Match Thread Portsmouth FC - Coventry City Match Thread - Saturday 21st Dec (14 Viewers)

[Gint11]

Drop Collins for Dovin , Bidders for Da Silva Kitchin for Binks - subs on at 50 mins if loosing

amazed it took FL to 65 minutes to make a change. I can understand not changing at half time if we come out firing but once the 3rd went in, should have changed it.

then it again the changes did nothing anyway

 

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[Liquid Gold]

Well he is never going to track back as a left sided mid is he. He also is slow off the ball. Fine if you are a striker playing of the defender not so good if you need to help out your lb. But please keep picking and miss the point being made

Yeah you want you 19 goal inside forward tracking back and defending.

Do you know who else is lazy, that Kane fella at Munich. Waste of time.

 

[Macca]

If that's the crate every single one of them is lazy

Mind you at least he has some talent which sets him apart

 

[AFCCOVENTRY]

amazed it took FL to 65 minutes to make a change. I can understand not changing at half time if we come out firing but once the 3rd went in, should have changed it.

then it again the changes did nothing anyway

I think he was in shock. He knew there wasn’t a chance the team was coming back because he saw how mentally weak they are.

 

[clint van damme]

When January comes tell the following to find new clubs

Collins
Dasilva
Binks
MVE
Sheaf

Saka

 

[HuckerbyDublinWhelan]

Ok , but over the entire season we picked up 6 less than the playoff season

And reached a cup semi final

Then we lost O’Hare which it turns out was pretty integral to the 3 month spell we were good…..

 

[PUSB-We_are_going_up]

If Hagi is lazy then wtf is everyone bar Latibeaudiere

 

[Boicey]

I need to see a change of attitude to believe it was right to remove robins otherwise it’s just pointless

So you would have given Robins another £5 or £10 million in January after his recent record on signings?
Robins had created a shambles, something had to be done sooner rather than later.
I would personally not judge Lampard until after he's had a chance to bring a few players in, offload a few and give his team 20 or so games.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

I was angry sure like I am whenever we lose , but REALITY is we had a small squad one of the leagues smallest and couldn't sustain cup and league

We had players laughing on the pitch after that game, summed them up. The difference this season is the squad lost the few remaining decent professionals it had.

 

[Evo1883]

Then we lost O’Hare which it turns out was pretty integral to the 3 month spell we were good…..

maybe doug should have paid him the wages then

 

[clint van damme]

How does a 'top 6 deck that's Premier league fit with an elite coaching set up' put in a performance like that?

 

[Fergusons_Beard]

Sense of entitlement by our players very telling.

Like they can just turn up and beat teams without even trying.

Too many players strolling around the pitch giving the ball away-tone led by Sheaf.

No fight, effort or playing for the shirt in the game-also our sports psychologists need to address the drop in confidence and composure when Collins made that gaff for their first.

Heads dropped and we lost it the moment Calamity Collins let it in.


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[HuckerbyDublinWhelan]

maybe doug should have paid him the wages then

Or maybe we shouldn’t have frozen him out inexplicably after Plymouth

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Saka

Agreed add him to the list. His injury has ruined him

 

[Shannerz]

Bassette will come good but not a starter for me ... His miss 1v1 was a key moment.

He's clearly got enormous potential, and you can see exactly why he was brought in, but he's so inexperienced, and his decision making in the box is so poor.

I'm not a Simms fan (for the outlay), but he has to be our starter.

 

[mds]

What a difference since Dennis Lawrence and Adi Viveash departed, Lawrence leaving especially is when the defence started to meltdown.
Decent defensive coaching , get Dovin in goal help for Sheaf in the middle and we may have a chance

Other than that its like groundhog day virtually every fking game!

 

[oscillatewildly]

Absolute joke.

Nowhere near good enough for a Christmas cracker though.

 

[Evo1883]

Or maybe we shouldn’t have frozen him out inexplicably after Plymouth

yes because we definitely make the playoffs with o hare starting the final 6 despite 10 of our season losses coming with him playing anyway

 

[bigfatronssba]

Last season , as you alluded too , yes we did

Last season and this season combined have been poor.

Yes Wembley was great. But that doesn’t discount that we’ve been pretty poor for 18 months now except for a decent 3 month period last spring.

Dowie won at Old Trafford and got us to the top of the Championship. Do you this time in charge was good?

 

[alexccfc99]

I'll forgive Lampard that (Not our wank players however) but I want to see him be ruthless after that - Certain players need dropping from the matchday squad all together after that and reinforcements are desperately needed

The repercussions in the aftermath of that performance have to be seismic, that cannot be brushed over or cannot go unpunished - Some people just before Christmas have pissed money up the wall on tickets and for some, trains and hotels to be served up that, utterly disgraceful

 

[Terry_dactyl]

Can anyone tell me what BTA offers?

