A ringing endorsement....
He just doesn't have the pace or intensity of those guys any more. His engine still tends to see him through 80 mins time after time but I feel like I've also seen him start to have less and less influence on the game.
I genuinely am not sure what point I'm supposed to have made. You said it was the first time he'd been written off. I said that no one one here appears to have written him off.
But are you saying that you are writing him off?