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Reply | Pompey match thread
at 14:14 27 Dec 2025
When you have Dozzell bossing the game from the centre circle unencumbered, your game plan is simply not working.
Pompey looked good because we gave them the freedom and space to do whatever they liked. Our passive approach was mind boggling. We can’t boss a game for 90 mins, but we have to show more grit and determination than that entire first half.
Varane never appears to move out of second gear to me. |
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Reply | Chair
at 09:59 27 Dec 2025
What I find most frustrating and which JS mentioned yet again yesterday in his post match, is the lack of intensity in the first half, and this runs across the entire team. We were playing so deep with little or no press, simply allowing their keeper to come out with the ball 10 yards outside of his own penalty box, time after time.
My 23 year old ( Man City supporting) son came round to watch the game with me but left at half time, utterly stupefied by the performance, particularly having watched the Leicester game last week.
These tap on, tap off performances are our Achilles heel, although this lack of consistency runs throughout the Championship and is not confined to us alone. To make real progress, JS needs to find the answers to what in truth, is the holy grail of successful football teams. Consistency.and mental fortitude. |
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Reply | Chair
at 22:13 26 Dec 2025
The wait to see them together in this team seems to be taking an eternity. Agree that when both are up to speed, Saito and Dembele will be benched. Both poor today, although Dembele improved in the second half. |
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Reply | Pompey match thread
at 16:02 26 Dec 2025
Cannot believe how utterly abject and disinterested we look. Even worse than Leicester did last week.
Changes absolutely needed. If JS wasn’t disgusted by that, he never will be. Embarrassing. |
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Reply | Gaffer on Portsmouth, Christmas and beyond
at 10:02 26 Dec 2025
Harsh Stainrod. Football managers don’t need to be rocket scientist smart, it’s honesty, transparency and emotional connection that inspires people. Inspired, motivated footballers perform at their best and that is what we are seeing.
The fact that the players pushed JS forward in front of the fans after the Leicester win speaks volumes for the collective belief and respect for him as their manager. Contrast that to Leicester and Marti.
Fancy tactics and dissection of every detail and decision is pointless. Hard work, team ethic and moments of quality win the day. |
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Reply | Merry Christmas my R’s – Preview
at 09:30 26 Dec 2025
Great report as always.
“Mentality Monsters”. This. The shift from typical QPR and all those miserable stats that hang over us lies squarely at a weak mentality.
We know we have the quality and squad depth this season, but can we finally get the monkey of our back and show some mental strength in games like today?
Evidence suggests that we are making progress in this regard, although we do seem to keep saying “the next game” will show how much progress we have really made. Will a win today finally be the turning point that convinces one and all that we have finally stepped across the threshold and into a new era of being a serious football club, that is well managed, with genuine aspirations of making real progress as opposed to showing the occasional flash of brilliance before returning to our mean?
Can’t wait to find out. Again. All the best for the New Year everyone, let’s hope all this promise is fulfilled, I’m sure we could all do with a year filled with joy and optimism. |
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Reply | Slowly improving.
at 16:59 14 Dec 2025
We have yet to see our two best wingers, Poku and Chair, play together in any meaningful way.
Look forward to seeing what improvement this might bring. |
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Reply | What are people’s thoughts on the Club pulling out all the stops in January ?
at 20:34 12 Dec 2025
We are in a season of transition, development and learning, particularly for JS.
We certainly appear too good for relegation, so we use this season to bed in the existing players and manager and review the situation in the summer. Buying and selling decisions to be made then, with a view to strengthening the team and having a real go next season following a strong preseason and a better understanding from the manager of what will be required.
Leave any available funds in the bank….for now at least. |
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Reply | Just back
at 19:03 10 Dec 2025
Think that was on Poku. He was stood centrally on the edge of the box and ball watching. I’m sure I saw JS giving him a roasting about it after the full time whistle.
Did like the look of Poku when he came on however, looks significantly stronger than Saito and Dembele. Hope he gets more minutes against Middlesbrough. |
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Reply | Oh look, here comes Alex Mowett again- Throstles match thread
at 09:36 6 Dec 2025
You have all had too much mulled wine me thinks.
Maja is fit and available (you know, the one who scored a hat trick here last time) and after last week, our charitable status within the league clearly remains fully intact.
1-1, will suffice. |
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Reply | the (not so) bons mots of Julien Stephan
at 07:59 3 Dec 2025
We all know what to expect from West Brom, another team that bullies us into submission every season, but will JS and his staff be fully aware of what they are facing.
Unless we change our line up and add a bit of physicality, another humbling is on the cards.
Field now likely injured, but Hayden and RND must start. Varane and Saito need to sit this one out. |
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Reply | Any news on Sam Field?
at 09:40 1 Dec 2025
Can’t just keep “putting it behind us” and forgetting about it. JS needs to get to the bottom of our continued propensity to just not turn up in certain games and hand the 3 points over to teams that are there for the taking.
It’s always 1 step forward and two steps back. Unless we can build some consistency we will never progress beyond the hallowed mid table obscurity.
As a team, I personally feel we are just too lightweight and soft for this division, and the occasional win comes from the bit of quality from the midget brigade. The midfield is simply too weak and passive, providing very little going forward or defensively.
Ultimately, the squad is a bit of a mish mash of players that have been randomly selected over a number of seasons without a real plan of the type of team we want to be. Maybe JS can sort this, but it will take a few seasons to do it. Whether he gets that long is another matter entirely. |
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Reply | That Swindon Town match report again – Report
at 18:21 30 Nov 2025
Just fu*cking infuriating to be honest. We knew what was coming and they served up the slop accordingly.
Just watching Chelscum v Arseholes, yellow cards galore, two teams going at it hammer and tongue.
Watching Madsen and Varane stroll around yesterday without a care in the world just boils my piss.
Don’t know how much more I can take. |
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Reply | Had we drawn with Blackburn and today
at 13:24 30 Nov 2025
Surely no one would criticise the manager for making changes after two tough games only days before?
The guy was appointed in the knowledge that he could manage three game weeks. We have had Field and Hayden, two hugely experienced defensive midfielders warming the bench all season. Surely it was the time to play one of them in midfield and put our best left back on after resting him on Wednesday.
Frey coming on instead of Kone or Kolli was downright nonsense. JS got yesterday wrong, pure and simple. |
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Reply | Isaac Hayden
at 12:36 30 Nov 2025
Varane is too lightweight and lacks energy and strength for this division.
With Madsen and Varane in deep lying midfield positions we will get found out on a regular basis.
If we want to play with 3 offensive midgets behind a striker, we need 2 behind them with grit, determination and aggression. Madsen and Varane are so timid it beggars belief. |
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Reply | Not that Swindon Town match preview again - Preview
at 10:57 29 Nov 2025
An early goal would deflate them and should allow us to win comfortably. The longer the game goes on without us scoring will give them confidence.
Need a strong confident start…but as always, never know what to expect. |
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Reply | Loveliest Town in England Match Thread
at 22:19 26 Nov 2025
His biggest (and only) real attribute is his fierce shot. When was the last time he had one?
Unless he is in or around the box, his lack of mobility is more of a liability than an advantage.
Don’t buy the “makes space for others” gambit.
He is an instinctive striker, but we need to use him correctly and he needs to lose some bulk. |
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