Very poor performance v Burton

[Jim]

I didn't think we were "very poor" - that performance has got nothing on the York and Wimbledon debacles of last season.

We weren't great but Burton were the best side we've played this season (barring Stoke, obviously) and with a bit of fine tuning in our attacking play then we should still be there or thereabouts come the end of the season.

Have to disagree about signing McGurk and Hylton though. Neither are the type of player we need. We need a "fox in the box" striker who is able to poach goals.

[kendaldaz]

pompey wern't that bad imo,some poor performers on the day,holmes and wynter[early on],very sluggish start,got better,final ball was awful,but i think we will be up and around the play-offs at the end of the season,like to see aa get a more settled look to the starting 11 now,but im sure he knows what he's doing,anyway onto southend,PLAY UP POMPEY...

[PompeyScarf]

I think a telling comment from AA was the "let's work our way into the game" approach he has to games this season. And that could be leading to the slow starts at the moment. We really need to impose ourselves on other teams and hopefully that's something AA will realise very soon.

Plus I agree about the rotation system not working. AA's an intelligent bloke but sometimes it looks like he over thinks things and asks players to play in positons they're not comfortable in.

[pompeygun]

Hi Jim, maybe but I think we lack a reliable scorer @ this level bar Westcarr. Dont get me wrong I like Taylor & the job he does but 34 goals in his career IIRC isn't going to get us up. Reid in particular & to a lesser degree Hylton will both score far more goals than Taylor. We cannot afford to spend money on a quality striker yet when Reid was out of contract the club made noises but as far as I can see did nothing. Shame that IMO. With Reid & Westcarr IMO you are guaranteed 35 goals for starters. Thats a decent basis for being right up there.

[jon6_1999]

[quote="Jim" - that performance has got nothing on the York and Wimbledon debacles of last season.

We weren't great but Burton were the best side we've played this season (barring Stoke, obviously) and with a bit of fine tuning in our attacking play then we should still be there or thereabouts come the end of the season.

Have to disagree about signing McGurk and Hylton though. Neither are the type of player we need. We need a "fox in the box" striker who is able to poach goals.[/quote]

I think we may have the man, Westcarr seems to be quite foxy, but at the moment, playing ten yards outside the boxy! We seem to be trying to accommodate Taylor (who has, up until the last two games, made up for a lack of pedigree by running his balls off)and persisting with the competition to see what is the most outrageous hoof Taylor can control. It isn't easy on the eye, or very effective.

We have 3 hard working midfielders who get thr

[Scoular1]

Jonny is back...yesssssss

[nonsuchmike]

Disappointing performance from the get-go by most in the Pompey team. Burton were half a yard faster in action and thought, while Pompey were still getting warmed up half way through the first half. Can't have that, Andy.

As my teachers used to say about any boy who didn't deliver: Pretty, but no cigar. There is no reward in this division for coming 8th, and we have that look about us already - challenging for a play off place and just failing.

Personally, I would rather we challenged for an outright promotion place, so that if we were to just fail in that we would at least get a play-off place.

Burton were good because of what happened to them when they played Pompey last season. They learned from that and changed their playing pattern. We didn't.

To win matches, you gotta score goals, lads. Preferably more than the opposition scores against you. I do not like playing a game and hoping to "nick" a goal, it shows the wrong mentality. I played games to score as frequently as possibl