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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread
at 13:23 23 Feb 2025
As someone who found yesterday's match incredibly disappointing and frustrating, seeing Luton looking set for League 1 does put it in perspective. Really shocking to see a steroid-boosted relegated team fall off a cliff like that. |
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Reply | Pompey and Circumstance Match Fred
at 11:57 23 Feb 2025
As further evidence, a newly promoted team have done the double over us, the most recent victory secured by a midfield containing two of our cast-offs from last season. If it's really true Nourry vetoed the signing of Hayden to get Ashby on loan instead, then he should hang up his laptop. |
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Reply | Pompey and Circumstance Match Fred
at 10:05 23 Feb 2025
Goalkeeper - massive improvement obviously.
Defence - Dunne has been superb but our outstanding defender, who stood up to the home crowd getting on his back admirably yesterday, is not ours. Morrison looks like a good find but ironically has lost his place to Edwards.
Midfield - has looked good on occasions but yesterday highlighted how we need improvement. Varane was schooled by Hayden and we lacked creativity. Madsen was clearly bought for that purpose but now can't even get on the bench.
Attack - I'll never knock Frey but he is limited. Alfie and Kohli are promising, and Celar, despite his goals at Cardiff, is still unproven. Smith has pace but anonymous performances like yesterday show why we need better - Yang deserved to start based purely on his assist against Derby which was light years ahead of Smith. Again, the loan player is better than what we have. Obviously love Koki.
So for me, if you take out the loan players, the main improvement is the goalkeeper and the emergence of some decent young raw talent. We're still weak as piss whenever we come up against a tough, basic Championship team like Millwall or Portsmouth, and that needs to be addressed in the summer otherwise it's midtable mediocrity again in perpetuity. |
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Reply | Away form?
at 20:16 22 Feb 2025
Yeah, I'm inclined to agree. Still a lot of rebuilding to do if we're ever going to get of this division. We have a soft underbelly and it showed against both Millwall and Pompey.
I'm really disappointed tonight because this year was an opportunity to get in the play-offs. It is wide open but I think our ship has sailed now and we need to be planning for next season. Worrying that our best player, head and shoulders above the rest, is a loanee. |
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Reply | Pompey and Circumstance Match Fred
at 17:54 22 Feb 2025
I was a bit concerned by Marti's interview in The Independent as he spoke about letting players get on with it when they're on the pitch. It certainly felt like that today - just boot it aimlessly onto their defender's head and repeat. Slow to make subs too. Would have liked to see some changes at half-time but we came out even more passive in the second half.
Not good for a newly promoted team to be taking six points off us, particularly with Dozy Dozzell in their side. |
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Reply | Pompey and Circumstance Match Fred
at 17:28 22 Feb 2025
I disagree with Clive's preview. We haven't improved this season: we're very easy to beat by basic teams like Portsmouth, our best player is a loanee and we still haven't got a decent striker.
This season is a real missed opportunity. Thought we were appalling today and played into their hands by booting the ball in the air all game. |
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Reply | Marti - Glasgow Rangers.
at 15:23 17 Feb 2025
Marti celebrates the Gunpowder Plot every year and hates marching bands. Do one. |
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Reply | Top 10 Championship players 24/25
at 15:22 17 Feb 2025
Another one for Chakvetadze. Could not understand why they didn't give him the ball all the time like when we had Adel. |
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Reply | Play Offs? Dream on
at 13:48 16 Feb 2025
Erm, we're four points off sixth place. Of course we have a chance (like plenty of other teams). |
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Reply | QPR v Derby match thread
at 23:02 14 Feb 2025
Excellent management to give him some time on the pitch and rest Chair when we've won the match. |
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Reply | QPR v Derby match thread
at 22:50 14 Feb 2025
Tbf until Chair scored the first goal we looked a bit dopey but after that we were on top. |
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Reply | QPR v Fat Frank's Lady Godìva first eleven match thread
at 02:45 12 Feb 2025
Yeah, I tend to agree. We did some good things tonight, only to come away with nothing. This season may turn out to be a missed opportunity - a couple more wins and we'd be in the top six. As it is, three points above Oxford... |
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Reply | Plymouth
at 17:31 9 Feb 2025
Not even the biggest shock today. Queens Park just won at Rangers, despite the ref giving them a dodgy penalty in the last minute. |
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Reply | Plymouth
at 17:03 9 Feb 2025
It pissed me off earlier when they were saying on 5 Live how disappointed Plymouth fans would be not seeing Salah and co. today. Patronising pricks. |
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Reply | Manure v Leicester
at 00:34 8 Feb 2025
So blatantly bent. How can a linesman directly in line not spot a stream of United players behind the last defender? |
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Reply | Madsen
at 10:30 6 Feb 2025
Still reckon he will be striking the winning penalty at Wembley in May... |
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