THE ONLY TEAM THAT CAN BEAT US IS...
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What recent developments are impacting Pompey's performance?
The latest Pompey news updates every day from the Pompey Sound Newsdesk. Marlon Pack is talking about his future he wants to play on. I want to continue to play at this football club. I have spoken before about what my role looks like. I've been playing. I've been injured. I have been on the bench. Hopefully I still add some value to the group.
What are Marlon Pack's thoughts on his future at Pompey?
I am a very self-aware person, I know I won't start every game, and I know the role might be as it was before Doz got injured which is coming off the bench, depending on the scenarios of the game. That role could also be driving standards in training, and being that voice and that communicator. While you are still playing retiring would be stupid it would be foolish to try to step away and give up playing, giving up being part of the group giving up being in the dressing room. Once you do that I think it's hard to recreate that feeling. As long as I feel physically able, and I always look after myself, as long as I feel I can have an impact at this level, whatever that looks like, which might not be starting every game.
Of course you want to continue playing, because you are a long time retired, and I have given my all to become a professional footballer. I do like the coaching side of it, it's definitely something I want to go into, but I don't think quite yet. I've never been the quickest we've got Ebu in there now, who is a really dynamic midfielder, which definitely balances us out specially how I play. I am smart enough to know my deficiencies, and I play to my strengths. If you continue playing at this level there's no reason to call it a day yet, that is more for other people to do. I am self aware of that, when the time is right it will be right, I still think I have another season left in me. Let's have a think about.
what he's just said and we know it's what he thinks and he's got a plan but he won't tell us what it is because there's this we want to keep that's the fans the club want to keep John Messina for as long as we possibly can but the way he's going it's a racing certainty that in the end a Premier League club will come for him there's no doubt about it is there does anybody doubt that Well, yes, actually, a man in the street stopped me, knowing I'm a Pompey fan, and said to me, he's got to go. And I said, who's got to go? He said, Mazzino. I said, oh, you're ridiculous. He said, no, he's got to go. I said, well, who are you going to put in his place? And the bloke went, doesn't matter. Well, that's about the strength of and weight of argument that people who say things like that, generally speaking, have.
Pompey have got a shortlist of people that they would turn to if John Massino, for example, just decided to pack it all in and go and watch baseball in America, because that's one of his great loves. They've got a shortlist. All clubs do. What do they call them? Contingency plans, something like that. Now, if I was a betting man, and I am, I would give very short odds only on the possibility that Marlon Pack is on that shortlist already. He would be going from playing and sort of player coaching in a semi-official capacity to being the manager of a big club. And that's exactly what John Massino did. And he did it really, really well. And I have a suspicion that unless John Massino has somebody else up his sleeve, if he were asked by the Eisners, thank you for your service, do you recommend anybody?
How could he not recommend Pac, you see? Am I right? And the same with Rich Hughes, I suspect. He knows the club inside out. He loves the club dearly. He maybe loves the club too much. To a certain extent, when you're managing a football team, you need to have a bit of distance between you and your passion and your heartfelt love of the club that you're managing. It shouldn't get in the way, but it could do. But he's such a level-headed character, isn't he? And he used the word twice in that little interview that I think is so all-important in people. And that is self-awareness. He understands himself. He has good dialogue with himself.
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