part time pete wrote:Young Smith has been on bench last few games, so to put him in midfield wouldn’t be the end of the world.
I’m not knocking Smith by any means, still a young lad with potential but anything can happen in football, we’ve just seen our right back get injured for a couple of months at least. If that was to happen in midfield to Bishop or Mellis, you would not really want Atkinson, or Smith filling in for a prolonged period of time when the stakes could be sky high towards the end of the season. Butcher seems to have gone off the radar altogether but he wouldn’t be an inspiring option either.
We lack that serious cover for a proper midfielder that Elsnik provided. The ideal would be to try and get Butcher out the door some how ASAP and use that free’d up wage on another CM who will contribute.