Walsall

[Berkshire Blue]

2 - 0 up at half time, and we are playing okay. Dodgy bobbly pitch but we are coping with it.

[Berkshire Blue]

3 - 0 up and then let in two sloppy goals. It is a win and 3 points but we were less than convincing near the end.

Worryingly, Ronan Curtis has injured his finger in a door, and the commentator had heard that he may need plastic surgery.

[Earl Grey]

Hey, we won!
This is no time for wrist slitting......gird up your loins for Saturday and another victory!

[richisbradders]

Worryingly, Ronan Curtis has injured his finger in a door, and the commentator had heard that he may need plastic surgery.

I’ve heard a few rumours about Curtis in the past few months, can’t help but feel there’s more to this than meets the eye.

[PakefieldBlue]

Worryingly, Ronan Curtis has injured his finger in a door, and the commentator had heard that he may need plastic surgery.

I’ve heard a few rumours about Curtis in the past few months, can’t help but feel there’s more to this than meets the eye.

Interesting? Can you expand?

[Selsey Bill]

Worryingly, Ronan Curtis has injured his finger in a door, and the commentator had heard that he may need plastic surgery.

I’ve heard a few rumours about Curtis in the past few months, can’t help but feel there’s more to this than meets the eye.

Interesting? Can you expand?

He's a young lad in a 'sweet factory'

[Selsey Bill]

I didn't go, but my eldest son did. He said that Pitman was probably man of the match, took the penalty well and battled well for the 3rd, but no stand out player. Lowe was also half decent apparently. Still, a win's a win. All those dropped points against teams like Gillingham and Oxford - grrrr!

[Pompey1985]

For me that's the most frustrating thing about all these bad results - despite them all were only 6 points behind second. If we had just turned a few of those into draws, held on at Southend etc... We would be well in the mix for second spot instead it looks a big ask.

I do thing Barnsley and Sunderland will drop more points this season but I can see us dropping more than them.


Why it's so hard to stomach is that we haven't looked good all season but we had something that worked - and it wasn't just been Thompson we seem to make multiple changes to line ups and try to change shape more than we had done earlier in the season and we just don't respond to what the other team are doing on the pitch it's generally like for like - it could have been avoided and we could be looking down on Barnsley and Sunderland.

[New Forester]

I had to chuckle watching the highlights. They didn’t do their homework on Thompson. He’s our best faller anywhere on the pitch. Actually pushing him in the the penalty area could have had only one outcome. As for this dreadful hoof ball - it produced the second goal. The third was excellent.

[streetrifle]

We have to persevere with Bogle and Pitman up front now - please no more Hawkins as the target man around whom every attack of ours founders. Even if Bogle can only give us an hour before giving way to Vaughan.
What worried me greatly at Walsall were the two poor goals conceded in similar fashion. Deep cross into the six-yard box each time causing mayhem - not claimed by McGillivray or dealt with by our defenders and forced in by Walsall. Why can't we defend these crosses properly? Future opposition are going to see this and be looking to exploit it. With the likes of Brown, Clarke and Burgess we should have enough muscle and height to deal with these crosses.
Its a real blow losing Curtis but I have been quite impressed with Solomon-Otabor, he took his goal very well and looks good on the ball with good crosses. Just hope he will work hard on his tracking back and defending like Curtis does. Otherwise we have another winger on loan in Isgrove (?) who surely will get fit eventually.
Our loans since Christmas have been a nightmare - no Cannon, no Morris, no Isgrove, and what has happened to Dennis, has Jackett written him off.

[Purbrook Chimes]

3 - 0 up and then let in two sloppy goals. It is a win and 3 points but we were less than convincing near the end.

Worryingly, Ronan Curtis has injured his finger in a door, and the commentator had heard that he may need plastic surgery.

I was worried it was Southend all over again

[POLPERO99]

Our glass is half full and we look good for the Play offs . let’s go with this shape and get Bogle as fit as we can and scrape through to the play offs. Defensively we look less than convincing and one injury in that area means curtains . No more Hawkins please , we have to start trying to use our midfielders more.