by Vision »
15 Jan 2026 18:11
Snowflake Royal Elliott always looked a player with talent, but not application or fitness to me. He'd have runs with 2 rubbish games, 2 good ones, 3 bang average ones and then spend 15 injured.
This season was his time to shine, and he had one or two sub appearances where he was the best player on the pitch, then 3 starts where he did absolutely nothing.
Don't think it was application or fitness as such. Commentators remarked that he'd clearly tried to bulk up in pre-season.
Our best football (subjective I know) for some time was that period where he did get a run of games and he was pretty influential. Because of the injuries he was clearly a player who needed a run of games and the stop/start nature of so much of his time here meant that never really happened.
Nobody's fault as such (you can't forever indulge a player just because you believe they have talent) especially when they're so prone to injury. Just one of those things really. Others may not agree I just think it's a real shame.