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What will the conspiracy theorists have to say now?

I always felt he was slightly underrated as a player at Wycombe. He was a horrible bugger when we came up against him.

Comes across well in interviews and seems like a good guy. I've warmed to him over the years and no doubting he's done a great job at Portsmouth, albeit they were dreadful last night. I understand he lives very locally to High Wycombe still.

You can say that again! (An expression that always tickles me but I’ve stopped the repeats now.) My admiration of Gids, founded on his excellent performance and cracking goal against us for West Ham U 21s in the paintbox trophy a couple of years ago and reinforced by what I have seen in the handful of performances since, is well documented (get me!) and playing him as an adventurous right back was clearly a well justified decision.

My apologies to him and Brandon Hanlan.

Not a no then

Agreed. The contrast from the post match and the pre match interviews was huge. He had looked tired around his eyes and jaded from all that’s going on, but the win just lit him up. He clearly lives for his next Wycombe victory. I’ve said it before but you cannot help but love the man.

Who would have thunk it from that team on paper but what a good show our squad players put on even against a poor Pompey second string. What are we doing with Hanlan upfront says I just before he scored. Everyone went about their jobs efficiently...and nice to see Butcher getting minutes. Not sure I agree that Bishop deserves to replace Franco on that showing, as he had little to do. I really like Bradley...roll on second half of season.

Commiserations to George, he looked gutted.

Pompey fans out in numbers in arctic conditions was impressive too.

James Richings has Tweeted this gem:

Portsmouth boss John Mousinho after losing to Wycombe in the FA Cup: “I haven’t said anything to the players as I didn’t think there was much point.

"There’s not much you can say about the performance."

I wonder if there’s still animosity between Wycombe fans and Mousinho? I’m sure he made some shitty comments about the club when he was at Oxford, and was booed when we faced each other shortly after. Or am I making that up?

Thought Butcher made a real case for a regular start.

235k in prize money banked so far, plus the Wealdstone TV money. Overall a pretty good run.

What a great attendance too. Especially given how cold it was. Long live the FA Cup.

Good to hear Blooms putting to bed some of the more outlandish rumours we’ve heard this week:

https://x.com/wwfcofficial/status/1877856915448795503?s=46&t=MXj_dXc6l_z44oHP077XZQ