As someone who has watched Patten and Bowen playing together for about four years now, they're a bit like a job lot as far as I'm concerned, they compliment each other really well - I think they both would have played first team football by now in the second tier in a different era.

I don't believe City are prepared to release Bowen because, as I mentioned earlier, he's still being picked for the Under 23s - he played ninety minutes for them on Tuesday.