Steve Bone
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You still have to be able to defend, but you have to be able to get forward as well.
And you have to be adaptable and play in many different positions, as our current two, Devlin and Swanson, who we just talked about, kind of prove that, don't they?
That's a big call, isn't it, in the world?
I'll have to think about that one, so I'll answer the first bit of your question first.
I think there's still another 5 or 10% to come from him, actually.
I think if you compare how he's playing now compared to the best parts of what we saw from him last season, I think there's still a bit more to come back.
And I think that's probably because he was out injured.
for a little while.
He was out for a month or a bit more, I think, wasn't he?
I can't quite remember now.
And you can't expect a player to be out for that long, especially a player who relies on such sort of pace and the type of skills that Murphy has.
You can't expect him to come back in and be his old self straight away.
And there were a couple of games where he just didn't look himself at all, weren't there?
I think Swansea away...
Not so long ago, he didn't do a lot.
Was it Sheffield United where he was playing on the right instead of the left and that didn't really work?
And even a couple of home games where you've been looking to him to sort of light the fuse and he hasn't lit it.
But Saturday, he looked more like his old self.
He crosses in from all sorts of angles, actually, doesn't he?
If you look at that one that set up Lange's goal,