If Bidwell had started the season (1 Viewer)

Osullivan18 said:

I'll be honest, I felt he was a weak link for us last season and was happy we replaced him. Like many many times before regarding players, I was wrong. This season he has been immense

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messiahrobins said:

I am a huge fan of Bidwell and think he is one of the best left backs in the division. Love his attitude and he has quality as well.
I do think had we started with Bidwell this season ahead of Da Silva we would be at least 7-8 points better off.
This is NOT a criticism of our best manager of all time at all, the problem for any team bringing in so many new players in the summer is it takes time for everything to settle down and obviously Mark had a vision of how he wanted to play with expansive full backs, but Bidwell has been again absolutely top draw for us.
I would give him a contract extension for sure.

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messiahrobins said:

Are you from Sunderland?

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Pusb1 said:

i do also think (not hitting robins)

but robins inability to know our strongest team earlier in the season has impacted us

Had we have played Simms over Godden
Kitching over Fadz
Van Ewijk over Lati
Bidwell over Da silva

consistently. we would have picked up more points i am sure of that

persisted with Godden etc for way too long

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