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[pommpey]

Portsmouth is losing all credibility IMO

He clearly has an agenda with Sander I hope he does not read portsmouths post match analysis

Unlike my slaying of sharp which is based on facts Portsmouth is singling out sander for no reason

What the flying fuck are you gibbering on about?

Edinblade (FYI) is equally contemptuous about you than he is me. Give you a clue - he thinks I am a bellend and he also thinks you are a bellend too.

And FYI I'm not from, or live in 'Portsmouth'.

pommpey

 

[pommpey]

5/10 Sharp But 3 for berge

Grafted like fuck ?

He did nowt and he isn’t good enough

Play Macatee & Berge behind Ndiaye

Except Billy did what he could, at his age. until 'McSauce' as you call him (for some mental health reason) recovers, Sharp is the only front man option we have given Brewster is out until next year or whatever.

N-Diaye isn't a 'lone, up front' striker. He's not in the mould of Jermaine Defoe or the like. I thought your UEFA A license would tell you that.

You still haven't shown any evidence of it, have you? As much as you thought it was a weapon of WUMmery, it's stuck you you like dogshit in the treads of your monkeyboots hasn't it?

pommpey

 

[FallowfieldBlade]

Except Billy did what he could, at his age. until 'McSauce' as you call him (for some mental health reason) recovers, Sharp is the only front man option we have given Brewster is out until next year or whatever.

N-Diaye isn't a 'lone, up front' striker. He's not in the mould of Jermaine Defoe or the like. I thought your UEFA A license would tell you that.

You still haven't shown any evidence of it, have you? As much as you thought it was a weapon of WUMmery, it's stuck you you like dogshit in the treads of your monkeyboots hasn't it?

pommpey

So he isn’t good enough then ? He’s nowhere near good enough for me

No you want someone up top who will lead the press and set the tempo

I couldn’t think of a better player in the league let alone at the lane to play that role than ndiaye

I think what you are wanting is John Parkin up top Portsmouth

 

[pommpey]

So he isn’t good enough then ? He’s nowhere near good enough for me

No you want someone up top who will lead the press and set the tempo

I couldn’t think of a better player in the league let alone at the lane to play that role than ndiaye

I think what you are wanting is John Parkin up top Portsmouth

Three games ago, Billy ran onto an N'Daiye through ball and clipped it over the Huddersfield keeper into the BL end net.

That's good enough for me.

The more he makes opposition defences work the more chances open up.

And for thirty six his work rate is impressive. He's one goal away from breaking a record too.

UEFA A badge, please?

pommpey

 

[Bell4]

Couldnt agree more. As soon as the second went in I said to the mate I was watching with 'now watch us make hard work of keeping this lead' . Which we duly did.
This is a worry with just a bit less than half the season left to play. We ve done it too often now. We cant keep doing it and get away with it. Yes it was a makeshift defence but thats no excuse. Sooner or later it will bite us well and truly up our nether regions. Its something we need to work on and get out of our system.
We lack the ruthless streak we had earlier in the season by putting teams like Burnley and Blackburn to the sword.

Bit harsh on Berge in my opinion with 3/10. Maybe a 4 and possibly scraping a 5 just for the goal. He is undoubtedly a quality player on his day. But at the moment his days have been few and far between. Misplaced passes, drifting in and ,mainly, out of games is not what we need. Whether its not being fully fit or some other reason, theres a player in there somewhere but hes in hiding at the moment. Hopefully he will come good and help steer us to where we want to be. Only time will tell.

Happy New year Pommpey and everyone else on this board (yes even you Fallowfield)

Could it be the when we go 2-0 up or even take the lead as we have on quite a few occasions away - the home side have to take more risks and go for it much more . They have no options but to take the h break off and go for it as there is little to lose ? Also quite a few of the sides recently have been near or within the bottom 3 and at some point have to fight for their survival

It would be great to steamroller those sides when we go ahead and it’s really frustrating that we don’t but the good news is we are coming out with the three points and putting ourselves in an almost uncatchable situation (there I’ve said it)

 

[Yogi]

pommpey very good - other than ‘poor kid’.

