Duncan Barkes

We'll come back to the pitch, we must, because there's a story floating around today that they're keeping an eye on it.

So we'll come back to that.

Can I next ask a complex question?

And that is your reaction to the, I think it's 23-man squad that Pompey have registered, because there were one or two surprises there.

But overall, what do you think?

Well said.

It was a complex question.

It's like looking at a chessboard with the game in progress.

Some people can look at a chess game and just go, oh, yeah, that's boom, boom, boom.

But John Massino and his team, they've got to look at 25 people.

and go, OK, well, if he gets injured, then he can come across.

We've got full-backs who can play right-back and left-back, Swanson and Williams, which is great, isn't it?

I mean, to have that much cover in that way.

Well, I do know.

I do know one way in which he does it, because I was in his office and I had a look at it, and he...

He hangs photographs, individual frame photographs of the players on his wall.

Yep.

All right.

Well, he did.

Don't know if he still does.