Match Day Thread Watford vs Southampton Saturday 30th August 15:00

Hopefully we will sell 2 Centre Backs on Monday so he is forced to play a back 4.

 

Of course they are. That's a pretty big yard stick for most of us, and whilst that pisses some of us off, losing to them in the next game will be even worse regardless of what Ipswich are doing.

WS needs to sort out the defence ****ing sharpish.

 

I do agree he was a little bit slow to react today - though I do think that was because we had a super unbalanced bench.

 

But using any kind of yardstick at this stage of the season is mental.

 

Was the defence at fault today? I thought it was the light midfield, to be honest. The defence handled the game well.

 

I pointed it out because it hasn’t happened in a long time. Someone else said they’d get stick about it from Pompey fans he knows. Haven’t seen anyone being hysterical about it or claiming it means anything in the grand scheme of things….

 

He will play a back four once our new signings are registered/settled in etc.

 

Checks watch.

Yep, it’s still August

Checks table

Not seeing a problem yet tbh

 

Defence/Defending. Doesn't matter. Either way we haven't kept a clean sheet in the league yet. That's really poor

 

Agreed, that's why I said pre game I thought it was daft to not have Sesay available for this match when the new mush wasn't available.

 

None of today’s goals were down to being crap though. They were really good goals. That’s life.

 

It’s my Job

 

Not to disappointed. I thought the overall performance is heading in the right direction.
We were overpowered by the substitutions and we never did anything about it. Baz was caught flat footed from the free kick.

 

Maybe change role, tbh.

 

I’ll think about it .

 

Not sure any keeper saving that free kick tbh.

 

In the season we went up, Preston were 3rd after 12 games.....they ended up finishing 10th. Using the table as any sort of "yard stick" at this stage is insane.

 

Yes, it's only August and no need to panic and I am sure we will get much better and we will be challenging at the top.

Doesn't mean we can't be disappointed with the first 4 games though.

 

The Watford free kick was class, nothing Baz could do there. If we're talking about poor goalkeeping I reckon Baz should have saved their first goal 9 times from 10.

 

If you reverse those games and we are home for the two draws, definitely. But the only real disappointment so far has been losing to ten man Stoke.

If Caspar is as good as his fans say he is, I think we will be very hard to play against soon.