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mikec

mikec

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I don't think many would expect Wolves v Coventry to be the most exciting quarter-finals but the others will need to be pretty good to beat that!

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CylonKing

CylonKing

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Normally don't bother with football if not Saints, but so glad I decided to watch that, great FA Cup game, what it's all about. Well done Coventry, fully deserved.

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Pamplemousse

Pamplemousse

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Good news is that Coventry v Ipswich will have to be rearranged as it's on the semi-final weekend, so that'll be a tough away game in midweek where they only have 3 or 4 days to prepare.

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Pamplemousse

Pamplemousse

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FFS, just had a thought. If Leicester go through, and so do Liverpool, and they draw each other in the semi-final, their game would have to be on the Sunday as Liverpool play on the Thursday... meaning our game will get rescheduled again against Leicester from the Tuesday... not good as I've already bought non-refundable train tickets.

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Charlie Wayman

Charlie Wayman

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If Ipswich win today, we will have a very hard job trying to catch them. Points on the board are always far more valuable than games in hand especially at this stage of the season. Hoping for a miracle but come 5.00pm it may be we might have to settle for fourth place with three away games on the trot coming soon.

SaintBobby

SaintBobby

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4 minutes ago, Charlie Wayman said:

If Ipswich win today, we will have a very hard job trying to catch them. Points on the board are always far more valuable than games in hand especially at this stage of the season. Hoping for a miracle but come 5.00pm it may be we might have to settle for fourth place with three away games on the trot coming soon.

There’s no way I’m settling for 4th. That’s the lowest position we could credibly finish. We will have to do very well in the run in and especially in those key 3 away games to get auto promotion. But I think you can almost price in Sheff W losing to Ipswich. Would be a big surprise and a welcome bonus if they don’t.

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CB Fry

CB Fry

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Swansea win their derby then.

If things stay as they are in the Rugby as well, I wouldn't want to be the owner of Pizzeria in Cardiff tonight.

Saint_Tony

Saint_Tony

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46 minutes ago, Charlie Wayman said:

If Ipswich win today, we will have a very hard job trying to catch them. Points on the board are always far more valuable than games in hand especially at this stage of the season. Hoping for a miracle but come 5.00pm it may be we might have to settle for fourth place with three away games on the trot coming soon.

what fixture list are you looking at? 4 of our next 6 are at home.

Surely you can't be expecting them to drop points at home to Sheffield Wednesday? We're going to have to win there whatever happens in order to get a points swing on them. Same with Leeds and Leicester. We just have to keep winning, one slip up and it could all be over but equally, we could be right in the mix still in 3 weeks time

CB Fry

CB Fry

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54 minutes ago, SaintBobby said:

There’s no way I’m settling for 4th. That’s the lowest position we could credibly finish. We will have to do very well in the run in and especially in those key 3 away games to get auto promotion. But I think you can almost price in Sheff W losing to Ipswich. Would be a big surprise and a welcome bonus if they don’t.

We're going to finish fourth because we're very clearly the fourth best side in the division.

 

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Turkish

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Leeds will probably beat Millwall tomorrow to go top so one point between the top 3 with us 9 points behind 2nd place. 10 to play for us 8 for the others. We will have to win every game which we won’t do. It also means an inform team better than us will be in the play offs. 

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Weston Super Saint

Weston Super Saint

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1 hour ago, CB Fry said:

Swansea win their derby then.

If things stay as they are in the Rugby as well, I wouldn't want to be the owner of Pizzeria in Cardiff tonight.

Rumour has it that wooden spoon shops are sold out right across Wales.

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tdmickey3

tdmickey3

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A mountain to climb now

We came back from the September mess but the February disaster has us needing a perfect set of results to get autos now but RM defensive choices will cost us

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OldNick

OldNick

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Bristol City was the worst one, thought he was clever by adding 2 changes to the enforced 2due to injury. We were so disjointed. I doubt we will get to Wembley either as we will be shot after the run in and also deflated.

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Tommy Mulgrew

Tommy Mulgrew

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A mixed day for our recent and not so recent leavers:

Reading score 4 and win easily😀; Eastleigh concede 4 and lose easily 😩; Charlton draw 1:1🫤.

Pompey win 1:0 and remain top of their league😭; Tranmere win 1:0 at Wrexham 😃.

😆

Galway saint

Galway saint

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47 minutes ago, OldNick said:

Bristol City was the worst one, thought he was clever by adding 2 changes to the enforced 2due to injury. We were so disjointed. I doubt we will get to Wembley either as we will be shot after the run in and also deflated.

