The loss of Holt and to a lesser extent the injuries of Graham has had a massive influence on the balance of our team as along with our 2 best central defenders missing we desperately need Sevelj in the middle of midfield as imo Sibbald isn't quite up to full match fitness and should be used sparingly.

I don't know what the story was with Holt going but I'd imagine it was he was offered a longer contract on slightly better money but I'm hearing rumours on here and from other supporters that we got ?35k for him and that he wanted away for the rumoured longer contract on offer from Derry City. If these rumours are true then that is 100% small time thinking from us as keeping him and offering him a better deal might have been the difference from us finishing 3rd and a guaranteed ?5-6m from European football.

I honestly never thought I'd say this about Holt when he signed for us as I was just of the opinion that he like Sibbald was a Championship type player that will get us up then we'd release him but he has been is a big loss to us both defensively and offensively and we should have tried harder to keep him,especially if we knew Gallagher was being released and would down tools,the Graham injury situation and Manny being inconsistent.