Djed Spence

[Muttley]

I don't really understand this argument re assists with Spence. He's playing on the wrong side doing us a favour, why would we expect any offensive output from him? That's not his position, it's not his role. Do you think Porro's assist numbers wouldn't also suffer if he also played the majority of his games on the left? Such a weird criticism.

If you want to critique his attacking play then fair enough but at least appreciate the caveat that he had played 15 games total in his actual position for us and the vast majority of his minutes have been as an emergency LB, so any output is going to be significantly diminished.

If he gets minutes on the right, then we can actually speak of his attacking qualities or lack of until then it feels like such a disengerous approach to take.

I think you should read what I wrote though. I totally talked about those mitigating circumstances with changing manager tactics and playing out of position. That's why |I haven't given up on him at all. I want to see the Porro/Spence and Udogie/Robbo competition for places. I want to see these guys pushing each other really hard.

Most of all though, I want to see tangible outputs from our full-backs. Clean sheets, assists and goals are about as important stats as you get in football. They need to pass the eye test as well. If we get 15-20 goals/assists across all of our full-backs this season then remember this conversation. You heard it here first.

As some have already said, I'm not even sure why we're worrying about the full-back position this coming season. The only thing I'm mildly worried about is getting young Souza some regular game time. That will happen in due course now we've retained Davies as well and have VDV as a LB option. I'm sure Souza will be loaned out and polished up for when Robbo amd Davies roll off the roster.