His homesickness under Wilkins wasn't cobblers. His partner left him, taking his baby son with her, back to the north, as she couldn't settle down here. He also had to have a couple of hernia operations.
We are all presuming that if Poyet had kept him, he would have adapted to the Championship...
It took over a year and Holloway. You may laugh at 'Olly, but he had a knack of getting the best out of strikers. He's the only one who could get Dobbie to score on a regular basis.