Lord Duckhunter

I bet playing champions league football really hacked him off, especially as he could of been finishing second in the championship

It was one of the most half arsed, going through the motions performances I’ve had the misfortune to watch.

I didn’t see the game, but they can’t be as bad as we were against Leeds.

I doubt they’ll let anyone in without it. I’d imagine the Government laid down the rules and they’ll need to be strictly adhered to. The clubs won’t want stories emerging of somebody getting into a game on someone else’s ticket and they didn’t check ID. They’ll want to know exactly who is in the ground.

“I will continue to value his professional contributions – both as a member of the Pompey board and in his new role at Topps – and his friendship.”

All I saw were people crying out for Ralph to change tactics, when he does, you criticise the people asking for that very thing.

Sounds a bit like Walker-Peters.

Ings comes short just as much as Adams does.

Saw this fact today, fucking hell!!!!!!

This is pony. You’re reinventing the role Adams plays to cover up his goal scoring record. He doesn’t drop into the 10 anymore than Ings does. I’d say Rickie Lambert under Poch floated about and created more than Adams does. He’s one of a front two, simple as that. Woodsaint hits the nail on the head and is honest about it, instead of trying to come out with some old pony that he’s a pound shop Berkamp. I’ve seen plenty of partnerships where one striker creates and plays between the lines, and as result isn’t as prolific as the other, but to suggest Che Adams does this is laughable. To say he’s second striker because he’s not as good as the first striker, is one thing. To try and claim he’s some sort of 10 is just pure pony.

What about that Sessegnon bloke who was at Fulham and then at Spurs . He was the next big thing at one time. I’m not a hipster, so haven’t got a clue what he’s playing like now or whether he’d be within our price range. But Graham Taylor always used to say that middling clubs should be buying players that were in a dip and then build them back up. Look at Bertrand, he wasn’t tearing up trees on loan at villa. If I remember Sessegnon was very attacking full back/left winger who would fit our preferred style of play.

What’s this “support striker” pony. We play 2 up top, sometimes Ings comes deeper and sometimes it’s Che. It’s not like Dalglish & Rush where Kenny clearly played in the 10. It strikes me that “support striker” is another way of making excuses for his inconsistent finishing.

You thought it funny when your wife’s “busty” mate sexually assaulted her boss.

So Salmond joins Ched Evans in Soggys “must be guilty because they’re white” club.

Classy.

Do you think Ings plays better with a stronger player up top with him, or with Che Adams in particular. We won’t know the answer to that until the alternative isn’t a lightweight converted winger.

Pretty much my thoughts. Excellent with Tadic and other better players, the fact he’d probably get in most supporters “best side since promotion “ ahead of Shaw shows how well he’s played. Supporters as a whole seemed to have a strange relationship with him, never really a favourite, sung about every week, but never really a whipping boy. Id be interested in what sort of bloke he is off the pitch, as he doesn’t seem like your normal footballer to me.

That’s because the alternative is Walcott, Redmond or Tella. If Kelvin Davis was our reserve keeper, posting “we look better with Gunn in nets”, doesn’t actually mean very much. There’s nothing particularly wrong with Che Adams, he’s ok, limited but room for improvement. But to try and claim he somehow compliments Ings or Ings isn’t as good without him is pure pony. Personally, I’m hoping Obafemi trains on and then we won’t solely being relying on Adams to partner Ings.

That wouldn’t have got us a Brexit vote. The only thing that got us our referenda was the threat of the UKIP vote costing The Tories many Labour/Tory marginals. If we had PR Cameron wouldn’t have needed to promise one. People keep banging on about votes not counting and policies they like being ignored or wasting their vote, but we have a very clear example of a situation where FPTP and FPTP alone got the majority view legislated for. The votes that went to UKIP weren’t wasted or pointless they moved Cameron. If the Greens become a threat to the Labour Party, Labour will adopt some of their policies and move onto their turf if the Green Party are splitting their vote and allowing the tories through the middle . The Green voters may not get Green MP’s but they can move policy in that direction.

That says more about the alternative options, than it does about Adams.

I was talking about their run in, when they lost the last 2 games to hand WBA promotion. When it mattered they lost 4 out of their last 5 games.

Exactly. The PR brigade need to find their own Nigel, put pressure on the Labour Party to promise a referendum on PR. I’d say reform is more popular than leaving the EU was when Nigel set out on his epic journey. FPTP drove the Brexit vote, not because UKIP would win any seats, but because they would stop the tories winning them. If we’d had PR UKIP would have had a tiny voice in a Parliament made up of Remain parties. As the vote proved, the majority of voters wanted out, yet only FPTP could deliver that monumental change. The people the PR supporters should be angry with are the Lib Dem’s. They had a once in a lifetime opportunity to change the system but settled for a token box ticking watered down proposal, which had no chance of winning any referendum. The lure of the ministerial cars overcame their life long pursuit of abolishing FPTP.

And they lost their bottle last season. Is there a stat for that?

Predictably lazy assumptions from the play station generation. Peter Taylor was one of the greatest judges of a player the games ever seen, I doubt he dished out one bollocking in his time. If you think the greats like Cloughie, Shanks, Bob Paisley or even SAF got by without being as tactically masterful as the modern managers, you’re deluded. All done with their own eyes, not an XG, VR or WQ in sight.

Agreed. Bertrand could even play that Stephens role as he’s decent defensively, and doesn’t need the same legs getting up and down. It’s a bit of twist on 3 at the back and that’s a system I’ve always favoured. I know it didn’t work out for Ralph when tried earlier in his reign, but that was using 3 centre halves. The problem is most centre halves (all of ours) struggle when isolated out wide behind the wingback. To counter this Terry Venables sometimes preferred 1 centre half and 2 full backs as the 3. Bertrand could easily fit this system as he’s played well in there before, and whilst KWP wouldn’t , he would be obviously be the right wing back. Both JV and Jack (who’d be the back up ) are decent on the ball , and you’d hope the 2 beside him, having been full backs would be to. Meaning playing out from the back should be ok. Personally, I think we overdo it, but Ralph clearly doesn’t. Clearly finding full backs/centre half is the issue, or centre halves that can defend down the flanks (if Bertrand leaves we’d need 2) . I haven’t seen enough of Salisu but he looks like he has the attributes. Not all full backs are KWP fliers, look at Joel Ward or Pieters at Burnley, I’m not saying sign them, but those sort. Decent size, decent defensively and used to defending wider positions. If Bednarek, Stephens or Vesty get pulled out to cover behind wing backs it’s a disaster area. However, that’s a different discussion. The positive thing is Ralph has seemingly changed tactics slightly to suit what he has available. Better late than never, but perhaps he’s not as stubborn as some of us thought. Long may it continue.