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Cheers Trigger - always nice to be considered/resonsed and opt for actual 'feel' rather than bland statistics to back up your response. I appreciate what you're saying, and can't argue with how you put it. All done in a non patronising, 'trying to be funny' or condescending way. Most unusual for...

Yeah likewise - I'm not saying DS is the biggest culprit, but why people insist on saying he's not culpable is utterly beyond me?!? He's a major part of a failing team, and if we think he's going to save us this season, in any system... well, I'll see you at Burton :) Which is fine by me, as...

Yeah whatever genius.

Or I could have said: Are we really saying that DS is better than many of our other players? Based purely on some decent passing/tackling stats? The BIG issue is this idea that DS doesn't just recycle the ball, he sodding does - his longer passing is good, but totally ineffectual in our current...

Fine. He's clearly a world beater. I prostrate myself before your superior opinion. Of yourself too. There is no more.

Yeah - separating the wheat from the chaff with all the efficiency of a post industrial revolution combine... I've not really slagged him off, have I? Merely said I don't think he's all that at this level... which he's not really, is he? I've said elsewhere it's just my opinion and other's in...

I'm not questioning his ability in the championship, clearly he's a wonderful player at that level. Sadly however, at this level, for me he's poor (along with several others) hence our perilous league position. I've watched Dale go from a player who had a direct influence on our results in a...

Brilliant! Your best work of the season Dale ;)

I couldn't disagree more. If he has indeed 'upped' his game, well I dread to think what a standard Championship Dale would look like. Nah - he's left me thinking his true level is somewhere in the league below us. Not bad, but not great.

Yep - massively underwhelmed in spite of his passing stats, which I believe have come about from not wanting to hold the ball (fear of losing it) and that he's playing virtually a yard in front of the back four and playing a higher % of longer passes to accommodate this. He is undeniably a very...

True, but at this level Dale isn't really... well... anything from midfield - He's slow, nervy, too deep, too introverted and thus totally out of his depth. The only exception being the recent FA cup match where he looked like he'd arrived... alas he immediately returned to his more dominant...