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Post by pirate on Aug 21, 2022 19:15:00 GMT
Pompey are fearing Louis Thompson suffered a double leg break against Bristol Rovers. Sorry to hear that. Hopefully it's not as bad as first feared and the lad can get back playing asap. Good luck to him.
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Post by pucklegas on Aug 21, 2022 19:18:02 GMT
Barton getting stick on talksport from presenter Alex Crook and Bayo Akinfenwa for his "disrespectful" comments about Danny Cowley. Danny cowley has always complimented joe on quest, feel that's something that joe should not keep doing slagging off other Managers, he needs to keep his time on improving us.
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Post by clockendgas on Aug 21, 2022 19:32:39 GMT
Barton getting stick on talksport from presenter Alex Crook and Bayo Akinfenwa for his "disrespectful" comments about Danny Cowley. Danny cowley has always complimented joe on quest, feel that's something that joe should not keep doing slagging off other Managers, he needs to keep his time on improving us. Watched his post match interview on YouTube, comes over poorly in my opinion as a bad loser,doing himself no favours with refs,his fellow managers or other supporters who all hate him,just like we used to,needs to shut up and stop whinging.
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Post by Topper Gas on Aug 21, 2022 19:37:43 GMT
Danny cowley has always complimented joe on quest, feel that's something that joe should not keep doing slagging off other Managers, he needs to keep his time on improving us. Watched his post match interview on YouTube, comes over poorly in my opinion as a bad loser,doing himself no favours with refs,his fellow managers or other supporters who all hate him,just like we used to,needs to shut up and stop whinging. Don't think he has been for months but feel he had every right yesterday to criticise the ref, if he didn't, then that will just encourage them to continue making poor decisions thinking they can get away with it.
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Post by eric on Aug 21, 2022 19:37:47 GMT
Barton getting stick on talksport from presenter Alex Crook and Bayo Akinfenwa for his "disrespectful" comments about Danny Cowley. Danny cowley has always complimented joe on quest, feel that's something that joe should not keep doing slagging off other Managers, he needs to keep his time on improving us. Probably still angry with Cowley and his staff trying to get Whelan sent off. Stuff gets said in sport interviews when the adrenaline is still running - JB is pretty candid and gets criticised, other managers show more restraint and get criticised for bland interviews and endless clichés. JB isn’t everyone’s cup of tea but I quite like his honest responses even if they do overstep the mark occasionally. Watch MOTD and every interview is basically the same.
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Post by Gassy on Aug 21, 2022 19:40:19 GMT
Danny cowley has always complimented joe on quest, feel that's something that joe should not keep doing slagging off other Managers, he needs to keep his time on improving us. Probably still angry with Cowley and his staff trying to get Whelan sent off. Stuff gets said in sport interviews when the adrenaline is still running - JB is pretty candid and gets criticised, other managers show more restraint and get criticised for bland interviews and endless clichés. JB isn’t everyone’s cup of tea but I quite like his honest responses even if they do overstep the mark occasionally. Watch MOTD and every interview is basically the same. I agree with you, apart from his remarks about the Cowleys not playing football. That's just a d*ck move tbh. Football is a sport for everyone and should be. I actually applaud any manager who's made it to this level without ever playing the game, it's actually more impressive than ex-footballers.
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Post by eric on Aug 21, 2022 19:42:23 GMT
Danny cowley has always complimented joe on quest, feel that's something that joe should not keep doing slagging off other Managers, he needs to keep his time on improving us. Watched his post match interview on YouTube, comes over poorly in my opinion as a bad loser,doing himself no favours with refs,his fellow managers or other supporters who all hate him,just like we used to,needs to shut up and stop whinging. It doesn’t look good when Sky Sports show his interview but don’t then show the Collins penalty so all the viewers think is he’s moaning about the Pompey penalty. Pearson was quite clever in saving his blast at refereeing standards until after they had won, whichever way they go about it referees deserve all the stick they are currently getting across all four divisions with the standards being worse than ever.
