Positives

Can’t beat a bit of wildlife for perspective.

It’s only a game after all.

Love watching the hawks around here.
 
Jones and Giles came on and we instantly got better. Apparently rested due to needing it..... Bizarre after a 2 week international break.

Cov parking was decent. I was home at 1930 (near pompey). I'm struggling for anything else lol

Oh massive negatives. The sheer amount of middle lane drivers on the M40. I could have undertaken 100+ cars whilst doing the 70mph speed limit. Sort it out police.... Fine the feckers👍
 
Watmore ran about a lot, we now know why Tommy Smith was a free agent, Crooks woke up second half for the first time in a while and Akpom’s fit!
 
A few positives for me:
1: It puts to bed the argument that we can play a different way/ be more defensive, which would give us a better chance of getting points (we had 5 defenders on here, it didn't work)
2: Good to see Chuba back
3: Further confirms that our midfield three, especially Mowatt, are not good enough (the other two could be ok, if we got in one really good one, like Tav), hopefully this incentivizes the recruiters to pull their finger out, and Gibbo to pull his cheque book out.
4. Further confirms any formations with two in centre mid won't handle any team, as our three cannot handle some of the poor teams
5: It confirmed Howson should not be on any set pieces
6: Further confirmation that we miss Lenihan's leadership
7: Proves how good Gyokeres is, most of us already knew this though
8: Muniz played well, probably could have had a goal but did well to get a couple on target.
9: Jones did well, when he came on
10: Proves we need to get the first goal, or we're in trouble, so we need to play a way that creates the most opportunities to get that first goal
I would argue 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 10 aren’t positives 😕
 
Watmore ran about a lot, we now know why Tommy Smith was a free agent, Crooks woke up second half for the first time in a while and Akpom’s fit!
Come on, Watmore has a couple of faults, he played for Sunderland, he’s ginger, but he does run around a lot closing opposition defenders and goalkeeper down, this is a good thing isn’t it?
 
Lovely kit

If you are going to make more money out of the fans at least make it a different colour that won’t be repeated for a good few years which will make it worthwhile buying. How many white 3rd kits now.
 
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A few positives for me:
1: It puts to bed the argument that we can play a different way/ be more defensive, which would give us a better chance of getting points (we had 5 defenders on here, it didn't work)
Huh? We’ve been playing the same way and getting the same results?!?!
3: Further confirms that our midfield three, especially Mowatt, are not good enough
Our midfielders were fine last season..
4. Further confirms any formations with two in centre mid won't handle any team, as our three cannot handle some of the poor teams
It does not confirm this, if anything it shows that 3-5-2 rarely works if ever snd if it does it is with a full selection of players full fit.. without the need for back up,rest or substitution.
 
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