by Ian Royal »
17 Apr 2011 18:09
Harpers So Solid Crew Good dig out, so it seems that the HNA? massive were mostly behind Long all the time, except when he was having a lean spell earlier this season.
As I said a few weeks ago. I always thought he was a player with potential, but that we'd ruined his chances of reaching that by not giving him the chance to play 90 minutes regularly. It was only after some really piss poor performances in our first season back down combined with two false dawns that really put my back up and made me lose patience.
Had he gone out on loan in one of those two seasons in the Prem, maybe he would have stepped up sooner. Maybe we would also have signed another striker who could have kept us up.
Well done to him, he's realised his potential and is having a phenominal season.
Oh, and isn't the academy doing well.
Ashdown, Henderson, Tyson, Cox, Robson-Kanu, McCarthy, Sigurdsson, Karacan & Pearce all plying their trade at Championship level or higher. Who'da thunk it... not Woodcote obviously.