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Post by frattonender on Aug 21, 2022 20:49:37 GMT
Wiki says the Milton Ends current capacity is 2800. I have to I was surprised yesterday when it came over the tannoy that there were 1800 and something( I think he said 1824 or something). I have to say there was definitely a lot more than that even with the 3 rows of seats at the front and the section covered between us and there corner.
Not just Rovers who have a Safety Advisory Group on their case! You absolutely sold out the allocation, but that's all we're allowed in there at the moment.
Our South and North Stands (the sides) have been redone over the last 12 months or so and are now pretty much back to capacity (we'd lost a few thousand seats to the SAG there in recent years too) - the Milton (Away) end is getting a refurb at the end of the season that will see it back to something like the previous capacity. It will also allow us to reconfigure and sell tickets to home fans where demand isn't so great from the away team (at the moment if we sell more than about 1,000 to away support we can't segregate the existing end in a way that allows us to sell some of the seats to home supporters).
£10m+ development just to get capacity back to what it was a few years ago at Fratton Park, CEO reckons we could have ended up with capacity halved without this work taking place
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Post by walter1147 on Aug 21, 2022 21:02:17 GMT
Hi all, I am a Pompey supporter so please forgive my intrusion on your forum. It's not something I normally do, posting on a rival's forum, but after reading some of the comments on here concerning Saturdays game I felt I had to.
On the game itself I would have thought that anyone who was there at the game would say that Pompey didn't deserve to win the game. I don't say that out of club bias but what I actually saw. I really don't understand anyone saying that Portsmouth were lucky. I thought that Rovers made Pompey work for the win and played with determination to defend. Whereas Pompey was the team going for the win and made more than enough chances to win the game. I thought the Rovers turnout was brilliant, especially with the problems on the rail. Oddly enough we were spitting feathers thinking that Pompey had thrown the game away with a very poor defensive mistake that gave Rovers their only shot on target, which was very well taken it has to be said. The atmosphere at Fratton Park is always good but when a large noisy visiting support turns up it is so much better and Rovers support certainly added to that.
On the penalty decisions I thought Rovers one was nailed on at the game and I couldn't understand how we got away with it. After watching the EFL show on television where they thought the referee got it right I am now not so sure. They seem to think it was a Pires type of attempt at winning a penalty. I can see what they mean but on another occasion I can see it being given. As for our penalty I wasn't totally convinced it was one but I haven't seen any replays of that yet. Nevertheless, if Rovers had got their penalty I think it would have been daylight robbery. The injury incident across the pitch from where I sit so I cant make any comments on that. The Pompey players didn't seem to make too much of as far as I could see.
I do wonder if there is a Barton syndrome as he is probably the most hated person in English football. I certainly don't have any time for him an I hope he doesn't turn Rovers into a thug team like he has done with others. I had thought that Rover were a very attacking team but they only played Marquis up front on his own. I think that is a waste of his talent because he is a goal scorer and I think he suffered from that here under two managers.
Any way good luck for the rest of the season. I know you are waiting for more players but at present I see you as a mid table team. However, a couple of new players might have to challenging.
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Post by walter1147 on Aug 21, 2022 21:05:13 GMT
That should have read "Pompey DID deserve to win the game". Big fat fingers I'm afraid.
