STEVE; POMPEY TURNING THE CORNER?

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What were the highlights of the last match against Blackburn?

Duncan Barkes 0:00

And we're joined by Steve Bone, and the first thing we have to do is a couple of cartwheels, Steve, because that was three good points the last time out.

Steve Bone 0:08

It was. I'm not sure I'm up to cartwheels these days, so I'll leave those to other people. I'll leave those to Lamarna Luolua and other people that are good at them. Yes, we said last week, didn't we, we just had to win that game. Didn't matter how, really. Just had to win it. Just had to get the points. And we did. And I thought we deserved it, actually, overall. started well faded a bit when it didn't come to anything and that's when you start to worry because we've seen that a few times this season then Blackburn came through cut through rather easily for their goal I thought it was a bit of soft defending by us but it was interesting that the crowd didn't turn did they the crowd were I think the crowd were a bit edgy

Steve Bone 0:50

bit nervous, and it was still 1-0 at half-time, but there was never a... It could have got... The word they use these days is toxic, isn't it? And it could have got toxic, but it didn't. And then second half, we came out... I think, for me, actually, the sight of Bishop at half-time, in his kit, with the other subs out there, but in his kit, and clearly about to come on, I thought that gave everybody a lift, because people could see that The manager knew he needed to change something. He was going to bring on Colby. And although Colby's not had a good run on form with goals, I think people wanted to see that at that stage. And then the change he then made just before the hour, Kosnovski coming on for Swift, who, you know, it just didn't happen for Swift on Saturday, did it?

Steve Bone 1:44

I thought that just changed the whole... That was the right change at the right time, just lifted everything. And then I thought from the moment we had that little spell where we had three shots blocked all in one move, I think at that point fans knew a goal was going to come, and a few minutes later it did. And something I'd noticed during that second half, and the manager picked up on it a little bit afterwards, when he talked about how loud the place was when that equaliser went in, when Laing arrived on the end of Murphy's Cross and whacked it in, I thought it felt like the equaliser was more important than the winner. And I think that's because as soon as we got the equaliser, people had a bit of faith that we were then going to go on and win it.

Steve Bone 2:35

If anybody was going to go on and win it, we were, because we just had the momentum. Whereas until we got the equaliser, you know, that was three and a half games without a goal. Are we ever going to score again? And then we do score. And then that is the relief. That lifts everybody, takes some of the tension away.

How did the crowd react during the game, and what impact did it have?

Steve Bone 2:54

And I thought it was fairly comfortable, really, once we got the win of Bo Boat nodding in his corner. I thought it was fairly comfortable after that. And a big win, much needed, and as a bonus got us out of the bottom three at the same time, didn't it?

Duncan Barkes 3:13

Just dwelling on that equaliser because it's a pleasant sensation, isn't it? You're absolutely right. There was something even more special about the equaliser than the winner. He does like to burst the net, doesn't he, Lang? And there's something almost celebratory about... He begins his celebration with the strike that goes into the net because he whacked it in, didn't he? He could have tapped it in. It was a tap in, but he whacked it in.

Steve Bone 3:39

He doesn't do tap-ins, does he? I mean, he was only two yards out. But, you know, people will say, well, he couldn't miss from there because it was such a good cross. It was, but he still had to be in the right place for it. And in the time that Lang was out this season, we saw plenty of those Murphy crosses going across and there was nobody on the end of them. Nobody to touch them in. You know, Bishop had a few that he perhaps should have been on the end of and others as well. So, you know, well done to Lang for getting in where he needed to be. And we know that he can do that. And yeah, something I noticed about it is that when the ball came back off the net, he actually sort of caught it himself and ran away with it, didn't he?