Pompey vs Saints - Sunday 1200

[die Mannyschaft]

Need a lot of luck tomorrow. Hopefully Saints can put a decent performance in taking chances will be key. We can create but terrible at shooting. More shots on spec and edge box, ping some shots in get reflections, second balls in box. Stewart up front gives us an option otherwise its been easy for defenders. We are still under dogs by some ways, disregard the £47m players and £150m team. Its on the day. At least we won v Sheffield United. Skate fans think its in the bag from home game and our awful football so could play into our game, if we have a plan. All the talk if Fratton atmosphere,  thier apparently big support, team unlucky with injuries otherwise it would be a nailed on win. Saints just need to turn up and play attacking football we have seen before.

Jack Stephens to get 92nd winner! I would 2 goals first half to settle us.

[franniesTache]

4 minutes ago, die Mannyschaft said:

Need a lot of luck tomorrow. Hopefully Saints can put a decent performance in taking chances will be key. We can create but terrible at shooting. More shots on spec and edge box, ping some shots in get reflections, second balls in box. Stewart up front gives us an option otherwise its been easy for defenders. We are still under dogs by some ways, disregard the £47m players and £150m team. Its on the day. At least we won v Sheffield United. Skate fans think its in the bag from home game and our awful football so could play into our game, if we have a plan. All the talk if Fratton atmosphere,  thier apparently big support, team unlucky with injuries otherwise it would be a nailed on win. Saints just need to turn up and play attacking football we have seen before.

Jack Stephens to get 92nd winner! I would 2 goals first half to settle us.

The Scum Army were established in 1885? So that makes them 141 years old? That's gotta be the oldest youth mob around, no wonder they don't run

[die Mannyschaft]

7 minutes ago, franniesTache said:

The Scum Army were established in 1885? So that makes them 141 years old? That's gotta be the oldest youth mob around, no wonder they don't run

There is a separate coach for over 100s with zimmer games and care co recliner seats.

[saintant]

18 minutes ago, die Mannyschaft said:

Need a lot of luck tomorrow. Hopefully Saints can put a decent performance in taking chances will be key. We can create but terrible at shooting. More shots on spec and edge box, ping some shots in get reflections, second balls in box. Stewart up front gives us an option otherwise its been easy for defenders. We are still under dogs by some ways, disregard the £47m players and £150m team. Its on the day. At least we won v Sheffield United. Skate fans think its in the bag from home game and our awful football so could play into our game, if we have a plan. All the talk if Fratton atmosphere,  thier apparently big support, team unlucky with injuries otherwise it would be a nailed on win. Saints just need to turn up and play attacking football we have seen before.

Jack Stephens to get 92nd winner! I would 2 goals first half to settle us.

Luck tomorrow won't do us any good at all 🙂

[Obstacle1]

3 hours ago, Dman said:

It amazes me that anyone would consider spending a penny down there. 

Will apparently if you drink a few pints before getting on the bus youll be pretty desperate to...

[Gloucester Saint]

6 minutes ago, Obstacle1 said:

Will apparently if you drink a few pints before getting on the bus youll be pretty desperate to...

That would be no good for me with my bladder…

[RedArmy]

25 minutes ago, franniesTache said:

The Scum Army were established in 1885? So that makes them 141 years old? That's gotta be the oldest youth mob around, no wonder they don't run

That’s nothing the fearsome 657 crew have got a 300 year old lad. 
 

And a 3 month old. He’s already been down the pub to talk about the football. 

 

[EssEffCee]

2 hours ago, Football Special said:

Food stealing is definitely true, this lady confirms it 

 

Yeah, who are we to argue with the 'history of stuff'?

[EssEffCee]

3 hours ago, Kenilworthy1959 said:

I was never brought up to hate Portsmouth. Before and after the war my uncles used to cycle regularly from Southampton to Fratton Park to watch division one games. I was pretty ambivalent about them. And then I went to the cup game in 84. Front row seat in the stand above the home terrace, separated by a matter of feet. I was pelted with coins and came home covered in spit and bananas. That changed my opinion radically. The way I explain the difference between us to people who don't understand is that someone could wear a Pompey shirt in Southampton with relatively safety. Walk around Southsea in a Saints shirt and you wouldn't last five minutes.

