Pompey's 7 Walking Wounded

I see Mr Indestructible Colby Bishop isn't one of them. The player our medical team deemed too much of a risk😔
We've still got a few out but we've probably one of the best strength in depth squads in the division so lets take advantage and show the same attacking intent as last Saturday.
 
Ping Pong said:
Dont we have similar injured?
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Virtue, Lavery, Kouassi, Norburn, Tayt Trusty and don't forget Gabriel and Joseph are just coming back after long lay-offs. So we could claim 7 if you class them as "walking wounded." The last 2 certainly aren't fully match fit yet.

Seems Rhodes also is carrying a knee injury. So that's 8
 
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I love how last week Critch was devil incarnate and now we are going to storm the castle of the league's unbeaten top dogs. We've won one away game.

Let's go there full of hope and take confidence from our performance on Saturday, albeit against abject opposition, and fight for every ball and see what we can get. We might win, it's possible. We could've won at Bolton, whatever the doom mongers said afterwards.
 
Fylde Seasider said:
Virtue, Lavery, Kouassi, Norburn, Tayt Trusty and don't forget Gabriel and Joseph are just coming back after long lay-offs. So we could claim 7 if you class them as "walking wounded." The last 2 certainly aren't fully match fit yet.

Seems Rhodes also is carrying a knee injury. So that's 8
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Trusty, first team?
 
Fylde Seasider said:
Virtue, Lavery, Kouassi, Norburn, Tayt Trusty and don't forget Gabriel and Joseph are just coming back after long lay-offs. So we could claim 7 if you class them as "walking wounded." The last 2 certainly aren't fully match fit yet.

Seems Rhodes also is carrying a knee injury. So that's 8
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Pushing it with Trusty. Not really in first team contention.
 
Gabriel. Kouassi. Lavery. Virtue. Norburn
Joseph just playing 20/30 after lengthy lay off
Rhodes carrying a knee injury( if Jordan plays Saturday) I’d then rest him possibly against Northampton on Tuesday and the fa cup game
 
April13th1970 said:
Yes, they made a mistake on that one.

But I guess you never have, so you have the right to criticize them
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Dont be such a clever dick it wasn't just one mistake was it? Virtually every other player we signed last season last season missed long spells through injury, Poveda, Fiorini, Trybull and Goode and this season Joseph. Hopefully things have improved and the obvious point I was making was that the one that was rejected has never missed a game.
 
voyeur said:
I love how last week Critch was devil incarnate and now we are going to storm the castle of the league's unbeaten top dogs. We've won one away game.

Let's go there full of hope and take confidence from our performance on Saturday, albeit against abject opposition, and fight for every ball and see what we can get. We might win, it's possible. We could've won at Bolton, whatever the doom mongers said afterwards.
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Do you think the people who believe Critchley is the devil incarnate are the same people on this thread who think we'll beat Portsmouth on Saturday?
 
voyeur said:
I love how last week Critch was devil incarnate and now we are going to storm the castle of the league's unbeaten top dogs. We've won one away game.

Let's go there full of hope and take confidence from our performance on Saturday, albeit against abject opposition, and fight for every ball and see what we can get. We might win, it's possible. We could've won at Bolton, whatever the doom mongers said afterwards.
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I give credit where it’s due and criticism when it’s merited. Granted Shrewsbury we’re diabolical, but the intent, personnel and tactics were spot on.

We’re very iffy defensively, so why not attack teams more? I respect the fact away from home you have to be slightly more pragmatic, but going to places with no attacking intent? Why even bother showing up?

Our strong point is scoring goals, so unleash the handbrake and go for it. Rather watch us lose 3-2 entertaining games then boring 1-0 losses without having a shot on target like Bolton
 
TangerinePeel said:
Do you think the people who believe Critchley is the devil incarnate are the same people on this thread who think we'll beat Portsmouth on Saturday?
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Do I think we’ll beat them? 60/40 no. But it would be vintage Blackpool to only draw with dross like Fleetwood and Port Vale to go and win at undefeated top of the league
 
Athers said:
I give credit where it’s due and criticism when it’s merited. Granted Shrewsbury we’re diabolical, but the intent, personnel and tactics were spot on.

