as a wingback nor a winger and, as far as I can see, he's never played in either position though he has made 3 appearances for Pompey on the left of midfield. Technically he may be fit but after he came back from injury in August 22, he played on 10 or so occasions in that season. In 23-24, he's played once - in an EFL trophy match but never in the league. So, in two seasons, he's started very few league matches and this season has been limited to a few appearances as a sub. So here we have a player with a history of injuries whose return to fitness has never been tested by the regular hard grind of competitive league matches. I know we have a tendency to sign injury-hit players but signing even one more would, imho, be too much. Shallow puddle or not, I would suggest we've had enough of such signings - a few who are rarely on the treatment table would suit us much better.

Good article here on Denver Hume. Apparently cost Pompey £200k but has hardly played because of a prolapsed disc that then affected his calf muscle. Good player but after signing one injury-prone left wingback in Grant, can’t see us risking another. Just a moment... WWW.PORTSMOUTH.CO.UK

Think they were both there the same time and Jensen will of course also know Ripley, so potentially good for team building. Looks a good player, fingers crossed.

Just hoping it is a short-term option to cover Ben who is the first on the team sheet, the backbone of the team for me. Those are big shoes to fill unless we need to sell for the money. Every player has his price but we should be asking a fortune for Ben who is growing into one of the EFL’s most accomplished goalscoring midfielders. Going to go away now and bury my head in the sand before it explodes at the thought of selling Gazza 😱

Goalscoring midfielder in; goalscoring midfielder (Gazza) out? I blinking hope not!

Then we're done. If my ageing memory serves me correctly, I recall last January DC said we'd had a poor window and Carol said it was a good 'un: one from a footballing perspective and one from a finance point of view. We, as fans, then suffered on the rack for the rest of the season. Maybe I'm wrong but January doesn't ever seem like a good time of the year for us as far as signings go.

Great choice

You can understand why they'd appoint him but a Blackpool supporter I know said that it would not be popular among fans because he left them as soon as he got a better offer and they were subsequently relegated. Dobbie was the fans' favourite - former player and now coach got them 3 wins in their last six games. But who listens to fans?

Yes, great fight, one of the best I've seen for a long time. What surprised me was how many punches Wilder threw that failed to connect, which must have told on his stamina, whereas Fury connected a lot and his close up work with shots to the body and uppercuts was relentless, again really sapping. That punch in the third was devastating and really rocked Wilder. I would have expected it to finish earlier but Wilder found a way to keep going until, inevitably, in the tenth and eleventh he looked dead on his feet. No doubt after that. Fury is a class act, both in boxing and sportsmanship, in contrast to Wilder who, I'm afraid, did his reputation no good at all.

Saw a photo today of Eddie Hearns flanked by AJ and Povetkin - if sheer size and strength is anything to go by it has to be AJ