Your judgement is questionable. I appreciate for some Hamer has become the sacred cow but a season of Walsh can’t be airbrushed away so flippantly. Walsh proved himself as the standout midfielder in league one and it is much too early to say the Hamer is going to be the player of the same or bigger influence than Walsh.
Hamer’s impact in all of our competitive games is there to be seen already.
Almost singlehandedly, he’s turn us into a threat from set-pieces - this is huge. He’s combative and makes a lot of important tackles/interceptions - yes, he gets a lot of yellows, but that’s his game and it’s not an obvious problem, yet. He’s shown a nice range of creative passing too.
You have to take into consideration that Hamer is the cheaper option than Walsh too. Bristol wouldn’t let us sign Walsh for £1m and there’s no way he’d be on less wages, too. We’ve got a good player for good price in Hamer - at first impression.
Walsh has got what it takes to do really well in the Championship and maybe even higher, at the right club. If the opportunity arose, we would almost definitely try to resign Walsh - even on a loan spell. In my view, Walsh and Hamer would compliment one another really well.