We’re very iffy defensively, so why not attack teams more? I respect the fact away from home you have to be slightly more pragmatic, but going to places with no attacking intent? Why even bother showing up?

Our strong point is scoring goals, so unleash the handbrake and go for it. Rather watch us lose 3-2 entertaining games then boring 1-0 losses without having a shot on target like Bolton
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The way I see it, the team is slowly developing. It's a process. I'd much rather see fast flowing attacking football, we all would, I think. But we will, and we already have, at times.

I don't think we are very iffy defensively. It depends how we set up and who is injured. We defended really well at Bolton, and in quite a few other games this season. We have very good L1 defenders in Pennington, Casey, Hubby and Ekpi. We've been too open at times in midfield and wide areas. Critch is gradually sorting that out. He's made heavy work of it in my opinion. Made some mistakes. But he's done it cos he's playing the long game, getting players to play in certain positions, like wing back, where they had to learn new stuff. They have got better at it.

I don't believe we go anywhere with no attacking intent either. Bolton was probably the nearest but we had Rhodes and Dembele in attack, CJ, Carey and Morgan. Lavery was ruled out in the week. We came close to scoring several times, in a difficult away game. Let's be objective, rather than just simple black and white.

I'm sure as the side beds down, like it is doing, we will see more of the attacking intent that we have already seen at times, against Reading, Wigan, Peterborough, Fleetwood, Charlton, Stevenage, Shrewsbury. And we will get better at it.
 
voyeur said:
I love how last week Critch was devil incarnate and now we are going to storm the castle of the league's unbeaten top dogs. We've won one away game.

Let's go there full of hope and take confidence from our performance on Saturday, albeit against abject opposition, and fight for every ball and see what we can get. We might win, it's possible. We could've won at Bolton, whatever the doom mongers said afterwards.
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Not if you don't hit the target, you won't win owt.
 
We've won our last three matches there without conceding a goal. Why do people think we can't win again 🤔
 
onlyonepool said:
Dont be such a clever dick it wasn't just one mistake was it? Virtually every other player we signed last season last season missed long spells through injury, Poveda, Fiorini, Trybull and Goode and this season Joseph. Hopefully things have improved and the obvious point I was making was that the one that was rejected has never missed a game.
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Not sure what point you are making here tbh.

Are you saying that the mistake the club made in respect of those players was that they should have foreseen that they would get injured during the course of the season and therefore should not have signed them ?

I didn’t realise that Russell Grant owned the club .
 
AngelBFC said:
Not sure what point you are making here tbh.

Are you saying that the mistake the club made in respect of those players was that they should have foreseen that they would get injured during the course of the season and therefore should not have signed them ?

I didn’t realise that Russell Grant owned the club .
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FFS another shitty clever reply eh, I thought you were better than that, add Bridcutt to that list as well. There has to be some underlying issue for players like Bridcutt, Trybul and Goode to pull up after barely a game never to be seen again. Fiorini, Rogers and Poveda all missed far more than they played. It has to be more than coincidence and then we followed up with Joseph this season who passed our medical despite carrying an injury whereas Bishop was sent packing.
 
onlyonepool said:
FFS another shitty clever reply eh, I thought you were better than that, add Bridcutt to that list as well. There has to be some underlying issue for players like Bridcutt, Trybul and Goode to pull up after barely a game never to be seen again. Fiorini, Rogers and Poveda all missed far more than they played. It has to be more than coincidence and then we followed up with Joseph this season who passed our medical despite carrying an injury whereas Bishop was sent packing.
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I’d completely forgotten about Goode I had to Google him !!!
 
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