Kane showed real promise when he first appeared (before losing a bit of interest in 2008) and its reasonable to expect him to be very handy for us with Micale at the helm.

I'm pretty sure both Italiano and McGrath have already made League debuts . . so good reason to think there that they'll develop further this year.

So we're excluding Cowell, are we ?

What a shame if he does retire. He has been one of our very best recruits and will be greatly missed.