by MoorgateRoyal »
15 May 2015 15:22
ladida_gunner_graham sandman ladida_gunner_graham Complete and utter tw@. Would be gutted if he came back....don't care if he is any good. Has everyone forgot him giving us the finger after YET ANOTHER crap long ball ended up in Y25?
Was that after "we" started moaning, groaning and booing our own player?
Almost certainly, yes. There are only so many vainglorious, Hollywood passes that can be tolerated. It felt like about one in every five ever found its intended target, so yes, I am not ashamed to say I was one of those who directed abuse his way for this shameless indulgence. His reaction was sadly no surprise to me, nor many others. I still maintain he's a tw@ we don't need.
At the time I think it seemed to be obvious we were trying to knock it in behind the right-back for Kebe to run onto, and Mills had been tasked with supplying the hoofs for that purpose. Because he was getting abused by the fans, he threw up the finger because we couldn't see that he was just following orders. Not saying it was the right way to react of course. That's the way I saw it at the time.
In that situation though, where the tactic isn't working, or you keep getting it wrong, the better players will take it upon themselves to change what they're doing and risk a bollocking from the manager. We won that game in the end anyway, and he apologised. Not everyone will react the same way in every situation, so I never got very annoyed with him for that.
He wasn't a bad centre back in the Championship then, but he's never kicked on and developed any further, so for that reason I wouldn't want him. I'd rather keep Hector and Pearce together and keep Jake Cooper (who I think has the potential to be very good) as the third centre back for next year.