superniko

Amen - the anger should be in one direction only. Besides I also think a good proportion of this squad is likeable. Ohashi, Tronstad, Alebiosu, Hedges, Wharton and more. They keep their head down and work hard, and seem professional. Agree to some extent if we continue with more windows like the last it’ll be a revolving door and become hard to take to players.

I’m amazed he’s come out saying that. Yes, De Neve is an absolutely dross footballer, genuinely not sure he’d look good in league 1….BUT…..YOU are the one who continues to play him Ismael, so mentioning 2nd, 3rd time for mistakes… just reflects terribly on you. Bad tactical manager, and looks like a bad man manager too

I can’t believe people think there’s even a remote possibility that Suhail or Gestede sack Ismael… 1. It will cost us money to sack him 2. He is a yes man who buys into this ‘journey’ 3. He’s clearly pally with Rudy and co. as he has appeared on those videos to the fans alongside Waggott, Suhail, Rudy Most frustrating thing about that match was how we don’t even lay a finger on opposition in the final 5 mins / stoppage time, not even a sniff of the box, yet when it’s us, we’re collapsing and scrambling left right and centre and dying to concede

I’ve seen this manager play Hedges LCB and he seems to think De Neve is up to this standard too, so we’ll see…

Nope - championship or national league, it makes no difference to them

It was a great cross and Ribiero was marking the man on the penalty spot in that freeze frame. Back post is De Neves man who he is not goal side off (which we’ve seen countless times this season).

Well yes, I agree. But just stating that goal fell on De Neve more than Ribiero

Bit worried about how we look as a back 5 if we end up with De Neve LWB and Miller RWB once Alebiosu goes to ACN. Not sure you’ll find two worse wing backs in the whole division

Clearly De Neve - the bloke is a liability - cost us multiple points this season

Cracking cross from Murphy, can’t help but feel it’s another goal conceded from De Neve losing his man - though I need to see the replay

Yeah that is mad, 2 games with late goals and 2 abandoned games, not huge swings, but that would put us on 35 points. Just shows how level the whole league is. PNE are on 35th points and they look like the most stereotypically average championship team

Randomly it was Charlton who we made look like Brazil. They’re in free fall now

Pompey HT production very good here. Proper highlights and analysis. One area that is getting continuously cut for us under Venkys

This will inevitably be a jinx, but we look a reasonably solid mid-table team, which is where we’d be if we had the Wednesday win (and more so if we had the Ipswich win). If we hold on here we’ll likely end on around 30 points at the half way point - proper mid-table.

Did anyone see what Alebiosu got booked for?

Too easy for Ohashi, but hat tip also to Tavares there for anticipating it and a perfectly weighted pass

What goes through these referees heads? A yellow for Ohashi for their keeper following through into him and nothing for there lad who clattered into Pears.

Yeah the river hasn’t moved, the pitch hasn’t moved - yet it’s 3 games abandoned in 12 months or so, but I’m struggling to remember too many in the 20+ years prior It’s negligence and incompetence that has led to this

They’re so uninterested they probably have no idea this is happening, and I’d imagine the stooges are perfectly happy with that

I have a horrible feeling about this one - when was the last time we put in a clinical performance when expectation was high?

We have two actual left backs on the bench though! Why are they even in the matchday squad if they’re not going to be used in this exact scenario! If you’re going to drop someone in for the last 10 minutes for Hedges it goes Pickering, Ribiero, a random bloke in the Jack Walker, then De Neve. As others have said, it’s like they’re trying to justify the transfer policy by only playing Gestede players. EDIT: Pickering not even in the squad, point still stands re: Ribiero

Yep…he has to stop this De Neve at left back for the last 10 mins. The lad cannot defend at all. If you’re going to make that sub, stick on Pickering or Ribeiro - it makes absolutely zero sense

Quite like how he did that. Speech sells itself, “you battered a premier league squad for 170 minutes, but robbed by appalling refereeing”

Mustn’t be many more cursed clubs than us. I’m absolutely sick of it

Fuck you Blackburn Rovers