Duncan Barkes

But I didn't have time to ramble on about them with you on Pompey Sound because Sounders, we don't just throw things onto the airwaves.

You might not want to believe this, but these things take a bit of thought.

Wrexham 2 Pompey 1 and games just just finished with massive celebrations from Wrexham because they just managed to hold on and that is the size of it they just managed to hold on it was one of those games which at the end of the season you look at you open your program and

That's Marlon Pack talking as ever.

Buckets of sense.

He's going to be a good manager, isn't he?

Someday, for sure.

But going back to what he was saying, they pace themselves with fatigue.

If they've got back-to-back games towards the end of a game that they're in charge, they've got a good lead, then they pace themselves.

They don't go rushing forward.

They are thinking already about the next game.

which, as I say, over this particular period is almost immediately.

So that's reassuring.

He also has lots of praise for the way in which the coaching staff and the medics, I guess, are handling their fatigue levels and their exhaustion, their tiredness, aching muscles.

So that's great.

The words he has to say about Ibrahim Adams, of course.

Every single Pompey fan.

Many issues divide and unite Pompey fans.

But this one is completely, completely decided by everybody.

He is a fantastic addition to the squad.