I am still baffled how we kept Brighton from scoring. I was there and witnessed it but still can't work it out. We were lucky, I appreciate that, but even so. Can we keep Pompey out? I just can't see it. It will all be about scoring more than they do.
Do you think we can get him to announce the team early? Reason I’m asking is I’m contemplating buying the stream on the grounds of having just been kicked in the head by a horse.
But of course if he picks a load of old nonsense again then I’d reconsider scrabbling about to find the laptop charger…
Don't care who else starts, Blackett-Taylor has to. His record against Pompey is fantastic and they hate playing against him.
this has been one of the biggest mysteries to me over the last few months - he is our most dangerous player - why do we only give him half an hour at the end?
Don't care who else starts, Blackett-Taylor has to. His record against Pompey is fantastic and they hate playing against him.
this has been one of the biggest mysteries to me over the last few months - he is our most dangerous player - why do we only give him half an hour at the end?
Because like Inniss, Aneke, Sessegnon, Egbo, Thomas and McGrandles, at best he is only semi-fit.
We have an equal opportunities recruitment policy, you don't have to be fit to join.
I am still baffled how we kept Brighton from scoring. I was there and witnessed it but still can't work it out. We were lucky, I appreciate that, but even so. Can we keep Pompey out? I just can't see it. It will all be about scoring more than they do.
We defended with 11 men behind the ball (10 when Stockley came on), and didn’t press their back four. They had to rely on getting wide, which worked occasionally, but their crosses from the byline were poor, and we packed the box, so gave ourselves a chance. We actually had a plan, and it worked.
Then our penalties were better than theirs. Blackett-Taylor and Lavelle in particular.
Portsmouth have moved more to a 3-4-2-1 formation of late after being a flat 4-4-2 for a while.
After the disaster against Oxford and being exposed on the outside of the 3 and between the wing-backs, I can see a change of formation and a change of tactic. We sit in a lower block and hope that we can hit them on the counter attack.
We need men in midfield and at the back and we need to get back to basics. Very quickly.
They're going to come out and at us early so we need to stand up to it and try to frustrate them as much as possible.
Holden seems to like Ness so I can see him starting. The rest, just have to hope don’t drink much tonight and get into the game quickly.
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Portsmouth 0-4 Charlton
2-0 to us
Inniss Lavelle Ness
Clare Payne Dobson Fraser Blackett-Taylor
Stockley Leaburn
Is probably who I'd play today
MacGillivray, Chin, Thomas, Henry, Forster-Caskey, Rak-Sakyi, Kanu
We have an equal opportunities recruitment policy, you don't have to be fit to join.
Desperate 0-1 defeat.
oh yeh, Happy New Year everyone.
Charlton: Maynard-Brewer; Clare, Inniss, Ness, Sessegnon; Morgan, Dobson (c), Fraser; Rak-Sakyi, Leaburn, Blackett-Taylor
Subs: MacGillivray, Lavelle, Campbell, Henry, Payne, Stockley, Aneke