What an unbelievably appalling night that was. Hope the video goes some way to give you a sense of the story of the evening. Thanks for watching as always.
Firstly young man, credit to you, your four nil team and the rest of our fans for making the trip on a Wednesday night. That in itself is applaudable. Secondly, I salute you on your post match thoughts. You struck the balance between demonstrating how seething you were, whilst also rationally verbalising what you had witnessed. I never thought I’d hear you described our beloved Pompey as an ‘abject failure’ and ‘disgusting’ on this channel but you were well within your rights to do so. I also like the canvas analogy. Fratton Park on Saturday demands of us the most unimaginable response from last nights turgid and insipid dross. Thanks for all your efforts, Tom.
SAFC fan here. Terrible night for your amazing travelling fans but I remember losing 1-5 at home to Stoke back in March 23 and then the next game we won 0-1 at Norwich. Very bad nights just happen now and then! Keep the faith
Stoke fan here pompey fans are best ive seen down stoke for years an absolute credit to the football club and a good laugh.....wishing you all the best for rest of season
It’s a long season lads and very unforgiving. You gave us a good game (I’m a Claret) and your support is class. Keep believing and keep supporting your Team and you’ll be fine. 👍
I'll be honest I'm a stoke fan, we went quiet about 70 mins in, I think we were all in shock 😂 and the fact we could relax and watch the game was something we're not used to😂
Cov fan here hoping you guys can turn it around great club and great fans, good to have you back in the championship hopefully you stay up, looking forward to going Fratton park in December one of the stand out fixtures this season, good luck for the rest of the season (except when you play us :p)
An absolute Shambles....well done for your epic descriptions of what you just witnessed. This must be a watershed moment in what must be our worst defeat on 30 years. I remember the 4-1 York drubbing in I think 2016 was a wake up call but this defeat dwarfs that. I expect some serious changes for Saturday eg Moxon start, Saydee also has to start as well as Schmidt.
Wake up Mr Eisner you have to spend serious money in this league to survive,players like Robertson and Kamara should not even be considered as expensive
Firstly well done Tom for completing the blog under such duress. We came away confused, in a state of disbelief and angry at what we’d just witnessed. Where do you start? There’s the old adage, “If you can’t win, Don’t get beat” So with this in mind where are there any remnants of anything resembling a settled side this season? Where’s the foundations? The settled back four? Surely that’s where it all starts and was the blueprint for last season. if you have three wingers on the pitch Murphy, Lane and Blair what are their roles? Nobody got back to support Zac and how many times was he facing a 2 on 1 situation? Overrun in midfield, but nothing was done to change our formation. What does Owen Moxon have to do to even break into the squad? I could go on.
To many young players I know the investment for young player maybe good for the future but we need established ones for now. If pack gets injured what have we got. Great support great video tom.
What we saw was a stunningly effective strategy from a really bright manager. He had seen that we start very tentatively, and he told his players to shoot every time they got a glimpse of goal. What that onslaught did was to mentally undermine the team. We watched a moral collapse. I've been on the receiving end of a couple of those, not in football (which I've never really played) but in rugby, (which I played for forty-five years). When a team loses it in the head it seems like the opposition have twice as many players on the field as you do and it is really hard to turn it around. Now, the bad bit was not that, but that having turned it around, against the odds, they then let it all go again. This team does that - at the end of the first half and at the end of the game, and that caused a return of the moral collapse. Five goals down, we were still passing back to Norris from deep in Stoke's half. They have to stop that. This is the pivotal moment of the season. I did wonder how much the hard start to the season had affected the team mentally - it's hard to remember that only a couple of points were expected by this point at the start of the season when you are under the cosh for six weeks. But now we will see if we stay up or go down. The team will either change attitude and attack the rest of the season, or the mental scars from that will undermine them all the way to May. Next game will tell us - it will be one or the other. We will also see what Mous is made of, because the job of turning this around mentally is his and his alone. PUP.
@@expatalan6511 Yes and no. 1. There's a long way to go in the season. 2. Mous learns fast. It took him half a season to work out how to get everything functioning in League one. He will do the same here. 3. If by the January window things clearly need fast improvement, I trust Rich to be on it. 4. Rich had a strategy last year which worked very well. It has worked less well this time, but he will learn too! 5. Rich did different things in the January window than he did in the summer. This will be the same. 6. Last year the players grew into it, and there is a good chance they will do the same this year. 7. I am certain we will stay up! Well, nearly certain...
Credit to pompy fans, great following mid week and noisy all game even after the 6th went in, im a stokie and pompy spme of the best fans down here for a while, good luck for the rest of the season lads 👊
I cant believe that your mindset is, " we are now on a run of games where we can start picking up some wins". Particularly when the majority of those games are against seasonsond championship clubs. I think thats also your players problem. if your not a Burnley or Leeds or a Sheff Utd, "the commitment doesnt need to be as intense,". thats what I saw last night watching your game. The so called lesser deemed championship clubs will be licking their lips faced with such arrogance.
I watched the game from my home in Canada and as a Pompey fan of 60 years +, who grew up 10 minutes from FP I was honestly sickened to my stomach from that display. I have seen some terrible, inept Pompey teams over the years but I have NEVER witnessed a cowardly display like that. If we had lost 6 . 1 and had 5 or 6 yellow cards to prove some fight as underdogs maybe, just maybe it would have helped, but the wretched snivelling, whipped dog performance should never be repeated. Many of those players really need to take a long hard look in a mirror and ask themselves if they really have the cajones to represent our fantastic supporter and club. We also need to address the recruitment of this bunch of lightweight - in body and soul - specimens. On reflection the club needed to acquire 5 or 6 hardened championship professionals. I wonder if promotion was an inconvenient over achievement for our owners who seem desperately reluctant to finance a realistic and sustainable platform for Pompey to establish themselves in this division.
