STEVE CERTAIN RE RELEGATION OUTCOME
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What insights does Steve Bowen provide about Pompey's current season?
One of the many, hopefully, highlights of Pompey Sound's output and podcast library is the gentle but piercing tone of Steve Bowen. How are you going to describe that? I wasn't sure where it was going either. Best not to play. We could start on the field or we could start off the field. Your call. Let's start on the field, shall we? I always think that's what we're here for, isn't it? That's kind of, at the end of the day, the most important thing. Agreed. You made it to Derby. You made it to Derby. Yes. Went to the Derby game, sadly. I was going to say, and? It wasn't memorable, was it? I think we went into that game feeling under a bit of pressure because of having lost to Swansea in the previous game and given away the late goal against Blackburn in the game before that.
And I thought the pressure got to us a little bit actually. I thought when Derby scored that early goal, when their man was given too much time to take a touch and shoot on the edge of the area after the corner was handed out, I don't think many people in the ground really felt there was much chance we were going to get back into it. We're just not scoring goals, are we? Or not scoring enough goals. You're absolutely right. It was, you know, we had a lot of possession, played some neat football, got the ball forward, but never really did work the keeper at all, did we? I don't think the keeper made a save, a serious save. And it's worrying. It is. He just had to bend down and pick the ball up. At his feet, so feeble were our efforts.
Yeah, we had a couple of headers, didn't we, that sort of bounced through to him. Yeah, it was... The pressure's on, really, isn't it now? I think when you've only taken one point from five games and you're in the position we're in, people are worried that you've got the wrong form at the wrong time. Yeah, I do think surviving relegation battles, you may or may not agree with me, surviving relegation battles is very much about momentum. It is. Yeah, you've got to hope to get the momentum at the right time, which we still might do. You know, we've got nine games left. I think we need three wins and that will be enough. But, you know, we were saying that three or four games ago, we were saying we needed three or four wins from the last 13, 14.
We haven't got any of them yet. You haven't won since Millwall, which is now a month ago on Saturday. Well, as I say, one point for those five games. Other teams are picking. I think what added to the pressure on Monday was that between the Swansea game and the Derby game, all of those other four teams down at the bottom had won a game. West Brom, Oxford, Blackburn and Leicester had all chalked up a win in the intervening time. so that didn't sort of help ease things for us and you've now got I think you've got the five clubs you know ourselves and those four separated by four points and you've got a gap of six points going up to Charlton and you kind of think that probably anyone who's on 48 or more at this stage is okay and
How did the recent Derby game impact Pompey's morale?
yeah they'd be unlucky to get sucked into it now so you are looking at two of those five two from ourselves oxford blackburn west from leicester going down with shuffle wednesday which makes it a little mini league that we have to finish in the top three of yes and of those five sides we did a bit of research uh we've got two six pointers And apart from the six pointers that the opposition have got with us, one of which is Oxford and I think it's Leicester as well we've got, of all the other clubs there's only one six pointer not involving us. Right. Whether that counts for anything or not, who knows? Yeah, yeah, I don't know. I know a couple of them have still got to play Sheffield Wednesday, haven't they?
Yeah. Which you would think would be three points for them. It's not guaranteed, but it's likely. And I think, in fact, West Brom's last game is against Sheffield Wednesday. It's definitely one of them. It's either West Brom or Blackburn. I think you're right. You're right. It's West Brom, yeah. So if it comes down to all the clubs needing a win on the last day, that's going to give them a huge advantage, isn't it?
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What insights does Steve Bowen provide about Pompey's current season?
0:00–3:49
2
How did the recent Derby game impact Pompey's morale?
3:49–9:54
3
What are the implications of Pompey's recent financial losses?
9:54–16:35
4
How does Michael Eisner's financial strategy affect Pompey?
16:35–24:32
5
What are the potential outcomes for Pompey in the relegation battle?
24:32–32:29