We will need to beat one of Leicester, Leeds or Ipswich to go up via play offs.

Not impossible by any stretch but we can’t continue to play the same way we have been as teams have worked us out.

AlexLaw76

AlexLaw76

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25 minutes ago, Galway saint said:

We will need to beat one of Leicester, Leeds or Ipswich to go up via play offs.

Not impossible by any stretch but we can’t continue to play the same way we have been as teams have worked us out.

Many fans (and more so, Martin himself) tell us that this is no normal season. Right now, we are 6 points better off at the same stage than Sheffield United last season.

Imagine not even equalling the points total of Sheffield United (who are f-ing crap)....with a not to how terrible the current bottom 8-10 are

Galway saint

Galway saint

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Obviously we are conceding far too many goals so it’s up to RM to make us far more difficult to score against.  A settled back four or KWP, THB, JB and Bree would be a good start so let’s get it bedded in time for the play offs and fingers crossed fraser is back and firing 

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Pamplemousse

Pamplemousse

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Goes without saying but that Middlesbrough game is absolutely a must win and hopefully it's a hammering. Give us instant momentum going into Ipswich away, that would be 3 wins on the trot.

saint lard

saint lard

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We will be in the same league as Pompey next season. 
my skate chums are relishing the thought. 
I’m not. 
more grief about their trophy cabinet being fuller than ours incoming. 
we may have been in a higher league than them for the majority,but it really hasn’t given us much to cheer about. 

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The Cat

The Cat

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1 hour ago, saint lard said:

We will be in the same league as Pompey next season. 
my skate chums are relishing the thought. 
I’m not. 
more grief about their trophy cabinet being fuller than ours incoming. 
we may have been in a higher league than them for the majority,but it really hasn’t given us much to cheer about. 

I'm glad they are going up. Games against them are fun, the build up is immense. 

One of the reasons to go to matches is the intense experience of the highs and lows of derby games.

It's completely pointless having a rival if you never play them.

 

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Lighthouse

Lighthouse

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8 minutes ago, The Cat said:

I'm glad they are going up. Games against them are fun, the build up is immense. 

One of the reasons to go to matches is the intense experience of the highs and lows of derby games.

It's completely pointless having a rival if you never play them.

 

I agree. We have a significant section of our fanbase who seem to do nothing but sing about Pompey and yet others seem to be scared of actually playing them. As funny as it is to see them stuck in League 1, IF we do stay down it would add a bit more excitement to next season. Lambert's goal at Fratton last time was absolute limbs, even if we did end up drawing. I think I ended up about three rows forward.

Lighthouse

Lighthouse

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1 hour ago, saint lard said:

more grief about their trophy cabinet being fuller than ours incoming

What, with their one FA Cup since the war (the same as us) which they went bankrupt chasing and ended up in League 2? I'm not sure what it is you'd care about them boasting about. We aren't comparing Man City and Stockport.

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Cabrone

Cabrone

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This season we may have a team reaching 100 points and not getting an automatic spot. Just crazy.

Got to keep on going but I think we blew it in Sep\Feb.

trousers

trousers

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1 hour ago, saint lard said:

more grief about their trophy cabinet being fuller than ours incoming. 

Portsmouth Community Football Club have won 2 trophies in their 12 year history 

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S-Clarke

S-Clarke

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2 hours ago, saint lard said:

We will be in the same league as Pompey next season. 
my skate chums are relishing the thought. 
I’m not. 
more grief about their trophy cabinet being fuller than ours incoming. 
we may have been in a higher league than them for the majority,but it really hasn’t given us much to cheer about. 

Why are you always so down on your own club? I don't get it. If this doesn't bring you any enjoyment whatsoever then just find something else to do.

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Turkish

Turkish

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2 hours ago, saint lard said:

We will be in the same league as Pompey next season. 
my skate chums are relishing the thought. 
I’m not. 
more grief about their trophy cabinet being fuller than ours incoming. 
we may have been in a higher league than them for the majority,but it really hasn’t given us much to cheer about. 

I agree.  The skates may be deluded but in my lifetime they’ve won all three divisions outside of the top flight and the FA Cup. Our club organise a dinner celebrating staying up one season nearly 30 years ago. They’ve had a lot of downs but also some good ups as well. 
 

A lot of our fans seem to think just being in the premier league is some sort of amazing achievement which is somehow better than winning stuff. We’re a club with a losers mentality happy just to play the big clubs. Always have been. when we did get to a few cup runs one too a final and European campaigns you still had fans moaning it would negatively impact our league form FFS. 