I think that last bit is bollocks personally and arguably another part of their myth that they care more.

I used to use the hovercraft there a fair bit as well as take my nipper to the pier and regularly saw people showing their Saints allegiances.

[Pamplemousse]

5 hours ago, Saint Garrett said:

Any idea if we can drink when waiting for the coaches / will bars be serving at the ground?

Not heard anything around the actual day yet

Food and drink available in the ground.

Not much else to do if we're getting there at 9am!!

[madge]

Big issue we had in the home game was that we went long they won everything and also every second ball. Our midfield just sat so deep and there were huge vacant areas between the forwards and the midfield. Saints need to be braver.. push higher and win second balls. But I don’t think Tonda has the experience to win this game from the sideline. 

[Monk]

 

Be wary, that place is going to be hideous. They’ll make every effort possible to be seen as the cheerleaders. 

For those attending, be loud, give them hell and enjoy. 

Edited 19 hours ago by Monk

[aintforever]

6 hours ago, Saint Garrett said:

Any idea if we can drink when waiting for the coaches / will bars be serving at the ground?

Not heard anything around the actual day yet

I would advise against that. The last time I went on the bubble we were locked on the bus for what seemed like hours and were not even allowed off to have a piss. People were pissing on the floor or in bottles and emptying out the windows over the plod. I managed to hold it in but it was not fun.

If we lose Sunday I feel sorry for anyone going, the whole bubble experience is pretty grim. From what the Skates at my work are saying the journey in and out might be interesting, apparently there is a road closed meaning the bubble can’t go the usual route and will have to go through the town. They always say that shit though, last time we didn’t get any sort of ‘welcome’ apart from a few toothless inbreds and fat old slappers giving us the finger.

Edited 19 hours ago by aintforever

[EssEffCee]

I think there's proper coaches this time rather than buses so you'd hope there's toilets on board.

[Dr Who?]

I had no idea when we last won there in the league as the furthest back I remember was the 2-2 in 87/88, (lost at home 0-2) season when Clarke scored a brace. I knew we have not won there in the league there since then. So I had to check it…..

1975/1976
ENGLISH DIV 2 (OLD)	Tu 06Apr 1976		Portsmouth	0 - 1	Southampton

before then we smashed them most season on their own patch! 

So it is about time we won there yeah? 🤔 

Edited 18 hours ago by Dr Who?

[Nordic Saint]

3 hours ago, EssEffCee said:

I think that last bit is bollocks personally and arguably another part of their myth that they care more.

I used to use the hovercraft there a fair bit as well as take my nipper to the pier and regularly saw people showing their Saints allegiances.

I agree. It looks like he joined yesterday so he's a Pompey fan pretending to be a Saints fan. They are weird.  They do things like that online. "Walk around Southsea in a Saints shirt and you wouldn't last five minutes." Classic pompey bullshIt.

A few years back. a Saints fan went into the Fratton End, on his own,  at one of their league games, and for a bet, took off his jacket to reveal his Saints colours. I believe he also waved a flag. The Pompey fans just chanted 'scummer' at him before the police eventually led him away to protect them from further embarrassment.

On the TrueBlueArmy forum afterwards they found it really hard to put a spin on it. 

Edited 18 hours ago by Nordic Saint

[SNSUN]

Someone on Talkshite earlier said something along the lines of "In a derby, the form book goes out the window" and I thought, well that's good, seeing as their recent form is actually better than ours. 😁

 

Unchanged team Tonda. That's all I want. Same line up, same formation. Fanny around with 3 CBs when we're comfortably 6-0 up.

[saintant]

2 hours ago, madge said:

Big issue we had in the home game was that we went long they won everything and also every second ball. Our midfield just sat so deep and there were huge vacant areas between the forwards and the midfield. Saints need to be braver.. push higher and win second balls. But I don’t think Tonda has the experience to win this game from the sideline. 

