Pompey vs Saints - Sunday 1200

[Turkish]

24 minutes ago, Chez said:

Must have been a sale on at Sports Direct.

[Zorba]

42 minutes ago, Chez said:

His mother and his sister are very proud. She said so.

[hypochondriac]

45 minutes ago, Chez said:

Cheers for that. I now feel physically unwell.

[hypochondriac]

3 hours ago, rallyboy said:

Is it fair to say that all the pre-match pompey hype about how our players would freeze, petrified in the pressure cauldron of world-beating Fortress Fratton was the opposite of what happened?

Several players who haven't landed a proper tackle in months found the beast within - rather than intimidating, all the spitting and abuse just fired them up so we showed way more commitment than we have in some recent sorry defeats.

My fear was a pathetic no-show, it was nice to see some fight.

Agree with that. Shame we didn't win but you can't accuse the players of not putting the effort in which hasn't been the case in a number of games this year.

[Maggie May]

I’ve watched the highlights and we were better than them all over the park. If Armstrong puts those chances away, it’s a rout.  Let them have their moment.

[LuckyNumber7]

4 hours ago, EssEffCee said:

The thing is while it's always worse against us that stand is always a problem in any big game they play.

The media never mention it though so they get away with it and therefore it'll continue.

Yes, remember the Luke O'Nien incident against Sunderland in the playoffs a few years ago. Bunch of inbred neanderthals.

1 hour ago, Appy said:

None of the Skates’ “chants” have any words do they? 
 

Just noises and saying “Portsmouth”

"Ner ner ner ner ner Portsmuff"!

Bestest in the world...

[Whitey Grandad]

4 hours ago, EssEffCee said:

Agree with this massively. For all the people loving the Downes tackle I thought it was a daft thing to do at that point in the game.

It was the only part of the game where we looked to have a semblance of control and were knocking the ball around relatively comfortably having just taken the lead.

All of a sudden that happened plus a couple of other incidents with us getting involved in pushing and shoving and it gave both their players and crowd a huge boost and changed the momentum.

Yep. "Quieten the crowd"

[davefizzy14]

We deserved to win that yesterday. We could have been at least two up at half time. Leo's goal and celebration were class 😊 I thought Peretz and the back four of Bree, Stephens, THB and Welington were excellent. Really solid, as were both Downes and Jander. Really committed. Leo, Arma, Azaz and Matsuki all worked really hard. Everyone gave it their all. COYR 😊

Edited 19 minutes ago by davefizzy14

[trousers]

17 minutes ago, davefizzy14 said:

We deserved to win that yesterday. We could have been at least two up at half time. Leo's goal and celebration were class 😊 I thought Peretz and the back four of Bree, Stephens, THB and Welington were excellent. Really solid, as were both Downes and Jander. Really committed. Leo, Arma, Azaz and Matsuki all worked really hard. Everyone gave it their all. COYR 😊

And, no doubt, Eckert will reward them with an unchanged side next match...