Originally Posted by
the_anticlough
I'd disagree with "largely ineffective''. I think he showed us in the first 2/3s of the season that he was our most talented player.
That's why I was hopping mad and pulling my hair out when he was pushed out of the squad completely. And if it wasn't for his play on returning, all of goals, assists, general play, we would have finished way out of the play-off places. Yeah there was a slump in the middle, but the prevailing view is that this was due to mismanagement.
So for me, the promise of his first few months and the storming end of the season make 'player of the season' a no-brainer IMO, nobody else comes close really.