Have you ever kicked a ball in your life, seriously ?  I thought you might have your weekly dig at Dan James, but it’s fun watching you make a total fool of yourself every week doing it. It was a perfectly timed ball from James and it was Solomon’s lack of control that took him wide. It was a terrible first touch from Solomon, and he should have put it in the net  before Piroe missed the open goal. There will only be you moaning about James on this forum because you’re probably the only one who’s never played at a decent level, and it shows. Still, it takes the spotlight off your mate Piroe with those two absolute shockers. Dan James fault is suppose ? 

why can't you post as a grown up? 
different opinion is fine. why constant abuse? 

Play nicely guys, personal abuse will not be tolerated and anyone who persists will be taking a little (or longer) rest. Variety is the spice of life, discussion and banter are what we are all about. Please do not disrespect someone for having an alternate opinion. Class yourselves as warned.

no problem mate

We looked like a team playing under pressure and they looked like a top 6 team.
Saying all that we should have had a penalty, Piroe missed 2 sitters, Solomon should have hit it first time and James also bombed a chance.
Meslier too hesitant for their goal but did ok up until that goal.
Aaronsson a waste of a jersey, Bogle off it and Joseph fast becoming the new Bamford.
Tanaka his worse game of the season and I don`t get why he insists on playing Gruev away from home against a team we should be beating.
I got slated by my mates for saying we will probably end up 3rd but it would not surprise me.
All to be forgotten when we muller Millwall and QPR and Sheff Utd lose to Sheff Weds.

I thought gruev was good today.  possibly one of our better players as he had very little help in there.
Portsmouth, as expected, played it like a cup final but even though we were off it should still have won.
long way to go yet, but we need 3 points on Wednesday.
not getting a striker in is proving, as we on here thought, a big error.
I know piroe had a mare today but he gets injured we are really in trouble

also that tiny pitch helped them hugely. our full backs and wingers had next to nothing to work with and got crowded out

I agree. Glad you’re here to moderate. Cheers.

One of those games where nothing went right and we got no luck.


Another game where we should have had a penalty, and you’d expect Piroe to slot those two chances. 


I also thought James could have given it to Solomon earlier but Solomon’s touch let him down. 


We made a lot of bad choices and sloppy passes.


Probably Tanakas worse game for us, and as usual Meslier should have done better for their goal. 

agree with all that. another day we score 4 or 5 easily

It’s easy to say when you’re way up in the stands or sat watching on telly , but the point is James played the percentage pass. The defender that was in between James and Solomon was not a hologram, it was an actual human being that you cannot pass a ball through. If James played the ball early to Solomon on the deck it would have been behind the defender and consequently slightly behind Solomon slowing him down. Ideally James could have played the ball over the top of the defender early, but then Solomon was controlling a ball with possibly his head, his chest or an awkward bouncing ball slowing him down. It’s also a lot harder pass to execute at speed. James eventually played the percentage ball, one on the deck, easier to control and not behind his team mate, right in front of the goal. The point is Solomon made a mess of it, and when he pulled it back to Piroe he missed the easiest chance of the season.  If either Solomon or Piroe had shown anything like the competence of James the ball would have been in the back of the net.  The ball ultimately ended up in the perfect and almost unmissable position, 6 yards out in front of an empty goal, so James part in it becomes absolutely irrelevant