Bring on 2023 - let’s hope for some major celebrations in about 4-5 months time. Would certainly make summer a lot more fun.

Question for all - should we go up, and Clark is available for a nominal/fuck all fee, should we sign him?

Yes loads of experience and still seems to have something left in the tank. Comes across as so laid back he’s horizontal which might be quite reassuring in a pinch.

 

[Charlieblade]

pommpey very good - other than ‘poor kid’.

Bring on 2023 - let’s hope for some major celebrations in about 4-5 months time. Would certainly make summer a lot more fun.

Question for all - should we go up, and Clark is available for a nominal/fuck all fee, should we sign him?

Sign Clark when we get promoted?

Yes!

 

[sitwell]

Thought Clark was MOM last night. has anyone mentioned how fucking cold it was btw ,think McAtees run was just to get warm, he is looking a real player btw.

 

[djbaldken]

Except Billy did what he could, at his age. until 'McSauce' as you call him (for some mental health reason) recovers, Sharp is the only front man option we have given Brewster is out until next year or whatever.

N-Diaye isn't a 'lone, up front' striker. He's not in the mould of Jermaine Defoe or the like. I thought your UEFA A license would tell you that.

You still haven't shown any evidence of it, have you? As much as you thought it was a weapon of WUMmery, it's stuck you you like dogshit in the treads of your monkeyboots hasn't it?

pommpey

This was his reply when I called him out over the same thing Pommpey

I suspect a typing error here. Shouldnt the 'It's' be 'I'm' ?

Oh and you still havent told us which top Amatuer Team you coached with your A class coaching badge. Or maybe it was even as a member of the coaching staff at the professional level.
How did you get on with being accountable to the club’s management: president, technical director, club board, etc?
Id love to know.

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[FallowfieldBlade]

Three games ago, Billy ran onto an N'Daiye through ball and clipped it over the Huddersfield keeper into the BL end net.

That's good enough for me.

The more he makes opposition defences work the more chances open up.

And for thirty six his work rate is impressive. He's one goal away from breaking a record too.

UEFA A badge, please?

pommpey

Does he make defences work ?

Id be a lot more scared if I saw ndiaye up front instead of sharp

 

[FallowfieldBlade]

This was his reply when I called him out over the same thing Pommpey

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[Corkblade]

Thanks for your takes pommpey, bit harsh on Berge, I think he's still getting up to full fitness and his 2nd half performance pointed to that. We need to sign a centre forward in January, Madine or similar would do for me, a Billy whitehurst type wouldn't go amiss, I'm fearing mcburnie might have a worse injury than we think, anyway happy new year to you and yours and all Blades

 

[A_Bladesman]

Thanks for your takes pommpey, bit harsh on Berge, I think he's still getting up to full fitness and his 2nd half performance pointed to that. We need to sign a centre forward in January, Madine or similar would do for me, a Billy whitehurst type wouldn't go amiss, I'm fearing mcburnie might have a worse injury than we think, anyway happy new year to you and yours and all Blades

If he's yours, he gets paid then xoxx

 

[John Street West Terrace]

5 wins on the spin & 8 in our last 9 games is some going well done lads .
Good away win & thought we imposed our class on them , similar to Wigan game we should have been home & dry by HT .
Thought Ndiaye , Berge & McAtee all linked up well and we’re causing them all sorts of problems and Bogle was lively down the right flank .
Special mention for the 3 centre backs as they were launching in the long balls towards Madine thought they they dealt with them well .
Hope we can bring in another finisher in the JTW on loan .. Ndiaye liked a bit isolated at times second half , when McBurnies out we lack a target man .
Billy works hard but age is against him & Jebbo is nowhere near Championship level , Brewster prob out for season . An addition in there to help finish off the chances were creating will help see us over the line
UTB

 

[pommpey]

I don’t need to provide anything to prove owt to strangers on the internet

So we don't have to believe a fucking word you say about anything.

