Duncan Barkes

There were quite a few games in the Championship.

But of course, we're getting no more games at three o'clock in the afternoon on a Saturday at Fratton Park between now and the end of the season.

And the end of the season is beginning to look like something that we don't want to spend too much time thinking about.

We've got an international break coming up.

There will be players returning from injury after the international break who hopefully will make a bit of a difference.

We still have a game in hand on the teams around us, but we are now right bang in the middle of the relegation zone.

The result did not go particularly well for us elsewhere.

And I remain of the view that Guy Whittingham got it right after the fifth goal went in.

Soft penalty, wasn't it?

And yet, if you look at it again, Colby did put his hand in the middle of the guy's back and give him some sort of impetus.

Of course he made a meal of it.

We would.

Colby himself would have made a meal of it if it had happened to him, surely.

I'm not damning him in saying that.

A penalty's a penalty.

And the guy who takes our penalties is going to want a penalty to be awarded so he can take it, but...

And it's all part of the professional game.

But it was a soft penalty.

The guy did make a meal of it.

But when that fifth goal went in, Guy Whittingham said, what can I say?