Steve Bone

He's very strong, he covers a lot of ground up front, he works hard.

There have been a couple of games recently where I've thought that he's been giving away too many fouls and I haven't had a lot of sympathy for him.

On Monday I thought he was manhandled all over the place by Oxford.

And I thought the Oxford defenders got away with quite a lot against him.

There was three or four that I can remember.

Three or four incidents where he was clearly fouled.

If the same thing had happened anywhere else on the pitch he would have been given as a free kick.

But almost because it was him it wasn't given as a free kick.

So he does get some rough treatment.

Maybe that's because he's big, strong, you know, maybe that's because the type of player he is puts himself about a bit, doesn't he?

He's got the strength to do that.

But yeah, I've noticed that as well, that there's not as many, I think since he was dropped for those couple of games and Brown came in.

That didn't work and since then there's been less of a clamour for him to be left out or dropped.

I think people can see there's not an obvious person to bring in in his place.

There's not somebody that you can say is definitely going to come in and score a goal every two games.

That's the problem.

Interesting that we've got Waddingham back fit for these last six games.

I'm sure he'll be on the bench.

I wonder if even the manager might try to surprise an opponent and give Waddingham a start, either with Bishop or in place of him or whatever, I don't know.

But no, I mean, I'm always happy to see Bishop on the starting 11, but it would be nice if he could poke one in from two yards out, wouldn't it, somewhere, just to get his confidence up, his scoring confidence up.