You're not a very good wind up merchant feller, and there have been some shit wind up merchants on these boards over the years.

pommpey

 

[gordoncharles]

I think the Berge mark is way too low as well, and I'm critical of him, but only in comparison with his fan club which is incapable of viewing the reality, which is that he's a good player at this level but that's about it. A higher quality player does not dissolve into nothingness for long, long spells as he does.

In the first half he was our best performer and we were good for the middle half hour of that. But if he was truly what some of our fans think he is then he'd keep that up and carry us on to domination instead of the regular vanishing act.

What we get, of course, are the excuses, the current one being he's recovering from injury, but he had half an hour against Huddersfield and that was his 3rd full game after that. We've not exactly been overworked since the World Cup, we'd been playing once a week till last night.

In those four we've played against the bottom three and have had to hang on in all of them. A side with a supposedly Champions League midfielder should be shrugging off this level of opposition when two goals up. The failure to do that doesn't just apply to him, and I'm sorry to stick the boot in as it's not his fault, he's not the only one culpable by a long way. He just isn't anything like as good as some of our fans would like to believe. 6 and a half.

 

[pommpey]

I think the Berge mark is way too low as well, and I'm critical of him, but only in comparison with his fan club which is incapable of viewing the reality, which is that he's a good player at this level but that's about it. A higher quality player does not dissolve into nothingness for long, long spells as he does.

In the first half he was our best performer and we were good for the middle half hour of that. But if he was truly what some of our fans think he is then he'd keep that up and carry us on to domination instead of the regular vanishing act.

What we get, of course, are the excuses, the current one being he's recovering from injury, but he had half an hour against Huddersfield and that was his 3rd full game after that. We've not exactly been overworked since the World Cup, we'd been playing once a week till last night.

In those four we've played against the bottom three and have had to hang on in all of them. A side with a supposedly Champions League midfielder should be shrugging off this level of opposition when two goals up. The failure to do that doesn't just apply to him, and I'm sorry to stick the boot in as it's not his fault, he's not the only one culpable by a long way. He just isn't anything like as good as some of our fans would like to believe. 6 and a half.

Fair comment but I stick by my mark. My marking scheme starts at 5/10 on kickoff and mediates about that midpoint depending on performance and output. Five minutes in and he's heading it out of our penalty area like a fucking netball player, and he gains into the game after that, peaking at about 6.5 on his goal. After that he didn't exactly flatten Blackpool with anything brilliant. Second half it was difficult to see what the fuck he was doing which was beneficial to us furthering our lead. McAtee was trying to impose, Norwood was doing the spadework in front of the back three but he should have been box to box with the ball threading Lowe and McAtee and Stevens with passes from which he could receive when he'd moved into space twenty metres up the pitch. He didn't seem to be playing 'with' anyone in truth and (again) looked disinterested and flagging. If he is injured, rest him. If not, get a fucking rocket up his arse and demand ninety minutes of drenched-shirt effort. It's what £23 million is all about, isn't it? People are farting on about him being a PL player. What would even the lower end managers like Emery, Jones and Viera demand of him? How does he compare to say Dendonker, DaSilva or Davies at Everton and how would he actually fit into their squad given what we see, in particular the second half last night. As much as people make crass assumptions that Berge is pommpey's new target, there's a bit more to it than not being able to criticise one's own players. Berge is underperforming and worryingly against poorer teams. He is also making some hope for players like Osborn to make a speedy recovery and add at least some bite to midfield again.

pommpey

 

[Sheff de party]

I think that's a bit of a harsh assessment, if I'm honest.

Literally every assessment he makes is harsh.

