Portsmouth will get more than seven bookings tomorrow

[Silent Bob]

According to Liam Lawrence

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Seems like a good sign for us, if they are even more indisciplined than they were in January, just get to passing it and they will lose their heads again by the sounds of it?

 

[Sam Ovett]

Bit odd to say there will be more bookings this time...is he saying they'll try and injure us or something? That man makes me ill

 

[mcshane in the 79th]

Interesting. Making it sound like it's their cup final or something

 

[mcshane in the 79th]

Bit odd to say there will be more bookings this time...is he saying they'll try and injure us or something? That man makes me ill

Sounds like it doesn't it. Maybe trying to get Poyet to leave, KLL, Buckley etc on the bench instead of risk getting injured in a "mis-timed" tackle.

 

[Gazwag]

It could just be poorly worded,

"There will be more bookings in this match" - Meaning there will be bookings to add to those last time.
"There will be more bookings in this match" - Meaning there will be more bookings than last time.

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

Interesting. Making it sound like it's their cup final or something

Well we know what happened to the last team that had a self deignated cup final against us, and it was our fans singing 'we're f***ing brilliant'.

 

[mcshane in the 79th]

Well we know what happened to the last team that had a self deignated cup final against us, and it was our fans singing 'we're f***ing brilliant'.

Yep

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

I suspect we are in for a kicking. The sort of old-school "welcome to the big playground" kicking. Hard, and if there is an opportunity to make a point with leaving a foot in, or a follow through - it will be done.

Cotterill will have them fired up after the Barnet debacle. Along the lines of "Get into them early - let's see if they are up to it", and I would think specific players will be targetted, like Dunk.

We are playing stronger, bigger teams this season - so may have to get used to it.

 

[Sam Ovett]

Well if they can't beat us playing football they may have to resort to kicking lumps out of us - bit pathetic

 

[mcshane in the 79th]

Might be worth putting a small bet on a lot of bookings tomorrow then

 

[Hotchilidog]

What a bellend. If they do lose their heads then it will only play into hands methinks.

Particularly rich stuff coming from a player whose wages represent everything that is wrong about those bill-dodging scumbags.

As possibly the only Pompey player that appeared interested in getting a result in that cup fixture last season Lawrence should have reserved more of his ire for his teammates, rather than us.

 

[Seagull kimchi]

Let's hope they're are down to 10 men after 20mins - provided the ref has a spine.

Then it would be a good time to introduce Lua Lua and Noone for a bit of a jog around.

Mwaaa Ha HAA

 

[shaolinpunk]

Can they afford the fine that comes attached to having too many players booked in one game?

 

[Sam Ovett]

Sounds like it doesn't it. Maybe trying to get Poyet to leave, KLL, Buckley etc on the bench instead of risk getting injured in a "mis-timed" tackle.

Well well! LuaLua is not to be playing tomorrow - could maybe have something to do with a risk against Portmsouth?

 

[Biscuit]

I suspect we are in for a kicking. The sort of old-school "welcome to the big playground" kicking. Hard, and if there is an opportunity to make a point with leaving a foot in, or a follow through - it will be done.

Cotterill will have them fired up after the Barnet debacle. Along the lines of "Get into them early - let's see if they are up to it", and I would think specific players will be targetted, like Dunk.

We are playing stronger, bigger teams this season - so may have to get used to it.

This is exactly the approach I think Crystal Palace will take against us. I can see Vincelot coming on to replace an injured Dunk tbh. Teams who go at us like this will be beaten, I'm sure of it. It's the teams who will want to play football that'll provide a much sterner test. I just hope that we don't get so many injuries that we'll be missing players when we really need them ie against the footballing sides.

 

[NMH]

Well if they can't beat us playing football they may have to resort to kicking lumps out of us - bit pathetic

At this part of the season I reckon a lot of sides will try and get an advantage by nasty tactics.
As the cards mount up and suspensions start taking a toll, they'll be a bit more careful.

The thing is, that we don't have a perceivable enforcer midfield hardman who might threaten to give out a few bruises - so we look like a team of twinkletoes who can be put out by some industrial tackles to take them out of the game mentally or physically. This is very shitty, because it ruins football as a spectacle and once again challenges referees to put a stop to it early.
Some are ignoring rules about two-footed sliding-in tackles, coming from behind the man on the ball, and knee-joint buckling movements.

Referees really ought to protect good skillful teams like ours who can play the ball on the ground well, but unfortunately we're needing them to be one step ahead of these bad intentions and nasty tactics - and I doubt they'll be 'on the ball' to clamp down.

Notice how Doncaster spread the fouls around their players to be careful no-one got dismissed - and the ref for Gillingham totally bottled out from giving a straight red.

It's shit, that's what it is.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

This is exactly the approach I think Crystal Palace will take against us. I can see Vincelot coming on to replace an injured Dunk tbh. Teams who go at us like this will be beaten, I'm sure of it. It's the teams who will want to play football that'll provide a much sterner test. I just hope that we don't get so many injuries that we'll be missing players when we really need them ie against the footballing sides.

Yep. This is when Gus says we need to be brave. And he expects the officials to be brave as well.

 

[Seagull27]

Would be pretty stupid if they did, considering they can't even fill their bench at the moment. Suspensions would make their situation even worse

 

[Silent Bob]

It could just be poorly worded,

"There will be more bookings in this match" - Meaning there will be bookings to add to those last time.
"There will be more bookings in this match" - Meaning there will be more bookings than last time.

True but either way the intention is the same.

 

[Shooting Star]

We've got to keep our heads and stick to our game. We can't shy away from challenges either. Like we saw on Saturday, many teams can get away with murdering our players. I can foresee Gus losing his cool out there tomorrow if it gets nasty.