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You can no more attest to him not costing points, than my saying his absence has done. Just because you think the goals they scored wouldn't have been relevant to Stephens (though wasn't it Sidwell giving away both free kicks?), doesn't mean anything. We could very well have bossed the middle...

I would hazard a guess that he has now settled from when that was reported and the many years since. Was the same with Murray. Certainly it seems like his wife is settled in the area.

Well aware of the Dunk saga. I just feel it didn't weaken us as much then as lacking Stephens has now. From memory, we were picking up some good results with GG and Uwe in his absence. Yes ofc there will be a way back for him it's entirely possible, I was more wondering how it will sit with us...

Is the key point for me. How can there be any way back for a player who by all accounts has cost us points whichever way you look at it? He may not have refused to play, but he has let himself be distracted enough that CH feels pressured to bed-in other options and plan ahead without him...

Stephens with his head elsewhere would have probably still been better than his backup player on the pitch.