mooro
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I agree that having him on the bench to come on to steal the odd late goal would be a positive, but I can also see the thinking that we need him to become more than just a five minute hero supersub, so getting a string of games together to increase his value to the side over 30-45-60-90 minutes is also a sensible development plan, so I dont think they are wrong in taking this decision.That’ll be that then..
Robinson said;
Derick came on and scored a fantastic goal.
“We see that most days in training, we’ve (also) seen other parts of the game we know have to be better.
“We’ve always said Derick’s a work in progress at this club.
“He’s not for today, he’s got another year on his contract, this year is for bedding in and we still think he needs a loan to make those mistakes.
“But we know he’s got that prowess to score when it drops to that right foot.”
Let’s hope that if we are 1 down with 15-20 to go he has someone on the bench who’ll pop with a goal and who is also brilliant in training at everything and is ready this year and not next.
Ideally we would have been able to keep him around in the 18 for games until the right loan was found, but this stupid squad limit system meant that KR had to choose between one or the other and, I suspect, having decided that a fit Hanson was a potentially useful body to have around to cover 2-3 positions then opted to leave DOY out to leave room for one more coming in.
In hindsight, with Hanson getting injured immediately, and one or two others not shining as we'd like, then dropping DOY has ended up as the wrong call, but I can see his thinking as to why he did it