Baird of the land

The obvious rotations to freshen the team up will be jander, scienza, azaz, Stewart. I do wonder if we might play wood in this one and give Stephens a breather.

Yeah we were pretty rocky playing a back 4 against Donny, with peretz (debut), archer and jelert. The hull game after that is the one where we shouldn’t have reverted to 5 at the back.

The guy went down softly but it was a completely needless contact by manning.

He was very close to giving away a penalty, bundling into their player needlessly.

Probably not but this is an incredibly fun run, and free of much stress because it seems so inconceivable.

Is that like pompey was a supposedly easy game for ipswich

As I expected archer starts. Surprised to see fellows starting though.

Watching the numerous goaline blocks in their weekend game leaves me little hope pompey will get a result vs a better team in ipswich

So is shirt grabbing also a red card offence?

After being whacked in the face(not violent conduct) reaching to grab hold of something was probably instinctual. Still a bad modern law invention.

The whole hair pull red card thing is stupid.

So it’s going to be an archer start game

What looked like a very close playoff race looks pretty much decided now.

Disappointing that Norwich couldn’t get anything. Weren’t helped by the dodgy penalty, plus ref refusing to send off Nunez.

Might be the best result for us. WBA have Ipswich at the end of the month, so we ideally want them to still have something to play for rather than be clear of danger.