Football Special

Loving the run of wins but can Tonda please sort out these sloppy second halves , that was so complacent tonight but follows a pattern where we take our foot off the gas and fall apart a bit. Is it just subs or tactical ?

It's Archers birthday today as well, back him to score when he comes on after 60 mins

And appeared at the World Cup draw as a legend so nice recognition for him

A few options would certainly have helped. Let's assume most of our fans don't live walking distance from St Mary's, and public transport is virtually non-existent that time on a Sunday, going to be a lot of taxis being booked to St Mary's first thing, don't think first bus where I live runs until 9am into town

The early arrival at Fratton is a good point, I'm told when skates came to us in September they were allowed to buy beers and take them out into a fenced off area, apparently spent the most of any away following we've had so club were probably happy to take the £ Facilities aren't quite the same at Fratton, don't think they sold beer last time we went, not that I want to spend anything there

"The club realises this may inconvenience some supporters, but it is necessary to ensure a safe and enjoyable matchday for all." I don't want it to be safe, half the fun of Pompey away is it isnt fucking safe , thats the bit we look forward to ffs

Ha bit late in the day, I think they need to rethink pricing for these midweek games , particularly in winter, live on sky , non-season ticket holders just won't make the effort. Should have offered cheaper prices up front as now that will just annoy people who have already paid full price

https://www.southamptonfc.com/en/news/article/ticket-and-travel-information-portsmouth-a All the details on here

Honestly not sure I can be fucking bothered getting down to St Mary's at 7am on a sunday morning to sit on a bus , it's a joke

Yes. Is this his first game on a windy day? That's the real test to see how he manages that

Agree, plus hopefully a whole season without a win to take a nice unwanted record

They do this stupid dynamic pricing, in club world cup last year they started giving tickets away to fill empty seats to try to make it look like a success in days running up to the game

I don't understand it myself, a win for WBA puts them back above us in the league, it's hardly some crazy mis-match. Bookies have us at 4/5 to win seems about right.

Remember these ties are decided on the day so extra time and penalties if required, need to factor that in when booking trains etc

I think both times we played there were in the championship, on way down in 08/09 and on our way back in 11/12 , a young Billy Sharp impressed for them and signed for us shortly afterwards in Jan 2012 he's about to turn 40 years old and still scoring for them, hope he gets to play against us one more time

Winnable perhaps but terrible revenue in the context of "look what you could have won". Share of gate receipts at Anfield close to £1M , share of gate receipts at Grimsby more like £100k. Main TV picks will be Macclesfield v Crystal Palace Skates v Arsenal Derby v Leeds And probably Liverpool, Man Utd and Man City, Spurs v Villa as well. There's always a few that then move for international tv coverage, I never quite understand that as international not impacted by 3pm black out so frustrates me they move the kick off times

Arsenal were known as the invincibles going unbeaten for a season, what's the opposite name that Wolves could be known as ? They look so devoid of confidence and direction hard to see where a win will come from, rumours players want to leave, its a downwards spiral that's hard to break, can sympathise with their fans, we know what it's like

Shows how quickly fans forget, we've gone from two home wins in twelve months to fans referring to tonight's game vs WBA as "should be a routine home win"

ONE GAME AT A TIME! (But yes these fixtures do provide a good chance for points before a very tough game vs Coventry)

Yep, and now every midweek game is shown on sky it feels inevitable that travelling numbers will decrease, hard to justify the expense and time for a lot of people

I think Palace got just over 3k last season but didn't sell out, would imagine we'd get the same

West Brom fans sound a confident bunch , no wonder they're only bringing about 600 fans https://www.wbaunofficial.org.uk/showthread.php?tid=39612

Some great ties to be fair Grimsby vs Weston Super Mare made me chuckle, bet the Weston boys were dreaming of Anfield or Old Trafford

Wolves seem to just be planning for the championship with Rob Edwards , will be interesting to see if some players leave in January,