That was down to Will Still who made it clear in his press conference that we were going to be direct which resulted in us banging a series of long balls to no one in particular from the first whistle. It really was a strange approach to such a big game.

[Chez]

1 hour ago, aintforever said:

I would advise against that. The last time I went on the bubble we were locked on the bus for what seemed like hours and were not even allowed off to have a piss. People were pissing on the floor or in bottles and emptying out the windows over the plod. I managed to hold it in but it was not fun.

If we lose Sunday I feel sorry for anyone going, the whole bubble experience is pretty grim. From what the Skates at my work are saying the journey in and out might be interesting, apparently there is a road closed meaning the bubble can’t go the usual route and will have to go through the town. They always say that shit though, last time we didn’t get any sort of ‘welcome’ apart from a few toothless inbreds and fat old slappers giving us the finger.

Eastern Road is closed northbound for 8 weeks due to a sewage pipe breaking, so the coaches probably will need to come in on the M275 unless they close part of the Southbound section for a short period. Getting into Pompey during a rush hour is very slow going, so the incredibly early start will stop the coaches getting stuck in traffic.

[Chez]

44 minutes ago, Dr Who? said:

I had no idea when we last won there in the league as the furthest back I remember was the 2-2 in 87/88, (lost at home 0-2) season when Clarke scored a brace. I knew we have not won there in the league there since then. So I had to check it…..

1975/1976
ENGLISH DIV 2 (OLD)	Tu 06Apr 1976		Portsmouth	0 - 1	Southampton

before then we smashed them most season on their own patch! 

So it is about time we won there yeah? 🤔 

That is a long time. We should have won in the promotion season, but fucked it up. 'First league win there for 50 years' has a nice ring to it. 

[warsash saint]

3 minutes ago, Chez said:

Eastern Road is closed northbound for 8 weeks due to a sewage pipe breaking, so the coaches probably will need to come in on the M275 unless they close part of the Southbound section for a short period. Getting into Pompey during a rush hour is very slow going, so the incredibly early start will stop the coaches getting stuck in traffic.

They will change the contra flow southbound of the Eastern Rod to allow all the coaches down there.

[Chez]

4 minutes ago, warsash saint said:

They will change the contra flow southbound of the Eastern Rod to allow all the coaches down there.

yeah, makes sense. I do recall in 2004 on the way home they took the coaches all along the seafront and even down past the hard, which was bizarre, but that was probably because of the idiots smashing up their own city.

[die Mannyschaft]

3 hours ago, madge said:

Big issue we had in the home game was that we went long they won everything and also every second ball. Our midfield just sat so deep and there were huge vacant areas between the forwards and the midfield. Saints need to be braver.. push higher and win second balls. But I don’t think Tonda has the experience to win this game from the sideline. 

It may be that skates away is on the clubs list as a right off, one they strike through on the list of fixtures. And other games are seen as a target for 3 pounts. I'm sure clubs do and put less effort in or try out tactics as the cost of losing 2 points and drawing.  I got that feeling it was decided for Pompey home game. 

Also the 'players take time to fit in as new team' etc looking at next month for when team start the push for 6th place, which gets moved to next month.

[Holmes_and_Watson]

5 hours ago, Chez said:

That is a long time. We should have won in the promotion season, but fucked it up. 'First league win there for 50 years' has a nice ring to it. 

Another commemorative shirt on the way? 🙂

[Weston Super Saint]

9 hours ago, aintforever said:

If we lose Sunday I feel sorry for anyone going, the whole bubble experience is pretty grim. From what the Skates at my work are saying the journey in and out might be interesting, apparently there is a road closed meaning the bubble can’t go the usual route and will have to go through the town. They always say that shit though, last time we didn’t get any sort of ‘welcome’ apart from a few toothless inbreds and fat old slappers giving us the finger.

I smell a rat!  Skates don't have jobs...

[Turkish]

1 hour ago, Weston Super Saint said:

I smell a rat!  Skates don't have jobs...

And those that do spend all day talking about football because they’re so passionate, so they get fired as they do no work. 

[Pamplemousse]

1 hour ago, Weston Super Saint said:

I smell a rat!  Skates don't have jobs...

