Knibbsworth":2gem3t7s said:up_the_line":2gem3t7s said:Well I couldn't resist the match pass.
I wish I'd had it on mute mind you...well, particularly when that Gary O'Neil character was talking.
Argyle clearly were the better side other than for a ten minute spell. The keeper pulls off a good (albeit the shot was a good height for a keeper) save from Nouble, then the defender pulls off a wonder block from Hardie at 1-0...yeah we need to find just an extra little bit of ruthlessness but Jacket was clearly relieved to get out with a point.
They should pin that O'Neil's drivel up in the dressing room... He'd just reviewed footage of the block and said 'that's saved the game for Portsmouth' then he's said they'll be there or there abouts but we won't trouble the play offs. We're two points behind them with a game to make up...we have some tough away games this week, but for him to write us off as also rans after that is frankly stupid.
As an aside, I thought Opoku was excellent up against a 'street wise' character like Marquis who put an elbow on him in the first half and will run into any part of your body not taped to your side to try and get you in the book. Looked like his unwillingness to get drawn into that kind of thing was riling Marquis who wouldn't have got on the scoresheet had it not been for the pen.
Did you miss the incident where Opoku smashed Marquis across the chops with his fist then? He got a yellow but it could have been a red on another day.
It was replayed once and I genuinely think he was just running in his normal manner, and Marquis made sure there was a connection. I'll have to see it again... There seemed to be no reason to have done anything as he was ahead of Marquis and obviously faster and would have easily put the ball out for a throw at worst.
For me, Marquis, in the first half, has put his elbow on Opoku and left his studs in on Mayor (for which he was booked), he's fortunate to have been on to take the pen