Armstrong

[AucklandRover]

Why has he taken him out of the side??

He's got to the point where he is most useful as a sub, because he is able to fill in in numerous positions.
Secondly, more naturally gifted players have emerged, and if they can perform consistently, Bennett will become more and more peripheral.
It's still wait and see, though. After one particularly good game, Buckley is being talked of as the next Matt Jansen. That is ridiculously premature. If he now has two stinkers, Mowbray's selection of him will be targeted again.
This is what I meant on the other thread about it being best to watch a game at a time, and not get carried away in either direction. If we get hammered by Brentford 0-4, we'll be getting the end-of-the-world scenarios again.
I don't always abide by this, of course, because it's easy to get swept along.
The classic recent example where I fell for it was before the final of the Rugby World Cup. The way England had played against the All-Blacks, the week before, I felt they were certainties. We all know what happened next!
We all want sport to be "analysable" and form patterns, but each game is so dynamic and complex that expectations can be floored.
Just look at the Fulham-Barnsley result. (At moments like that, the "It's all down to the manager" argument leaves me speechless).
The extra factor which makes me cautious is that the Championship, this season, is even more balanced than usual. Even the leaders have not reached the normal benchmark of averaging two points per game.
And, to get back to the main point, I think generalisations about individual players are often equally unsafe. Johnson looked entirely different on Saturday from the player we saw in the last three months of 2019.