Saints vs Blackburn - Tuesday 8pm

[Willo of Whiteley]

Scrappy 2-0, not clean, not pretty - but similar to Oxford, try and kill the game off early and then limit their attack after that.

[Convict Colony]

guys I think I actually might have a life cos everytime there is another match jm like "fucking hell another already".

Anyway we are certified ballers and we will score as easily as a man in the queue for bonny blue.

3-0

[Football Special]

9 hours ago, EssEffCee said:

Just under 2.5k available in home end so probably be about 26-27k there (or sold I should say). As I highly doubt Blackburn will bring more than 500 or so.

Should have offered some deals on tickets for this. No way should it be a category A fixture and with people having to pick and choose I'm not surprised that this one is being swerved.

I don't see the big deal anyway personally. The midweek games with smaller crowds have largely had better atmospheres this season.

I agree often those night games with 5k less people actually make a better atmosphere,  Blackburn have only sold block 22 it will be less than 200 of them , trying to think when we last had such a small away following visit? 

[Charlie Wayman]

5 hours ago, spyinthesky said:

Blimey, the mention of Roy of the Rovers brought back memories of looking forward to Tuesday morning when the postman arrived with my copy of The Tiger.
Players who turned out for Melchester Rovers in my youth are hard to remember but Tubby Morton (GK), Blackie Gray (IR), who was Roy Race's best mate, Roy the goal scoring hero at Centre Forward and the first foreign import, right winger Pierre Dupont, now playing for MAGA Utd in America.🤪 stick in my mind.

Limp along Leslie Tomson, inside right or centre forward for Darbury Rangers, do you remember him as well?

The lad was a wizard of the dribble and fittingly strutted his stuff in The Wizard comic.

 He was also kept sheep on his farm in his spare time. This was before the £5 a week minimum wage came in and ruined football

[EssEffCee]

3 hours ago, Football Special said:

I agree often those night games with 5k less people actually make a better atmosphere,  Blackburn have only sold block 22 it will be less than 200 of them , trying to think when we last had such a small away following visit? 

Blimey, even given the long distance and late notice that's incredibly poor.

MK Dons probably the last to bring such a small following.

[LiberalCommunist]

Both home wins tonight and its still on. Anything else and we just prepare for the play offs. 

No problem wanting Pompey to get all three, helps both ends of the table if you ask me. 

 

[Stripey McStripe Shirt]

Pompey fans are going to be fucking weird and celebrate when they lose tonight. Bit like their famous West Brom loss all over again. Freaks.

Got a banana skinny feeling about tonight. Hopefully I'm wrong, but all good things must come to an end. Personally I think play offs are out of reach (bar a miraculous run continuing from us...if we win them all, it's about 50/50 chance of autos imo) so would take a point.

 

[TheAlehouseBrawlers]

15 minutes ago, Stripey McStripe Shirt said:

Pompey fans are going to be fucking weird and celebrate when they lose tonight. Bit like their famous West Brom loss all over again. Freaks.

Got a banana skinny feeling about tonight. Hopefully I'm wrong, but all good things must come to an end. Personally I think play offs are out of reach (bar a miraculous run continuing from us...if we win them all, it's about 50/50 chance of autos imo) so would take a point.

 

It was certainly a bitch that Boro and Norwich fluffed their lines at the weekend.

[Midfield_General]

11 hours ago, Charlie Wayman said:

Limp along Leslie Tomson, inside right or centre forward for Darbury Rangers, do you remember him as well?

The lad was a wizard of the dribble and fittingly strutted his stuff in The Wizard comic.

 He was also kept sheep on his farm in his spare time. This was before the £5 a week minimum wage came in and ruined football

The Roy Race / Blackie Gray strike partnership was still going well into the 1990s I believe.

Vic Guthrie, goalkeeper Charlie Carter and defensive hard man Duncan McKay also had pretty solid careers, plus of course Paco Diaz providing some continental flair on the wings. 

I had loads of Roy of the Rovers annuals but they all came from a car boot sale and were from the 70s, so even though I was reading them in 1986 I thought all players had long hair and flares and looked like the Bee Gees 

Edited 6 minutes ago by Midfield_General