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Reply | Subbing a Goalkeeper - Why is it only done for Injuries ??
at 19:57 30 Dec 2025
This, obviously. It’s a specialist position unlike anywhere else on the pitch. If a goalkeeper makes a howler it is almost certainly a goal, anywhere else on the pitch the situation is retrievable, or may be a missed ‘sitter’ .
Also, you don’t hear of outfield players being comfortable playing in goal any more like Niall Quinn to name one. used to be. So you change the goalkeeper for tactical reasons , sub goalie gets hurt, you are in trouble. |
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Reply | January transfer rumours
at 14:35 30 Dec 2025
Very hard to see how he would get a game in our current set up. Same with Eze if we resigned with his own money. We are absolutely stacked with quality players in those positions |
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Reply | Baggie ball bags - Match Thread
at 21:30 29 Dec 2025
Are we actually creating anything lads? Don’t seem to have had a chance worthy of comment since Poku scraped the bar |
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Reply | QPR look to conquer away jitters at restless West Brom - Preview
at 17:48 29 Dec 2025
Well this. There has been so much comment on the ‘mad Christmas fixtures’ that I was wondering if an extra game had been added? Surely it’s been ever thus? I remember a few years ago, a ‘winter break’ was suggested (possibly only in the Prem) and everybody was up in arms as it was ‘breaking with tradition’. |
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Reply | QPR look to conquer away jitters at restless West Brom - Preview
at 11:49 29 Dec 2025
Cheers Clive, hectic time for you too. I think re the hectic schedule, the way the Christmas fell this year meant there was a longer gap between the Leicester and Portsmouth games than usual. But I don't think the players should be roo concerned about another game tonight. If they weren't playing they would be training and I think most if not all players would choose a game over a training session. Have to manage the load alright. If (which I don't believe) it's RND's last game then play him, if not, play Field. Mbengue will have to be wary of Johnstone cutting inside and has presumably being told about this. Hopefully Chair fit to be involved and Smyth/Poku should start |
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Reply | 35 points after 23 games, what’s the realistic target after 46?
at 22:58 28 Dec 2025
It’s really difficult to call. You often see relegation threatened clubs (ourselves included) pick up a disproportionate amount of points in the last 10 games or so. Likewise teams that are comfortably in the play offs (like Sunderland last year and us under Rednapp) often drop a disproportionate amount of points in the same period. Overall, despite individual setbacks, we are in a far better place than I expected us to be.. If we get to 70 and finish a couple of places/points outside the play-offs I would consider that a very successful season (as long as we win the cup as well of course). |
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Reply | Dunne rescues QPR from more Boxing Day blues – Report
at 19:43 28 Dec 2025
This exactly. You can run any of the old adages and they all have an element of truth: ‘It’s the Championship innit - anyone can beat anyone’, an away point is always a good point’ ‘if you can’t win, make sure you don’t get beat’ ‘sign of a good team, plays badly and still doesn’t lose’ etc etc ad nauseam. But to do so is significantly missing the point. Portsmouth is not about the result, but the PERFORMANCE. The performance wasn’t poor, it was abysmal. I don’t buy into the theory that we were ‘transformed’ in the second half either. We were marginally better ( we could scarcely have been worse) for the first twenty minutes or so, but by the end we were hanging on.
This coming in the immediate aftermath of pour best performance of the season, made it even harder to stomach.
We have been having this debate all season, this lack of consistency and what causes it. I am firmly of the opinion that it is attitudinal and have noted on many occasions that you know by the players body language in the first five minutes if they are up for it or not. This is not a JS problem, it has been going on for years,. Different managers, different players, same half-assed attitude when they are not in the mood. Warnock is the last manager to have cracked it at this level. If JS manages to do the same, he deserves to be revered in the same way. |
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Reply | Pompey match thread
at 21:25 27 Dec 2025
Phew that's a relief. Now we know for sure he was genuinely injured and is not looking to leave any time soon |
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Reply | January transfer rumours
at 17:04 27 Dec 2025
I'm more inclined to agree with LBlock on this one. Players value depreciate when they are in poor form or not in favour. The original 3m is only relevant if they kick on. However the sell on clause owed to his previous club WILL be a factor when negotiating his fee |
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Reply | Pompey match thread
at 16:26 27 Dec 2025
After Saito and Mbengue against Leicester we can't complain too much about conceding the odd fortunate goal |
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Reply | Kolli injury
at 13:16 27 Dec 2025
‘The end of the month’ is what JS said in his most recent update a few weeks ago. Of course in the same update he said RND had to be ‘carefully managed’ because of his injury history and he has since played every minute of every match, so make of that what you will. |
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Reply | Pompey match thread
at 13:08 27 Dec 2025
Obviously Frey and Kone cannot play up front together. That has been tried unsuccessfully already this season. However I think both Kone and Burrell need a breather, especially the latter. They were both living on absolute scraps yesterday. But Kone couldn’t make a single ball ‘stick’ and on a couple of occasions when Burrell had a chance to get away from a couple of defenders and I was shouting ‘go on’ at the telly, he was easily dispossessed. Neither stopped trying to their credit, but they both looked spent. If Frey plays it HAS to be as an out and out striker. That’s his position and where he was most effective last season ; Not just in scoring vital goals, but his work rate was phenomenal often providing a one man press on the oppo defence. It is pointless playing him any deeper or as a ‘10’ because he doesn’t have the pace and it is too easy for the CB’s combined with the CM’s to play around him. If Chair is fit then you could start Frey up top with Chair behind him. If Chair is sill out, you could play Bennie behind Frey. Then later when Frey was spent, push Bennie up top and play Kone for the final 20 or so.
I think Dembele should start on the right, with Smth on the left. Saito’s form (bar Leicester) has been poor for some time. Introduce Poku on the hour mark for Dembele. Wouldn’t surprise me to see Field start instead of RND (if he is still here) as the latter looks shattered (at one point yesterday the ball bounced off his right foot and he had to take a yellow to stop a dangerous counter-attack) which the quickest way to pick up a serious injury. |
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Reply | Chair
at 02:01 27 Dec 2025
This |
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Reply | Pompey match thread
at 17:47 26 Dec 2025
Rather than ' ah sure they all struggled today' I would look on it as a missed opportunity to close the gap on Ipswich Middlesbrough Milwall etc . Or it would be if we were serious play off contenders |
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