We were very comfortable last night. They kept lumping it long and Madine was having a field day early on, but Clark got to grips with him eventually.

They didn’t look like scoring all game really. We created far more chances and of better quality. Agree we struggled to get on the ball second half and ot meant they kept coming back at us, but they’re a poor side who rely on aerial bombardment, for which we are too good.

 

[gordoncharles]

What would even the lower end managers like Emery, Jones and Viera demand of him? How does he compare to say Dendonker, DaSilva or Davies at Everton and how would he actually fit into their squad given what we see, in particular the second half last night. As much as people make crass assumptions that Berge is pommpey's new target, there's a bit more to it than not being able to criticise one's own players. Berge is underperforming and worryingly against poorer teams. He is also making some hope for players like Osborn to make a speedy recovery and add at least some bite to midfield again.

pommpey

A very harsh assessment pommpey.... on Unai Emery. He's managed Valencia, Sevilla, Villarreal, Arsenal and PSG and won the Europa League four times.

As for Sander Berge, the actual question should be is he actually underperforming at all? I'm not sure about that. After three years I think this is his game. I think what we're getting is what he's capable of and I expect him to drift away during our matches. This is based on empirical evidence.

The fault is to demand more of players than they're capable of. Players like Osborn and Robinson (less so now for the latter admittedly) get it in the neck all the time despite playing to the limit of their own abilities, which I respect, whereas Berge's failings (if they are actually failings) are defended every time with the predictable list of excuses we're all familiar with.

I'd still start him in games, though, I think he's good for this level despite being wildly inconsistent.

 

[FallowfieldBlade]

So we don't have to believe a fucking word you say about anything.

You're not a very good wind up merchant feller, and there have been some shit wind up merchants on these boards over the years.

pommpey

I’m not winding anyone up

If my comments get you so irate that’s your problem Portsmouth

 

[Silent Blade]

I’m not winding anyone up

If my comments get you so irate that’s your problem Portsmouth

Reminds me of the scene in "The Sting"

Fallowfield - Henry "Shaw" Gondorff
Pommpey - Doyle Lonnegan

 

[Maurice Maurice]

Excellent as ever pommpey but I'd disagree on a couple of points (a very rare occurrence ). I thought Berge had a good first half, bordering on 9/10 but in the second half he disappeared, as you say, down to 2/10 so overall maybe 5.5. The other point, which will be highly contentious, regards Billy. For me, he was a passenger all night, an all too often occurrence these days. On the few occasions he did get the ball, he usually ended up flat on his arse with the ball back with the opposition, again something that is happening more and more, 2/10 at best. Hard to say about someone who has served the club with distinction both on and off the pitch.

Anyway, keep up the good work and happy new year to you and yours. Let's hope it's a good one.

Billy's knocking on a bit and it shows. He's never had pace but he's had that low centre of gravity and used it well when he's played with his back to goal. If you watch him, he gets really close to the defender and backs in, when he was younger he could let the ball get past him, roll off the defender and that's how he made up for the lack of raw speed over the first ten feet. He still does that but gets so close now that any decent defender will either step back causing Billy to fall down, or hold his ground and win the free kick for backing in.I

Give him time and space in the six yard box and he'll still get a goal of two. He'll run as much as he can to close players down but there's a lot of miles on the clock. When we have players fit again, he shouldn't be starting games.

Blades legend though, let's not forget how great he's been over his career.

 

[Nagima]

For a period in the first half we played some of the best football in years. Bogle and Anel bombing forward. Berge for me had the most productive first half we have seen from him. And yes he wasn't flawless in that half. In the second half he became anonymous. He doesn't seem to have the engine to keep going. N'Diaye has been more effective this season. Billy works hard but found it tough going and in Fairness one of Blackpools centre halves was all over him everytime he a ball was played into feet.

It was good to win but we don't make it easy for ourselves. We coughed up more chances as the game went on. Once Blackpool scored we drifted out of the game in the middle of the park.
That's probably our biggest problem. We need someone to step up and dictate the play. We are in a good position and I think we will get better performances with the competition for places.

