Duncan Barkes

You know, we've we've Kostiki Yengi will tell Kostini Yengi, I should say, will tell you that it takes its toll.

So whether he has had a negotiated withdrawal, but rather than say he he feels it's not one for him to his country folk.

We'll never know whether he has said to his national coach, I am injured.

I will not be ready to play in a couple of days time.

I'm hoping I'm going to be able to play in 12 days time in a much more important match.

against Norwich for my club, the club that pay my wages.

Whether or not anything like that went on or not, we will never know, but we, I guess, will when he is or isn't available against Norwich and all our subsequent upcoming matches, because if we're without him now for the rest of the season, I think our troubles are significantly magnified.

I know everyone agrees with me.

I'm stating the obvious there.

I know you do too.

Good listener.

John Massino on the upcoming international break.

Well, we're in the international break already, aren't we?

Something that you often find yourself thinking when you're listening to John Massino is that quote of his from a while back.

I sometimes tell lies, he said.

The implication is that he sometimes just sort of is economical with the truth when it comes to team selection.

He likes to keep the other team guessing.

I guess most teams do.

So he's not unusual or unique in that respect.

But when he refreshingly tells the truth and says, I tell lies sometimes.