Prediction League Gillingham Vs Portsmouth - patchy70 prediction league

2017/2018
Welcome back to the ninth season of the prediction league
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Game 12​

Gillingham Vs Portsmouth
14:30 Kick off

Prediction league thread for members, to post their score line prediction and predict the scorers of this game. Non members and opposing fans are also welcome to post their predictions and views.

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patchy70 thoughts:
We're on TV... That's never a good sign ​

 

Gillingham 1-1 Portsmouth (Ehmer,Pittman)

 

Gills 1-0 Pompey Hess

 

Gillingham 1-2 (List; Hawkins & Kennedy)

 

As you all know each week this season I try and do a little write up about the team we are playing in the sense of some long forgotten head to head so this time I'm taking you back to 1976...

When we played Portsmouth on the 18th September 1976. I actually thought we had played to a full house on that day, or i certainly could have sworn that Pompey filled our entire away section, then known as the Town End, which back then was just concrete terracing steps, with the odd crush bar situated at intervals. Probably still better than our now ageing pile of scrap metal! However, looking at historic records it appears there was 6,873 supporters turned up for that game, I would have guessed nearer 9k so maybe they were fiddling the turnstile takings back in them days

Now I was a well behaved lad back then, as you can imagine, so when our second goal for our 2-1 victory went in, I gave the Pompey faithful plenty of stick. So what is unusual about that you may ask, well back in them days, home supporters regarded the Town End as there territory as much as the Rainham End and how i didn't get my wee little head kicked in I will never know I need grumpygit help again to name the scorer's.

The Portsmouth manager back in them days was none other than Ian St John, for those of you too young to remember, just google Saint and Greavsie. I'm sure Liverpool fans need no reminding.

One particular reason I remember that season, is because a few weeks earlier we had played Newcastle United in the League Cup and lost with our heads held high as we always did back in them days 1-2. For what I remember the Toon second goal was something of a cracker and is still blazoned on my brain all these decades on.

Anyway back to 2017, now i did think we were going to take a hammering, but looking at Pompey's away record it is nothing impressive and what with Taylor still wanting to impress his bestest buddie Scally I'm going for...

Gills 2-1 Pompey

 

The goal scorers in 1976 were Richardson (p) and Weatherly.

On to the current match..........we have no defence with Lacey, O'Neil, Garmston, Morris all injured, Byrne suspended, Zakuani on international duty.
We have no strikers with Eaves suspended and the rest unable to find a goal for love or money, midfield? have we got one?

Gillingham 2 v 1 Portsmouth (Parker, List, Kennedy)

 

Wow Mark Weatherly, I'm sure Patchy will not mind if i digress a bit on this one. Mark was handed his debut I believe by none other than Len Ashurst, to help give younger supporters some insight in to Ashurst, we were in a strong position in the League that season (can't remember if it was Div 3 or 4) and Ashurst walked out and left us for Sheffield Wednesday, the supporters at the time were distraught. But back to Weatherly briefly the man that as we now know thanks to grumpygit scored the goal against Pompey in 1976 and this bit of trivia;

Inclement Weatherly – Gillingham, 1987

Gillingham captain Mark Weatherly was horrified one morning in 1987 when he got up to find overnight snow had left him unable to drive to the game. Not to be dissuaded, he set off on the six-mile trudge to the ground. When he got there, the match had been called off.

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So Weatherly walked six miles and this is the difference between players back then compared to the modern day player, maybe alwaysright could introduce him to another certain more modern day Mark that played for Gillingham FC, but found getting into work in snow impossible

 

Gills 1 ( Hess) Portsmouth 0

 

gills 0-0 Pompey

 

Gills 1 (Parker) Pompey 0

 

Gills 2-1 Pompey(Hess, ehmer)

 

2-0 parker eaves

 

Gills 1 pompey 1 (parker)

 

Gillingham 1 Portsmouth 3 - Clare

 

Gills 1 Portsmouth 2 ( Clare )

 

Gillingham 0-0 Portsmouth

 

Gillingham 0-1 Portsmouth ( Main)

 

another loss 2-0 and we have the added bogey of being on the telly