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What rumours? The truth is, McDonald hasn’t been good at all recently. He had absolute mares against Yeovil, Lincoln and gave away a cheap goal v Stevenage. It must be frustrating for Tom Davies, every time he seems to establish himself as a first choice, he gets injured. The perfect antidote...

Agreed here! Statistically, he scored a goal every 2.7 games with Pompey, over 46 games that’s 17 goals. My expectation was about 15-20 goals. Staggeringly, he has managed to bump up his average to a goal every 1.7 games. I think we’ll keep him too, Robins seems adamant he’s not going to sell...

He has. But, in 50-odd games you’re bound to have a few off games. Even look at Ponticelli, scored corkers v Notts County and Crawley, followed up by missing a clear cut chance v Lincoln. That’s life as a striker!

Well, apparently he wasn’t a ‘natural goalscorer’ according to a few people... To hit 26 goals in a season is fantastic form, well done Robins and the recruitment team!

How would that work? In that given scenario we’d have the same goal difference. Would it go to h2h or goals scored? Either way, I’d rather be going into the last game of the season on a higher GD than the team below us.

Done ourselves a massive favour getting the our goal difference up! We really should beat Morecambe but now we’ve got a little insurance policy and Mansfield have to win by more than 1 goal.

Or just play 5-3-2...

Not to mention his persistent diving. He and JCH will go down under the slightest amount of contact.

A lot of people, influenced that great Barcelona team managed by Pep, have become purists. I honestly do not care how we play if the result is a positive one. Look at Southampton, they sacked Puel for his footballing philosophies, one glance at where Leicester are compared to Southampton tells...

Lets blame a player who was 10-15 meters away from where the shot happened.

Refer to my latest comment where I've broke it down. What I've bolded in your quote is the essence of my argument and why Rhead wasn't Haynes' man, there were quite literally, 3-4 player closer to him than Haynes. We could critique all of; Bayliss, Kelly, Doyle, McDonald and Haynes. But, that...

In those carefully selected screenshots, yes, that is the case. However, as we'll later see, the situation changes and Rhead is no longer Haynes' man. He clearly leaves Hayne's 'jurisdiction', the evidence I'm about to provide demonstrates that clearly. He isn't going to follow him 10-15m out of...

No, it’s not, because in the screenshots shown, Rhead is in Haynes’ ‘zone’, let’s call it that, but Rhead when he scored the the goal was in a central position. The full back in any setup wouldn’t follow a striker that far. Your screenshots, conveniently, miss out Haynes tracking back to help...

Your argument is very inconsistent. Changing the team is good when it comes to putting Davies in for McDonald but bad when replacing JP with Bayliss? Which is it then? Rhead didn’t win a single header in the lead up to their goal. He played a pass to their number 10. Which Rod covered, he held...

I usually find myself in agreement here, but you’re wrong, I’ve made a mistake myself too. But, to say Rhead was Haynes’ man is not true, Bayliss, Doyle (who was marking another), Kelly and Rod were all closer to Rhead than Haynes. Rod is actually more central than Haynes. Both Haynes and...

You’re talking with the power of hindsight mate. We tried playing Reid LB in the same manner as you describe v Yeovil. Watch the last 2 goals and that’s probably the reason why he didn’t do what you’re describing. I have no doubt in my mind we did our research, Haynes, McDonald and Willis all...

Yes, I wasn’t disputing that. Rhead bullied our whole defence, whenever he wanted, as did Palmer. I don’t think Stokes would fair any better, or worse than his colleagues. Even when he ‘lost’ the header, it put a sufficient enough of effort to force our headers to be weak and often took the...

No, I’m just picking at your brain trying to work out what your complaints are exactly. So far, I’ve got, well, nothing. For all your vocal criticisms you wouldn’t change anything significantly. The rest is conjecture - just because Shipley had 1-2 good cameos at LB doesn’t mean he’s able to...

You’re talking about the Stokes we had under Mowbray. He’s nowhere near that same player. If Haynes really is as bad as his detractors make out, that reflects on Stokes in a very bad way. Also, Stokes playing last night would have made no difference whatsoever. If McDonald got bullied aerially...

Without a doubt, McDonald has been a liability in the last 3 home games than Haynes has been probably all season. Grimmer too. I’m baffled that both these players form just going to pot this last few games. It’s comical in all the wrong ways. Davies needs to come in for sure. I’d possibly...