Duncan Barkes

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I'm not even thinking about the Oxford game at the moment I will just make the decision based on Norwich and then see how he is after that.

Shox was disappointed for the fourth goal against QPR.

Apart from that I didn't think anything else was necessarily a reflection on his performance.

When that fourth goal went in, we decided to protect Shox and bring him off the pitch.

Collectively I don't think anybody came off the pitch thinking they had produced a stellar performance.

We were always going to bring him off after about 70 minutes, that was the maximum he was going to play.

At that point, with that fourth goal going in, I thought we could make that change and try to freshen things up, have a bit of a different impetus down that left-hand side with Swanee coming on.

We'll see what happens after Norwich.

We'll see what the nature of the game is, how much there is in terms of an output, how Shox feels on the Saturday, and then go from there.

That's one we are going to play by ear.

We need to do everything we possibly can to win the game on Friday, and then go from there.

We have to fully focus on Norwich.

I don't think you can look at Oxford right now.

You can't afford to do that at the moment.

we have to fully focus on norwich they are both worth three points if we actually get something against norwich it's massive it gives us impetus going into the oxford game we can't afford to look at any other games this season and think they are more important or less important than others obviously when you play against the likes of oxford and leicester they are down there with you so it might feel a bit different but we need to try to pick up as many points as we can

I don't think the media, or I should be put in that situation I don't think Michael O'Neill, should be put in a situation where his integrity is questioned.

I know Michael well, and he will make decisions for the best for Northern Ireland and Blackburn, but the fact the questions asked suggests to me there's a problem.

It's not even the fact that the players have been sent home it's the fact that it's been allowed.

Somebody has been put in that position where they are allowed to make those decisions, that's the fundamental issue.