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Lighthouse

Lighthouse

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6 minutes ago, Turkish said:

I agree.  The skates may be deluded but in my lifetime they’ve won all three divisions outside of the top flight and the FA Cup. Our club organise a dinner celebrating staying up one season nearly 30 years ago. They’ve had a lot of downs but also some good ups as well. 

So you think our own fans have some sort of small time mentality for 'just being happy to be in the PL' but will credit Pompey for winning three leagues which are far, far, far sh*tter. Essentially what they've won is the trophy for finishing 21st, 44th and 67th, or whatever that equates to in real world football terms. I'm sure we'd have won most of that if we spent half our life in the lower leagues.

I'd rather finish 2nd in L1 at the second attempt than win it at the 14th, or whatever they're on now.

10 minutes ago, Turkish said:

A lot of our fans seem to think just being in the premier league is some sort of amazing achievement which is somehow better than winning stuff. We’re a club with a losers mentality happy just to play the big clubs. Always have been. when we did get to a few cup runs one too a final and European campaigns you still had fans moaning it would negatively impact our league form FFS.

Nope, never happened. Everyone loved Wembley and the European games.

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Lee On Solent Saint

Lee On Solent Saint

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Biggest thing I'm not looking forward to is all the local media coverage. South Today and Meridan, or whatever it is called these days will be awash with victory parades and open top bus tours. Have endless days of how a sleeping giant is working itself back to the big time. 

ErwinK1961

ErwinK1961

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2 hours ago, saint lard said:

We will be in the same league as Pompey next season. 
my skate chums are relishing the thought. 
I’m not. 
more grief about their trophy cabinet being fuller than ours incoming. 
we may have been in a higher league than them for the majority,but it really hasn’t given us much to cheer about. 

Grow a set of testicles FFS.

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trousers

trousers

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31 minutes ago, Turkish said:

I agree.  The skates may be deluded but in my lifetime they’ve won all three divisions outside of the top flight and the FA Cup. Our club organise a dinner celebrating staying up one season nearly 30 years ago. They’ve had a lot of downs but also some good ups as well. 

Yeah, but have they ever won the Championship 25 games unbeaten run trophy...?

hypochondriac

hypochondriac

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I think it's fair to say that those three losses have pretty much sealed our fate. The form required to get top two now is imo beyond us given that everyone else keeps winning. Lottery of the playoffs it is. Knowing us we are more likely to lose to west brom or hull in the semi final. 

rooney

rooney

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45 minutes ago, trousers said:

Yeah, but have they ever won the Championship 25 games unbeaten run trophy...?

Or the Johnstones Paint Trophy?

DT

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We’re going to see Vestergard looking very slow and Championship today. Crossing fingers for some injuries too. And confidence-draining thrashing by Chelsea

Osvaldorama

Osvaldorama

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3 hours ago, Turkish said:

I agree.  The skates may be deluded but in my lifetime they’ve won all three divisions outside of the top flight and the FA Cup. Our club organise a dinner celebrating staying up one season nearly 30 years ago. They’ve had a lot of downs but also some good ups as well. 
 

A lot of our fans seem to think just being in the premier league is some sort of amazing achievement which is somehow better than winning stuff. We’re a club with a losers mentality happy just to play the big clubs. Always have been. when we did get to a few cup runs one too a final and European campaigns you still had fans moaning it would negatively impact our league form FFS. 


Why don’t you go and support them then, seeing as you feel this way? 
 

They’ve won fuck all that matters and the one thing they did win of any value was won using fraud. Hardly anything to be jealous of. 

The Cat

The Cat

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47 minutes ago, DT said:

Shockingly poor pen from Sterling. What an overrated player

The same Sterling who has won 4 league titles, 5 league cups and 1 FA Cup?

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trousers

trousers

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55 minutes ago, DT said:

We’re going to see Vestergard looking very slow and Championship today. Crossing fingers for some injuries too. And confidence-draining thrashing by Chelsea

Hmmm...

whelk

whelk

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We have some real pussy fans who can’t seem to cope and have fear of the worst at every turn. Imagine being the sort of wimp who doesn’t fancy a derby? Funny thing that also fawning over other teams’ fans as well and worried about stick from mates about their own team. Fucking snowflakes 

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whelk

whelk

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5 minutes ago, Winnersaint said:

HT the gap between EFL and PL looked enormous now 2-2.

Funny how whenever a Championship side gets beat it’s a gulf in class yet ignored when the sides beat PL sides. see plank Martin Keown

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