Portsmouth Vs Swindon Town Official Matchday Thread

[pauld]

We've done well against South Coast teams this season and I'm optimistic this will be part one of a "South coast teams ending in -mouth" double header of back to back wins and two clean sheets. There, I've said it. Cue two heavy defeats and me reminding myself why I never make score predictions

Blimey! Roll on the other "South coast -mouth" then!

[TheMajorSTFC]

Really enjoyed last night, a win under lights at a 'classic' ground!

1st half we could have been 5-0 up and by full time it could have been 8-3 as someone earlier had mentioned!

Great turnout from our lot again to take 1400 to Pompey on a Tuesday!

Pleased for Williams....roll on Saturday, we owe Bournemuff a beating!

[Peter Venkman]

Pompey fans seem a tad confused at Voldemort's comments.

Here.

http://fansonline.net/portsmouth/mb/view.php?id=453842

[TheDukeOfBanbury]

Really enjoyed last night, a win under lights at a 'classic' ground!

1st half we could have been 5-0 up and by full time it could have been 8-3 as someone earlier had mentio

Great turnout from our lot again to take 1400 to Pompey on a Tuesday!

Pleased for Williams....roll on Saturday, we owe Bournemuff a beating!

Really enjoyed last night, a win under lights at a 'classic' ground!

1st half we could have been 5-0 up and by full time it could have been 8-3 as someone earlier had mentioned!

Great turnout from our lot again to take 1400 to Pompey on a Tuesday!

Pleased for Williams....roll on Saturday, we owe Bournemuff a beating!

Pox took 700 to Cheltenham last night which is not very far !!
Poor Support.

[Batch]

Pox took 700 to Cheltenham last night which is not very far !!
Poor Support.

Probably indifference caused by disappointment with news that Wilder was staying. I'm delighted myself.

[BruceChatwin]

Great game and performance, and a great advert for League 1 football. Chuffed for Williams and you could see how much it meant to him, he was absolutely outstanding last night. Also Roberts looked class for 60 mins and worked much harder than i expected in getting back to support Mcevely (who also looked back to his best apart from that one suicidal backpass to Foderingham). With Ritchie pretty quiet aside from his goal, our left side partnership is now looking the more dangerous. Thought Mcormack was also back in good form and made a few nice marauding runs. Also well done to Thompson, his touch looked assured and he won almost all his one on ones against their winger until the end when they started really targeting that side, although the whole team lost the plot for the last 10. Don't know who it was that said last week that Thompson shouldn't be let anywhere near the first team, and what they were basing that on but i couldn't disagree more strongly: I thought the balance looked a lot better with him one one side and Roberts on the other giving us two proper recognisable attacking flanks either side. Finally well done to Navarro who i hadn't rated that much in the first few games but who i thought had an excellent game before his injury, and his crosses looked lethal! Onward and upwards, .

[ghanimah]

Probably indifference caused by disappointment with news that Wilder was staying. I'm delighted myself.

They're not happy bunnies...

http://yellowsforum.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=11155

[4D]

They're not happy bunnies...

http://yellowsforum.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=11155

What are they moaning about, that is still above/around their average. 
(still shite though) 

[Peter Venkman]

They're not happy bunnies...

http://yellowsforum.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=11155

Some of them are saying it was a good turn out on a Tuesday night. No it fucking wasn't....1,200 travelling over 80 miles on a Tuesday is a good turn out not 700 travelling about 35 miles, thats embarrassing.

[clarkystfc]

we played well last night apart from the last ten mins however defence looks shaky for couple of reasons first being ward positional sense is poor he hoofs it every time it comes to him pretty decent in the air but him and al mac just didnt work or talk to each other. Thompson shaky first half much better 2nd and ritchie and him really linked well eventually,have to say navarro and miller are too similar coke looked class again when coming on and rooney also did well off the bench and so chuffed for williams as worked bloody hard every game as collins has to but great goal and am more than confident he will score shed loads now but think benson should start with him imo! Town fans were very subdued last night even when winning 2-0 at the time was dead quiet bring on the ballmouth boys!  

[fuzzy]

WTF did Devera do to get booked whilst warming up?

[Dirk Diggler]

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/pompey/pompey-past/appy-that-s-more-like-it-1-4275810

Appleton's thoughts on the game last night. Pompey's best performance of the season apparently!

...and Brian Howard

http://www.portsmouthfc.co.uk/LatestNews/news/Deja-Vu-For-Howard-3718.aspx

Are they on drugs?

WTF is Howard on about? 0-0 at half time? Obviously playing in a different match

[ChalkyWhiteIsGod]

Thoroughly enjoyed last night.

Wes seems to have brushed off any confidence issues from the early subbing and was absolutely class last night.

Nathan Thompson looks like a real talent, really good going forward and solid in the tackle. He's going to need a lot of guidance and help from the more experienced players on his positioning though which is to be expected.

Macca back to his best. Ward still looks shaky and i'm not convinced, my heart seems to go in to my mouth whenever he's near the ball.

Jay had a brilliant first half, made that one mistake which almost cost us at the end and was harshly subbed off instantly (Di Canio gestures to Bessone to get stripped off straight after the incident, but it's what you come to expect now I guess)

Ritchie was quite quiet but who cares when you win £50 off his scoring first. Roberts decent and caused trouble. Still not convinced on Navarro and Miller partnership....i'd really like to see Ferry and Coke.

Really Really pleased for Williams. The guy has been a class act since he came here and works his backside off. I actually predicted early on that he does look like the type of player who might let his head drop if he doesn't score but he really shouldn't as he's important to the team and has been playing well regardless.

Anyone know what Devera was booked for on the bench??

Our support, class in terms of numbers. 700 sold in advance, Pompy has another 400 tickets ready and waiting which were sold out with about 10 minutes left ill kick off leaving people waiting for some more to be printed. Must have been about 1,200-1,400 total in the end.

In terms of vocalness though, very dissappointing. I swear we could go 6-5 up in the 95th minute against Oxford in a cup semi-final and some of our fans would still look like they'd just found out their dog had to be put down. I really question why they go to football as they really don't seem to enjoy it. Pompy are an example to follow, they really willed their team on to look for the equaliser. Some of our fans could learn from that, a bit of that at Carlisle could have helped us on to a winner.

[Saxondale]

WTF did Devera do to get booked whilst warming up?

Held on to the ball for a bit and then was pushed by one of there players.  Dont quite understand why the twat who pushed him wasn't booked as well but I did think the ref was pretty inconsistent.

[DiV]

Held on to the ball for a bit and then was pushed by one of there players.  Dont quite understand why the twat who pushed him wasn't booked as well but I did think the ref was pretty inconsistent.

remember last year when Matt Ritchie assaulted that 6 year old ballboy somewhere.

the little kid didnt get booked for time wasting!