John Mousinho

They finished 18th last season, so they were fighting at the wrong end of the table.

But John Mousinho brought in 11 new signings over the summer, and the players are up for it, too.

Midfielder Oden Bailey says the dressing room understands exactly what's at stake, and that Pompey are out for the bragging rights on what he called a massive occasion.

This could be a good chance for Portsmouth to finally land a blow.

Adrian Segovic hasn't hit his finest form yet.

So there's a few variables there that just haven't been working for John Mousinho.

And yeah, you can make the argument that Portsmouth haven't been a good team, but they've not been a bad team either.

Been fine.

I think Lee Carsley, the, I think he might have been England assistant manager at one point.

We had John Mousinho or there were some other names I can't remember now.

And, and Skubala was probably at the top of the list, to be fair, of the ones that we've had.

Obviously, the doubts that people would have about him is that maybe he hasn't quite managed at the Championship level yet, so that's always a doubt.

And they have got injury issues and they are really thin on the, on the ground at center half at the moment.

Connor Shaughnessy looks set to miss the game with Southampton, which is another blow for John Mousinho to have to, to have to contend with.

But I think when you look at that, those proper away games, we mentioned earlier on about Bolton having to go to, to Wolves and to Southampton.

Portsmouth have got to do the same.

They, they always seem perennially...

They're, they're the team where like game to game I, I look at them and go, "Oh, they, they're probably, they've probably got enough.

They're probably all right." And then like, "Ew, are they a bit undercooked?" Um, and I still think if John Mousinho goes at some point then I think you would see that line trend downwards rather than upwards.

But we shall see how everything progresses.

Yeah.

He probably wouldn't if Mousinho was his

manager.

Yeah, well, that's the

It's a great question.

"Do you think John Mousinho has taken Pompey as far as possible on their current budget? If so, would you blame him for walking away at the season's end?" So we have to make a couple of assumptions here.

The Pompey fans will know more about this than I, but is Moose being hamstrung by a low budget, and the Eisner lot, the higher-ups at Portsmouth are just not giving him a sensible amount of money to go and challenge? I take you back to Preston and yes, if you're in the Hemings family, you'll say, "Hang on a minute, what do you mean we're not backing the club?" Um, we lost...

I don't know.

I don't know what the number is that the Hemings family would've lost over the years.

... of the championship.

John Mousinho's Portsmouth looking to make it seven points out of nine after beating Cardiff here.

What are you doing there-

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I think you mentioned partnerships, Kim.

I think that after two or three aborted attempts that Monsignor has settled on his preferred central defending pairing, and that is Benji Arthur and Shotnessy.

And I think we saw, especially through that second half as well...

First half, it was a different kind of game because obviously Charlton had created a lot of chances on which we managed to repel.

But one we didn't touch on though, but I've se- I've re- read a few articles.

John Mousinho obviously got Portsmouth promoted as champions.

They've been 18th, 19th, 17th in there, I think three s- two seasons maybe in the championship.

But he obviously-

You don't think they'll push the boat out, take a risk on someone from abroad?

No.

A John Mousinho-

No