Mean helped you out of a hole. Johnson never impacted results at all when he was injured did he?
Dodging the question. You may like to know that Reda hasn't been our only injury in defense. Johnson also hasn't come back from injury so to suggest that his absence hasn't impacted results is idiotic especially as we acted quickly to replace him. What happened to his replacement? I'll help you out. He went back to his club after (you'll like this bit) getting injured. Also it's odd that you use Reda as a point of "proving" that one player doesn't influence team performance but when it comes to Cole the opposite applies.
Here's how I see it. We're a team that builds from the back, when our defensive injury woes started hitting home (the ones you're blissfully unaware of) it impacted our performances two fold, one not only were we looking dodgy at the back and likely to concede we also lost our starting point for attack, secondly our midfield then get's dragged into defensive duties (not always effectively) stifling our attack even more. You've obviously failed to notice but these issues seem to have been addressed with the two latest loan signings and three things have happened over the last couple of games. One, RCC is very much improved and now looks better than he has at any point during the season. Two, our defense are looking rock solid again both defensively and building attacks. Three, this has allowed our midfield to stop filling in gaps in defense and carry on what's been built from defense and lead the attack. This has happily coincided with what looks like JC returning to something near full match fitness (yes it took him a while but then he's not 18 anymore so that's only to be expected) telling not only from the fact that he played a full 90 minutes for the first time since his arrival but also played everyone else pretty much of the park.
Now you tell us why JC is shit and it's all his fault?