We got back this morning at 2am from Stoke, It hurt losing like that but we need to forget about it and move on luckily not long until the next game and hopefully get a reaction, Keep the faith, PUP.
Whilst the defeat did not surprise me, its scale and manner did!!!! What a shame this performance removed the smile from your face after Bournemouth's good performance on Sunday! Yes, I have a soft spot for Bournemouth!!!
Time to play Crystal Palace's 'bouncebackability' card from 2003/4 !! There's nothing we can do about the past 8 games, so let's put it behind us and focus on the 38 games left to play - there are still 114 points still up for grabs !! PUP !!!
Morning lads shame the team did not turn up like the fans did you did us proud the blue army just hope we can start to get it to work and get some points play up pompey keep the faith
Thanks for the video Tom. I have watched some turgid Pompey performances since my first game in 1976, but that was up there with the worst of them last night. One of the (many) things that gripes me is the constant back to Norris from throw ins in the opposition half, within two touches we've gone from almost the edge of the opponents box to Norris, for him to leather it up the park and give it to them; we might as well just give them the throw in. Lane and Blair looked out of it, Blair needs to toughen up and get stuck in, take players on (Murphy was the one bright spark last night), Lane just looks a bit lost and is not reading the ball well enough. A couple of times we were making runs - O'Mahoney and Murphy - expecting to receive the ball from deep but the ball never came, it was again passed around the back four; we seem scared to go direct unless Norris is hoofing it. Some changes and a major reaction needed Saturday.
No excuses from me - we were dreadful. Embarrassing. I've seen some shite over the years; but that's one of the worst performances I've ever seen from my team. I love this club, but that's beyond unacceptable. Heads should roll!
I feel your pain. We lost 4-0 and 6-1 there last season. You are a credit to your club and one of the best footie channels on You Tube. It will get better.
I thought hmmm after the Sunderland result, but this seals it. Eiseners trying to run Pompey on a shoestring, you can't do that in the Championship. Would be such a pity to get immediately relegated. Good that we found out now. I don't blame the manager. You saw what the players were doing, or not doing. So let's get a grip. Plenty of games to go.
Bless all the great fans that went to Stoke for a mid week game......but that was about it Tom ! We looked so out of our depth, so little belief, complete rabbits in the headlights. For a couple of minutes after our goal we seemed to play a little better, or was it Stoke who were shocked ?! As you said, from rock bottom you either stay on the canvas, or get up and prove yourself. PUP
You called it, right up there with Orient. Possibly the Barker era, but at least we knew he was on borrowed time...which is not what the majority want here. The reaction on Saturday is massive to see
Tremendous support from Portsmouth fans last night. Travelling up to our shit-hole & back 😆. Very very impressed. You lot kept singing throughout the game ...with your own little light show at the end, with the mobile phones. I sincerely hope you stay up, Portsmouth have always had great passionate fans, the opposite to Southampton 😄 Last time we won 6-1 at home was Gerrards last game with Liverpool. Good luck for the rest of the season
I did fear this , we've got good league one players and some talented youngsters from bigger clubs with not much league experience but it's a big step up and we aren't able to keep concentration and energy . Conceeding early and just before intervals shows that . To be honest I've seen some awful games over the years and I'm glad it was only the radio . Credit to the fans , they were all you could hear .
My thoughts exactly, but what about all those injuries. " Freak" injuries seem to be coming the norm, no one near them. Team mates clobbering each other. Buying expensive players like Poole, a couple of games , out for rest of season. Add McIntyre ditto. Bowat injures himself in training, kicking a football, well what would you expect doing a silly thing like that! Out for the season for a 500k signing. We've got some class players, --- sorry typing error, I meant Glass players. Stop warmups before matches as they cause injuries. I could go on but these comments aside, as a lifelong Pompey fan, I hope they can get their act together and stay in the Championship. PUP.
Thanks for making the video Tom & Co - I think all your subscribers would have understood if you hadn't bothered. All Pompey fans can recall some shocking performances and low points, but last night had the extra element of being humiliating.
The squad just isn't good enough for the championship. I was worried before the season started and I'm even more worried now. We look lightweight and clumsy all over the pitch, the defence is leaking like a sieve and we don't carry much threat going forward. That's not a good combination. A result like that has been coming all season. We've been very lucky at times, but tonight our luck ran out big time. Stoke away in midweek is a tough game and I think the players were complacent, believing this would be an easy game after playing all the promotion contenders already. Hopefully this will be a wake up call. There are no easy games in the championship and we should approach them all knowing we are the underdogs trying to establish ourselves in a league that is vastly superior to league 1. That should be our mindset. Maybe they will finally understand that after this drubbing. I just hope we can do some good business in January because if we don't bring in some experienced championship players we are likely to be relegated on what I've seen so far this season.
Horrible to watch last night. Completely agree with everything you say . Three of those goals started with us being in Stokes half, we decided to either throw it or pass it back & we’ve been caught out. We aren’t good enough to play like this , we need more up front & we must go forward more ,I’m fed up with seeing a different 11 every game it’s so frustrating. We are always set up not too loose rather than win a game . Also why take so long to make changes , just do it FFS . Saturday we need a performance & a result, no excuses.
