rubber duckie wrote:
I’d have Patton and Livett back. What’s missing was heart and we taken town blood out of our team.
Posters took the p out of Patton for banging the bin...but that demonstrates his passion for our town.
Those two are not going to bring "heart" back by any means.
It's not like Patton was an overly passionate raw talent who was hit and miss, like a younger Briers. He was the definition of average. How many games when we were struggling, did you see him grab the game by the scruff of the neck and try and inject something. He was prone to being anonymous, game after game. Which is why his reputation always grows on here when he's out of the side, and sinks when he comes back in.
Now you can say, better to have a home grown player on a more modest wage be anonymous than a big signing on executive pay be anonymous, but that is different from expecting him to come back and revitalise the passion in the team.
Livett is a player who has shown talent in bursts and is just inconsistent, but again I'm not sure he's Mr heart and soul of the p&b....he seemed to coast a lot after a bright start.
We've seen enough from Patton to know what he is - back up quality at best. Livett: the jury is still out. There's possibility that he could come good, but at the moment I fear he's a less talented version of Westerman.
