The versatile 34-year-old fancies a full-time switch to midfield and believes that, if he makes it, he could be a regular scorer.

He could get defensive duties against Norwich tomorrow but with his cool and precise finishes in big games at West Brom and Leicester, he has shown that he can stick the ball in the back of the net as well as fill other duties capably in midfield, at centre half or right back.

"If I can get a good run I know I'll score," said the man who set the scene for tomorrow's finale with his crucial goal last Saturday.

"Most of my games at Everton were in midfield and I had a decent scoring record," he told The Star.

"Let's get this last game out of the way, then with a good summer and a good pre-season under my belt, hopefully I can make a play for a more advanced position, and if it works out I think goals will come."


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Watson says light-heartedly that it is years since he played a few games in one position.

Continual injury problems have meant a stop-start time for him this season.

He believes that making his latest comebacks in defence - at right back against Scunthorpe and Sheffield United last month - helped him to find his feet.

Then he was forced to have a two-match lay-off but came back in midfield at Leicester, where he slotted in the second goal and turned the match Wednesday's way.

Watson also struck the equaliser at West Brom in the sixth minute of injury time to earn the Owls a hard-earned point there in November.

Injuries have meant him being on first-team duty only 26 times this season - his first full season with the club after his successful spell on loan from West Brom in 2006-07.

His role at Hillsborough tomorrow will probably be a defensive one: shackling Norwich danger man Darren Huckerby as Lee Bullen is unfit.

Huckerby's pace is always a threat, and he normally plays down the left.

There is also speculation that the winger may be switched to the right in a midfield reshuffle caused by the return to Arsenal of on-loan Kieran Gibbs after last week''s 3-0 win against QPR.

The Canaries' strikers are likely to 14-goal Jamie Cureton, who needs one more goal to make it a 200 total for him in English football, and Ched Evans, who has a tally of 10 for Norwich and has scored in each of his last four games.

Cureton has drawn eight blanks in his last nine outings, the exception being a hat-trick in a 5-1 thrashing of Colchester.

Dion Dublin could get an outing at some stage for his final appearances before he retires.


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