Maybe he's a prison officer?

[Chris cooper]

Scienza will be up for this & already understands what it means for the fans .

scienza masterclass! …skates 1 -3 saints 

[die Mannyschaft]

Are we in yellow or red and white

[EssEffCee]

Surely will be red and white.

Be good if everyone can be in their seats a good 20 minutes before KO tomorrow to get some atmosphere building.

We're gonna be there for 2+ hours before so may as well give the lads some support during the warm up, there'll be plenty of time for drinking beforehand if giving them lot money is your thing.

[Patrick Bateman]

Edozie in a lot of the training pictures .... interesting

[Harry_SFC]

42 minutes ago, Patrick Bateman said:

Edozie in a lot of the training pictures .... interesting

If he's involved i'll be pleasantly surprised. It's a waste to have him rotting away at this level. No world beater by any stretch but good enough for the bench and gives us an extra option that we haven't had.

[the boy from saints]

Anyone going to the Northam? Decided to go but keep getting an error when trying to buy the £8 ticket. Does anyone know if it's sold out?

Ticket office closed on a Saturday so can't even find out.

 

[Turkish]

3 minutes ago, Harry_SFC said:

If he's involved i'll be pleasantly surprised. It's a waste to have him rotting away at this level. No world beater by any stretch but good enough for the bench and gives us an extra option that we haven't had.

Weird how he’s been frozen out he was decent last time round in the championship. Not great but a better option off the bench that Frazer was and possibly Robinson on current form

[Gloucester Saint]

1 hour ago, Turkish said:

And those that do spend all day talking about football because they’re so passionate, so they get fired as they do no work. 

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. 

[ant]

22 minutes ago, the boy from saints said:

Anyone going to the Northam? Decided to go but keep getting an error when trying to buy the £8 ticket. Does anyone know if it's sold out?

Ticket office closed on a Saturday so can't even find out.

 

Looks like it. Article has been updated.

https://www.southamptonfc.com/en/events/event/portsmouth-away-screening-at-st-marys

[die Mannyschaft]

1 hour ago, Chris cooper said:

Scienza will be up for this & already understands what it means for the fans .

scienza masterclass! …skates 1 -3 saints 

Jander has played in FC Nürnberg derby and atmosphere looks a fiesty derby on YouTube. So he should have experience of fans hurling abuse etc as German derby games are like the Saints v Pompey we know. 

[LGTL]

I’m getting more confident the closer we get to the game, which usually means we’ll get hammered. 

Can’t beat a good old derby though can you. Shame about the absolute bollocks that is the bubble. I doubt any of the FAB will even be going though. Wankers. 

[JohnnyShearer2.0]

Is this a red button fixture on sky sports+?

[Turkish]

15 minutes ago, LGTL said:

I’m getting more confident the closer we get to the game, which usually means we’ll get hammered. 

Can’t beat a good old derby though can you. Shame about the absolute bollocks that is the bubble. I doubt any of the FAB will even be going though. Wankers. 

The FAB are loyal supporters who work tirelessly for the best interests of us fans. Those going will be proud of the support they have given to make the occasion a safe and enjoyable occasion for all fans not just the Neanderthals obsessed with drinking large quantities lager and screaming abuse at the opposite team. I for one appreciate all they do and applaud them for their efforts 

[WinglessWonder]

28 minutes ago, JohnnyShearer2.0 said:

Is this a red button fixture on sky sports+?

Sadly yes, sky have decided to show a WSL game on their main channel instead 🙄

[Saint NL]

19 hours ago, Kenilworthy1959 said:

The way I explain the difference between us to people who don't understand is that someone could wear a Pompey shirt in Southampton with relatively safety. Walk around Southsea in a Saints shirt and you wouldn't last five minutes.

Back in the early 2000s, I studied at Portsmouth University. I lived in Fratton whilst I was there and often wore my Saints shirt out and about. Never had any issues whatsoever. I had a part time job and on Saturdays we used to listen to the football on the radio and we had loads of banter about the scores, all in good humour.

