This is the stage where loyalty and good will goes out the window to a certain degree. Clubs that get promoted will generally need to upgrade their playing staff. Some players that were celebrating with supporters will now be told that they are no longer required. Looking at Jam's list shows that qu...

BlueinPLtwenty wrote: ↑Tue Apr 30, 2024 6:08 am

Blue Walter wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2024 7:17 am

Absolutely agree with this. My first flush of success was in 1963 with the old Third Division Championship. That particular success turned me from a Portsmouth spectator into a Portsmouth fan.

Do you mean 1962 or 1983?

It was 1962, I do beg your pardon.

I don't disagree with you Mr 55 and I did realise your parenting comment was tongue in cheek. Both my other granddaughters come with me to Fratton Park when they can and love the experience. Their father is an Aston Villa fan but, although he was born in Gosport, his family for generations came from...

I know we have lost support to Southampton in my area because Saints were a Premiership team because 'we were cack'. Be great if we could turn that around I put that down to poor parenting and any such parents should be made to take a education course at 1500 every alternate Saturday at Fratton Par...

The Portsmouth catchment area should surely in theory put us either in mid Premiership or a regular place in the Championship play offs. But in reality there are many examples of population size not being correlated to a particular league. How on earth are Bradford in League2 or say, Burnley (not f...

I suppose the size of support goes to determining where a clubs natural fit in the football pyramid. In the old 1st Division when we won the league title they would pack as many people as possible into grounds. Fratton Park would host 40-50000 crowds which would have made them a reasonably sized top...

I went. It was lovely to see so many people in a good mood. It is a shame that the loudspeaker system wasn't up to the job as it difficult to hear what the speakers were saying. But the main thing was to see people celebrating promotion with the teams.

Trust JM to throw a curved ball be interesting to see how this team shapes up with two key players missing. Pack and Rags absence leaves a big hole but in exchange we’ve got MPH and Tino playing together.Towler has a chance to prove himself. Not sure whether we should call this a weakened team but ...

That is not our strongest team available which questions the integrity quote, in my opinion. If there was nothing on the game for either team I would have thought that it was a reasonable shout to give some players a run out. This game means so much to Lincoln and also several other clubs. I have t...

Apparently we are playing 4 at the back when defending and then Sparkes pushes forward when we attack. Sounds like we are mostly on top but second half they have nothing to lose so will throw the kitchen sink at us I think we are the better side and playing some good football but not carving out re...

That is not our strongest team available which questions the integrity quote, in my opinion. If there was nothing on the game for either team I would have thought that it was a reasonable shout to give some players a run out. This game means so much to Lincoln and also several other clubs. I have to...

Pompey55 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 1:51 pm Moushino is clear that for the integrity of the league and travelling fans there will not be a repeat of the Wigan game so I can see us going for a win

On the basis of that I would expect Pompey to field their best team, which would not include giving players a run out.

That was a really good thread to bring back for an airing at this time. Just reading through those views, including my own, it seems almost naive now reading some of them. I am surprised we have done so well just as many other people have been, including the bookies. Thinking of our summer recruitme...

It is true that we are not going to get bigger gates in the Championship but I assume we were getting larger gates in League One that were budgeted for. We will be getting more8 TV revenue including more live games due to the new TV deal concerning the Championship. I would also assume we will get m...

I think more mistakes will be punished next season due to the higher quality of our opponents. I agree we were caught out quite a few times by pacey counter attacks, especially at Fratton Park. I also wonder whether a sort of complacency had crept in as well. I read Jimmy Dickinson's autobiography w...