To be honest, this is what I am hoping for. Unfortunetly he doesn;t have the same number of senior games behind him as Atkinson did when he was thrown in. Therefore there's a greater risk here. But, hopefully he's shown enough so far for us to think about taking a risk on him as we could then look at spending more money elsewhere.Or maybe he has been so impressive that we don't need a direct replacement for Atkinson as we already have one in the building .
Hopefully we'll see how he gets on in pre-season and not rush into an Atkinson replacement.
All that aside- we probably still need another centre half anyway to ensure we have enough bodies to cope with injuries and the number of games.