Quote: Tommy Duckfingers "I disagree with you, watch the replay. Several (needless) penalties & terrible forward passes at key times for me - he looks very jaded and slow too at the moment. Think the lad needs a rest, and badly - hopefully he can come back better than he is now. I think this trying to play him back into form is being counter productive.'"
I have watched the replay, not that I needed to, and while I see the mistakes he made he was a net contributor to the overall effort.
This was the first game this season where I really felt JD was leading us from the front, almost willing his team mates to follow his lead in terms of effort and commitment. So he made some errors, who does'nt, but they did'nt cost us dearly and they were the product of fatigue in itself a product of his 100% effort.
I thought he put himself about above and beyond the effort of most of his team mates and as a result I include him on a list of those who should be exempt from major criticism.