Noe Pamarot and Stephen Henderson - remembering the more recent Portsmouth returnees with differing success

One player whose second Fratton spell couldn’t be judged a success, but through no fault of his own, is Stephen Henderson.

The goalie, who’d been at Fratton in the 2011-12 season, returned on loan in the 17-18 campaign but was forced off with quite a serious leg injury in his first game back, against Doncaster, and didn’t play again.

Henderson was one of a number of relatively recent returnees highlighted by readers.John Tucker recalls a couple of others who came back: ‘Shaun Cooper did all right on his return and should have got another year’s deal, he helped us when we were dire. Then there was James Keene, who was a far better player in Sweden than here.’

Richard Brook highlighted Jason Pearce as a player who proved a welcome returnee and Ian Limb rightly pointed out that Noe Pamarot was a big success in his second spell, in which he helped the Great Escape campaign of 2005-06.

We then come to Ant Coombes, who seems to have been sitting patiently waiting for permission to include loanees in this list.‘If you're including loans, that opens a whole new can of worms,’ he says.‘Adrian Whitbread for example - certain to divide opinion. I would say his return matched his loan spell (read into that what you will!). Jack Compton – never played first time round… but was probably just as influential in his first spell as he was in his second when he actually played!

‘Then there’s Jake Jervis, Carl Dickinson and Scott Allan. Dickinson probably excelled himself equally in both spells.’

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