Portsmouth boss Hart pleased new signings are settling

Portsmouth boss Paul Hart is pleased with the way his new-look team is bedding down.

Tommy Smith, Aruna Dindane, Hassan Yebda, Kevin-Prince Boateng, Jamie O'Hara, Tal Ben-Haim and Mike Williamson all arrived in some frantic last-gasp dealing.

Hart said: "We started with a whole new team and all of them – seven or eight players – had to find their feet. They've all done extremely well.

"When we first got them all together people said we were a Championship side. I haven't heard that in the last two or three weeks.

"There's never been any doubt in my mind that they have got ability."