I’m not a one for the Champions League but have to say the Villa game was the best game I’ve watched this year on TV.
, I turned it off at half time 
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Kinda hoping no-one did that for the United game. Some next level games this week but tonight but surely top the lot. That was incredible.
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1 -3 down to Pompey at halftime, at home.
Is your team struggling to avoid relegation from the Championship? Don’t worry, next game is against Norwich City…
I often joke about how bad we are but, unfortunately, I’m not joking now.
Hopeless team, hopeless manager &, unless they are keeping summer plans very close to their chests, hopeless (& clueless) board.
Am I upset? No. Distraught is a better description.
Paul Lambert, Daniel Farke, Grant Holt, Teemu Pukki…where are you?
Very exciting. Pompey need these three points.
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I was hoping you’d be doing something else today…
I usually wake from my afternoon nap and it’s all going wrong. But hopefully not today.
And here we all were being lead to believe that the problem was Delia…
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What a result for Pompey.
It must have been great to watch and hopefully will give them confidence going into the final three matches.
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For the record I wasn’t the chief cheer leader but was never anti Delia.
I rest my defence.
Depends who you were supporting.
The last time we lost as badly to anyone at home was against Colchester (1 - 7) in 2009. It proved a huge wake up call & led to instant major changes & to a great period in the clubs history.
I’m hoping that this result will prove to be another major turning point.
I so hope Pompey can stay in the Championship. It would be awful to be relegated after such a long climb from L2. At one point it was possible they’d drop out of L2 too, and they were training at my son’s school on their Astro. The step from L1 to the Championship is massive and they have the smallest playing budget in the division -£7m compared to Norwich’s £19m. It’s also important that they get the chance to beat the Scummers next year…
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Just come back from Norwich City’s humiliation. Well played Portsmouth.
Transition over we deserve better than JHT after forty three games.
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Indeed…
And so events take an all too predictable turn for the worse.
Parky took a rare risk starting with his default sub wing back scenario instead of changing it at 70 minutes and starting Lee, who in my view is spent at this level, ahead of Dobson. Didn’t really work and left us with a sparse looking bench.
First 30 was okay. In creating a chance we created 1 more than we did in 97 minutes against Wigan last weekend and then, confusingly, a second one came along. We then stopped playing and Brizzle scored an excellent goal which changed the game. We huffed and we puffed and eventually got an excellent equaliser at a point when, as usual, it was hard to see where any goal was coming from. We simply didn’t have enough of anything to get the winner.
Of course if we beat Blackpool on Monday and if Charlton beat Wycombe then it’s all change again. Realistically though, what chance for a team on a short turnaround with too many players over 30 and being hamstrung by the awful Rodriguez.
Looks like the play offs for us realistically and we’re not built for those.
Creeping ever closer. Ideally needed a second goal but in the end we managed the game well.
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Do or die today. A draw required at minimum assuming Wycombe beat Charlton and move 3 points ahead of us with 2 to play. If Charlton win then all bets are off for 2nd place given that their next game is us.
We’re 3 or 4 years ahead of schedule and it’s now clear that such things can do real harm. No matter where we are next season it gets much harder given that we’ll be operating with a reduced capacity and no training ground sorted. Squad needs a complete rebuild and we’ll be doing that in the above context and having to find ways to get rid of some very expensive players in their 30s; with not enough kids coming through yet and not enough money to outbid a lot of our competitors.
Still, we will finish the season in our highest league position for more than 40 years and none of us saw that coming.
If we don’t go up I’d be delighted to see Wycombe and Charlton succeed. Bloomfield is now at Luton and, whether they survive or fall into L1, he will build a good team there as he did at Wycombe.
Charlton have had years of basket case ownership so it seemed only appropriate they took on Nathan Jones. Unfairly characterised as a basket case himself at Southampton he’s turned round a team heading to L2 and got them firing on all fronts at exactly the right moment with a lovely mix of youth and experience.
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Millwall 2-0 Norwich at least we’ve found some consistency!
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I can’t believe that any other side comes close to us in conceding a goal in the first 15 minutes.
Consistency indeed.
Has anyone ever explained to our defenders what they are supposed to do?
After forty four games JHT has coached this performance. Who else but Norwich would continue with his services?
Jurasik the January £6 million signing is once again too tired to play, another triumph for our SD Knapper. In half a season he’s played less than ninety minutes, poor lamb.
Once the interviews become incomprehensible you know they are out of their depth.
You cannot play tippy-tippy football and hope to succeed in the championship, it’s a tough, physical league.
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