Great support as ever, a credit to the club but performance wise, SHOCKING! These are the games now we need to be taking points from, and to be embarrassed 6-1 at STOKE, is not what we needed going forward. I said it start of the season mousinho will be found out for lack of experience this season and it is looking like this could be the case. Winning league 1 in style is 1 thing but the championship takes no prisoners and if we not careful this season is gonna be a horrible relegation battle
I went to this game and enjoyed my team winning 6-1. I have just come all the way from Australia to see my team Stoke! In fairness Pompey were second class all night and were not up to it. I fear they may not be good enough for the Championship.
I’m hoping it’s a bad night, we have looks surprisingly convincing against all the big sides we have played so far, this has been the only performance that has had me super worried.
I feel we are really missing Joe morell in midfield. His tenacity and enthusiasm. Yes he has got sent off a few times but he is so passionate and a better midfield player than the ones we signed in the summer
I wasn’t at the game last night as I was out and about in Portsmouth. I saw a TV screen that showed Stoke had scored and that the goal scorer was T. Cannon. Later in the evening when I saw the final score, I thought the other 5 goal scorers would have been B. Ball, R. Barker, R. Corbett, E. Morecombe and E. Wise. Keep the faith people. It was just one dreadful game. Only one direction to go from this. PUP. 😀
Hello Tom like as your good self I'm Pompey 100% but I'm 65 years of age and seen many disappointments over the years. But impo yes it's still early but we will get relagated the nucleus of players brought in are not proven at this level. Again impo playing league 1 players from last season is a risk at this level its a different kettle of fish the championship as we have seen unfortunately anyone can see were miles of the pace. John Mousinho is looking a worried coach you can see it in his body language after match interviews Colby Bishops return hopefully soon but can he make a difference i hope so but he's not proven at this level oxford Saturday!!
People forget, Mousinho performed an absolute miracle to win the league last year. We were always going to be fighting relegation, especially with no Bishop. That performance was disgraceful (I turned off at half time) but the unrealistic expectations of our supporters is utterly embarrassing.
Those players are not fit to wear the shirt of our famous old club. There was zero fight in them and a complete lack of pride. Norris has to be dropped for Saturday. How can we go from an excellent defensive display against Sheffield Utd to this debacle? Not forgetting what we achieved last season
After two good performances against Burnley and Sheffield United, somehow Mousinho and the players seemed totally unprepared for Stoke. The game on Saturday against Oxford is almost a must-win now.
I feel flabbergasted. I have spent 4 hours at work chatting with my best friend all about it. He is a plymouth fan so knows all about crap games. He couldn't believe that portsmouth would be worse to watch that plymouths opening game but sadly it was terrible. My experience was getting home late and I turned all notifications off as I wanted to the watch the game on sky from the beginning, but ad the screen loaded with its low resolution I peak the stoke score to see it look like an 8......I was like if stoke got 8 how many did we get and once it loaded it cleared up to 6-1.....I just slumped in the chair went to face book and saw 100s of pompy fans kicking off. What a sad night indeed. We have to turn this around asap and those lads have to seriously sort out any background or changing room drama. It seems like they don't gel that well on the pitch, even like they ain't friends....which seems to cause alot of frustration and mis communication. If I was JM I would get the lads spending time to sort there differences out. ( I could be wrong but it seems they are distant or winding each other up). I could go on but when you hit the lows of that you got to turn it around. Maybe we can get a win against Oxford but I feel they are looking at us and don't feel worried. Let's hope the lads can put on a performance worth of the hard work they did to gwt in this leauge. To cheer you up tom I bought a subscription as I did promise you a beer last week. 🎉 😂 Take care 😊
I've never had much time for the Eisners. I certainly don't give them any credit for winning promotion. I doubt they really care what league Pompey are in. They should be asking themselves: how can a small club like Bournemouth - for almost their entire history a division or more below Pompey - now be a (more or less) established EPL club and streets ahead of Pompey?
First time we’ve conceded 6 goals since we lost to Manchester City 6-0 in the premier league back in 2008. Starting to get a little bit worried now. I think we’re in for a long season.
We should of had something from that game off the back of the Sheffield U game just assume the players didn't fancy a wednesday evening is Stoke! Shocking!
That was supposed to be our first "easier" game...but we've been due a thrashing this season after picking up some draws on the road, despite being played off the park. Every player was terrible last night. Beyond Murphy, Pack, Poole, Shaughnessy and maybe Potts, we don't have players that are Championship standard. Mousinho is culpable for the thrashing last night by not substituting Norris immediately after the first goal and others at HT. When Norris lets a soft goal in early, he always goes on to be a disaster the rest of the game.
My Dad said to me earlier, it was perhaps the kind of scoreline we could've been on the receiving end of at Leeds on the opening day. Putting it right Saturday is the biggest imperative in years. Thanks for watching.
You should never ever write off Stoke on their own patch. Stoke can be as good as any team in this league, they can also be as bad too! Stoke have very very good players. They lack consistency.
Hi there Tom. Firstly, I must say massive well done to you and Andrew and all the fans that made the journey up to the game on a fairly cold Wednesday night and kept singing till the end. You guys did us proud. It's a pity the team didn't seem to turn up too against Stoke last night. I have to be honest and say that was the worst performance I have seen from us so far this season. After going behind I thought we responded well to get back into it considering the pressure they piled on us in the first 15-20 minutes of the game. But from the moment we conceded again we just seemed to fall apart completely. Absolute capitulation. At the back defensively we were abysmal and it's just baffling how we can go from a very good draw and a clean sheet last Saturday to a poor performance like that. We need to see a massive response from the lads now against Oxford because that simply wasn't good enough. I just think at the moment we're not quite good enough at this level and changes need to be made in January to bolster the team. I just hope we don't find ourselves too far behind the rest of the pack by then. I think you hit the nail on the head Tom when you said you can either fight or stay down on the canvas. Well we need to see a massive fight from the lads against Oxford don't we? They owe it to us. It is what it is I guess, but as you always say Tom let's keep the faith. Win or lose, play up Pompey.
