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Which midfielder? If you are talking about Leadbitter we have looked at our best when he is playing surely?

And no I wont admit it as I still think it was a good window......Grigg has proven year after year to be prolific at this level but he is clearly carrying an injury. Leadbitter has been excellent and imho should not have been dropped. Ironically Morgan was poor until recently but now people want to sign him, he was seen as a failure but now he has settled he looks much better.
Leadbitter has been excellent. :eek:

Even Ross has had to drop the fucker as he’s been piss poor.

You take happy clapping to a whole new level!
 
God, it's like this season's version of "Short has blown you all out of the water". I've got no issue with people having different opinions, but some seem very quick to come on with these triumphant "I knew best all along, you're all idiots" threads rather than just accepting that maybe others had, and possibly still have, a good reason for their caution/ perceived negativity. Works the other way as well, some can't wait to jump in with over the top negativity any time something seems to go wrong. Fair play to the OP for trying to maintain his position, but it's obvious, with the benefit of hindsight, that it wasn't a great window, so anyone who at the time wasn't happy has been pretty much proved correct

Exactly. I thought we'd done well, but we hadn't - can see that now. Why feel so nailed to a position that was only an opinion based on guesswork anyway. The sillier thing is to maintain it in the face of evidence.

He also seems to be answering a different question in his protestations. He's answering "was it legitimate for me to say X in January". Yes, probably. But we have more evidence now - so the question "was it a poor window" is not the same as that one. The answer is - it was. Clearly.

This is a big problem with social media. People refusing to change their mind as a point of identity. It's dumb - in the pub you'd just say "aye, didn't turn out as I thought". Here people get sucked into infantile "I was right, no I you were wrong" mudslinging.
 
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Heard that he had been dropped after a disagreement but not seen it verified anywhere else.
Rubbish.

He’s been dropped as he’s been poor. Other than his set pieces which have admittedly been good his general play hasn’t been good enough.

Slow, taking too many touches before he passes and I’m sick of seeing him trying these Hollywood balls that he’s incapable of playing.

He’s finished I’m afraid.
 
Rubbish.

He’s been dropped as he’s been poor. Other than his set pieces which have admittedly been good his general play hasn’t been good enough.

Slow, taking too many touches before he passes and I’m sick of seeing him trying these Hollywood balls that he’s incapable of playing.

He’s finished I’m afraid.

Not what we needed at all. He's an improvement on McGeouch, but McGeouch was already struggling to fit into the system. We needed physicality in midfield - we needed someone with Honeyman's energy but more defensively minded and ideally about 6ft 3. A league one Dickson Etuhu basically. We already had the ballplayers and we certainly didn't need another midfielder who lacks the engine to play in there.

Stick a player like that next to Catts next year (assuming we don't go up), sign a couple of centre halves who don't get bullied either and we'll be absolutely fine. Our problem this year is weakness - physical as much as mental.
 
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God, it's like this season's version of "Short has blown you all out of the water". I've got no issue with people having different opinions, but some seem very quick to come on with these triumphant "I knew best all along, you're all idiots" threads rather than just accepting that maybe others had, and possibly still have, a good reason for their caution/ perceived negativity. Works the other way as well, some can't wait to jump in with over the top negativity any time something seems to go wrong. Fair play to the OP for trying to maintain his position, but it's obvious, with the benefit of hindsight, that it wasn't a great window, so anyone who at the time wasn't happy has been pretty much proved correct
I was happy with the January window but it's impossible to say on the 1st February that it was an excellent window. As it turned out it was a disappointing.
 
I was happy with the January window but it's impossible to say on the 1st February that it was an excellent window. As it turned out it was a disappointing.

I’m not sure if these same players had a different system or manager we wouldn’t see different results. I still think our results are on how these players are used and not that they are here.
 
Rubbish.

He’s been dropped as he’s been poor. Other than his set pieces which have admittedly been good his general play hasn’t been good enough.

Slow, taking too many touches before he passes and I’m sick of seeing him trying these Hollywood balls that he’s incapable of playing.

He’s finished I’m afraid.
It's not so much he's poor but rather slows everything down to walking pace. Power is slightly quicker. We need more energy in there, hence the insistence with Honeyman. Nevertheless, his overall record is not at all bad but you do get the impression that Grant has been made the scapegoat for the dropped points against Burton and Coventry.
 
Hope so, we look a lot better when he is in the middle of the park and particularly from dead balls.
He’s been rested like the majority, quite a few games in a small period of time takes toll on people. Given Ross’s inability to take the game to someone when it means something, and the negative tactics he adopts I feel it’ll be him and Catts in the play offs.
 
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