For me for what its worth we have lost a guy who was a liability, a penalty machine and someone who as he got older never really grew up.... oh and a player without whom we would have probably gone down last season.
Everyone on here has to admit for so many games when Connor didn't play we were clueless. Still perhaps its for the best for Both the Club and the player. That said as I have mentioned on here before as a Club we have only one solution to a player we can't manage, move him on. The top clubs take on difficult cases and even 'basket cases' and make good lads of them, not through the coach but more by the culture of the organisation.
However for me to lose two maverick type players in Sneyd and Connor in one year when such players are in such short supply, is I think an indication that we simply don't have that culture at our club. Talk about saying what we all know!!!
However like it or not, both players have won us many matches almost on their own and both are gone. Sneyd went, I know first hand, because he saw himself as central to the structure, that the attack played, and the Coach didn't like it and wanted to change it and now Connor is gone as well. Now Sneyd has gone on to claim international honours in the World Cup in his first year at a new club, whilst Jake has already appeared for the national team and will no doubt do so again. A lot now hangs on their replacements and our new coaches ability to get a team with the right culture firing in attack without them. Something for which I have the greatest belief that Tony Smith will do that. Thank heavens we have got a proper Coach at last!
As everyone says we move on with hope and expectation, of course we do because as fans hope is all we have but I wonder how much we will miss Jake . Good luck to him and lets hope he grows up a bit!