YES, could hear the chants all the way through BUT embarrassing. SO MUCH for "we will pick up points against mid table teams." I called it. Its all about selecting right starters for particular games, not "rotation". One example, I could not believe the Mouse didnt have Saydee on from start to play destroyer in midfield. (ask Andrew about Tate) PLUS kept saying we have to drop the two would keep losing ball and giving free kicks away. Its obvious who they are, and its not Ogs. AND please, NO MORE "PLAYING" FROM THE BACK, Dorking can do that, we cant.
Well Tom, where do we start could have been 1-0 down in the 1st minute if it wasn’t for the cross bar, it really set the tone for the match! I think we are lucky that it wasn’t 8-1, I wouldn’t be surprised if Norris has back ache after picking the ball out of the net so many times! So many players didn’t turn up & I don’t believe that John Mousinho should be apologising to the fans but all the players should be as they are the individuals who wear the shirt. Alan Ball famously said people went to war for this city well it felt like we turned up with a water pistol & a few water bombs!
I feel this is a good snap shot of what being in the championship with a league 1 budget, I think we have over performed and opponents under performed in previous games, we need some more championship quality in the first team, the youngsters are for the next couple of years not now.
I'm a Stoke fan and didn't see that coming,we have been really poor just lately,good luck to you for the rest of the season apart from when we play you next
We're down and out at this rate. We've absolutely imploded at Stoke with an embarrassing and absolutely dreadful performance. Need a response against Oxford on Saturday otherwise we're in deep trouble. Only positive was O'Mahony's goal and that's it. Need to do tons better than this, PUP. 😡🔹️🔷️🔵💙 #Pompey
I really look forward to your videos, but this morning I watched through squinted eyes and gritted teeth. I dont know where to begin. I just hope we pull something out of the bag Saturday or all the positivity and good will from last year will instantly dry up.
It was embarrassing and I feel for al that travelled but hopefully that’s just a serious blip and we pull it back at Oxford. Keep heads up we could all be feeling different by the end of the month. PUP
Hi Tom Tough one to take and you summed it up perfectly. This Pompey team is so bad where do you start? Decision time is coming soon for Mr.Eisner. How much do you want championship football? If it was me, Mousinho and Hughes would be shown the door. We have to try and save the season….. 👍🏻⭐️🌙
Stoke fans atmosphere was almost embarrassing as our performance, back home on Saturday we expect big changes, Norris out, ogilvi out, midfield looked disgusting
Need a huge response on Saturday. That was utterly appalling. In a decent position following that fixture start but the points will have to start coming and fast.
Absolutely gutted. Every positive from the opening 7 games now feels redundant. The biggest of responses required on Saturday otherwise this could get away from us very, very quickly. Let's see how the team reacts as that's one thing we have never said Mous' Blues can't do, with aplomb. Fantastic video nonetheless mate, onto Saturday. PUP 💙
HIT FOR SIX! ⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️Don’t think I’ve ever witnessed such an incredibly poor Pompey loss before! This loss was made particularly worse as we’ve been playing so well back up in The Championship, our worse game so far to date, come on Pompey, please turn this season around on Saturday against Oxford Utd?
My friend was texting me from the ground, because the game was 8PM MIDWEEK WHICH IS STUPID. Pompey Vs Stoke will also be 8pm midweek. I'm so sick of the EFL
What an unbelievably appalling night that was. Hope the video goes some way to give you a sense of the story of the evening. Thanks for watching as always.
You done well to keep filming ! It's a shame your team can't be nowhere near as good as your supporters ! Hopefully you guys turn things around.
Firstly young man, credit to you, your four nil team and the rest of our fans for making the trip on a Wednesday night. That in itself is applaudable.
Secondly, I salute you on your post match thoughts. You struck the balance between demonstrating how seething you were, whilst also rationally verbalising what you had witnessed. I never thought I’d hear you described our beloved Pompey as an ‘abject failure’ and ‘disgusting’ on this channel but you were well within your rights to do so.
I also like the canvas analogy. Fratton Park on Saturday demands of us the most unimaginable response from last nights turgid and insipid dross. Thanks for all your efforts, Tom.
I'm glad the video came across that way Brian, really grateful for your feedback. Thanks very much for watching.
SAFC fan here. Terrible night for your amazing travelling fans but I remember losing 1-5 at home to Stoke back in March 23 and then the next game we won 0-1 at Norwich. Very bad nights just happen now and then! Keep the faith
I’m a Sunderland supporter from South Wales and travelled 1,200 miles to watch that game😂😂
From a stoke fan All teams go through this we did last year against Leicester. it will make u lot stronger hope u guys stay up.
Oxford and Derby invested wisely in the summer whereas we seemed to have made ourselves weaker and shopped in Temu for new players
temu 😀😃😄😁😆😅🤣😂
You bought oxford shit striker we bought 2 better ones with money
"A real opportunity for Pompey's first elusive win... " LOL
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Stoke fan here pompey fans are best ive seen down stoke for years an absolute credit to the football club and a good laugh.....wishing you all the best for rest of season
stoke fan great video and brilliant support by portsmouth all the best for the season now,
It’s a long season lads and very unforgiving. You gave us a good game (I’m a Claret) and your support is class. Keep believing and keep supporting your Team and you’ll be fine. 👍
Credit to the fans last night. In a library of a stadium and 6-1 down, they did the team and city proud.
Library? It was pretty loud where I was sitting.
