The chatter is that his agent has been feeding him with the message that there are plenty of Championship clubs interested, and he would get a deal with one of them. Those clubs have one by one disappeared when the time came to firm up interest.

Hamshaw has been polite to the press but Humphreys had burnt his bridges with us by delaying his decision and wanting more time when the deadline arrived, so he was politely told last week that it was better that he moved on.

Port Vale are well funded by new owners so I expect they will have happily paid the £250k signing on fee his agent was apparently demanding and that might well be the only reason he has gone there.

For me as someone else has said he is a typical product of an academy, everything is given to them at a young age and they stroll about looking good. I have seen him around at NYS when he has not been playing and he is a happy go lucky pleasant guy without a care in the world. But has he got the commitment and application to succeed and get the best out of his talents, or is he thinking about tonight's PlayStation game with his mates when the cross comes in, I know what I think I hope he proves me wrong.