A huge portion of that has to do with the cluelessness of the manager who's tactics were leaving the defenders and the goalkeeper hopelessly exposed week in week out.No, we were rubbish in 2024 an all, Darling was playing, in fact we were rubbish all through Williams tenure.. I didn't say he was crap, just an ordinary CB at this level, just like Grimes was ordinary at this level.. no PL teams will come in for Darling this summer, because defensively he's got a ricket in him.. the frustrating part about him is he's aggressive inside the oppositions penalty area, but he's weak as piss in his own box defending, it's odd
No one is advocating to pay him £35k a week, that would be beyond our budget for any player even Darling or O'Brien. However since Sheehan took over in 12 games (he has played in 9 of those) he has helped us to keep 7 clean sheets and scored 3 goals. What more do you want from a centre half?