James Garner

[brap2]

Hate this type of midfielder

[TheRam]

I still think he’s pretty rubbish.

Armstrong has been showing him up this season.

Hes not even good at set pieces either.

[Silas]

Just think he's been shoved straight back in and he's not performing particularly well. We have Hackney sat right there needing games, no reason to be slogging this lad to death at all.

[Audrey Horne]

I still think he’s pretty rubbish.

Armstrong has been showing him up this season.

Hes not even good at set pieces either.

Can't believe set pieces haven't been taken off him yet. First man or way over everyone 95% of the time.

[Bob Sacamano]

What did Chelsea offer on deadline day for this crab?

[Cozzie]

What did Chelsea offer on deadline day for this crab?

£65M I think.

[Audrey Horne]

Christ what a waste. Never getting that offer again

[Bob Sacamano]

£65M I think.

lol

[4evablu]

I personally rate garner…but agree with the set pieces comments…however, I can’t ever remember us being great at set pieces apart from one season a couple years ago where we got a bag full of corners….

[Shogun]

As much as I'm one of his bigger critics, I think it's tough when you've not had a pre-season and are thrown into proceedings when the season has already started

Just a shame we didn't have a player like Hayden Hackney or something for him to ease his way back into things

[Juanito]

He needs to play RB.

[AjaxAndy]

We saw it with Tarks last season, a missed preseason is hard to come back from

[Bluebridge]

I personally rate garner…but agree with the set pieces comments…however, I can’t ever remember us being great at set pieces apart from one season a couple years ago where we got a bag full of corners….

that was at the beginning of the Dyche era, hit Tarks on the post and see what happens.

[blueToffee]

I don't mind Garner, and I think generally speaking he did well last season. He might not be everyone's cup of tea but an England call up when playing for us these days is a higher bar than playing for some other clubs and if we're being fair to him it wasn't given on a whim for no reason. He was actually a bit unlucky not to go given his performances in those friendlies prior to the World Cup.

That said, he's not looked at the same level this season and you have to assume it's related to the injury in one form or another, either pure fitness because he missed preseason or he's still getting over the injury a bit.

The problem is as stated above, he shouldn't be rushed back in. And certainly not played every minute if so. We've done it to so many players in the past and it's almost always to both club and player's detriment as we play worse, they get injured again or just play within themselves and then fans get on them because they do worse things than normal. Probably as we saw more dramatically with Norgaard.

It comes back to using the squad we have again.

[Paddockoldie]

He's turned into square ball Butch, for those old enough to remember