Duncan Barkes

Yes, drink responsibly.

You've got it in one.

Yeah, they're on to something.

All right.

Steve, as ever, thank you so much for your time.

Thank you.

And your genius.

Cheers.

Cheers.

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He needs to play.

Of course, he wants to play.

He needs to play in order to hone his game back to the level that it was before he suffered this string of injuries that have basically kept him off the pitch for, is it 17 months?

That's a long time.

When you're in your very early 20s, you're 10,500 miles away from home.

You're kind of on your own, although, as discussed frequently on Pompey Sound, there are enough Aussies in the dressing room now

to keep him company, but he's sorely laid up, or has been sorely laid up.

Put in a 15-minute cameo, didn't he, just a few days ago now, and looked pretty good, looked very professional.

The way he bought a foul when a foul was needed against Chef Wed, wasn't it?

Everything else that he did on the pitch, which wasn't a lot, to be fair, but everything that he did looked entirely authentic.