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Reply | Fast start meets fraught end in the battle of logic versus vibes - Report
at 16:54 17 Mar 2025
We have had this nasty habit of conceding goals either side of half time for some time so it effectively went from 2-0 to 2-2 in a 9 minutes spell. All the more frustrating when we have been two down in three recent matches and lost them all 2-1 and never really looked like getting level apart from Nardi's headed chance at Boro. The rare time on Saturday we have been two up this season and we get pegged back.
Still have to be grateful we didn't go on to lose but no doubt Stoke and Oxford will look at our 5 consecutive away defeats and injury problems to get at us so we had better be prepared and try and start as positively as we did to Leeds. |
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Reply | "By far the most challenging season of my career!”
at 22:40 16 Mar 2025
Totally agree. Couldn't have put it better. We are in a trench and the long term future looks more likely to be avoiding league 1 and not ever troubling the promotion picture. |
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Reply | First Head Over The Parapet Leeds Match Thread
at 18:13 15 Mar 2025
With Derby winning three on the spin it means we are just 7 points above the drop zone now so we have to be careful we don't squander some winnable fixtures coming up. Time to stop losing away starting at Stoke. |
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Reply | First Head Over The Parapet Leeds Match Thread
at 15:06 15 Mar 2025
Shame about the own goal as had we gone in two up like last season we may have gone on to win. That goal got Leeds back in it and no surprises they went for it second half.
This is a better Leeds team than last season and having seen them win 3-1 at Sheffield United a few weeks back, I think we deserve some credit for holding out for 40 minutes against a better team. I fully expected them to go on and win with so much time left to play.
More concerned losing Cook and Saito for easier games coming up. Losing another attacking player from a goal shy team is not ideal. |
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Reply | Defeats mount once more as QPR limp to meek Boro loss – Report
at 20:51 13 Mar 2025
My take on it is that this club, over many seasons, has a culture of going on losing streaks as if they cannot be bothered and that has a lot to do with standards. No matter who the manager or players, it happens all the time. Far too often we have games like Middlesbrough where we look disinterested.
I keep asking myself why this keeps happening to us. If you look at other clubs, if they have bad runs they seem capable of ending them and ensuring it doesn't happen again. With us, we change the players and the manager and it still keeps occurring. I can only put it down to the fact we bring in players on the cheap who have bad attitudes and why other clubs send them our way. This is a product of building a cheap squad.
People lament our poor quality strikers but if we only pay a million or two this summer then the quality will be as inept as what we currently have. In the meantime clubs like Sunderland, West Brom, Norwich, Middlesbrough, Sheffield Wednesday will probably spend more than us and bring in more forwards. Each season that passes sees these clubs edge further away from us as they can spend more and acquire better players than us. On that basis it is getting harder to get in the top 10.
Work rate and effort can be a great leveller but the problem in a season of 46 games that the games come thick and fast. Playing at maximum effort can lead to injuries and tiredness and we have seen us struggle with the third game in 8 days sequences in fixtures. A bit of quality in the final third can swing games and we are seriously lacking in that department both in attack and midfield. Money gives you the extra quality and it is reflected in the table with the top 3 having parachute money. The Championship is mirroring the Premiership with the biggest and wealthier clubs in the top half.
I appreciate that on any given day anyone can beat anyone but Northern has pointed out we have only beaten Blackburn in the top 10 and that is a problem for us to improve and break into the top 10. I suppose Plymouth were due an away win and it was needed for them the way other results went. Pompey took 6 points off us and Plymouth took 6 points off Pompey. There is no logic at times but this tends to happen when it is about effort and battling rather than either side having the quality to rely on. |
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Reply | Defeats mount once more as QPR limp to meek Boro loss – Report
at 23:08 12 Mar 2025
The match reports should be top of the league compared to other clubs fan offerings. Shame the football team are light years from ever being top again.
If you have no money you get other clubs cast offs and players with weak mentalities who are not winners. This has been a theme for the past 10 years since our last relegation. Decent strikers cost money and we can't afford them so unless we develop our own players we are stuck in this rut.
The danger of remaining static is eventually other clubs spending more than us each season will keep us down around the relegation places. Eventually our luck will run out and we will drop by scraping the barrel with bargain basement signings. Our record against the top teams this season shows that teams who buy more expensive players beat us and will finish above us. FFP is now a factor in shaping the league table as the poorer clubs can't overspend on their incomes without punishment following.
I accept other smaller clubs have bucked the trend but this is difficult for them to sustain. We have fallen short by comparison and nothing seems to change where we perform like a jekyll and hyde team every season. Standards do appear to be lacking... |
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Reply | Morning after....rant!
at 13:15 12 Mar 2025
We seem to be losing by one goal whether it be 1-0 or 2-1 in this run so it makes me think a hiding must be on the cards. Leeds will remember we effectively stopped them going up last season so will probably be out to rectify that horror show and avenge it. They will see we are on the ropes with form and injuries and know we are there for the taking. |
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Reply | The Boro Match thread.
at 23:05 11 Mar 2025
He's not a striker but Paal should have scored in the first half with a clear sight of the goal in the area and he shoots wide. |
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Reply | The Boro Match thread.
at 22:12 11 Mar 2025
I have been lamenting our downturn in away performances for some time. The Boxing Day defeat at Swansea seemed to be the start, apart from Plymouth away, we have been poor on the road for getting on 3 months. Lose at home to Leeds and it will be 8 defeats in 10 which is relegation form. |
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread
at 21:55 11 Mar 2025
Naturally as soon as we praise Coventry they go and lose at Derby. With Derby and Luton winning it is wide open as to who will go down as starting to bunch up. Oxford are slipping back after the initial good form when Rowett arrived. |
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread
at 23:03 9 Mar 2025
Portsmouth have half their first team out injured yet still beat Leeds keeping up their great home form. We lose a few players and can't cope particularly in the strikers department.