Sorry mate, still the loudest.. 😆
I'll be honest I'm a stoke fan, we went quiet about 70 mins in, I think we were all in shock 😂 and the fact we could relax and watch the game was something we're not used to😂
The singing police 😂
Always the ones who are shite deflecting on atmosphere, screams insecurity
Cov fan here hoping you guys can turn it around great club and great fans, good to have you back in the championship hopefully you stay up, looking forward to going Fratton park in December one of the stand out fixtures this season, good luck for the rest of the season (except when you play us :p)
An absolute Shambles....well done for your epic descriptions of what you just witnessed. This must be a watershed moment in what must be our worst defeat on 30 years. I remember the 4-1 York drubbing in I think 2016 was a wake up call but this defeat dwarfs that.
I expect some serious changes for Saturday eg Moxon start, Saydee also has to start as well as Schmidt.
Great fan vod mate, you guys were brilliant in the stands, good luck for the season. Up the Potters.
Wake up Mr Eisner you have to spend serious money in this league to survive,players like Robertson and Kamara should not even be considered as expensive
Firstly well done Tom for completing the blog under such duress. We came away confused, in a state of disbelief and angry at what we’d just witnessed. Where do you start? There’s the old adage, “If you can’t win, Don’t get beat” So with this in mind where are there any remnants of anything resembling a settled side this season? Where’s the foundations? The settled back four? Surely that’s where it all starts and was the blueprint for last season. if you have three wingers on the pitch Murphy, Lane and Blair what are their roles? Nobody got back to support Zac and how many times was he facing a 2 on 1 situation? Overrun in midfield, but nothing was done to change our formation. What does Owen Moxon have to do to even break into the squad? I could go on.
To many young players I know the investment for young player maybe good for the future but we need established ones for now. If pack gets injured what have we got. Great support great video tom.
What we saw was a stunningly effective strategy from a really bright manager. He had seen that we start very tentatively, and he told his players to shoot every time they got a glimpse of goal. What that onslaught did was to mentally undermine the team. We watched a moral collapse. I've been on the receiving end of a couple of those, not in football (which I've never really played) but in rugby, (which I played for forty-five years). When a team loses it in the head it seems like the opposition have twice as many players on the field as you do and it is really hard to turn it around. Now, the bad bit was not that, but that having turned it around, against the odds, they then let it all go again. This team does that - at the end of the first half and at the end of the game, and that caused a return of the moral collapse.
Five goals down, we were still passing back to Norris from deep in Stoke's half. They have to stop that.
This is the pivotal moment of the season. I did wonder how much the hard start to the season had affected the team mentally - it's hard to remember that only a couple of points were expected by this point at the start of the season when you are under the cosh for six weeks. But now we will see if we stay up or go down. The team will either change attitude and attack the rest of the season, or the mental scars from that will undermine them all the way to May. Next game will tell us - it will be one or the other.
We will also see what Mous is made of, because the job of turning this around mentally is his and his alone. PUP.
No chance of staying up, but it shouldn’t save Mousinho and Hughes jobs. Poor recruitment, poor preparation and poor tactics got us here………😩
@@expatalan6511 Yes and no.
1. There's a long way to go in the season.
2. Mous learns fast. It took him half a season to work out how to get everything functioning in League one. He will do the same here.
3. If by the January window things clearly need fast improvement, I trust Rich to be on it.
4. Rich had a strategy last year which worked very well. It has worked less well this time, but he will learn too!
5. Rich did different things in the January window than he did in the summer. This will be the same.
6. Last year the players grew into it, and there is a good chance they will do the same this year.
7. I am certain we will stay up! Well, nearly certain...
Credit to pompy fans, great following mid week and noisy all game even after the 6th went in, im a stokie and pompy spme of the best fans down here for a while, good luck for the rest of the season lads 👊
I cant believe that your mindset is, " we are now on a run of games where we can start picking up some wins". Particularly when the majority of those games are against seasonsond championship clubs. I think thats also your players problem. if your not a Burnley or Leeds or a Sheff Utd, "the commitment doesnt need to be as intense,". thats what I saw last night watching your game. The so called lesser deemed championship clubs will be licking their lips faced with such arrogance.
Need to drop Norris against Oxford absolute nightmare between the sticks!!!
100%
Something very wrong last night. Real sense of worry right now.
I watched the game from my home in Canada and as a Pompey fan of 60 years +, who grew up 10 minutes from FP I was honestly sickened to my stomach from that display. I have seen some terrible, inept Pompey teams over the years but I have NEVER witnessed a cowardly display like that. If we had lost 6 . 1 and had 5 or 6 yellow cards to prove some fight as underdogs maybe, just maybe it would have helped, but the wretched snivelling, whipped dog performance should never be repeated. Many of those players really need to take a long hard look in a mirror and ask themselves if they really have the cajones to represent our fantastic supporter and club. We also need to address the recruitment of this bunch of lightweight - in body and soul - specimens. On reflection the club needed to acquire 5 or 6 hardened championship professionals. I wonder if promotion was an inconvenient over achievement for our owners who seem desperately reluctant to finance a realistic and sustainable platform for Pompey to establish themselves in this division.
We got back this morning at 2am from Stoke, It hurt losing like that but we need to forget about it and move on luckily not long until the next game and hopefully get a reaction, Keep the faith, PUP.
See you Saturday Teddy
Whilst the defeat did not surprise me, its scale and manner did!!!! What a shame this performance removed the smile from your face after Bournemouth's good performance on Sunday! Yes, I have a soft spot for Bournemouth!!!
