
morty
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Staff member
Well this should bring out a few differing opinions.
A decent servant to the club, he was part of a lot of our success, and I thank him for that and wish him well for the future, I hope his injury problems are behind him now.
BUT...
I think he very much suffered from the fact that we haven't had two good centre backs at the same time very often. He looked good playing with some players, and bad with others. Has only really been our best centre back, for a while, by virtue of the others being bad. On his day could actually play the ball out of defence okay, but really no better overall than, say, a Gary Doherty. Was actually pacier than a lot give him credit for, but I fear his injuries and his age might be catching up with him now.
A decent servant to the club, he was part of a lot of our success, and I thank him for that and wish him well for the future, I hope his injury problems are behind him now.
BUT...
I think he very much suffered from the fact that we haven't had two good centre backs at the same time very often. He looked good playing with some players, and bad with others. Has only really been our best centre back, for a while, by virtue of the others being bad. On his day could actually play the ball out of defence okay, but really no better overall than, say, a Gary Doherty. Was actually pacier than a lot give him credit for, but I fear his injuries and his age might be catching up with him now.