I'm never over the moon about senior players leaving, particularly Nic, but it's been obvious for some time that the team structure has not been working. We've been getting killed at the back by teams playing simple diagonals behind us. It has to stop and, like Spencer it seems, I didn't think we had the players in defence to do this. Likewise, many teams in this division have a deep lying midfield general prompting their play and we've been sloppy at marking him out of the game. That has to change too.
Many thanks to Nic, Keith and Josh - all good servants to Boro' - I wish them well.