 

[Frostie]

What a difference since Dennis Lawrence and Adi Viveash departed, Lawrence leaving especially is when the defence started to meltdown.
Decent defensive coaching , get Dovin in goal help for Sheaf in the middle and we may have a chance

Other than that its like groundhog day virtually every fking game!

But we have an "elite" coaching team now according to Doug?

 

[Evo1883]

Or maybe we shouldn’t have frozen him out inexplicably after Plymouth

cal started 4 of our last 6 games btw , and the 2 games after plymouth

 

[clint van damme]

I'm in. Thanks to @fernandopartridge and @clint van damme for your assistance this morning

Just remember, in the end it was @fernandopartridge you got the ticket off.

Any legal action should be directed at him.

 

[Sky Blue Pete]

So you would have given Robins another £5 or £10 million in January after his recent record on signings?
Robins had created a shambles, something had to be done sooner rather than later.
I would personally not judge Lampard until after he's had a chance to bring a few players in, offload a few and give his team 20 or so games.

Nor me but gosh I thought something would be different
It’s not

 

[mds]

But we have an "elite" coaching team now according to Doug?

Doug knows fuck all about football, that is obvious !

Well he said it himself, would like to know who his advisors are tho!

 

[Seamus1]

We all said the defence is shit since the start of the season and hey ….

With respect, whilst I’m sure you said that the defence was awful at the start (as did I), so many were frantically masturbating over the signing of Binks, fawning over his shoes!! It was like he was heralded by so many as the second coming of Maldini.

Binks; a player who was at best a back up last season. Absolutely gutless, weak, pathetic and clueless. So many mistakes he has made; outjumped/outmuscled in the build up to the first Oxford United goal, needlessly sliding in on the half way line against QPR, allowing Adebayo to just run across him against Luton Town, needlessly running out to Hamer against Sheffield United. The guy has the positional sense of a toddler on a photo shoot. Yet you look on some of the forums and people are claiming that they don’t understand why he was dropped for a couple of games (one of which we kept a clean sheet!)

Well 3 clean sheets in 35 games is an horrific defensive statistic. What a waste of money!

 

[SkyBlueDom26]

maybe doug should have paid him the wages then

Doug king letting o hare go on a free will always be a complete and utter disgrace, being an arrogant twat not paying him what he wanted

 

[SkyBlueDom26]

With respect, whilst I’m sure you said that the defence was awful at the start (as did I), so many were frantically masturbating over the signing of Binks, fawning over his shoes!! It was like he was heralded by so many as the second coming of Maldini.

Binks; a player who was at best a back up last season. Absolutely gutless, weak, pathetic and clueless. So many mistakes he has made; outjumped/outmuscled in the build up to the first Oxford United goal, needlessly sliding in on the half way line against QPR, allowing Adebayo to just run across him against Luton Town, needlessly running out to Hamer against Sheffield United. The guy has the positional sense of a toddler on a photo shoot. Yet you look on some of the forums and people are claiming that they don’t understand why he was dropped.

Well 3 clean sheets in 35 games is an horrific defensive statistic. What a waste of money!

Spot on about binks, he’s useless

 

[Terry_dactyl]

Just remember, in the end it was @fernandopartridge you got the ticket off.

Any legal action should be directed at him.

You’re a pair of wrong uns!

 

[Gynnsthetonic]

That's one way to ruin my Christmas build up, I'm shell shocked. The only player with a bit of class is Wright, we need him back ASAP

 

[fernandopartridge]

Just remember, in the end it was @fernandopartridge you got the ticket off.

Any legal action should be directed at him.

Sorry @Skyblueweeman but I made no promises

 

[2024/25 League 1 Champs?]

So we were shite for the last 15 games now ?



Why are our fans like this , this is why we argue

there are two things relevant here - one is that Robins decided, against advice, to fall out with and get rid of at least 50% of the reason we were successful, and the messing around with the coaching / management / backroom staff appear to have had a detrimental effect on the team, and the constant chopping and changing goalkeeper / back four etc showed little evidence whoever was making the decisions knew what they were doing…

two, no matter how much noise you make about it, the form from Wolves is entirely relevant, of course it is, it was the start of a very poor run of results which, if continued, would certainly lead to relegation, so something needed to change.

I don’t think anybody could deny Robins was one of, if not the best manager we’ve had at the club in terms of moments he’s given us, achievements over the years, and I think most importantly how he brought the team and the fans together, but he made mistakes and ultimately couldn’t undo them.

there’s no point looking backwards though, and there is hard evidence we would’ve struggled with Robins still here (results, form, team selections, tactics and substitutions) but NO evidence he was turning it round - yeah he’s done it before but that’s not evidence he would’ve done again.

I think people ‘argue’ because there seems to be a black or white view to this, and I don’t think that’s the case

 

[Liquid Gold]

Do you know what I miss?

Bomb squads.

 

[djr8369]

No one is disputing his achievements.

But its clear he messed up big time with his recruitment post 2023

And chucking Vivesh