Respect again to our support. Should have invested it's a big step up. I hope that the players learn something Thanks Tom and friends. PUP
The ref pointed the other way for a free kick then gave the penalty, madness
6-1, nobody saw that coming 😂
Time to play Crystal Palace's 'bouncebackability' card from 2003/4 !! There's nothing we can do about the past 8 games, so let's put it behind us and focus on the 38 games left to play - there are still 114 points still up for grabs !! PUP !!!
Cheap option players have made us the whipping boys of the league. I’d be surprised if we win a game this season
Brilliant support mate. but stoke let you off the last half hour
You’ve done well there mate under those embarrassing circumstances
Morning lads shame the team did not turn up like the fans did you did us proud the blue army just hope we can start to get it to work and get some points play up pompey keep the faith
Don't think we'll be doing an Ipswich this season!
Thanks for the video Tom. I have watched some turgid Pompey performances since my first game in 1976, but that was up there with the worst of them last night. One of the (many) things that gripes me is the constant back to Norris from throw ins in the opposition half, within two touches we've gone from almost the edge of the opponents box to Norris, for him to leather it up the park and give it to them; we might as well just give them the throw in. Lane and Blair looked out of it, Blair needs to toughen up and get stuck in, take players on (Murphy was the one bright spark last night), Lane just looks a bit lost and is not reading the ball well enough. A couple of times we were making runs - O'Mahoney and Murphy - expecting to receive the ball from deep but the ball never came, it was again passed around the back four; we seem scared to go direct unless Norris is hoofing it. Some changes and a major reaction needed Saturday.
No excuses from me - we were dreadful. Embarrassing. I've seen some shite over the years; but that's one of the worst performances I've ever seen from my team. I love this club, but that's beyond unacceptable. Heads should roll!
Never mind alarm bells ringing !! Everytime I think of pompy it's that bloody bloke in the away end ringing his bell !!!!! 🔔 😂
Great Vlog!🙌🏻
Well done Potters
I feel your pain. We lost 4-0 and 6-1 there last season. You are a credit to your club and one of the best footie channels on You Tube. It will get better.
I thought hmmm after the Sunderland result, but this seals it. Eiseners trying to run Pompey on a shoestring, you can't do that in the Championship. Would be such a pity to get immediately relegated. Good that we found out now. I don't blame the manager. You saw what the players were doing, or not doing. So let's get a grip. Plenty of games to go.
That must have been a tough watch for you pompey fans. Fair play to you though. You came in numbers and sang ya hearts out 👍🏽
Come on you potters ❤️🤍
Bless all the great fans that went to Stoke for a mid week game......but that was about it Tom ! We looked so out of our depth, so little belief, complete rabbits in the headlights. For a couple of minutes after our goal we seemed to play a little better, or was it Stoke who were shocked ?! As you said, from rock bottom you either stay on the canvas, or get up and prove yourself. PUP
You called it, right up there with Orient. Possibly the Barker era, but at least we knew he was on borrowed time...which is not what the majority want here. The reaction on Saturday is massive to see
Gallows humour, didn’t think I would hear it in the first week of October, great video Tom, PUP.....Saturday Oxford must win
Thanks for watching as always
If we lose Saturday, then I think some certain boos will start appearing
Tremendous support from Portsmouth fans last night. Travelling up to our shit-hole & back 😆. Very very impressed. You lot kept singing throughout the game ...with your own little light show at the end, with the mobile phones. I sincerely hope you stay up, Portsmouth have always had great passionate fans, the opposite to Southampton 😄 Last time we won 6-1 at home was Gerrards last game with Liverpool. Good luck for the rest of the season
Great Support from you Tom but as Champions last year cannot believe your start
I did fear this , we've got good league one players and some talented youngsters from bigger clubs with not much league experience but it's a big step up and we aren't able to keep concentration and energy . Conceeding early and just before intervals shows that . To be honest I've seen some awful games over the years and I'm glad it was only the radio . Credit to the fans , they were all you could hear .
My thoughts exactly, but what about all those injuries. " Freak" injuries seem to be coming the norm, no one near them. Team mates clobbering each other. Buying expensive players like Poole, a couple of games , out for rest of season. Add McIntyre ditto. Bowat injures himself in training, kicking a football, well what would you expect doing a silly thing like that! Out for the season for a 500k signing. We've got some class players, --- sorry typing error, I meant Glass players. Stop warmups before matches as they cause injuries. I could go on but these comments aside, as a lifelong Pompey fan, I hope they can get their act together and stay in the Championship. PUP.
Going back to league one yous 😂😂
Thanks for making the video Tom & Co - I think all your subscribers would have understood if you hadn't bothered. All Pompey fans can recall some shocking performances and low points, but last night had the extra element of being humiliating.
The squad just isn't good enough for the championship. I was worried before the season started and I'm even more worried now.
We look lightweight and clumsy all over the pitch, the defence is leaking like a sieve and we don't carry much threat going forward. That's not a good combination. A result like that has been coming all season. We've been very lucky at times, but tonight our luck ran out big time.
Stoke away in midweek is a tough game and I think the players were complacent, believing this would be an easy game after playing all the promotion contenders already. Hopefully this will be a wake up call. There are no easy games in the championship and we should approach them all knowing we are the underdogs trying to establish ourselves in a league that is vastly superior to league 1. That should be our mindset. Maybe they will finally understand that after this drubbing.
I just hope we can do some good business in January because if we don't bring in some experienced championship players we are likely to be relegated on what I've seen so far this season.
It’s going to be a long season for you, with the support by Pompey fans the players need to up their game
The players and management should be forced to watch this video.
Horrible to watch last night.
Completely agree with everything you say .
Three of those goals started with us being in Stokes half, we decided to either throw it or pass it back & we’ve been caught out.
