Duncan Barkes

So that piece of shrewd administration by Blackburn means that they have strengthened their squad significantly going into the final seven games for them of the season.

And of course, they're also technically strengthened by the fact that with Northern Ireland being knocked out of the World Cup preliminaries, their manager, Michael O'Neill, who was dividing his time between being manager of Blackburn and manager of Northern Ireland, is free now.

to concentrate on avoiding relegation for Blackburn.

Whether that means that they're going to get better results than they would have done if he was also thinking about the upcoming Bosnia and Herzegovina game, which is now something that Italy have got on their plate, only time will tell.

But on paper, Blackburn is at three points ahead of us, but we have a game in hand, are considerably strengthened by developments during the international break.

That is a...

pretty good remark i'm gonna put that one in my back pocket why don't you intelligence is chasing you but you're too fast let's hope that's not true that is if we want to bring caballero on board as a contracted pompey player do we from what we've seen of him so far do we couple of good flashes he's good at beating two men with one touch of the ball by going in between them uh

That's a well-known trick.

People will soon start to wise up to it.

And Ward will get round, so he's going to need some other tricks.

He is fast, but as that remark suggests, intelligence can be even more important than raw speed.

And just to tidy everything up, the spectator in the stand who laughed when the Pompey fans said that we've got three lone players, two from Luton, one from Santos, said,

Enjoyed the moment and chuckled quite loudly, actually, we saw.

He was the referee's assessor.

It's the first time we've watched a referee's assessor at work in the game and had a notepad, an iPad, obviously.

in front of him and was just clicking off various numbers and comments as the game went on.

So that's a little bit of background there to Gus Caballero, who is now a fully-fledged international, and Pompey may or may not have an option to buy at the end of the season.

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Gus Cavaliero, yes or no?