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Post by BrightonGas on Aug 21, 2022 22:14:56 GMT
Hi all, I am a Pompey supporter so please forgive my intrusion on your forum. It's not something I normally do, posting on a rival's forum, but after reading some of the comments on here concerning Saturdays game I felt I had to. On the game itself I would have thought that anyone who was there at the game would say that Pompey didn't deserve to win the game. I don't say that out of club bias but what I actually saw. I really don't understand anyone saying that Portsmouth were lucky. I thought that Rovers made Pompey work for the win and played with determination to defend. Whereas Pompey was the team going for the win and made more than enough chances to win the game. I thought the Rovers turnout was brilliant, especially with the problems on the rail. Oddly enough we were spitting feathers thinking that Pompey had thrown the game away with a very poor defensive mistake that gave Rovers their only shot on target, which was very well taken it has to be said. The atmosphere at Fratton Park is always good but when a large noisy visiting support turns up it is so much better and Rovers support certainly added to that. On the penalty decisions I thought Rovers one was nailed on at the game and I couldn't understand how we got away with it. After watching the EFL show on television where they thought the referee got it right I am now not so sure. They seem to think it was a Pires type of attempt at winning a penalty. I can see what they mean but on another occasion I can see it being given. As for our penalty I wasn't totally convinced it was one but I haven't seen any replays of that yet. Nevertheless, if Rovers had got their penalty I think it would have been daylight robbery. The injury incident across the pitch from where I sit so I cant make any comments on that. The Pompey players didn't seem to make too much of as far as I could see. I do wonder if there is a Barton syndrome as he is probably the most hated person in English football. I certainly don't have any time for him an I hope he doesn't turn Rovers into a thug team like he has done with others. I had thought that Rover were a very attacking team but they only played Marquis up front on his own. I think that is a waste of his talent because he is a goal scorer and I think he suffered from that here under two managers. Any way good luck for the rest of the season. I know you are waiting for more players but at present I see you as a mid table team. However, a couple of new players might have to challenging. I think we can agree on that 😂
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Post by bluegas on Aug 21, 2022 22:15:04 GMT
Tell me walter1147, why have you bothered to come on here with patronising gloating?
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Post by axegas on Aug 21, 2022 22:18:55 GMT
Tell me walter1147, why have you bothered to come on here with patronising gloating? In fairness, I thought it was a reasonable post.
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Post by makecoalyourgoal on Aug 21, 2022 22:41:49 GMT
Walter1147, over the course of the full 90 mins Pompey deserved to win. BUT after we fought back to make it 1-1 it was anyone's game and from our perspective the two penalty decisions were gross miscarriages of justice and we are aggrieved. At the end of the day that's football. It must be hard supporting the historic giant of the South Coast now overtaken by Southampton, Brighton and Bournemouth. That all said I enjoyed my day out and would rather go somewhere with a bit of atmosphere and good old school boozers than some of the other away days.
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Post by aghast on Aug 21, 2022 23:10:13 GMT
Walter1147, over the course of the full 90 mins Pompey deserved to win. BUT after we fought back to make it 1-1 it was anyone's game and from our perspective the two penalty decisions were gross miscarriages of justice and we are aggrieved. At the end of the day that's football. It must be hard supporting the historic giant of the South Coast now overtaken by Southampton, Brighton and Bournemouth. That all said I enjoyed my day out and would rather go somewhere with a bit of atmosphere and good old school boozers than some of the other away days. Pompey have been underachievers and crap since the 1980s apart from a spell under Harry Redknapp, when they borrowed loads of money they didn't have the capacity to repay, and indeed did not pay it back. Credit to their fans though. They stick with them.
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Post by Gastafari on Aug 22, 2022 6:21:01 GMT
Walter1147, over the course of the full 90 mins Pompey deserved to win. BUT after we fought back to make it 1-1 it was anyone's game and from our perspective the two penalty decisions were gross miscarriages of justice and we are aggrieved. At the end of the day that's football. It must be hard supporting the historic giant of the South Coast now overtaken by Southampton, Brighton and Bournemouth. That all said I enjoyed my day out and would rather go somewhere with a bit of atmosphere and good old school boozers than some of the other away days. Pompey have been underachievers and crap since the 1980s apart from a spell under Harry Redknapp, when they borrowed loads of money they didn't have the capacity to repay, and indeed did not pay it back. Credit to their fans though. They stick with them. They went into administration in the late 90's as well. We raided them for David Hillier, Robbie Pethick and Andy Thomson. It winds me up actually. Clubs like us who try to live within in our means seem to always be worse off than clubs like Portsmouth who seem to get into financial difficulties reguarly yet always manage to wriggle out of it and end up better off.
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Post by bluegas on Aug 22, 2022 6:59:51 GMT
Tell me walter1147, why have you bothered to come on here with patronising gloating? In fairness, I thought it was a reasonable post. You might. I don't. I wasn't much good at school except English, language and literature. I have worked mostly in sales. I think I know when someone's disguising a sarcastic pot at us. The main thrust of it, predictably, was against JB, which many will say we'll have to get used to. Whatever - I wouldn't go on someone else's forum doing it.
