MICK CALLS FOR BACKBONE
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Hello Sounders, this is Mick. Right, let's get this together. After yet another painful night at the football, I am generally a glass half full sort of a person, but I do know there's no point in hiding from problems in life or in Portsmouth. So I'm going to try and be positive in reaction to Five games now without a win.
What challenges is the team facing after recent losses?
Three consecutive home defeats. Say it quickly and get it out of the way for now because we have to get over the shock of following two impressive away wins with that sort of run of results. It's shocking. for us watchers it's also shocking of course for the players and coaches and they are the ones that have to get over it it was apparent to me watching this derby game how lacking was any confidence and lack of confidence numbs the brain it befuddles the body mistakes abound the will to do the right thing exists but the coordination deteriorates the players feet fumble their decision-making splits into a compromise of misplacement and inaccuracy and that's what i saw we all saw in the first half
against Derby. No confidence as we advanced out of defence. As minutes passed, a growing desperation to achieve what the team had been told to do all week long by their coaches. Over-carefulness is as bad as carelessness. The team grow too anxious, too elaborate You could see it in their faces. We know most of us anyway, but they're better than that, as Chris Sutton would say. But we're helpless on the sidelines. All we can do is sing and shout, which at Fratton Park you always get from the crowd. But clubs come to Fratton now expecting that. these days. They're told not to be intimidated, to expect a savage reception, to show no weakness. And that's what Derby did. Let it has to be said by Matt Clarke, a young hopeful at Pompey back in the day, a gnarled old warrior now at Derby, but perhaps still in his prime.
who Clark, along with a good deal of experience around him, made it such a painful night for Pompey after that horrible, early, too straightforward winner from Smodic, who I get muddled up with Smodric, who is the Israeli government minister, extreme man who gives us pain like Smolich did anyway we were better in the second half how many games have we lost Sounders by a single goal this season I make it 12 we are not getting thumped Sounders but we're not having enough success enough goals really to take the weight off the players we need them to we need to see them laughing after scoring goals that sort of release there were no smiles after Derby County all you could see was tension perhaps
Sound as two away games coming up with less expectation will do us good. But we've truly put ourselves down among the dead men. And it's difficult not to tense. It's difficult to drop the shoulders, free the legs, relax and play. That's what we need to see in the away games coming up. Individually, we still have a team worthy of our support. Briefly looking at them, there's Schmidt, Nicholas. He's a good keeper. Devlin and Swanson are as combative and determined and enthusiastic and young as ever. Although I still feel their partnerships with their wingers can be improved, must be improved. We did look a bit more hopeful down the left. It has to be said, when Ogilvy was released from his central duties to play on that side, he made a difference.
That happened, of course, when Conor Shaughnessy came on. Conor's obviously not yet right, but it was good to see him get some minutes and hopefully there'll be more to come as it was to see reagan pull back quickly we must hope these two can stay fit and form the partnership we know they have in them it could be crucial in the run into this pretty horrible season that we're enduring adams was valiant against his old club didn't pull his punches got applause from all round the ground when he made his exit that was notable it occurs to me he's not a subtle midfield maestro he's proved though that he can score one or two important goals but he's not going to create many what he does do is exert power and lift to the midfield team and we wouldn't be without him now we're lucky really that Derby and now you start to understand a little bit why he was released when you see Derby and you see the power and the strength and the experience that they have you can sort of understand why Adams got out of that and came down to us we're lucky
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