I'm starting to believe that's the case more and more! I know there's no such clause but the fact he is still ahead of Wood and Malaga is beyond belief and there's got to be a reason!
the team beat brum.. shaws 2nd game as caretaker manager if he had made loads of changes it would have been harsh on whoever he dropped cus everyone worked there socks off....willis knows hes back up and if jordan or cyrus were fit they would have played.... i think/hope shaw has realised from today that away we need two defence minded midfielders in the midfield whether its jennings and thomas or cyrus right wing or brown as a dm (writing this i am realising we are prob 1 short in that position) reason being that teams are treating us as a huge team to play and we need to counter that!
i could be wrong but i'm sure there was a clause a few years ago in neil mellor's contract when liverpool loaned him to west ham, he was starting ahead of defoe and connolly when it was obvious he was shit. have we succumb to this with brown? maybe so we don't sever ties with fergie and the possibility of not gettting future loans from united.
Even though thorns not here any more one thing he did say is we have a squad, IF players are not performing there is some one who can replace them! So far hes kept out in matchs our 3 better performing center halfs, in Malaga, Wood and the Edge ...... i hope your contract theory is incorrect!
1 good game in 6 isn't good enough. I said before the seasons started that to get automatic promotion at the player need to be performing at a minimum of 7 out of 10 week in week out, and the 'flair players' like Baker, Sheff and Fleck at 8's most weeks.