Match Day Thread Pompey v Oxford United

Good to hear it from someone who was there Eastney - particularly the point about the central pairing. Television is a essentially ball watching and the wider off the ball picture is lost. Evans seems to have played as either an attacking mid fielder or right back. Could he be the work horse - more defensive mid fielder - we require?
Tampegate
HI Meowth. After 45 years downunder I still support England so you can imagine it has not been a great summer for me down here! I am certainly no apologist for the Aussie cricket team.
However, I see the ball tampering as a natural progression of the way things have been going. Achieving reverse swing with an old ball has been a revered skill for perhaps 20 years now. But to swing the old ball in the opposite direction to a near new ball something has to radically change and the change is the addition of moisture to the rough side of the ball - usually sweat. This is a rarely mentioned fact but clearly it is ball tampering. It has been allowed to persist, perhaps because it makes the game more interesting (there are far fewer drawn test matches nowadays). So how do you make the ball absorb more moisture on one side? - you roughen the surface!
Now the Aussies have made this stupidly obvious (there were apparently 30 cameras at match) but it has been happening for a long time and has been more subtly practised by most sides. Sure the guilty Aussies should suffer but wider reforms are needed.