Quote Originally Posted by mellowmiller View Post
I agree with most of your assessments of individual players but Spence is one who intrigues me.
I've watched him quite closely on the (relatively) few occasions he's played. He's quite impressive when we don't have the ball and chases about trying to win possession.
However, when we do have the ball he hides. There's no other way to put it because he doesn't show for the ball (surely that's a minimum requirement for a midfielder!) and he always seems to be behind an opponent.
This may be because his confidence is low as he's been playing in a poor team so it will be interesting to see how he does in League 2 if the manager (whoever that may be) puts together a team that competes at the top end of the table.
If confidence has been an issue (and I'd expect it must have been to some degree), having three injury spells hasn't helped. I take your point though, he is a defensive midfielder for us more than the box-to-box he's capable of being. We don't know if he's under instruction to get the ball to our 'flair' players though, which could also explain why after chasing/winning the ball he's getting rid, and why he'd not scream for the ball when we're on the front foot. I'm speculating though.