I always find it difficult to cope with players who have superb skills but only show them when the moon is in the right quarter.
I stated on here a couple of years ago that if you averaged a mark out of 10 for every game he played for – us, his average would struggle to make a 5. There were just so many 4 out of 10s. It is too easy to only remember the outstanding stuff.
Getting the fee we did was daylight robbery.
That handful of 9s which had us all so excited and saying things like “I really think the lad has turned a corner now” happened three+ times a season over a number of years.
Remember the George Kerr opinion expressed on Humberside.
