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Martins is a great creative player and I think he'd thrive alonside Owen. Little Mickey would have had a Hat trick yesterday. Absolutely. It was Martins' finesse and vision that created our goal yesterday. I can imagine him being an awesome player for us outside the box, which is why i think i'd prefer a non Martins-Dyer partnership. Dyer should be in midfield. But with Owen, yeah, Martins and him would compliment each other - it'd be a magnificent partnership. But like Shearer was saying - Martins' movement inside the box wasn't really to busy. When the ball is out wide - him, as a centre-forward, needs to be making runs either to the far post or the back post. Martins did neither. But still, he's only young - but i bet someone like Shearer could teach him a lot, because both have got a fantastic heading ability. But speaking of which, Martins WOULD hve had a hat-trick yesterday. Just the goal was ruled out, and N'Zogbia and Emre were too selfish. They both had easy shooting opportunities, but if they'd passed it to Martins, he would have scored.

Shearer's analysis of Martins was superb last night. As big a fan as i am of Martins, as i do think he will be a success here, he ain't a natural goalscorer - no matter what Roeder says.

Worst fucking comeback i ever heard.

Fight fire with fire tbh.

As i had a lot of time on my hands on Friday, i devised and predicted the eight teams to drop out of the Champions League, and the eight teams to finish third place in the Waffa groups: Champions League drop-outs: Werder Bremen Steaua Bucharest Sporting Libson Olympiakos Benfica Lille Bordeaux CSKA Moscow Third Place Waffa Finishers Auxerre Bayer Leverkusen Sporting Braga Osasuna Nancy Zulte Waregem Rapid Bucharest Palermo Don't fancy any of the Champions League drop-outs, except maybe Lille and Steaua. Toughest of the 3rd-Place finishers is Rapid.

Aye, and the last home game we lost at home to Sheffield United. Fuck off you fucking cockney muppet.

Thanks for not quoting that with my name.

that was from the wigan end cheescake. The spurs end was sold out as per usual. Well fancy that. Pompey barely had half their allocation full today.

the thing is, when i brought up your poor attendences before, people were going on about it being a cup match and its different when it comes to the premiership but now we know what utter crap that excuse was. Fucking pathetic argument really. Coming to the conclusion that our fans are shit by stating that we only had 48,000 supporters there today. :roll:

I don't know the answer to this, how many of the teams that drop out do well? Well Moscow won it the year we were in it!

Woah 48,000. Catastrophic.

Agreed!

He had a steady game, even got praise from the lads that sit around me, and they hate him with a passion. Whatever you say mate. Solid as a rock today. I saw more than enough in the first half to know that Titus Bramble is still Titus Bramble. I just want him out. Stop persisting with him! Honestly don't know how you can say that. Yes - he made one or two good challenges towards the end of the game, but it wasn't a good performance overall. He made far too many mistakes in the first half. Bad, bad decision making. I lost count of the amount of headers that he attempted, which just flew over his big bulbus skull. What a load of drivel. Yes Titus has been cack in the past but he was great today. Take the blinkers off man. Wouldn't normally keep going on but it's not a load of cack at all. If the chances that Titus provided to Portsmouth had been converted, we'd be saying very different things. He was lucky to have the likes of Nobby, Taylor and Ramage behind him, who all had good games. It only took Titus 10 minutes to severely cock-up. An attempted clearance that bobbled around in the box, and when he went to clear it again, he went and jumped on the guy who actually did the job right. I'm right about his headers aswell, absolutely no doubt. He must have jumped for about four headed clearances, and missed three of them. And his passing was just rubbish. The amount of time he took to get rid of the ball, and the inaccuracy of them were frustrating, and you could see how angry Martins was. It wasn't good at all. He did make one or two very tidy challnges towards the end. And credit where credit is due - they were very good saving tackles, but they aren't going to make me change my mind. The real Titus is still there and it won't go away. WE'd be much better off just getting rid.

Mick was just responding to the indecision about whether Sibi was a panic buy or not. Which he clearly was... But God yeah - he's done awesome. Chuffed.

Because James did nowt but cock-up in his last year or so in the team. He was immense today, though.

He had a steady game, even got praise from the lads that sit around me, and they hate him with a passion. Whatever you say mate. Solid as a rock today. I saw more than enough in the first half to know that Titus Bramble is still Titus Bramble. I just want him out. Stop persisting with him! Honestly don't know how you can say that. Yes - he made one or two good challenges towards the end of the game, but it wasn't a good performance overall. He made far too many mistakes in the first half. Bad, bad decision making. I lost count of the amount of headers that he attempted, which just flew over his big bulbus skull.

He had a steady game, even got praise from the lads that sit around me, and they hate him with a passion. I saw more than enough in the first half to know that Titus Bramble is still Titus Bramble. I just want him out. Stop persisting with him!

Not brilliant, but good. His touch and compusure was of a very high standard today.

Stop praising Bramble! 15 minutes of good play isn't going to make up for 75 minutes of utter shit defending. We're just lucky that it was Portsmouth.

Given Carr --- Taylor --- Bramble --- Ramage Solano --- Emre --- Butt --- Luque Martins --- Sibierski Subs: Harper, Huntington, Pattison, O'Brien, Milner, Dyer, Carroll I don't like Carr being in the team, but i'm afraid that we're forced into it. Milner is injured so Nobby's got to go back on the wing, and hopefully he can still kick on from his last two performances, which have been nothing short of brilliant. Carr's been OK in Europe anyhow, i just hope he doesn't stay in the side for the EPL. The rest of the defense picks itself really. Parker is injured and Emre and Butt just works, as we have seen on more than one occassion this season. Emre linked up really well with Martins on a couple of occassions during today's game, and i think he could become a key player when the centre midfield paring is sorted out. Until January atleast, Parker should play in Butt's role - where i bet he is more effective. Luque on the left because i was more than encouraged by his performance against Celta Vigo. His crosses and his assist were sublime. But if Luque's going to be playing on the left, we are going to need two strikers in the box, because if one of them miss his crosses - there's needs to be someone following up. Martins and Sibierski are both great headerers of the ball. Martins is itching for a goal, and one of those will really bring him on. The performances are there - the goals aren't yet. One goal will really bring him on. He needs to play.

He won't start any of the youngsters... Maybe Pattison.

foster? Ineligible. Given's the only fit and eligible player.

Dunno what to say, Soccer Master.

Can't wait for Thursday! Seriously... should be good to see some young blood and some different players.

I'd like to think we made them look shit. These guys hammered Boro 4-0 at the Riverside! Ah that's a comforting thought.