Also, why does Simmons play? He’s crap on the ball, and isn’t good enough defensively anyway. ****e on the goal yesterday, and the sitter Burnley missed the other week comes from him butchering another clearance. Physically good but he’s a bang average footballer and Zambrano is far better
We ( the fans) don't just expect and demand better we were told when Rosenior was sacked that we would be getting better. Then we don't sign a proven goal scoring forward , so how would it be better than last season when we let all the quality we had in the team under Rosenior leave and did not replace them with better? Acun is as much to blame as much as the manager because he manipulated this situation. He set the stall out and was quick off the mark telling us all to back the team, which we have, (a 22,000 home gate is outstanding considering our home form this year) and also telling us all to expect fast attacking football, and talking up our chances way beyond expectations. When you sack a manager who gets you a 7th place finish then naturally everyone expects better next time, which is top six at least and/or promotion. That was never going to happen when you let all your best players leave in the summer, on loan to us or not. Baz Cooper is guilty of whipping up the negativity too. I'm surprised he hasn't mentioned there were no paper hand towels in the toilets yesterday either in his report whilst highlighting every negativity he could think of. It wasn't great, we drew and it feels like a defeat, and our crowd was quiet, but the Pompey fans were outstanding, if our team had any attacking threat at all it would have made for a fantastic atmosphere. Cooper writes today that Tuesday is already a must-win game. Its isn't, a draw would be decent, followed up by getting something at home to WBA on Sunday. Expectations for this season are way, way too high with what we have to work with. And Acun is guilty for that by sacking Roseinor and replacing him with someone who knows nothing of this league. We will do well to avoid relegation this season, I said that before it even kicked off, and anything beyond that should be a bonus. So lets all calm down.
I never expected a play off finish this year and would quite satisfied with mid table with progress and development for a better season next year. if performances at the MKM don't improve on yesterdays second half then we will probably get loads of atmosphere, just not in a positive way.
From Walters post match comments... “ we have to learn and adapt.” Which is the bit I don't see, like with Rosenior last season, players appear to be drilled to a specific playing style and when it does not work, we go into ever decreasing circles mode until we lose the ball etc, are players to afraid to go off plan? Like others yesterday there were moments were the ball to the middle / forward may have cut them apart. Like last season 'freedom' also needs to be coached in as well as the 'style'
Sorry I don’t buy it if the team was better the atmosphere would’ve been better. We were 3-1 up against Cardiff in a good game and you could hear a pin drop most of the time. Our home atmosphere is ****
If we’d played exciting, free flowing attacking football, creating chance after chance from day one, as we were told we would, or even, had a slight glimpse of the “heart attack” football Tim boasted about, do you think the atmosphere would be better?
The atmosphere at home is crap whether we win, lose or draw. The North Stand try to create an atmosphere but then get the ire of the club for standing. If we fire Walter, anyone worth having won’t come and the coaches that would come probably won’t be good enough and we’ll be back to complaining about the coach and his style of football. No decent manager at this level worth his salt will want to work for an unprofessional lunatic owner and a club with a ****e home atmosphere and no structure. Suppose we could overpay and just throw money at the issue. That has worked wonders under the current ownership in building a stable team.
Marginally maybe. Most away days I’ve been to this season have been better atmosphere bar Norwich. The fact is the north generates very little. It’s a combo of reasons down to the vocal fan base being split up a couple times with the away end moving and some in the north now seem to be there for the posterity of it.
The Pompey fans showed us how to support a team yesterday, and I'm not saying they would be that vocal at home either, but it did make a difference yesterday. Our home atmosphere is poor because we have a lot of fans sat back waiting to see this exciting heart attack football we have been promised, waiting to be entertained, and obviously disappointed when there are no signs of it. The atmosphere is always better when its a 'back to the wall' mentality as Pompey were yesterday, they are fighting for there lives at the bottom of the table whilst we think we have a god given right to be at the top of it. The atmosphere is a problem at home, but nothing that a few home wins wouldn't put right, the problem is the high expectations the club have been saddled with along with the manager who appears not capable of delivering it, and a squad who don't look as they are on the same hymn sheet as the manager.
Tim under pressure but I don’t think what he said was that bad - our atmosphere is ****. Scored early yesterday, and it’s still ****. Not the smartest comments but he’s not blasted the fans, and he’s told the truth.
Pompey fans out-sang for the full 90 minutes even when they looked every bit a pub team in the first half. Their players also responded. Their #30 Ritchie was screaming constantly to motivate them. The crowd and players shied away.
The home atmosphere has been largely crap for 2 years bar maybe a handful of games. That’s including games where we’ve been attacking and playing well like Cardiff this season and QPR last. I agree it would help to have a good team to watch but I don’t think it would go all the way. Like I say the big issue for me is people I speak to on away days who are making the noise are dotted about the MKM in the east and north mainly and like me I sit with my family in the west at home.
What he said was 100% spot on. But the man won’t admit his tactics weren’t working yesterday. Rather than make tweaks he just threw on a whole new midfield with the same style. Zambrano did make a difference but it was still crap. Pompey had our build up figured out and he wouldn’t tweak it
Atmosphere? It’s hardly a secret is it. Vast numbers of City’s home crowd prefer to stay silent when they are needed most. Those who stand and make noise are told to sit down,pointed at and reported. Some clubs have football in the blood and have done for years…you saw one yesterday. Saturday afternoon should be an escape..not a lead weight. Respect to the North Stand …castigated for being different. True story.. Allam’s GONE.
So we're not good enough to play out from the back and lose possession when we go long. Doesn't augur well for the rest of the season does it?
I think we are good enough to do it but clearly not good enough to do it consistently and at a pace that gives us the most reward. My point is going long regularly isn’t the way either
I can't remember a better atmosphere than the year Brown took us up, he had the place rocking but it was high press, high energetic football that was easy to get behind. It was decent under Bruce too. But this style is just so boring to watch, so you'll never have an atmosphere with it. TW was just a crap appointment by an owner that doesn't really have a clue. I thought it was obvious from the outset that this style would not work in the Championship with our position/predicament. I don't have much faith that Acun will get the next appointment right either.
