Duncan Barkes

But, of course, going out on loan.

stepping down a tier or two is a good way of learning.

So we wish him well.

But if he turns out against us on Saturday, then obviously we don't.

Yeah, it's funny, isn't it?

Fan loyalty.

When the club is sort of doing not too well, then the fans tend to turn on them.

But if the club is absolutely on its uppers, I mean, Neil Allen described us Pompey fans as being on our knees.

Well, things are ten times worse for Sheffield Wednesday fans, and yet they have that loyalty that we had when we were in the same sort of dire situation.

that they are now there's talk up there of them focusing on set pieces against us and that begins of course with winning corners the only way you'll get to take a corner is if you win a corner and there are ways of doing that and they may well have been practicing those techniques getting the ball into the corner and then bouncing it off the defender's shin and so forth in training during the course of this week but they've got a mountain to climb

There has been a little bit of hoo-hiring about the fact that they have brought in a couple of players who are going to shake things up a little bit at Sheffield Wednesday.

But the simple fact of the matter is that they are beyond down to the bare bones.

Their last four games probably illustrate that.

adequately without needing to go into details their last four games they lost no no they've drew one nil nil and lost the remaining three so they've lost three in a row but the thing is this those last four games they haven't scored a goal

and they've conceded eight, which is something of the position that they're in.

I know our most recent games don't exactly inspire.

The defeat by Bristol City, of course, 5-0.

We don't talk about that anymore.

And losing 4-1, well, it was to Arsenal, who are a pretty good side.

So we've got two Ls next to our name in our last two games, but prior to that, we won one, Charlton, and then we drew with QPR, and then we drew with Derby County.