Plymouth, Fleetwood, Oxford, Shrewsbury and now Derby. I am told Sky said we were repeating what we did in 1974. Just looked it up they are correct, Div 2 as it was then 5 home draws including a 0.0 with Man Utd in their one season down there (after the Dennis Law relegation goal). We then lost at home 0.1 to Bristol City before yet another draw with Hull City. Pompey stayed up in 17th place 4 points behind the Scum who finished 13th. Over 25000 watched the Utd game on a Tuesday evening, twice as many who had watched a 0.0 with Fulham here 3 days earlier
17th is about what we look at present!! But seriously, this team isn’t going up.
Not with Cowley in charge, anyway.
Yes that 1974 autumn was grim 5 draws followed by a few defeats and a few more draws until scraping a win against Wednesday who ended up being relegated. Couldn’t buy a goal and didn’t create much until George Graham turned up and St John ate humble pie and put Hiron and Lewis back in the team.
Still we are unbeaten!! Except DC doesn’t realize we need to win games.
isn't repeating the same mistakes over and again a sign of insanity?
(18-11-2022, 11:29 PM)Hammie Wrote: [ -> ]isn't repeating the same mistakes over and again a sign of insanity?
Yep, this is more and more like last season.
The PE teachers have to go and we need someone to come in and save our season.
(18-11-2022, 11:31 PM)Pompeyg100 Wrote: [ -> ] (18-11-2022, 11:29 PM)Hammie Wrote: [ -> ]isn't repeating the same mistakes over and again a sign of insanity?
Yep, this is more and more like last season.
The PE teachers have to go and we need someone to come in and save our season.
they could start at looking how derby's manager gets teams up by pushing pointless possession down the list
I’m not a Fan of the Cowleys but the reality is they are going nowhere. Not for a good while anyway.
But Danny C is proud of tonight’s point so what are we fretting about?
at least in 1974 2 points for a win made draws valuable.
3 points for a win makes them rather less useful.
Yep away teams playing eight men in defence hoping to nick a 1-0 but happy with a draw was the main reason they changed it.
(18-11-2022, 11:39 PM)blueinbrum3 Wrote: [ -> ]But Danny C is proud of tonight’s point so what are we fretting about?
Says it all.
If we do end up in the play offs, we'd better start practising pens now!
(18-11-2022, 10:46 PM)Ain’t got a Danny Wrote: [ -> ]Yes that 1974 autumn was grim 5 draws followed by a few defeats and a few more draws until scraping a win against Wednesday who ended up being relegated. Couldn’t buy a goal and didn’t create much until George Graham turned up and St John ate humble pie and put Hiron and Lewis back in the team.
Ah George Graham brings back memories - that nod down to Norman Piper to score the injury-time equaliser against Charlton at the Valley. Never seen an away ground erupt quite like that. My sister used to hang out with him. Said he'd frequently tell St John he was crocked in order to get his golf practice in.
(18-11-2022, 11:29 PM)Hammie Wrote: [ -> ]isn't repeating the same mistakes over and again a sign of insanity?
According to Einstein: “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”
Albie would have dropped Koroma ages ago, rested Scarlett and given Pigott a run in a 4-2-3-1. It's all there in E=MC2
Goal difference and goal rate projects a 10th place finish.
On paper we are far, far better than that.
Quote from Cowley after last night’s bore-fest:
‘We acquitted ourselves well and were in tha ascendancy for large periods of the game and were able to dominate the possession and territory’.
Trouble is Danny, the object of the game is to score goals and by doing so win games.
All that territory and possession might look good on your iPad stat software but it gets us precisely nowhere in the real world.
Derby’s keeper had ONE on target shot (well it trickled into his arms so can hardly qualify as a ‘shot’) in 96 minutes of football. He could have brought a deck chair, book and flask of coffee for all the employment he got.
It simply isn’t good enough.
Wtf do you get up to in training? It can’t be crossing the ball, or creating chances, so what is it?
(18-11-2022, 10:32 PM)ForeverPompey Wrote: [ -> ]17th is about what we look at present!! But seriously, this team isn’t going up.
That’s what Blue Army was saying and he got all sorts of abuse for it. Meanwhile you say the same thing and get two likes. Am I wrong for pointing this out?
If the owners had a clue about football or any ambition they would fuck these two off now and go for Richardson.
We're stuck with them unfortunately.
Blue army complained all the time about the defence when the problems started when we had all the injuries in midfield (Thompson, Morrell, Lowery, Pack and one or two others).
Blue Army's argument is that Raggett & Richardson are crap.
IMO he could not be more wrong about those two not being good enough for a promotion challenge, and I do not think they are many that would agree with him.
But at least he moved on from his 'nailed on relegation fight' prediction.
Blue Army's argument is that Raggett & Richardson are crap.
IMO he could not be more wrong about those two not being good enough for a promotion challenge, and I do not think they are many that would agree with him.
But at least he moved on from his 'nailed on relegation fight' prediction.
watching on the box last night.
A defender who just loves defending and who is getting better at passing
next to a decent defender who can play passes the length of the pitch is a decent base for the team