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5 home draws on the bounce....... - Northstander - 18-11-2022
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
RE: 5 home draws on the bounce....... - ForeverPompey - 18-11-2022
17th is about what we look at present!! But seriously, this team isn’t going up.
RE: 5 home draws on the bounce....... - TBP - 18-11-2022
Not with Cowley in charge, anyway.
RE: 5 home draws on the bounce....... - Ain’t got a Danny - 18-11-2022
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.
RE: 5 home draws on the bounce....... - Pompeyg100 - 18-11-2022
Still we are unbeaten!! Except DC doesn’t realize we need to win games.
RE: 5 home draws on the bounce....... - Hammie - 18-11-2022
isn't repeating the same mistakes over and again a sign of insanity?
RE: 5 home draws on the bounce....... - Pompeyg100 - 18-11-2022
(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.
RE: 5 home draws on the bounce....... - Hammie - 18-11-2022
(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
RE: 5 home draws on the bounce....... - Ain’t got a Danny - 18-11-2022
I’m not a Fan of the Cowleys but the reality is they are going nowhere. Not for a good while anyway.
RE: 5 home draws on the bounce....... - blueinbrum3 - 18-11-2022
But Danny C is proud of tonight’s point so what are we fretting about?
RE: 5 home draws on the bounce....... - Hammie - 18-11-2022
at least in 1974 2 points for a win made draws valuable.
3 points for a win makes them rather less useful.
RE: 5 home draws on the bounce....... - Ain’t got a Danny - 18-11-2022
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.
RE: 5 home draws on the bounce....... - Pompeyg100 - 18-11-2022
(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.
RE: 5 home draws on the bounce....... - Hammie - 18-11-2022
If we do end up in the play offs, we'd better start practising pens now!
RE: 5 home draws on the bounce....... - Gerry Hatrick - 19-11-2022
(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.
RE: 5 home draws on the bounce....... - Gerry Hatrick - 19-11-2022
(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
RE: 5 home draws on the bounce....... - slayer - 19-11-2022
Goal difference and goal rate projects a 10th place finish.
On paper we are far, far better than that.
RE: 5 home draws on the bounce....... - exgaffer - 19-11-2022
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?
RE: 5 home draws on the bounce....... - West Australian Portsmouth Fan - 19-11-2022
(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?
RE: 5 home draws on the bounce....... - Jizbag - 19-11-2022
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.
RE: 5 home draws on the bounce....... - dsmg - 19-11-2022
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).
RE: 5 home draws on the bounce....... - DeepBlue - 19-11-2022
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.
RE: 5 home draws on the bounce....... - DeepBlue - 19-11-2022
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.
RE: 5 home draws on the bounce....... - dsmg - 19-11-2022
Robertson
RE: 5 home draws on the bounce....... - Hammie - 19-11-2022
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