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Post by walter1147 on Aug 22, 2022 7:33:06 GMT
Thank you for your replies.
There is a lot there to respond to but firstly I would like to address the poster of accusing me of gloating. As I said that was not my intention as I merely wanted to give my honest view of the game as I disagreed with much of the analysis I had read on here. I tried to be as respectful as possible and I apologise if people saw my post as a gloating.
I am just the same as any other football fan supporting their club. You know the way it works. If we get a corner we won't score from it but if the opposition gets one you fear the worst. We get a penalty but we are going to miss it it whereas the opposition are nailed on to score. I have to say that unusually on Saturday I didn't think that at any time we were going to lose that game, but I did fear we had thrown away 2 points with that mistake by Raggett to give you your only shot on target. I really can't agree that it was anyone's game after Rovers equalised as Pompey stepped up their attacking threat. I know that seems very biased but that is how I honestly viewed the game and I really don't mean that to be in any way disrespectful.
People like to knock our club especially on the subject of finance. It is a strange concept really but some people tend to think of clubs as having an individual personality. For instance Joey Barton is renowned for his thuggish approach to the game so, therefore, some people will take on the opinion that players and supporters involved with that club are all thugs. All clubs have the same make up where you have die hard fans and casual supporters and anything in between. There is a certain percentage of a clubs support that will turn on the team when things go wrong and a certain percentage that are extremely fanatical. I think clubs such as Portsmouth have a much larger fanatical percentage base of supporters than many others, and I think the Rovers brigade comes into that category when their away following is taken into account in relation to the home attendances. They were certainly a noisy bunch as well. The point I am trying to make is that a clubs identity is what the supporters make it but it is the owners who are ones that hold all the cards, and unlike fans they are just passing through. We have been dreadfully unlucky with owners in recent years with crooks and gun runners using the club to launder money. Not the supporters fault as they were very much the victims in this as we so very nearly lost the club forever. It was the supporters who saved the club. So those who like to use the financial theme as a stick to beat us with don't really understand what really happened, or the credit that Portsmouth supporters deserve for saving our great club. Of course we have slipped behind the likes of Bournemouth, Southampton and Brighton but that doesn't change the way the club is supported. Would any of you support Bristol City because they are a Championship club instead of your League One club? Portsmouth get the same crowd whatever division they are in which largely depends on the state of the ground and capacity set. I think it's very much like your club when you had to leave Eastville and had to move around. Your club is still drawing on it's original support, which is great.
I am sorry I have gone on a bit but I see these sort of remarks quite often. We nearly went out of business several times so it must be our fault. It wasn’t, of course, just like you had no control over leaving Eastville or going to Bath. Football fans can lose a grasp of perspective sometimes in order to slag off a football club they don't like. What they forget is that these clubs are supported by people like you and me.
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Post by gasandelectricity on Aug 22, 2022 7:41:44 GMT
I hate us having to play Pompey, no disrespect but the chants and bells and what not grate a little 😂 but whenever we play I can’t help but get a sense of a real occasion brewing up and a proper football match about to commence.
Pompey is a proper football club, with proper passionate supporters and I hope we can both ascend the leagues with the fixture staying in the calendar. Albeit with us making a much better effort in the longer term than we have done historically, especially at Fratton Park.
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Post by walter1147 on Aug 22, 2022 7:42:12 GMT
In fairness, I thought it was a reasonable post. You might. I don't. I wasn't much good at school except English, language and literature. I have worked mostly in sales. I think I know when someone's disguising a sarcastic pot at us. The main thrust of it, predictably, was against JB, which many will say we'll have to get used to. Whatever - I wouldn't go on someone else's forum doing it. You have made up your mind then. I am sorry if you have misinterpreted my post as 'sarcasm' as it certainly wasn't intended as such. I was simply giving my veiws of the game as I saw them.
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