Omar

Maybe he feels that Bannon can make more of an impact in this game Wednesday night.

I'd be shocked if he doesn't start.

I don't know if he then comes back into the 10 position or not.

But maybe Alex Neil, prior to Saturday, looked at it and thought, I could do with Bannon in the middle against Birmingham.

Maybe thinking, because I think he did also say during the week that, you know, Portsmouth could overrun teams.

And maybe that's why he thought, well, let's not put Bannon in there.

But it was interesting because, like, you do think that.

Yeah.

Yeah, I don't know, mate.

I'm not sceptical, but I am conscious that we need to get a bounce back because you don't want to then go lose this one and then you've got a tricky Preston away on Saturday, which we typically do well at, but then it starts to build up pressure a bit, doesn't it, really?

I don't know.

Fuck me.

General status.

Mickey, where are you going with that?

If I can slow down, but I think,

Yeah, I think Brian, I don't know.

I think Sturge, in hindsight, again, hindsight is the most wonderful thing in the world, but Sturge has created a more athletic of the two between him and Alfie Doughty.

Alfie Doughty is going forward, so if Doughty is on form, you want him inside because he's going to put them balls into the box that, you know, Cope normally feed off, but obviously the Serbs wouldn't do much either.

So, yeah, I think in hindsight, you might have thought we maybe would have missed Sturge.

Yeah, Bryan or Sturge.