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Struggling with the intensity.

Had the better chances but need to use the ball better in midfield.

Well on top but need to really puncture them and score.

Even with a much stronger team, we nearly conceded twice in the first 15 mins down there in 2019. Get to 20 mins 0-0, if we can sneak ahead even better.

Not a promising selection so far

Commentary will claim it was caused by the excitement and fear of the Fish Shed atmosphere no doubt.

Which was the score in August 1987. Mick going through his Pompey phase at the time

Tonda has certainly put pressure back on himself. If it doesn’t work, he’s toast. Obviously I hope that it does.

Needs work for Tonda because a defeat and he’s a goner, will be hounded at the next home game. Given they are so depleted, draw probably isn’t sufficient either.

We’re focused on the derby game you prat

It’s a massive gamble by Tonda dropping Fellows and starting Matsuki. If it pays off and we win - buys him to the end of the season. If we lose and/or Matsuki is sent off - sack.

By 2.30 we’ll know if it’s worked or not. Pleased at the back 4 but I wouldn’t have dropped Fellows as him and Bree could see working well and their full backs were suspect at SMS. Matsuki is a very risky selection but if he cracks one in the top bins…

Putting a like because it’s a back 4 but looks lightweight in the forward areas.

And their town’s like a war zone…

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Yeah but you’ll spend half the game pissing and have to hold it in on the way back with no toilet. And give them money.

Farmer does, Badger does, Whelk does, I have etc - but he’s blatantly a troll as is Nic. Best not to react. The issues you raise - we agree on 80% of them - but the domestic ones like Alex or LD, come from a single ideological angle. Trump and America is different, that is appalling, but lots of posts on a football forum won’t change the situation. Whereas not investing or spending money with Trump allies, or cancelling work trips to the US, that will impact.

It’s federal murder - pure out and out murder - in Minnesota. Freedom of speech my arse.

Exhibit A - their responses to each other in the Starmer Years thread.

He’s got his inverse in Ralph, who also posts the whole time for attention and to provoke. TBH I’d rather these politics threads didn’t exist on here but a lot of forums do seem to have them.

If Alex and Turkish are sick of seeing Soggy posting about Trump, that’s in part down to the fact Trump is an absolute fucking lunatic and is saying crazy shit like this now on a daily basis and it’s escalating far quicker than it was in his first term. Clearly, that is triggering for some people. No chance that he’d get Senate backing for that in a million years as the Americans are completely reliant on Canadian raw materials for building and motor industry (especially aluminium). But UK and EU will end up with much closer economic ties to China as well because of Trump’s instability. We all know what Xi’s agenda is but it’s predictable which cannot be said about Trump. China ends up as the world’s sole superpower.

The League Cup match in 2003. Very much Beattie’s night. Some proper trouble before the game. Their fans disgraced themselves during the Ted Bates ‘silence’. Stupid of Lowe not to wait to the Charlton game but neanderthals will be neanderthals. It was a national talking point and brought them a lot of shame.

And a true story as well. Lawrie’s famous quip afterwards - ‘we’re in the 5th round, picked up £4.50 in change and two lb of bananas’. The bananas are the most grim because all of those were lobbed at Danny Wallace and Reuben Agboola. What’s hilarious is that you can pick up their fans chanting ‘scummers we’re coming’ on the old MOTD footage on YouTube as Armstrong is on the ball ready to cross and then Moran cuts it dead. They were looking forward to an orgy of midweek vandalism in the enemy city - but denied that, they took it out on our own residents instead (a common theme with them) https://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/football/southampton/news/41855/28th-january-1984-fratton-park

We’ve just discovered what the UK’s long-term productivity issue is - nobody doing any work on the Isle of Portsea because they’re too busy talking about Pompey.

They all fucking do it. Cameron, Osborne and Clegg banged on about the credit crunch until a few months before the 2015 GE. Nigel Redknapp is hardly the first to point fingers away from own shit, but the difference his own shit is Brexit and that dwarfs any other monster government fuck up - credit crunch, NHS IT, universal credit, tuition fees - by several country miles in terms of economic impact.