No Left Back For Saturday.

The experiment of Gardner in the left back slot failed miserably at Fratton Park on Monday, & most of Pompey’s attacks originated down our left. (Atouba was not faultless either).

Given that our 3^rd choice LB Ziegler does not have much reserve or Premiership experience, Jacques may well decide to re-shuffle the back four.

One option would be to play Ledley at LB and Gardner at CB, Gardner is a perfectly good CB (Not as good as Ledley, Granted) but sometimes gets the decision making process completely wrong, playing alongside the vocal Naybet, this might not be such a problem.

Ledley on the other hand is OK at LB and reads the game well, something Gardner cannot do.

Between Mendes, Davies, Davis, Brown, Redknapp, Carrick & JJ should be able to sort out a decent enough midfield.