Looks like Coventry were justified replacing Robins with Lampard. Quite staggering he has won 9 out of the last 10. All these added time goals they have been getting has made them shoot up the table. |
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Reply | Disappointed
at 17:50 8 Mar 2025
We have looked even more blunt since we lost Kolli and this has played a part in losing 6 of 8 games. Whilst our attack has been dire for years and never properly addressed in that time we keep getting results like today.
Ever since the 7-1 drubbing at Albion a few years back, we have really struggled against them, even though they have no parachute payments just like us. They still challenge the top of the league each season. Sadly our away form has settled into a pattern of defeat after defeat which hadn't really happened in the previous two seasons. I am unsure if our bad form is just on the strikers not scoring or has the team mentally relaxed thinking they are safe and have lost some focus? |
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread
at 21:59 5 Mar 2025
They did beat Pompey in the last game something we couldn't do in two meetings. Have to see if that win galvanises them in some way. |
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Reply | VAR
at 21:54 5 Mar 2025
Yes a pathetic decision as if a heel gives an unfair advantage. Then a Liverpool defender could have been sent off but VAR ruled no foul. To cap it all against the run of play Liverpool nick it at the end.
First Queen's Park last night went two up in the second half and still contrived to lose, and now this robbery by the Scousers. Damn it all... |
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Reply | Sheffield Utd Thread
at 17:20 1 Mar 2025
Unfortunately we just can't seem to draw a game. Having pulled it back to 2-1 in successive games it is annoying not to have saved one of these games like we did at Brammall Lane. The reality is we have now lost five of the last seven games and not having players to convert the chances we create leaves us frustrated even when we play well. |
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Reply | Away form?
at 20:32 24 Feb 2025
OK there may be a bit of over analysis and wringing of hands but what was the game plan to counter Portsmouth's good home form? We looked underprepared and a bit taken aback by their approach as if we had no idea how they play at Fratton Park.
Wè may be a mid table side but you should still be prepared to fight, battle, scrap, meet fire with fire and compete all over the park as so many teams are similar and closely matched. We always look like rabbits caught in the headlights when teams play like Portsmouth did. They are supposed to have an injury crisis but they still wanted it more and gave everything for the cause. I couldn't say that about us where we looked like a team of fancy Dan's.
I always think we come unstuck at the Den because we don't match Millwall's fight but often in these type of games you have to bin attempts at nice football and get stuck in. These type of opponents tend to bully us into submission and get the match officials onside with them. It is no surprise that the only game Portsmouth lost at home in the last 11 fixtures was against Millwall. If there is one team that will stand up to aggression then Millwall is it and they would match Portsmouth's aggression.
This is not a new problem with us as our lamentable record in London derbies in recent times has shown. When we can't play our football against a physical opponent we usually come out second best. We also lost at Derby and it won't surprise me if we complete the trilogy by losing at Oxford too by the direct approach of teams who came up from league 1. It might work for us at home but in away games we need to be better standing up to aggression. |
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Reply | Known knowns – Report
at 12:24 24 Feb 2025
Frustrating that improving at home means we have got worse away but that appears to be the reality. Pompey fans not happy with the ref for the disallowed goal and they felt Dunne's goal was more of a foul than the one that ruled a third goal out. Gifting them 6 easy points is hard to stomach seeing they were in league 1 last season. |
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Reply | Away form?
at 20:54 22 Feb 2025
I rather think people are missing the point about our away form. Nobody is saying it has ever been great.
What I am trying to get across is that in the previous two seasons we have won more away than at home and picked up more away points in those two seasons than at Loftus Road. Forget the history of QPR away, the OP I believe is saying we have not been as good away this season in contrast to the past two seasons.
Our home form was so bad it perhaps wasn't difficult to be better away and this continued in the early months of this season. Now we are vastly improved at home, away points have dried up where we are struggling even to draw on our travels. It seems Marti has cured our home ills to the detriment of the away form.
The last two seasons saw us win away to the two eventual champions but naturally we lost to both at home, Burnley and Leicester. We looked more assured away last season than we do now.
It doesn't improve my mood seeing Brentford and Palace have both won four away games on the bounce in the Premier league while we have lost three in a row on the road in the Championship. How big is that gap getting? |
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Reply | Pompey and Circumstance Match Fred
at 18:15 22 Feb 2025
Portsmouth' record in last 11 home fixtures:
Won 8, drew 2, lost 1. If that is not doing well at home then I don't know what is.
Our record in the gold mess is played 6 won none. Bear in mind we have won a couple of away games not wearing it. [Post edited 22 Feb 18:22]
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