Steve Bone

We've got some home games to come.

We've also got some winnable away games actually to come.

Mm-hmm.

So yeah, looking back, not too disappointed.

Looking forward, cautiously optimistic about the next couple of games while keeping one eye as ever on who's coming out of the treatment room and who's going into it.

And also whether the pitch will be OK after rain, rain and more rain.

Yeah, I think it was pretty much as expected.

I don't think there was anyone in it that we thought would never be anywhere near it.

There's a couple of people in it who are currently injured, but what has surprised some is that there's a couple of people

who aren't in it, who are still at the club and are currently injured.

And it sounds like, from the explanations we've had from John Massino and Richard Hughes since, that is simply a case of keeping their options open.

So we've got 23 registered at the moment.

If there's somebody in the squad who suddenly becomes available again,

Harvey Blair, I think, is one example that's been given.

If he suddenly became available for this Saturday or next Saturday or whatever, he can be very quickly registered, added to the 23, and he can play, no problems.

I think what they're trying to do is, if it turns out that a couple of those who are not in the squad prove to be injured more long-term, then there's a space there for them to bring in a free agent or so on.

So it kind of seems the sensible way to go, really.

I don't think there's anyone who's not registered who you would think, well, why on earth isn't he registered?

You know, injury seems to be the only reason they haven't registered people.

So I think they've been quite clever there.