| Southampton V Portsmouth The Verdict 09:45 - Sep 15 with 3985 views | SaintsNews |
 Southampton V Portsmouth The Verdict 15th Sep 2025 09:40Pompey arrived to play Saints with a game plan and they stuck doggedly to it to earn a point, but it made for a game that was hard to watch for the fans of either side, at the end there was only one set of fans celebrating.  20
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| Southampton V Portsmouth The Verdict on 11:32 - Sep 15 with 3714 views | saints__fan__73 |
Was the game plan to be better at football than us? |  |
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| Southampton V Portsmouth The Verdict on 14:39 - Sep 15 with 3439 views | Ifonly |
Correction: there were 3 debuts, not 4 as you say.
More importantly, the debuts were not the reason for the disjointed play. The only starter making his debut was Fellows and he was actually one of our better players. The next one didn't appear until the 74th minute. By then the pattern of the game had already been set and the other debut players made no difference to it.
The reason for the disjointed play was our gameplan (if we had one) which seemed to be to try and get long balls and crosses to Archer and hope he could out-muscle the defenders, which was obviously never going to happen. | | | |
| Southampton V Portsmouth The Verdict on 21:15 - Sep 15 with 3111 views | Butty101 |
As much as i hate to admit it, Nick i think you did Pompey a disservice. In the first half they were all over us. We were the long ball merchants.
I thought Baz looked really solid for once. He looked confident and took the pressure off the defence. |  |
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| Southampton V Portsmouth The Verdict on 09:33 - Sep 16 with 2622 views | Butty101 |
| Southampton V Portsmouth The Verdict on 21:15 - Sep 15 by Butty101 |
As much as i hate to admit it, Nick i think you did Pompey a disservice. In the first half they were all over us. We were the long ball merchants.
I thought Baz looked really solid for once. He looked confident and took the pressure off the defence. |
I keep reading that we have got to integrate our new signings and its going to take time. How is it that Bournemouth lost all bar one of their back 5, yet hit the ground running?
Sundays starting line up contained 8 players from last season, playing a formation they practised in pre-season. The fact is every performance this season has been bad and had we not got a lucky win against Wrexham, the place would be in melt down.
Wills start is on par with Russell Martins. | |
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