Pre-season Faves v Pre-season Faves (Pompey v Donny)

[K-Win]

Looking forward to this one. We get the chance to once again collectively stick our fingers in our ears and try to ignore our woeful away form.

Donny should come at us given their strong front line and we should see plenty of goalmouth action. Expecting Chaplin to keep his place and would like to see the criminally underused Lalkovic start instead of Naismith.

 

[WAP]

This should be a good game, can't see us keeping a clean sheet but we're lethal in front of goal at the moment (home).

 

[DearneValleyRover]

Well we cant keep a clean sheet either expecting goals but also a loss.

 

[Don Tonberry]

We need to win this with trips to bogey team Orient and league leaders Plymouth coming up afterwards.

 

[DearneValleyRover]

How are the ex Rovers doing, Stevens, Lalkovic, Main and Bennett?

 

[antn1.b]

inconsistent really. Bennett was last year's scapegoat in my opinion. never fails to amaze me that our fans embrace a player like ertl then Slag of any one that's willing to try the unusual.

 

[WAP]

How are the ex Rovers doing, Stevens, Lalkovic, Main and Bennett?

How are the ex Rovers doing, Stevens, Lalkovic, Main and Bennett?

Stevens has been great, finally got a left back who can do abit of everything.

Bennett has found himself in and out of the team this season, perhaps abit inconsistent but he's been a success.

Lalkovic looks really good, very skilfull and finally got a goal last week.

Main is ahead of Smith at the moment in the pecking order but Chaplin has been quality last few weeks so unless we go 4-4-2 at home one of them will be dropped.

 

[DearneValleyRover]

Main was our scapegoat, Bennett appears to be the same as he was with us. Stevens was definitely a loss.

 

[DearneValleyRover]

Cracking win, can't believe Fergie went to shut up shop 20 mins from the end but we got away with it, oh and where did the fantasy 6mins injury time come from?

 

[WAP]

The 6 minutes came from all the time wasting/your players going down.

The first 30 minutes let us down, we kept creating chances and did pretty much everything but score towards the end. 2 tough away games now where we need to bounce back.

 

[Hooped Wizard]

Another win against a nothing side, need to keep these coming after last weeks disaster.

 

[K-Win]

"nothing side" - ouch!

Thought we deserved a point at least to be fair, nothing seemed to drop for us in the area.

Worryingly we're handing the opposition goals at the moment. Big Forde mistake for the first and then the defence failed to deal with a straight-forward punt into the area for the second. Williams is absolute class at this level though and could have had a couple more.

I don't agree that Donny sat back in the final 20. Kept two strikers high up the pitch and really disrupted our passing out from the back.

For us, the warning signs from last season are there again I think. We're just a reactive team at the moment. We always seem to wait for the other team to score before we come to life.