Recent content by FrattonBlue

Spent £200, travelled 1000 miles, and seen two dreadful performances this past week. Tuesday was bad, but second half we got better and could have nicked a point. Today was just abysmal from the first minute to the last. Could hardly get out of our own half in the 1st half, the set-up was so...

Would go along with that, Rug. We didn't create an abundance of chances, but we took those that we did create, and they were quite excellent finishes at that! Much better performance in the second half when we started to keep the ball on the deck and play football, with a lot of our attacks...

Great win today and so pleasing to see us put in a strong performance - the best I've seen this season. Back four were rock solid and never looked troubled, despite Wimbledon's physicality. Clarke & Burgess resumed their fantastic partnership from last year and were totally dominant in the...

I'm normally positive about Pompey but I can only judge on what I'm seeing and there has been such a lack of encouragement in the performances, so far. If I could see progress and constructive football, the results wouldn't worry me at this stage. But it's been very painful to watch and...

God knows how we got a point out of that. Should have been 4 or 5 down at half time, but McGee's outstanding performance and the help of the woodwork helped keep us in the game. They were miles better than us in every department and would have won comfortably if it wasn't for their sending off...

When speaking to Cookie, he did talk about his system and the idea of the 4-2-3-1 is to get the attacking midfielders high up the pitch so it's like playing with 4 up front, not just 1 isolated striker. Then you have the full-backs bombing on and playing like wingers, Rose pushing on as an extra...

Poor performance. Early days I know, and we did well to salvage a point, but I genuinely haven't seen us play 'well' yet or walked away having enjoyed watching our football. Again, injuries have hampered things, but Jackett needs to start settling on a team and a style of football. All I've seen...

Noise coming from Jackett is that a new LB is a priority before any other potential signings, but we're struggling to find someone for that role at the moment. Need a back-up goalkeeper and a central midfielder also, so that's a bit of a worry. I think I said in a previous post that McGee and...

Wake up call. We looked poor against 10 men Rochdale and Oxford were a class above us in the 2nd half yesterday. Admittedly, we did okay in the 1st half and Pitman's header which was ruled out looked a very harsh decision. After then, we offered nothing going forward and Oxford picked us off...

Left by mutual consent. Disappointed we made him train alone and have moved him on without giving him a chance to impress. Disrespectful, if you ask me. But anyway, thanks for everything Gary. Never understood why he divided opinion so much. A very talented, skillful player who always gave...

Personally, I thoroughly enjoyed the League Cup games (lost track of the sponsored name, like you) against Derby and Reading a couple of seasons ago. Remember Chaplin scoring two great goals that really got people talking and maybe we could see the making of Kabamba this time around? If we can...

We did well in the cups in Cook's first season and with the expectations on Jackett not as demanding as last season, I'd hope we could but a decent run together this year. Ok, the FA Cup is the best competition, but a win against Cardiff and we'll be in the pot with the Premier League teams...

Didn't think we played particularly well, but much like Crawley, the quality of Pitman's finishing won us the game and was the difference between the two sides. Like Rug says, we gave the ball away far too much and went long way too often for my liking. Work in progress though. Hoping a central...

Due to holiday and other stuff, as mentioned in the other thread, I haven't been able to make it to any pre-season games until Crawley on Saturday. This was my first look at Kenny Jacket's Pompey and while I'll obviously bare in mind it was just one game, and a meaningless friendly at that, here...

Good luck Rug, I'm sure you'll do do a stellar job - as you always do, I hasten to add!