Richey Edwards Posted August 14, 2023 Share Posted August 14, 2023 His goalscoring record is absolutely shit. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ewanandmoreagain Posted September 8, 2023 Share Posted September 8, 2023 On 14/08/2023 at 07:26, Richey Edwards said: His goalscoring record is absolutely shit. Not quite. Tackling def. not sh*t. The RCB position is becoming his 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accies1874 Posted September 9, 2023 Share Posted September 9, 2023 Just shows what happens when you take your chance. He came in when we were low on numbers and now he's a first choice player. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted September 9, 2023 Share Posted September 9, 2023 I suppose at 24 there's still quite a lot of room to improve for Porto, but he already looks like a defender who has everything you need. He never looks like the imminent heads gone in a Scotland shirt that he sometimes did for Hibs. He just seems to have a finesse about him. His reputation maybe somewhat hides that, but he is becoming a really classy defender. Excellent game reading and positioning etc. The cliche about those guys has always been that they aren't the ones doing the crunching tackles and putting their head where it hurts, but he does all of that aswell. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bennett Posted September 9, 2023 Share Posted September 9, 2023 Getting away from Hibs/Scottish fitba has done him a lot of good, especially since he's cut out playing to the gallery. Never thought that I'd be praising Porteous. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2426255 Posted October 3, 2023 Share Posted October 3, 2023 (edited) Porteous has been in the team/squads consistently for 12 months so thought I'd give my initial thoughts based on the Scotland games in that period. His strongest attributes are in the air - he excels there. He's also a good short passer, comfortable playing past the 1st line of pressure. One on one defending he's generally met the standard, but struggles against higher quality opponents and has needed his team-mates to help him from time to time. I think he is capable of reaching lower half English Premier League, but would need to improve significantly to go beyond that. In my view he's at a similar general level to his peers such as Souttar, McKenna and Hendry. Overall heard a lot of crap about him while he was at Hibs so I've been pleasantly surprised. Edited October 4, 2023 by 2426255 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No_Problemo Posted October 3, 2023 Share Posted October 3, 2023 6 hours ago, 2426255 said: Porteous has been in the team/squads consistently for 12 months so thought I'd give my initial thoughts based on the Scotland games in that period. His strongest attributes are in the air - he excels there. He's also a good short passer, comfortable playing past the 1st line of pressure. One on one defending he's generally met the standard, but struggles against higher quality opponents and has needed his team-mates to help him from time to time. I think he is capable of reaching lower half English Premier League, but would need to improve significantly to go beyond that. In my view he's at a similar general level to his peers such as Souttar, McKenna and Hendry. Overall heard a lot of crap about him while he was at Hibs so I've been pleasantly surprised. I largely agree with this, I like his passing ability and particularly noticed his ability against England to step out and zing one into the strikers feet. I think he is around the level of those three, though based on the Rangers form of Souttar it seems he is behind the rest. I think Porteous will go on to be the best of that group. Hopefully he is one that Udinese pick up with that partnership! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB_Bino Posted October 4, 2023 Share Posted October 4, 2023 20 hours ago, 2426255 said: I think he is capable of reaching lower half English Premier League, but would need to improve significantly to go beyond that. In my view he's at a similar general level to his peers such as Souttar, McKenna and Hendry. I would honestly take that and I think, for any Scottish player playing now, that would go down as a successful career if he could establish himself at that level for long enough. Long term, probably looking for him to be the linchpin at the back for us, thankfully the current Defenders (Handley apart) will be around for the next 2 or 3 campaigns, but Portious should have more in him as he’s still a young lad with 10 or so years in front of him 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ewanandmoreagain Posted October 7, 2023 Share Posted October 7, 2023 Only a sub. today ! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkoRaj Posted October 8, 2023 Share Posted October 8, 2023 Keeping him fresh for next week, good to see. Watford are a bit of a gang at the moment. Their manager being given a long term contract while they struggle big time was a bit of a shock. Seems like he is at the point of trying anything. Mostly the reaction from the fans pre-match was that it was a bad decision to leave him out however with them getting a decent away result might find himself with a fight to get back in. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ewanandmoreagain Posted November 11, 2023 Share Posted November 11, 2023 BBC have him playing today 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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