We aren’t good enough to play like this , we need more up front &
we must go forward more ,I’m fed up with seeing a different 11 every game it’s so frustrating.
We are always set up not too loose rather than win a game .
Also why take so long to make changes , just do it FFS .
Saturday we need a performance & a result, no excuses.
Great support as ever, a credit to the club but performance wise, SHOCKING! These are the games now we need to be taking points from, and to be embarrassed 6-1 at STOKE, is not what we needed going forward.
I said it start of the season mousinho will be found out for lack of experience this season and it is looking like this could be the case.
Winning league 1 in style is 1 thing but the championship takes no prisoners and if we not careful this season is gonna be a horrible relegation battle
Cannon and Stoke midfield pressed well, we played the ball backwards, gave silly free kicks and they were too strong for us.
It's like watching a Greek tragedy.
I went to this game and enjoyed my team winning 6-1. I have just come all the way from Australia to see my team Stoke! In fairness Pompey were second class all night and were not up to it. I fear they may not be good enough for the Championship.
I’m hoping it’s a bad night, we have looks surprisingly convincing against all the big sides we have played so far, this has been the only performance that has had me super worried.
Rule of the championship, there are no easier games.
I feel we are really missing Joe morell in midfield. His tenacity and enthusiasm. Yes he has got sent off a few times but he is so passionate and a better midfield player than the ones we signed in the summer
I wasn’t at the game last night as I was out and about in Portsmouth.
I saw a TV screen that showed Stoke had scored and that the goal scorer was T. Cannon.
Later in the evening when I saw the final score, I thought the other 5 goal scorers would have been B. Ball, R. Barker, R. Corbett, E. Morecombe and E. Wise.
Keep the faith people. It was just one dreadful game. Only one direction to go from this. PUP. 😀
Well that was unexpected…. No idea what happened. Oxford is a massive game Saturday. Need to bounce back. Fans a credit to the club again 👏
Hello Tom like as your good self I'm Pompey 100% but I'm 65 years of age and seen many disappointments over the years. But impo yes it's still early but we will get relagated the nucleus of players brought in are not proven at this level. Again impo playing league 1 players from last season is a risk at this level its a different kettle of fish the championship as we have seen unfortunately anyone can see were miles of the pace. John Mousinho is looking a worried coach you can see it in his body language after match interviews Colby Bishops return hopefully soon but can he make a difference i hope so but he's not proven at this level oxford Saturday!!
People forget, Mousinho performed an absolute miracle to win the league last year. We were always going to be fighting relegation, especially with no Bishop. That performance was disgraceful (I turned off at half time) but the unrealistic expectations of our supporters is utterly embarrassing.
Those players are not fit to wear the shirt of our famous old club. There was zero fight in them and a complete lack of pride. Norris has to be dropped for Saturday. How can we go from an excellent defensive display against Sheffield Utd to this debacle? Not forgetting what we achieved last season
After two good performances against Burnley and Sheffield United, somehow Mousinho and the players seemed totally unprepared for Stoke. The game on Saturday against Oxford is almost a must-win now.
I feel flabbergasted. I have spent 4 hours at work chatting with my best friend all about it. He is a plymouth fan so knows all about crap games. He couldn't believe that portsmouth would be worse to watch that plymouths opening game but sadly it was terrible.
My experience was getting home late and I turned all notifications off as I wanted to the watch the game on sky from the beginning, but ad the screen loaded with its low resolution I peak the stoke score to see it look like an 8......I was like if stoke got 8 how many did we get and once it loaded it cleared up to 6-1.....I just slumped in the chair went to face book and saw 100s of pompy fans kicking off. What a sad night indeed.
We have to turn this around asap and those lads have to seriously sort out any background or changing room drama. It seems like they don't gel that well on the pitch, even like they ain't friends....which seems to cause alot of frustration and mis communication.
If I was JM I would get the lads spending time to sort there differences out. ( I could be wrong but it seems they are distant or winding each other up).
I could go on but when you hit the lows of that you got to turn it around. Maybe we can get a win against Oxford but I feel they are looking at us and don't feel worried.
Let's hope the lads can put on a performance worth of the hard work they did to gwt in this leauge.
To cheer you up tom I bought a subscription as I did promise you a beer last week. 🎉 😂
Take care 😊
Thanks Tom, tell it how it is, always. PUP
I felt that embarrassment Tom and I was watching from home. It was shameful. Really hope Eisners pay attention to this.
I've never had much time for the Eisners. I certainly don't give them any credit for winning promotion. I doubt they really care what league Pompey are in. They should be asking themselves: how can a small club like Bournemouth - for almost their entire history a division or more below Pompey - now be a (more or less) established EPL club and streets ahead of Pompey?
@@carnalea2424 i’ve always been for the Eisners, but this is certainly a deciding moment.
No commitment at all
First time we’ve conceded 6 goals since we lost to Manchester City 6-0 in the premier league back in 2008.
Starting to get a little bit worried now. I think we’re in for a long season.
Great vlog tom and this was not easy for u all I believe u will be alright
We should of had something from that game off the back of the Sheffield U game just assume the players didn't fancy a wednesday evening is Stoke! Shocking!
That was supposed to be our first "easier" game...but we've been due a thrashing this season after picking up some draws on the road, despite being played off the park. Every player was terrible last night. Beyond Murphy, Pack, Poole, Shaughnessy and maybe Potts, we don't have players that are Championship standard. Mousinho is culpable for the thrashing last night by not substituting Norris immediately after the first goal and others at HT. When Norris lets a soft goal in early, he always goes on to be a disaster the rest of the game.
My Dad said to me earlier, it was perhaps the kind of scoreline we could've been on the receiving end of at Leeds on the opening day. Putting it right Saturday is the biggest imperative in years. Thanks for watching.
