Steve Bone

I'm going to go for a 1-1 with Sheffield United and another goal from Ali, our new hero, Mr Ali.

But I'm going to go for us to follow that up with a sneaky little 1-0 win at Charlton next midweek, which would be fine.

If we get four points from those two, in whatever order and whatever style, I'll be more than happy.

yes yeah I saw that as well yeah one response to that which I thought was probably a fair response is wouldn't it be nice if we could have an under 21 team here playing in a league so that you could keep your fringe players a bit sort of sharper a bit fitter

and playing a bit of competitive football for the long periods where they're not in our first team which was a fair point I thought we just haven't got that link have we from first team downwards yeah I think Callum Lane will probably do quite well for Preston and good luck to him he's gone back up there because his family wants to be there

I think we've kind of moved on from him really.

I think he's a loss to us, but I think we made some good additions in January.

People like Ali Anderson, I know he's injured, but Adams was where I brought in.

Talked about them last week, didn't we?

Good luck to Lang, but I think in time we'll not be missing him too much.

And I'm not sure that, you know, from what I've seen of Preston and read and heard about Preston, I'm not sure they're going to be troubling the top end too much.

I'm not sure they're going to be making that step up that they obviously think he can help them do.

But I might be wrong.

OK, this could take the whole half hour, couldn't it really?

Yeah, we ended up with three on the final day, wasn't it?

Which I think gave us a total of seven players coming in.

Which I think probably, if you said to the average Pompey fan at the start of January...

How many players do we need?

I think most people would have said, in the present climate, six or seven.

People would maybe have expected one or two others to either go back to their clubs or to be sold on.