Gloucester Saint

Can’t fault the effort but a missed opportunity when leading and heads went down after the silly equaliser (with foul and handball). Point more useful for them. At least our fans had the Leo goal and made lots of noise. Plod delighted at the result.

Had a good game until that point, was a foul as well. All the defence and keeper have responsibility there to get it clear and block their runners in. Didn’t do their basic jobs.

Heads have gone down after the mistake. Get out of here with a draw but needs an older head to take the armband until the end of the season before the transfer window closes.

Tonda gambled by starting him and he did well. His ideas haven’t been bad here but any manager relies on the players doing the basics. By and large they have but an important blip from a set piece costly.

Harks back to Neil Maddison’s point about a lack of leadership on-pitch.

It could get worse…

Reminded me of 2011, dominating, slowed off and then stupid set piece equaliser where Guly left the post. Shearer nearly combusted in the BBC studio.

Come on THB

Was clearly injured.

True but those players are also capable of conjuring a winner.

Partly true but plenty of opportunities to clear our lines.

Oh FFS

Doesn’t matter, he’s going to moon at the Fratton End when he scores.

Does the social know they’re there? (A chant from 2003)

Leigh Park strikes again. Their stewards were about as quick to eject him as Manning stopping a cross.

He wasn’t in the game but he is now!

Which we haven’t had on both sides for ages. Welington provided it Weds night.

We stole their food remember.

That’s a ‘fuck you’ from their NEC to Rayner and co. Streeting won’t be having a bad Sunday by comparison.

Unless it’s like 2003 (at SMS) or 2005 (theirs) and one team doesn’t turn up and compete, it always will be. The 2010 and 2019 cup games the lower ranked side started pretty well but quality of players eventually told.

In the first game, it’s the only time Pompey can claim to have had an egg head, because his head was a right mess.

Wasn’t either in 11/12 when we were top most of the season and they were bottom three and about to go into admin.

That was a tart’s challenge.

He’d need to be on the Joe Aribo diet.

People in parallel are pleased with the lack of pissing around the back putting ourselves under pressure but when it gets into midfield Downes and Jander and struggling with the pressing and pace of the game. Matsuki has done better than I thought he would, Scienza quiet and AA poor although hitting diagonal balls into him isn’t helpful.