Rob wrote:Vantage007 wrote:Put simply It's such a great squad of players we have. What I don't want to happen is that we play Hewitt too soon and he gets injured again. We've got this far without him this season so is it worth the risk?
Nope, thanks to how superbly JB has done we don't have to rush him back. The grudging praise from Gazza and Geoff is so disrespectful and just wrong, you both clearly are predisposed. I'm glad he keeps proving you both (and a couple of others) wrong.
Gazza, it's bizarre to say 15 players played as well as JB on Saturday, that's just utter nonsense. For example, Maris os my favourite Stags player, yet I thought he was well below par, a couple of others were too and even Nichols was about to be rightly subbed before his great goal. Its all a bit sad, as Sneag said, has he nicked your car?
I didn't say 15 other players played as well as Bowery just that 15 other also played well. There were no "bad" performances. It's just weird that I now seem to HAVE to say JB was amazing every game, otherwise it means I'm being "disrespectful". My point was others played well (some better than others but like I said no "bad"). Some didn't have the time really to be good or bad because they didn't have a lot of time to make a big impact. I don't think I've singled out any player particularly from Saturday's game.
I wouldn't have thought people would want my opinion on Bowery every game. Every time I mention a mistake I get ganged up on and when I say he's done well it either gets ignored or called disrespectful.
I had no qualms with him playing LB Macca has just returned and had more minutes than perhaps he should have to get back up to speed, Cargill caught that illness that's going round. MacDonald is out injured. Aaron Lewis is an option but he will be playing and training as a midfielder.
My list for RB though is Johnson, Williams and Bowery in 3rd. If Hewitt returns to the level he was before then he drops to 4th place. I'm sorry but we signed good fullbacks in the summer. Nobody at all has ever questioned his commitment to the side or willingness to do what he is asked of. He is one of those players who is just a model professional.