It’s more I suspect the fact he was signed by Mowbray who operated a different style of football
He doesn’t fit the robins and Viveash jigsaw of how they prefer to play.
Even on his return to the side against Forest he bizarrely played at LWB
There’s no actual place in the system we play is the issue. I’m sure he trains hard he’s tried to play in as many U23 games as he can and he just doesn’t fit in
I don't think he's really been tried in the position he'd most naturally be able to adapt to, even though it's one we've been crying out for all season - ACM. He'd be a great foil/alternative to O'Hare and take some pressure and attention away from him. Someone on here wrote that they'd seen O'Hare say he likes playing with Jones.
Of course people will say MR sees him everyday in training and so knows better, but we've all seen instances of managers having blind spots either in favour of or against a player. They're human like the rest of us and will have preconceived thoughts that will override what they're actually seeing. What we've seen in the few games he's played he looks capable enough, yet MR then doesn't bring him on in following games. Meanwhile we've seen Shipley play numerous poor games in that position and yet still get picked in the following fixtures. Surely what you see on a matchday has to have a big influence in your thinking?
If there was some sort of disciplinary issue or something you could understand it, but I don't get any other vibe from Jones other than being a hard-working, nice guy.
It's not so much the fact that I think we're likely to release a player who is going to set the team alight, more one who looks like he could add something to the squad but we've not taken the opportunity to find out. Especially having given him three new contracts while he was injured to then not even try him out when he is fit just beggars belief as to why we bothered with the previous extensions.
