Steve Bone

And I'm a bit puzzled by...

the story that and I don't know if this is the official line but obviously he was recalled by Spurs and he's going to Coventry I was a bit puzzled by the line that there were some suggesting that it's because Coventry have promised Spurs he will get more minutes there than he did with us I'd be surprised if Frank Lampard is able to say to Spurs

And if you send him to us, he will play X number of games.

Because how can he say that?

He's got a winning team.

Fair enough, they've had a little blip recently, haven't they?

A couple of defeats, so he wants to freshen it up a bit.

But will any manager give an absolute guarantee to another club that he's going to start a player every week or every other week for the rest of the season when he hasn't seen him in the flesh himself?

He hasn't seen him in his squad, in his training ground.

So he doesn't know until he puts him in the team what he's going to do for him.

So that puzzled me a bit.

I think you're spot on there.

Clearly Spurs have not been impressed at how much he's played and think he should have played more.

I don't think he should have played more.

I think he's probably played about the amount that his efforts have sort of warranted, really.

I think he's had chances.

I don't think he should have been kept in the starting 11 longer than he was.

Maybe he's a little bit a victim of the team and the squad as a whole struggling at times.

He's not been able to sort of rise above that.

But it's a shame because, you know, if Bianchini had been recalled by Swansea, nobody would have batted an eyelid, would they?