You should never ever write off Stoke on their own patch. Stoke can be as good as any team in this league, they can also be as bad too!
Stoke have very very good players. They lack consistency.
Misery loves company. Didn't see that performance coming. WTF was that?!!
Hi there Tom.
Firstly, I must say massive well done to you and Andrew and all the fans that made the journey up to the game on a fairly cold Wednesday night and kept singing till the end. You guys did us proud. It's a pity the team didn't seem to turn up too against Stoke last night. I have to be honest and say that was the worst performance I have seen from us so far this season. After going behind I thought we responded well to get back into it considering the pressure they piled on us in the first 15-20 minutes of the game. But from the moment we conceded again we just seemed to fall apart completely. Absolute capitulation. At the back defensively we were abysmal and it's just baffling how we can go from a very good draw and a clean sheet last Saturday to a poor performance like that. We need to see a massive response from the lads now against Oxford because that simply wasn't good enough. I just think at the moment we're not quite good enough at this level and changes need to be made in January to bolster the team. I just hope we don't find ourselves too far behind the rest of the pack by then. I think you hit the nail on the head Tom when you said you can either fight or stay down on the canvas. Well we need to see a massive fight from the lads against Oxford don't we? They owe it to us. It is what it is I guess, but as you always say Tom let's keep the faith. Win or lose, play up Pompey.
YES, could hear the chants all the way through BUT embarrassing. SO MUCH for "we will pick up points against mid table teams." I called it. Its all about selecting right starters for particular games, not "rotation". One example, I could not believe the Mouse didnt have Saydee on from start to play destroyer in midfield. (ask Andrew about Tate) PLUS kept saying we have to drop the two would keep losing ball and giving free kicks away. Its obvious who they are, and its not Ogs. AND please, NO MORE "PLAYING" FROM THE BACK, Dorking can do that, we cant.
SHAMBOLICK 😮
Well Tom, where do we start could have been 1-0 down in the 1st minute if it wasn’t for the cross bar, it really set the tone for the match! I think we are lucky that it wasn’t 8-1, I wouldn’t be surprised if Norris has back ache after picking the ball out of the net so many times! So many players didn’t turn up & I don’t believe that John Mousinho should be apologising to the fans but all the players should be as they are the individuals who wear the shirt. Alan Ball famously said people went to war for this city well it felt like we turned up with a water pistol & a few water bombs!
I feel this is a good snap shot of what being in the championship with a league 1 budget, I think we have over performed and opponents under performed in previous games, we need some more championship quality in the first team, the youngsters are for the next couple of years not now.
Derby are giving the ball away in midfield turnovers too which is costing us in away games. I'm wondering if it's a learning curve?
Gutted Tom but this was still an excellent video. I love your coverage from the stands.
Glad you enjoyed it Becky
Feel for you guys PUP
We played and had a disastrous game.But i dont se doom and gloom just yet. We must move on and i still think we mill make it in the end
Great Vlog and I hope things pick up for Pompey.
I'm a Stoke fan and didn't see that coming,we have been really poor just lately,good luck to you for the rest of the season apart from when we play you next
We're down and out at this rate. We've absolutely imploded at Stoke with an embarrassing and absolutely dreadful performance. Need a response against Oxford on Saturday otherwise we're in deep trouble. Only positive was O'Mahony's goal and that's it. Need to do tons better than this, PUP. 😡🔹️🔷️🔵💙
#Pompey
West Brom fan here. We've just lost two games playing like Pompey did at Stoke and it's terrible stuff. Really hope you get a result against Oxford
It’s a tough league can’t believe Ipswich got out of it every game is hard not easy game in this league coybs from Ipswich fan
I really look forward to your videos, but this morning I watched through squinted eyes and gritted teeth. I dont know where to begin. I just hope we pull something out of the bag Saturday or all the positivity and good will from last year will instantly dry up.
It was embarrassing and I feel for al that travelled but hopefully that’s just a serious blip and we pull it back at Oxford. Keep heads up we could all be feeling different by the end of the month. PUP
It has to be a blip!
Good vlog, Still following, Burnley fan 👍
You should never write teams off in this league. To say Stoke away is an easy fixture is niave at best.
At no point did any of us say Stoke away is an easy fixture.
Hi Tom
Tough one to take and you summed it up perfectly. This Pompey team is so bad where do you start?
Decision time is coming soon for Mr.Eisner. How much do you want championship football?
If it was me, Mousinho and Hughes would be shown the door. We have to try and save the season…..
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Stoke fans atmosphere was almost embarrassing as our performance, back home on Saturday we expect big changes, Norris out, ogilvi out, midfield looked disgusting
Did we have a midfield?
Need a huge response on Saturday. That was utterly appalling. In a decent position following that fixture start but the points will have to start coming and fast.
Absolutely gutted. Every positive from the opening 7 games now feels redundant. The biggest of responses required on Saturday otherwise this could get away from us very, very quickly. Let's see how the team reacts as that's one thing we have never said Mous' Blues can't do, with aplomb. Fantastic video nonetheless mate, onto Saturday. PUP 💙
HIT FOR SIX! ⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️Don’t think I’ve ever witnessed such an incredibly poor Pompey loss before! This loss was made particularly worse as we’ve been playing so well back up in The Championship, our worse game so far to date, come on Pompey, please turn this season around on Saturday against Oxford Utd?
Maybe at Loftus Road then?
My friend was texting me from the ground, because the game was 8PM MIDWEEK WHICH IS STUPID. Pompey Vs Stoke will also be 8pm midweek. I'm so sick of the EFL
Pompey forever 💙