That wasn't NSC mode; that was just realism. I'm guessing his last game was actually prior to the first ever incarnation of NSC, which was around January 1997. If anything, the venting of your (correct) opinion of his shithouseness would've been done via the email forum, or in real life to...
That was my answer. Tribunal set the fee at 120K, which was a huge fee for a 4th Division player in 1996, so I assumed that he'd be our star player. Don't think he even played once Gritt had been appointed, did he?