Ben Symes

about the substitutions, but it's something that's probably haunted me a little bit, I would say, since the Jimmy Dunn substitution, I thought, was maybe one that might have gone differently with Alan Brown shifting to right-wing back, and maybe Jason Knight comes on then in central midfield, but...

I was shocked, not shocked, I was a little bit surprised at the time that Knight wasn't coming on into midfield when Jack Taylor got taken off.

And Jack, let's be real as well, Jack Taylor only got taken off because he was on a yellow card.

I actually thought he was having quite a game matching them physically in the middle of the park.

But yeah, Jason Knight is one who...

You can only take so much from a friendly.

It really doesn't do anything to replicate what happens in a competitive match.

I do think you can see signs from friendlies that you can take in competitive games and Jason Knight is definitely something that maybe when the staff watch it back again they'll think he could have came off the bench.

I can remember saying that I think Jason Munby is nailed on to play in that game.

And I remember there was a little bit of a back and forth because Matthew was kind of suggesting, oh, I don't know if he's so nailed on as he is.

I think that question is kind of blown out of the water now after this international break.

Just an interesting one though that I kind of thought when I was on the way home last night is

Boston Lowell could be a big player in this midfield going forward I think we lack that profile of someone who's not afraid to get around and get stuck into tackles I know Malumbi is that as well but he's a bit more physical presence and he's really tidy on the ball Lowell which is something that you don't know how kind of players are going to replicate that club form international form a lot of times there's kind of there's no correlation between your club form and your international form so I did kind of wonder how he would integrate that in but I thought he looked quite tidy and I think

if he gets some minutes in, I think he would be in that camp in Spain if he's fit enough and I think he'll be... If Stoke aren't in the playoffs.

If Stoke aren't in the playoffs, yeah, which look, it doesn't look like they're going to be.

And then against Qatar and Canada, I think he might give a little bit of a headache for Hamer when the Nations League comes around in September.

Obviously, we hope Josh Cullen will be back fit then as well.

He'll be playing in the championship more than likely if he stays with Burnley at the time too.

So yeah, I'd say Malumby has probably nailed his place but...

There's competition there at least.