Portsmouth (H) match thread - 27th Jan

[Vtid]

4 minutes ago, philpvfc said:

Go back to sleep. 

you keep clapping away fella 👏🏻 

[Guest]

Been in the garden all morning still seething at that performance yesterday.

Was it deliberate cause Robbie was there to see if he buys us some players.

Or are most of them wanting out of the club .

After yesterday they can <ovf censored> a majority of them of for me 

Passive

Unmotivated 

Work shy 

You name it that's what I saw yesterday .

Rubbish 

[DazFred]

2 hours ago, nodge said:

I've waiting until this morning to post as I was fuming last night...

Firstly we were never going to win that game as we chased shadows for long periods and could get our game going at all. They shut us down very quickly and seeming despite all the shape changes allowed Lane i think it was to have almost a free role until the final change shape with Shorrock, By that point though we had Loft chasing down and trying but he wasn't likely to score. 

Craig Hicks though has had the singlemost worst refereeing performance I've witnessed at Vale Park. The only things consistent about him was he was consistently inconsistent, and the his desire to pull out a yellow for Vale challenges. I'm not naive enough to say we didn't commit fouls, we took lads to ground on the run and I get those but there multiple challenges of theirs that went unpunished.

The Uche incident for me was worse than the penalty call. He's been absolutely smashed to the ground and he's ignored it completely. Uche is in agony and distress and Hicks is waving the game on. Only when Ripley is screamed at by Crosby to bowl the ball out of play did it stop. Hicks never moved from his position on the edge of the Vale area, called on the Physios from the Lorne St and he was down by the Lorne St touchline. Not once did he check on his welfare. Poor poor referee and attitude to the welfare of the players.

Another moment of stupidity was where their lad spooned his cross out and he gave a corner.... mental.

The lad that won their penalty had a gravity problem in our area all afternoon and he didn't speak to him once about it.

For me the Chislett challenge before the penalty looked heavy, and could have been given as a free kick. I obviously agree the ball was won but the weigh of the challenge, I have seen them given regularly as free kicks. Craig Hicks chose not to however

This is where his inconsistency came into play again, Grant nicks the ball off their lads toes with zero momentum in the challenge and their lad predictably goes down like he's been shot by a Lorne Street Sniper. I think I had a bet on with my dad from the 10th minute that there would be a red card, a penalty or both

You can't do what that lad did and get on the pitch, frustrated as we all are.

Another ref that thinks everyone came to watch him, a game we were never going to win, but we probably did enough to secure a point.

 

PS Will Norris is a prize sausage (their keeper). With tensions running high, tries to incite the Hamil at the final whistle. I don't recall him getting any grief, all apathy all game was directed at the ref so it was strange behavior.

Worst ref I've seen. Ran to their bench when the idiot ran on the pitch. Bishop had the ref is in pocket...moaned all game. This ref should never be allowed to take charge of anything other than charity matches. He cost Vale the game 

[DazFred]

4 minutes ago, Playa Amodores said:

They’re not being paid unless in the ground. I’ve seen southern clubs fans come across High Lane before, when for me the easiest route would be along the A500. Perhaps they see Burslem town centre as a flash point so escort them across Smallthorne.

They're not being paid?

Why are they standing there in uniform then? I might do that next home game...

[Rampant Zebra]

3 minutes ago, DazFred said:

They're not being paid?

Why are they standing there in uniform then? I might do that next home game...

I think they are being paid but not by the club. Apart from the specials or whatever they are called nowadays...

[Jacko51]

The suggestion that our invader was aggressive and the Reading ones were peaceful is not strictly true. When the Reading fans came on they headed not for the centre circle but to the tunnel where all the stewards had lined up in a chevron shape, clearly planned in advance. Who knows what those fans would have done if they’d got down the tunnel?  Yet no one was arrested??

[Conrad]

17 minutes ago, Playa Amodores said:

They’re not being paid unless in the ground. I’ve seen southern clubs fans come across High Lane before, when for me the easiest route would be along the A500. Perhaps they see Burslem town centre as a flash point so escort them across Smallthorne.

 

There were a lot of Portsmouth in the moorland pub.

[Playa Amodores]

16 minutes ago, DazFred said:

They're not being paid?

Why are they standing there in uniform then? I might do that next home game...

I’m reliably informed they’ll be on normal duty, so being paid for by the tax payer. So next time you phone the police and no one’s available, that’s because the officers have performed their duty for the day standing around outside football grounds. Not the officers fault.

[Playa Amodores]

13 minutes ago, Rampant Zebra said:

I think they are being paid but not by the club. Apart from the specials or whatever they are called nowadays...

Specials don’t get paid, whether at football or carrying out duties. They get a one off payment every year.

[Valiiant]

 

Bad as the ref was, he was the least of our worries yesterday when you consider how awful we are at both ends of the pitch. I spent all week trying to be positive and to get behind Crosby, only for him and his players to collectively have a massive <ovf censored> on my doorstep. That performance was abysmal, lacking in fight, belief and quality.

[Brian Johnson]

40 minutes ago, Rampant Zebra said:

Maybe in your mind it was obvious but that says more about you than anything else... I think the Reading Chronicle is biased. I saw a lot of stories about Reading, that is what a news aggregator site does, there were a few headlines from around the world for a couple of days after the event but it is mostly forgotten about on the world stage in the same way that the world will quickly lose interest in the story from yesterday. The EFL were already well aware of the situation before the event but are hamstrung by the law when it comes to resolving the situation.

It says alot about you more than anything and you will probably be the only one who thinks that the guy running on the pitch was not going for the ref and I would have thought the fine now coming to the club will back that up

[Brian Johnson]

39 minutes ago, jimbo57 said:

How is it?

Although silly, surely it's quite factual?

to compare a peaceful demonstration with an act of aggression. Not factual at all.

 

[Pheonix Vale]

1 hour ago, Brian Johnson said:

Oh right, he was running on the pitch to get an autograph.

It was obvious he was going for the ref, do not try to dress it up any other way.

See the headlines after the Reading game (which you wont) all positive for the Reading fans.

See all the headlines about the Vale fan running on the pitch yesterday (again, which you wont) and its embarrassing for the club

He was NOT  after the Ref, He was Actually ' A Streaker ' ! - But because it is January, AND COLD, He Wisely Kept his clothes on, That is What his Lawyer told me !

the+streaker+song - Google Search

WWW.GOOGLE.COM

 

[DazFred]

11 minutes ago, Playa Amodores said:

I’m reliably informed they’ll be on normal duty, so being paid for by the tax payer. So next time you phone the police and no one’s available, that’s because the officers have performed their duty for the day standing around outside football grounds. Not the officers fault.

I can't remember the last time I rang the police and someone WAS available!!

[Playa Amodores]

14 minutes ago, Conrad said:

 

There were a lot of Portsmouth in the moorland pub.

Conrad, I have a friend in the police who tells me that uniformed PC’s and Sergeants hate football matches because they get leave blocked for games months in advance. So if you’re day off falls on a Saturday when there is a football match taking place you have to go into work and aren’t rewarded for this financially, you get the day off back, when it’s suitable for the organisation. He was telling me about one lad whose wife worked Mon-Fri 9-5, he’d been in the police for 20 years and it was causing so many problems at home he retired. That’s pretty poor IMO as you can’t plan anything on your rest days. Morale if through the floor apparently and has been for sometime.