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Steve Bone

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Pompey Sound Podcasts
STEVE; POMPEY TURNING THE CORNER?

I've seen a few people say they'd like to see Williams in at right-back.

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STEVE; POMPEY TURNING THE CORNER?

And Devlin tried in central midfield in one of those two positions there.

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STEVE; POMPEY TURNING THE CORNER?

And I think that would be interesting.

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STEVE; POMPEY TURNING THE CORNER?

I don't think...

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STEVE; POMPEY TURNING THE CORNER?

That's necessarily in the manager's mind at the moment, but it would be an interesting experiment if we needed to do it one way, because I think Devlin would relish that role.

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STEVE; POMPEY TURNING THE CORNER?

He'd be chasing and harrying everything, wouldn't he?

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STEVE; POMPEY TURNING THE CORNER?

He wouldn't let the opposition midfield have any time.

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STEVE; POMPEY TURNING THE CORNER?

But no, hats off to Devlin and Swanson, both above and beyond at the moment, and they continue.

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STEVE; POMPEY TURNING THE CORNER?

Yeah, what, because of the way a team lines up?

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STEVE; POMPEY TURNING THE CORNER?

And they're not seen as defenders so much as they always have been.

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STEVE; POMPEY TURNING THE CORNER?

Yeah, I mean, there's already been a move towards, you know, there's many more teams now play with wing-backs than used to be the norm, didn't they?

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STEVE; POMPEY TURNING THE CORNER?

Whenever you used to have five at the back, it was a flat-back four and a sweeper, wasn't it?

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STEVE; POMPEY TURNING THE CORNER?

You don't really hear about sweepers anymore, do you?

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STEVE; POMPEY TURNING THE CORNER?

No, no.

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STEVE; POMPEY TURNING THE CORNER?

So, yeah, football changes, doesn't it?

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STEVE; POMPEY TURNING THE CORNER?

Although I do think sometimes the old ways and the old methods come back around to being into fashion, don't they?

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STEVE; POMPEY TURNING THE CORNER?

Which I quite like.

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STEVE; POMPEY TURNING THE CORNER?

Yeah.

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STEVE; POMPEY TURNING THE CORNER?

Yeah, I think if you are starting out in your football career as a fullback, 20, 30, 40 years ago, if you wanted to be a fullback, you just had to be a very good, solid defender, good man marker, a good defender, didn't matter about anything else.

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STEVE; POMPEY TURNING THE CORNER?

Now, if you fancy yourself as a full-back and you're coming through the ranks and you're in an academy or whatever, you have to be a good all-round player.