Marlon Pack

Gets, yeah, gets very involved in it, doesn't he? Probably wants to be out there as, probably rather be out there playing and probably be quite happy to be sitting in the centre of defence and being the captain and yelling at everybody and telling them what to do.

He's got Marlon Pack to do that.

on his behalf but yeah I think you know as I've said the Pompey fans are like an animated manager you know you go back to the days of Alan Ball who was who did used to sit down but every 30 seconds he'd be leaping to his feet running to the touchline as far as he could throwing his flat cap on the ground and screaming at either a player the referee or all of them at once really and I think as a fan if you're asking the players to get stuck in and fly into tackles and run and chase everything and fight for everything I think you want to see a bit of that from your manager as well you know we've had a couple of we've had a couple of managers down the years who haven't done that been very sort of passive on the sidelines and that's okay that's their way there's no right way or wrong way but I don't think fans can take to that sort of manager as well as they can take to John Messina

You mentioned Marlon Pack there, and that's very handy because one of the things I wanted to pick your brains about is as follows.

We've got some good players coming back from injury, and John Massino is going to be left with a number of selection headaches.

He'll say it's a very pleasant thing to have selection headaches, but they are still headaches.

Him and Dia were picked out as players who have really come on in recent weeks.

So you've got, in midfield, you've got sort of, you've got two from four, really, haven't you? Because you've got Pack, Adams, Shane and Mohamed to take up two spots, which is a nice little, you know, cliche, but nice little headache to have.

And on the Pompey bench...

It's Bailey, Bilica, Kavuma McQueen, obviously, Kenny, Killip, Maretzi, I think he's the striker, isn't he? Marlon Pack, that's who's rested.

Zach Swanson, who got the great opening goal for Pompey against Sheffield United.

And Waddingham, who I assume is a youngster that's come through their academy or something similar.

So, I mean, really, the first chance of the match came in the seventh minute.

Marlon Pack took a shot, missed to the right after a corner.

Mohamed had a shot in that in that same seventh minute.

And then he had a shot blocked out.

We weren't trying to do the little things that we needed to do to kind of see the game out at a 2-2 draw.

And obviously we paid for it at the end.

Cooper made another really good save on Keshi Anderson after he gets a pass from Marlon Pack.

He has a shot outside the box, and I think Coops tipped it over, right? That's right, yeah.

My main point is if you get a chance to go to Sky Sports, or if you're on YouTube, then it will be useful if you were to video a thing called Player versus Gaffer.

Because the most recent one that's gone up there is Marlon Pack versus John Messina.

And it's a penalty shootout.

They get five pens each.

Knockout and all that.

I'm not going to spoil it too much because you haven't seen it yet, I'm assuming.

But it's really interesting to watch because you learn a little bit more about Marlon Pack and a little bit more about John Messina and a little bit more about Portsmouth Football Club.

Because in goal, they alternate it and they have two youngsters who I'm afraid their names are new to me, but what a great moment for them.

But other than that, Harvey Blair used to play for Liverpool, not exactly setting the world alight with them.

They've got Marlon Pack, who's about 47, playing for them still.

Other than that, I don't know much players, Finn.

I don't know if you're having a scroll through.

Still not sure if he's a number seven or a number 10, but we'll come back to that another day.

What about Marlon Pack? Doesn't he just keep doing it? How does he keep on doing it? Ice baths? Saunas? 5 a.m.

runs? Protein pills? I'm not going to say anything beyond that.

Of course not.

Can't remember.

Doesn't matter.

Marlon Pack doesn't need any of that because he's Marlon Pack.

And he does what he does.

Whoever the forward is, yeah.

Or Marlon Pack normally at the back of the box, who then will split out to the other side.

But we want to see that.

Because you saw how much success Kavuma McQueen got.

You have a wing-- Basically, you could have had, um, Kamara was on at this point still, so you have Kamara and Keshie Anderson as wing backs, but they're basically wingers 'cause you don't really need wing backs.

You've got Marlon in the middle.

Even you could have put Marlon into, into a back three if you really wanted.

And then you have Morezi and Colby up front with Seketic just behind, and you kind of have like a, what's that? A three, a three-two f- four-two or whatever.

I don't know.

And they just didn't do it and like after the game, obviously I was really pissed off and annoyed, but then I was just disappointed because I was just like there was an opportunity here to get something and I think as a whole unit from Messina, coaching staff, all the way down to the players, um, just didn't do enough.

And I mean, we had players on the pitch that could influence the game.

You've got Marlon Pack, you've got, uh, Regan Poole, you've got Bishop obviously when he was on, Ibo Adams.