Duncan Barkes

He's absolutely in his pomp.

He bosses the pitch.

Adams, the current folk hero, he does a bit of bossing.

Marlon Pack came on and was Marlon Pack.

Isn't he statuesque?

But throughout the game, Andre Dazelle was the Pope.

He was completely the Pope.

He was winning everything, he was everywhere, and he was putting in some really telling passes.

And I think he now fancies himself a little bit, and we hope he does, because it's important, as being a little bit of a, not a Glenn Hoddle, if you go back that far, but somebody who can send a telling pass through, straight through, forward, a forward pass,

We know that John Massino talks to his players about making forward passes, as well as going back and sideways.

And by the way, just as an aside, I started at one point to count the number of back passes that Pompey made to Schmidt.

From the 25th minute to about the 33rd minute, there were eight of them.

And that, you know, is significant.

It never used to happen in football.

Back passes were almost unheard of.

But...

We do a lot of them, partly because we're thinking about building from the back.

And we have to build from the back because we don't have anybody up front that we can send a long ball to.

And Preston knew that, so they decided to press us when Schmidt had the ball.

Because Schmidt wanted to play it short.