The Voice - Match preview Most liked posts in thread: Bradford City vs Walsall Saturday 3 September @ 3:00pm

He will still make the bench not because of injuries but because we only have a few central midfielders and he is the only one of them that makes the runs and makes us play further up the pitch. I'll await the response from the usual suspects.

 

But the reason he is in the team is to make those runs forwards. If Hughes wanted to play safe and have his 2 CMs sat in front of the defence he would play Songo'o. However, it was noticeable on Saturday that if Smallwood made a foray forward Sutton dropped back.

 

Very very fair point.

 

I do agree with you that he hasn't been the same player since his illness, but I think the reason Hughes plays him is to do exactly what he does now, although it will more often be from the bench than as a starter

 

I actually agree that I don't think he will be a regular starter, but think Hughes will always have him on the bench because he gives us something the other CMs don't, and also has the versatility to play, for example RB ( although I don't think he's a great defender in that position!)

 

I'm not actually sure he is a good enough defender to be RB! He does what he does. Sometimes the team will need that, sometimes not