So we've got one player certain to start at Swansea tomorrow night.

"Eddie is a good player," Wilson said.
"He is very highly thought of at Blackburn but they want him to get experience and we are in a position to do that.
"They want him to get games. Quite a few clubs went after him but they could not guarantee the games.
"The lad has his chance and I thought he had a good debut."

So Wilson has guaranteed that this guy will play?

Regardless of whether or not he is performing?

WILSON OUT.

But where is he going to play him, on the left wing

He was one of the very few good points on Saturday - he should be kept at right back. His tackling and distribution were a class above.

Would Joel be on 8 by now though?? Bearing in mind his record season saw him get about 15??

I mean, when you were all bleating about Ben Clark, he brought him back and what happened??

We kept losing??

I know I don't go to the games like, blah blah blah, but its becoming well fookin' boring on here......

It's expensive, moan, it's crap, bleat, bring Joel in, complain, sack Wilson, whimper, drop Nelson, whine..........you're like a bunch of Millhouse moane............

Oh aye, that's what it is.

Did you see the Bournemouth game on telly Mr PK?

Joel didn't score, but nor would Moore have either if it wasn't for Joel's through ball.

As well as scoring goals Mr Porter creates them for others in the team.

I saw the Millwall game as well and a sublime lay off for Tony Sweeney.

He does have a point regarding the defence tho, kick Antwi into touch and we seem to be getting worse, just a thought like

Because the problem recently has been the constant factor since the start of the season- Michael Nelson.

i thought it was barker's lay-off

Porter has been CACK this season. One pass for a goal shouldn't disguise his complete and utter lack of interest and effort. that's one decision that wilson HAS got regularly spot on !!

Are you for real and not just fishing for a bite?

If so then your opinion and mine are poles apart on what Porter brings to our team and the threat which he puts on opposition defences. A completely different and more worrying threat than your target man types of Richard Barker or Jon Daly will ever posess.

how many times has porter can honestly be said to have a good game and a positive impact ?

i'm not one of these who is just looking to slag our players off. i've been called one of the 'rose tinted specs brigade' as many times as elvis.

i've written the occasional match report for rivals and given praise where praise is due, and also given some of our more established players 3/10 when they've deserved it.

i have no favourites and no scapegoats. i defended jon daly because

a) some of the criticism of him was way way over the top
b) i thought that he had potential for us, which he was starting to show just before he was sold. didn't agree with his sale but it funded getting two players who were instrumental in getting us promoted.
c) he was a pools player, and one who always gave 100%

chip fireball says 'sadly aido is for real'. why sadly ? its my opinion and i stick by it. i forget which home game it was, but i gave joel an 8 and congratulated him on apparently proving me wrong when i'd had a go at him. 'sadly', he has done little since then to back up that one performance (i know he got 3 at lincoln, but then i probably could have got 1 against them)

ripper, i have said time and time again that barker isn't good enough for this level. its not his fault and i take my hat off to him for the effort he puts in, but its not sufficient. jon daly was, and is, a better all round player than barker.

i too would like to see the list of assists, and i would bet porter isn't high up the list. i don't care if he's scored this many in this many minutes. the simple FACT is that he is underperforming and at times looks like a disinterested teapot. when he first came to pools he got slated. i defended him than too, so its not a vendetta. when he's been fit and up for it, he's been as good as anything in this league, but he is either unfit, pissed off or on his way out.

if you want to look at unreasonable criticism, how about ripper's one man crusade against budtz ? what more does the bloke have to do, score at the other fookin end ?

or is that ok cos ripper has 6000 posts against his name and i've only got 50-odd ?

its about opinions. people have put theirs on here about wilson, gibb et al. mine is that porter is underperforming and not pulling his weight.

I agree it's about opinions and that's why I didn't slag you off for yours.

I merely disagreed with you.

Are you forgetting Joel single handedly salvaging a point against Swindon? I'd much rather have Porter do fuck all for 75% of the game if he provides a piece of the inspiration or creativity we've been missing the past couple of months, as he did against Swindon and Bournemouth. Barker may put 100% effort in, I'm not disputing that, but how much of that effort is actually contributing to anything? He might put himself about but do we need that all of the time?

Untrue and unfair.

There's no one man crusade against Budtz.

I merely share my opinion of him to date, which is that he hasn't overly impressed me so far and that he has cost us goals.

Or is my opinion not worthy if it doesn't match yours?

And I've got nowhere near 6,000 posts!

your opinion is worth exactly the same as mine. both are there to be disagreed with

so i shouldn't be accused of fishing for a bite for offering mine.

i want to see pools doing well. if joel isn't contributing to that, then he shouldn't be playing. no-one wants to see him do well more than i do, but honestly, i don't think he's at the races.

Yet you call my views "unreasonable criticism"?

yep. that's my opinion of your opinion

What, Chip wrong, Nevva no Nevva, please recalculate MJ, it can't be true

it only counts if they have scored five goals or more

Don't you start as well, it's bad enough here

Chip, I'll have the £20 in unmarked pound notes, wrapped in a hexham courant, delivered to an address of my choice before the end of the week.

ok ?
















ps

The defense has done statistically better with Ben Clark in the side than when he isn't.

We also haven't seen any of the shambolic defending like on Saturday, first goal against Forest, last goal at Sheff Wed when is on the pitch.

He is easily our best defender and the calls from the fans to get him back in the side have proved right.

why start throwing insults ? you made a sweeping fookin statement about joel's strike rate in response to my opinion, and you've been proved to be incorrect. i was quite happy to make a joke over it and move on, but unfortunately you seem to have to have the last word.

why am i a 'clown', who knows 'nish' ? because i disagreed with your opinion on porter ? you mention barker in your post, but we weren't discussing him. nor were we discussing assists. er, smokescreen ?

i think that makes you an ignorant, narrow-minded tit. if you can't accept that perhaps you aren't the all-seeing eye, then don't make fookin sweeping statements that you can't back up.

Just pay the man, you were wrong and the £10 you get from me should help along the way!

Stats never lie Chip, just accept YOU were wrong and have the good grace to pay him!

christ, talk about changing the goalposts. we aren't talking about daly, just like we weren't talking about barker.

i made that judgement about porter from seeing every home game this season. i praised him when he played well, but to say that he doesn't look uninterested or ineffective is just plain blinkered. he's a shadow of his former self, and needs a bomb up his arse. i would love him to be back to his best but he isn't (so far)

as for insults, i (wrongly) assumed that this place was better than rivals in terms of maturity. WRONG !! i didn't insult you, i had a go at porter. are you THAT close to him that you took that slight personally ?

why don't you just face up and say 'i was wrong' about your porter claim ? the stats back me up in so far as it was you making claims about porter's strike rate being the best at the club. IT FOOKIN ISN'T, OK ??? i queried your claim and the facts and figures man has disproved your point. 'get over yourself' and come clean. its ok for you and your buddies to accuse danny wilson of being clueless, having lost the plot, or on the brink of taking pools down, but when anybody questions porter's performances you start chucking your toys out of the pram. explain the difference to me, please.

i love the bit about joel not being as 'thick' as jon daly for not running round like a 'headless chicken'. you couldn't fookin make that up, you goon. since when did daly run about ? eejit.

and don't worry about me staying mate. it'll take a lot more than your 'insults' to chase me away. i just expected a bit more from you in justifying your arguments about porter never mind, i won't overestimate you again

pull your fookin finger out then

Err because you don't spend 65% of your game on your arse, do you?

Do you?

And the other 35% up yours?