Duncan Barkes

And also, your thoughts about Dio.

Because I read in a place that he's got ahead of Bauer and Matthews already in the number five pecking order.

Well, this question's just jumped into my mind, so I'll try it from nowhere.

Have you at any point over the last few months regretted or rued the fact that Callum Lang got homesick for the Mersey?

But if the worst happened... With Jojo, for example, and Waddingham and Farrell.

Yes.

Right, well, Steve, in spite of all the uncertainties surrounding the fixture, I'm going to ask you for your prediction and maybe a little bit of a profile on how you see the game turning out at Norwich.

Steve, as ever, thank you so much.

Thank you.

I hope you're right and wrong.

You know which one.

Yes, me too.

Me too, in a way.

Okay, look forward to it.

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John Massino's had a welcome boost to his attacking options for Friday against Norwich.

I suspect a lot of onlookers would say that when John Massino talks about options, he's also talking about competition for places.

Because one of the things that works in football, and we all know it, that works in football really well, is when there are two or more players vying for the starting shirt.

and having three or four or five wide players battling it out to get the starting seven or eleven shirts means that everybody's game is going to be as sharp as it possibly can be but when you're reduced to one and a half

wide players, wide attacking players.