Cooper only used him on occasion but in fairness we got him in the winter window and had a settled side making a sustained tilt at top 2 to top 6 at the time. Understandable at that point that his opportunities were limited.
RM and his "man management" skills are one of the two biggest culprits here with the second being the ineptitude shown by the owners to not only cut short a loan where he was playing well and getting his confidence back with a view on a sale and a quick buck but when it all backfired we had a pissed off manager, a pissed off player and the club left to pay the wages for someone that was never going to play.
If they had left well enough alone there was every chance that when they shifted RM in the summer that he might have felt it was worth knuckling down with the new boss. Instead the player rightfully wanted absolutely nothing to do with the club and told Duff that straight up in his first preseason meeting with him.
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