S-Clarke

He's been a disappointment and quite clearly Adkins doesn't trust him. He's got quality but we need to see more of it.

He is back in training, but he's been carrying an issue with his thigh that's been proving hard to shake off. Wouldn't be surprised to see him on the bench over the christmas fixtures.

Should be back in the squad for Boxing day. I'd expect he'll be a sub though.

They will be without Barnes and Vincelot for sure. Not 100% sure on their other situations, but they are also missing players through injury - notably Will Hoskins, Vincente.....it will be a tough game, but I think we can give them a game there.

Clairidge is an excellent pundit, so balanced and fair, yet really knowledgeable in all of his responses. One of the best pundits out there.

I think the fact that there doesn't seem to be a stand out winner shows that we played well as a team today, quite easily our best away display in a while.

Joel Ward got the MOTM I believe, quite simply just because he equalized. My MOTM is Lambo, followed by Deano who showed a real desire.

Now this game is out of the way and we came away from it with a decent point, we can now focus on the rest of the Christmas period, and a quick look at who the teams around us play as well: Boxing day games: Birmingham v WHU M'Boro v Hull Watford v Cardiff Us v Palace New Years eve games: Derby v WHU M'boro v Peterborough Forest v Cardiff us v Bristol (we play the day before, so could open up a game going into Saturdays fixtures) New Years games: WHU v Coventry Cardiff v Reading Blackpool v M'boro Brighton v us WHU have got it tough in the next 2, no doubts about that. Boro haven't got the most straight forward games either, same can be said for Cardiff. If we play as we have been at home we'll be fine, and by the new year we could easily have a cushion at the top again.

He deserves criticism today.

I don't think we've lost our way at all. There was no way we could keep up the form we had in the first part of this season, we were always going to have a blip. I don't think we've been playing that badly in the last couple of games, I think we just need another goal threat out wide and in behind to stretch teams a bit more - And NA thinks the same. I'm as frustrated by anyone by the last month but you'd have to be naive to think this patch wouldn't ever happen. We just need to keep calm ourselves, I'm sure the players will keep level headed, and as long as we continue to play with the belief we've shown we'll be there or there abouts.

He was an absolute beast. Although he could have possibly done a bit better with the header in the leadup to the goal!!

I just don't think Adkins trusts De Ridder at all, especially when we're in a position of 1-0 up in a Derby game like that. Frustrating player who promised so much.

We're in a great position, unbelievable really. Bit frustrated by our away results which aren't anywhere near the standard we need, but I'm sure they'll improve. We have 2 good home games to come, and an away match at an injury and a suspension depleted brighton side. It could turn into a pretty good Christmas programme yet.

I think a portion of criticism today is justified. He hasn't been great for the past few months, he's had good games here and there, mixed in with awful games. He's a very patchy player and I'm not sure he's one for the away games. Frustratingly we all know how talented he is, but he's one of those players that struggles in tight, niggly away games like that.

If that's the first game you've seen this year, there is no way you can come to the conclusion that the side is not good enough. I've been to most games this year and this month is our bad patch, before that we were unbelievable and we knew it couldn't carry on all season as that, we were due a blip. Hammond was excellent today and has been a solid captain for us for the last 3 years, and Cork is a tidy player...similar to Hammond and Morgan, which I feel gives us a problem at times in terms of midfield balance. I think we'd hold our own in the premiership.Compare our starting 11 today to that of Norwich last season. Very similar, I wouldn't swap too many of our players....and look at how they've adapted to the league. It's not always about the quality, it's about the team, the spirit and the momentum. We have all 3 of those and that counts for so much. We do need a bit more pace in the team, up front and out wide so we can stretch teams a bit on the break, but I think we're quite a tidy side.

That's rich coming from you...!

i'm 90% certain Fox had a knock, he was limping before he was subbed.

Feel sorry to see Guly being made the scapegoat, but he had a total shocker. Not just the goal, but he wasn't in the game, His touch was poor and he offered no support what so ever. I felt we played well, probably one of our best away efforts for a while. Pompey were utter **** and I honestly felt we'd killed them with that goal, the atmopshere and their players just died....and I felt this could be one hell of an historical day in our history, but Guly decides to wimp out in a derby and that's that. Based on that performance though we need to improve in the middle of the park, too many misplaced passes at times and it got a little too narrow (not enough natural width in the side). and for Pompey, what an horrendous team to watch.

Small time club.

It will be streamed live on the BBC website, but only to UK viewers.

Out of interest, what did you make of Ched Evans? Seeing as we were kind of linked with him.

They've been doing these antics since he's been there. In L1 not many battered an eye lid because they won most weeks. Now the cracks are starting to show and he's not the messiah that they believed he was.

They lost their first 2 games IIRC, and didn't pull up massive trees until the final third of the season when they went on a terrific run to secure second.

I'd imagine they're still on about the Cov player, Lukas.

Not an horrific day of results in all honesty. Amazing match @ Hillsborough . 4-4.