My housemate worked at the Ladbrokes next to Fratton park and was on good terms with Steve Claridge because he saw he daily placing his bets 😂

 

[Miltonaggro]

2 hours ago, Turkish said:

The FAB are loyal supporters who work tirelessly for the best interests of us fans. Those going will be proud of the support they have given to make the occasion a safe and enjoyable occasion for all fans not just the Neanderthals obsessed with drinking large quantities lager and screaming abuse at the opposite team. I for one appreciate all they do and applaud them for their efforts 

Hearing that Dragan has issued commemorative FAB foam hands and half and half scarves to the group, so look out for these on TV interspersed throughout the great unwashed lager lout brigade. 

Edited 3 hours ago by Miltonaggro

[Chris cooper]

1 hour ago, die Mannyschaft said:

Jander has played in FC Nürnberg derby and atmosphere looks a fiesty derby on YouTube. So he should have experience of fans hurling abuse etc as German derby games are like the Saints v Pompey we know. 

Good cos we guna need him to draw on that experience.. first 25 mins there’s guna be some tackles flying in .. hopefully we have Charles & jander as our two midfielders..don’t want downs anywhere near this ..will defo get 2nd yellow red card ! 
might be too early for Charles tho having limited minutes in his legs .

[Verbal]

1 hour ago, die Mannyschaft said:

Jander has played in FC Nürnberg derby and atmosphere looks a fiesty derby on YouTube. So he should have experience of fans hurling abuse etc as German derby games are like the Saints v Pompey we know. 

That's a bit bold. 

[TheAlehouseBrawlers]

1 hour ago, Saint NL said:

Back in the early 2000s, I studied at Portsmouth University. I lived in Fratton whilst I was there and often wore my Saints shirt out and about. Never had any issues whatsoever. I had a part time job and on Saturdays we used to listen to the football on the radio and we had loads of banter about the scores, all in good humour.

My housemate worked at the Ladbrokes next to Fratton park and was on good terms with Steve Claridge because he saw he daily placing his bets 😂

 

My work used to take me down there a fair bit in the 80s, there was a welding supplies in Cosham that I had to go into and there was usually a fella serving behind the counter in a Saints shirt. The old Hummel one (2023/24 copy) if I remember correctly.

[suewhistle]

On 23/01/2026 at 13:38, suewhistle said:

Thanks for reminding me. I'm off to the local pub in the PO10 area where I go regularly to watch Saints away games when they are on. Most banter with the regulars is fine, and in fact there's even been a bit of mutual gloom and humour, but once this twat was telling me with a patronising laugh that they had better crowds blah blah, so I need to remind myself of the figures..

Saints average 28,330 (only 4th in the division)

Pompey 20,155 (16th)

[Nordic Saint]

53 minutes ago, suewhistle said:

Saints average 28,330 (only 4th in the division)

Pompey 20,155 (16th)

And 7 places above them in the all-time average attendance table:

All time Football League Rankings average attendances

 

Edited 2 hours ago by Nordic Saint

[Midfield_General]

16 hours ago, Dr Who? said:

I had no idea when we last won there in the league as the furthest back I remember was the 2-2 in 87/88, (lost at home 0-2) season when Clarke scored a brace. I knew we have not won there in the league there since then. So I had to check it…..

1975/1976
ENGLISH DIV 2 (OLD)	Tu 06Apr 1976		Portsmouth	0 - 1	Southampton

before then we smashed them most season on their own patch! 

So it is about time we won there yeah? 🤔 

I know it was the Carabao Cup and not the league, but it feels like the absolute twatting that we gave them in their oh so intimidating shed a few years ago often gets overlooked.

4-0. Macca had a great game, Ings ripped them to shreds, Cedric knocked one in and then Redmond delivered the KO. 

Some quality finishes that night. 

 

 

 

Edited 2 hours ago by Midfield_General

[OldNick]

4 hours ago, the boy from saints said:

Anyone going to the Northam? Decided to go but keep getting an error when trying to buy the £8 ticket. Does anyone know if it's sold out?

Ticket office closed on a Saturday so can't even find out.

 

yep sold out. Thinking of coming down to the Painted Wagon as Jason McCarthy is opening at 11