Agree - 'I'm confident enough in my recovery to fly into a tackle as if nothing ever happened'. He knows he got away with one (watching his interview) and I doubt he'll make the same mistake again but it's a brilliant sign of the confidence he must have in his physical condition. Thought he was...
Agreed but our MO, and progression generally, doesn’t mean improving in a linear manner every season and we shouldn’t expect that. We will have seasons where we take a step back to step forward, particularly when like this season we get by a ridiculous number of injuries affecting the same...
He’ll have played a fair amount of matches behind closed doors I suspect……not quite at the competitive level of an U21 game perhaps but all contributes to minutes. I wouldn’t assume anything about his fitness - plenty enough people at the club all over it.