Duncan Barkes

While Marlon Pack is set to start, Misenior must now decide whether to hand a first championship start since New Year's Day to the out-of-favour Luke Leroux.

Alternatively he could ask Zach Swanson to fill in, as he did in the win at Sheffield Wednesday, or move Terry Devlin back into a more familiar midfield role.

Despite the setback, the manager says the midfielder is keeping his chin up.

Ibu is very, very bright and very enthusiastic, as you would expect him to be, he added.

He is exactly as advertised.

John Massino talking about Ibu A. Adams and a nice little modernization of the old advertising classic.

It does what it says on the tin.

John Massino's version of that in connection with Adams is he is exactly as advertised.

And he really is heading towards, you know, being, shall we have a statue now?

Not a statue, obviously, next to Jimmy Dick.

But, you know, perhaps if he goes on like this, he'll have a place on some wall of fame, won't he, Eboy Adams?

How he's worked his way into our affections has been surprising, hugely surprising, and a real bonus.

And, of course, he's such a bonus that when we miss him, we really miss him.

So it remains to be seen what the midfield looks like against Norwich and in the upcoming games thereafter.

It seems as though John Messina is hoping that he might be fit for Leicester, which of course will be at least as crucial a clash as the Oxford one.

And by the way, the...

Norwich game is being billed as crucial but Steve Bone amongst others who have given this a lot of thought says the Norwich game is not that important it's the Oxford game and the Leicester game those are the ones that if we can get six points from those two well happy days as ever the football news agency the 72 have asked their top football writers to predict the outcome of Friday's game against Norwich

The thing is, it's a mugs game, isn't it?

Offering predictions to matches, football matches, league football matches, in leagues where anybody can beat anybody.

The results often go according to the form book, but equally, they all too often go against the form book.