blue walter
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Hi another Pompey fan here. I thought I would just like to post a comment concerning yesterdays game with our team at Fratton Park. Although I do disagree with some of the comments on here to a degree I would like congratulate your visiting supporters who were very vocal and backed their team throughout the game. We seem to get clubs bringing their biggest followings to Fratton but I was surprised at the turn out of your following. I also thought your team played very well especially when our side surrendered the initiative by bringing on our subs with Ertl being a defensive move. Our home support has not been at its best in recent times, in vocal terms, but we will not be out shouted and your following brought out the best in our crowd in those last 20 minutes. With the Exeter fans making a racket the Pompey fans responded and the noise, along with the exciting game on the pitch, made it a credit to League 2.
I note one or two posts criticise the Referee but we have had some real dodgy refs down here this season and I thought that although yesterdays ref was not the worst he was not very good. We have a theory that the refs that come to Fratton want to show they are not intimidated by the large noisy home support and so their judgement is swayed into giving most decisions to the away side. The worst case of this was against Chesterfield which we lost 2-0 and had a player sent off in a game we should have won hands down. We had three penalty shouts that were nailed on and if the first two had been given it would have also incurred an away player being sent off. Even the Chesterfield players and management said they got very lucky in that game and could not understand why the ref did not give the penalties. Yesterdays ref was not as bad as that but I think he gave your lot a fair bit of leeway in the first half. Our first goal was a fluke and the player has said it was meant to be a cross. The second seems the be the most contentious with your lot because you seem to think that as the player was on the floor when the move progressed the goal should not have stood. I saw it rather differently though. My seat is just on the half way line and the incident was right in front of me and, in my view, it was just two players going for the ball and your player lost out in the tussle and the moved progressed with your player still on the deck. The speed of the move meant that had your player got up he would not have influenced the game because he was behind the play that lead to the goal. I am not saying your player feigned injury in this instant but we see so much of it these days so unless the ref has any reason to be concerned about how injured the player is he is right to allow play to continue. Some of your followers say that a Portsmouth player committed a foul on the Exeter player but I did not see anything other than two players going for the ball with Pompey play getting to it first. The third goal was a delight for all football followers to see, unless it is against your team, where the winger skins the full back and puts in a brilliant cross for the center forward to bullet head the ball in to the back of the net.
I think overall Pompey deserved to win and I thought we eased off too early and too much and allowed your side back into the game. Having said that I think, along with Oxford, Exeter is one the best sides we have seen down here this season and played some lovely football at times and I think will be at the top come end of season, but below us hopefully.
I note one or two posts criticise the Referee but we have had some real dodgy refs down here this season and I thought that although yesterdays ref was not the worst he was not very good. We have a theory that the refs that come to Fratton want to show they are not intimidated by the large noisy home support and so their judgement is swayed into giving most decisions to the away side. The worst case of this was against Chesterfield which we lost 2-0 and had a player sent off in a game we should have won hands down. We had three penalty shouts that were nailed on and if the first two had been given it would have also incurred an away player being sent off. Even the Chesterfield players and management said they got very lucky in that game and could not understand why the ref did not give the penalties. Yesterdays ref was not as bad as that but I think he gave your lot a fair bit of leeway in the first half. Our first goal was a fluke and the player has said it was meant to be a cross. The second seems the be the most contentious with your lot because you seem to think that as the player was on the floor when the move progressed the goal should not have stood. I saw it rather differently though. My seat is just on the half way line and the incident was right in front of me and, in my view, it was just two players going for the ball and your player lost out in the tussle and the moved progressed with your player still on the deck. The speed of the move meant that had your player got up he would not have influenced the game because he was behind the play that lead to the goal. I am not saying your player feigned injury in this instant but we see so much of it these days so unless the ref has any reason to be concerned about how injured the player is he is right to allow play to continue. Some of your followers say that a Portsmouth player committed a foul on the Exeter player but I did not see anything other than two players going for the ball with Pompey play getting to it first. The third goal was a delight for all football followers to see, unless it is against your team, where the winger skins the full back and puts in a brilliant cross for the center forward to bullet head the ball in to the back of the net.
I think overall Pompey deserved to win and I thought we eased off too early and too much and allowed your side back into the game. Having said that I think, along with Oxford, Exeter is one the best sides we have seen down here this season and played some lovely football at times and I think will be at the top come end of season, but below us hopefully.
