Season 24/25 | The Official Match Thread | Portsmouth 4 Swansea City 0 | The EFL Championship

[Copamundial]

The performance just highlights where we are as a club…riddled with mediocrity from top to bottom.
I mean..c’mon, we lose Franco and replace him with averageness personified.

 

[monmouth]

Anyways, early goal and I still fancy us today. What we got?

 

[Andrew - North Hill]

It’s just pedestrian when you have the grimes Fulton combination (unavoidable this time I know), but what is avoidable is playing Naughton RB who is so far past it.

Understand the want to keep him around, makes sense. Also understand he would want to play, play him CB like we have previously where he won’t get exposed by his lack of pace and agility. And to top it all off LW now has this obsession with inverted full backs which again doesn’t play to Naughtons strengths…… let hope we can have a go at it in the second half

I love the way Cyrus Christie isn't even getting a kick yet we've got nonsense like that going on.

 

[LaJollaJack]

Not necessarily LW allowing him to do so but Bianchini doing so because he sees the gaping Fulton shaped hole in our midfield and our defenders struggling with an aggressive Pompey press

I’d say we’re both right - and the obsession with congesting the middle is Luke’s last gasp bid to boost HIS possession stats - again, at all costs is the overriding motive

 

[Smurph]

Maybe the team bus can take a detour to West Brom and drop Luke off on the way home.

 

[J_B]

If he does then Grimes needs to tell himself to play fifteen yards further forward and Bianchini to stay up top.

Grimes is the manager, isn’t he?

 

[Smurph]

Grimes is the manager, isn’t he?

May as well be compared to the fella stood on the touchline.

 

[NorfolkSwan]

lol. Good play from Fulton there for the cross, beat thing he’s done all season!

 

[eteb]

Coventry score

 

[Cooperman]

Anyone got access to one of those stat packs which shows average player position? If so I would like to see our first half data.

 

[LaJollaJack]

Jesus, I didn't realise how bad the second goal really was until I saw the replay.

Remind me again, why do we want Darling to sign a new contract?

Good point
His failure to make the grade until 16 at Cambridge United (rejected each year until then) will always haunt him and his confidence to ‘be good enough’ at this level

 

[Blackpooljack]

Fulton stood with his hands inside his sleeves.. grow a pair man

 

[eteb]

Robinson sent off for the wankers

 

[Blackpooljack]

This is going to be 45 mins of the Alamo

 

[lidojack]

Good point
His failure to make the grade until 16 at Cambridge United (rejected each year until then) will always haunt him and his confidence to ‘be good enough’ at this level

Christ, there's no need to psycho-analyse childhood trauma.
He's just a bit average, it's not that deep mate.