 

[A_Bladesman]

For a period in the first half we played some of the best football in years. Bogle and Anel bombing forward. Berge for me had the most productive first half we have seen from him. And yes he wasn't flawless in that half. In the second half he became anonymous. He doesn't seem to have the engine to keep going. N'Diaye has been more effective this season. Billy works hard but found it tough going and in Fairness one of Blackpools centre halves was all over him everytime he a ball was played into feet.

It was good to win but we don't make it easy for ourselves. We coughed up more chances as the game went on. Once Blackpool scored we drifted out of the game in the middle of the park.
That's probably our biggest problem. We need someone to step up and dictate the play. We are in a good position and I think we will get better performances with the competition for places.

What about if berge put in some same nasty challenges in himself? They might cry. Plenty of challenges to choose from x

 

[pommpey]

I’m not winding anyone up

If my comments get you so irate that’s your problem Portsmouth

Silent 'laughed' at that. Shows what 'support' you have, nipper.

Show us your UEFA A Badge. And show us your existent evidence of keeping it valid.

If you can't, we may all believe that you are full of shit feller. You know all the pelters you get when you post 'Fallowfield's team to Masturbate Millwall' and the brain dead team selections you make based on a 10 year old's understanding on the game? That.

Do yourself a favour Fallowfield. Step well away from this callsign. It's quite possible you might end up looking a bit more stupid than people actually know you are.

pommpey

 

[A_Bladesman]

Silent 'laughed' at that. Shows what 'support' you have, nipper.

Show us your UEFA A Badge. And show us your existent evidence of keeping it valid.

If you can't, we may all believe that you are full of shit feller. You know all the pelters you get when you post 'Fallowfield's team to Masturbate Millwall' and the brain dead team selections you make based on a 10 year old's understanding on the game? That.

Do yourself a favour Fallowfield. Step well away from this callsign. It's quite possible you might end up looking a bit more stupid than people actually know you are.

pommpey

Category A fixture coming up Vs luton might swing by x

 

[Nagima]

What about if berge put in some same nasty challenges in himself? They might cry. Plenty of challenges to choose from x

Not sure what you are suggesting there. Berge has improved the more he plays. He can be very effective when he looks to get on the ball and get forward. But I think anyone would agree that he drifts out of the game for periods of the game.

 

[djbaldken]

Silent 'laughed' at that. Shows what 'support' you have, nipper.

Show us your UEFA A Badge. And show us your existent evidence of keeping it valid.

If you can't, we may all believe that you are full of shit feller. You know all the pelters you get when you post 'Fallowfield's team to Masturbate Millwall' and the brain dead team selections you make based on a 10 year old's understanding on the game? That.

Do yourself a favour Fallowfield. Step well away from this callsign. It's quite possible you might end up looking a bit more stupid than people actually know you are.

pommpey

It's far better to keep quiet and let people think you are a fool, than to open your mouth and prove it.

this is something Fallowfield fails to comprehend.

 

[Dnblade]

Only thing I can't agree with is the low score for Berge, I thought he was great first half driving forward with the ball, running past his man, linking things up and great touch and finish for the goal.. Yeah 2nd half he tired but he's still getting back upto speed fitness wise.
Agree on us letting teams back into games is annoying.. Stop giving away daft free kicks, unnecessary corners, throw in's when there is options to pass the ball and keep possession United ,we are just encouraging teams there's something for them when they should be dead and buried.
Another 3 points though, plenty of positives.. Bogle, Macatee(great goal and back flip celebration), Berge first half, Norwood, Ndaiye and great backing from the travelling Blades, class.

 

[pommpey]

Reminds me of the scene in "The Sting"

Fallowfield - Henry "Shaw" Gondorff
Pommpey - Doyle Lonnegan

pommpey