Duncan Barkes

Let's stick to the plan.

It's a good plan.

It's worked so far.

Fingers crossed.

We've got Ipswich coming up and then we've got Leicester coming up on Saturday.

If we can work the Oracle in those games, if we can get three or four points, would be absolutely fantastic.

Obviously, six would be out of this world.

But I just want to finish this little roundup by telling you, if you didn't see it, of an excellent tweet, or ex, that was posted, I think, by a Southampton fan who said, well, praised Pompey for beating Middlesbrough and then went on to say, now if you go ahead and beat Ipswich and I find John Massino in bed with my wife, I will tuck him in and make him a cup of tea.

Nice one.

We said that to the players inside, Saturday's not the time to celebrate or enjoy this one too much because the next one is coming quick and it's a big one and a tough one.

Ipswich manager Kieran McKenna being careful to only say one small thing that's in any way slightly controversial.

The rest of it is completely predictable, of course.

Like all teams, they take it one game at a time and they treat the next opponents very seriously.

And he makes the point that the next opponents are actually better than their league position suggests and that coming to Pompey is a hard place to go to.

You know, the whole Fortress Fratton Park thing, which it has not been this season.

But nevertheless, he's saying all the right things that the journalists are no doubt noting down and regurgitating verbatim.

What he did say that was just slightly teasing...

was to suggest that, once again, one of the occasions, two of them in all, one of those two occasions when the fixture against Ipswich at Fratton Park were called off due to the weather, he feels that there had been... Now, what's the diplomatic way of saying it?

He feels that Pompey perhaps managed...

To work it to their advantage.