MARK Hughes has a selection headache tonight with which striker to play up front.
Benni McCarthy is his big-game player with all the experience, but he's struggling a bit just now.
I think the campaign has just caught up with him. He's had a lot of pressure on his shoulders and he's been able to ride the storm. He's had a fantastic season so far and sometimes the goals dry up a little every so often.
The good thing about it is that, when that happens, there's another striker waiting to take over, like Nonda who has a good goalscoring record or Matt Derbyshire and even Jason Roberts, Franny Jeffers and Paul Gallagher who are all waiting for their chance.
Nonda and McCarthy had a good partnership at the start of the season and I'm just waiting to see if Jason can break into that and forge his own partnership.
To be fair, I was always reasonably comfortable with all the partnerships I had at Blackburn. When I started at the club it was myself and Mike Newell and we did really well, I think we scored nine goals in eight games between us. And then obviously there was Alan Shearer.
He was doing all the scoring and I was chipping in with a few goals. But I think I had my best season when I played next to Chris Sutton.
I think I was very similar to the way Matt Derbyshire has adjusted.
It's been weird the way things are falling into place for young Matt.
He looks able to strike up a partnership with any of the other strikers with the way he plays.
He's got great enthusiasm, clever running and a good eye for goal.
I'm just waiting for him to get a run of games and keep scoring goals.
I spoke to him after the game on Sunday and I told him not to be too disheartened by being caught off-side so many times.
He has blistering pace and I told him to keep making those runs, the more he makes them, the more chance one will pay off and the more goals he'll score.
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