What was your rating and comment on Osborn,
pommpey ? Unless my eyes are deceiving me, he was overlooked from that section.
For me, he's at least fulfilling the minimum requirement which Lundstram had started to fall below. He runs about a bit. A lot in fact. He's a player that can look back on his time with us so far and say if he was found wanting at this level, it would purely be on ability not effort in any way. He's certainly not let us down.
He has been one of our better performing players this season in that he was quite unfortunate to lose his spot at LWB when Stevens relatively inexplicably came back in.
Yesterday specifically, I personally would have had him as 7/10. What pleased me was not just that he did remain involved in whatever this new role is meant to be, but for his part in the goal. Too often we, for want of a better phrase, 'dick around' with the ball out wide and allow the opposition to reset. His first time whipped ball caused panic in their defence and was remeniscent of the good goals we scored last year against Burnley.
His level is very aligned to our own. He'll be a strong performing Championship player and will not let the side down at this level if surrounded by enough quality cohorts. Asking him to take the game by the scruff of the neck against top half teams is probably an ask too far but against bottom half contemporaries, he's more than capable. I certainly wouldn't be letting his contract run down in 12 months. He might be one of those to benefit from more game time and replace Fleck if the latter moves on. He's a 'Rangers man' after all and a return back there wouldn't be totally unexpected.
It might not be the highest of high bars these days but a decent shift and being instrumental in the only goal and I didn't really have any qualms with his efforts today. You may disagree of course though he clearly cares and him not being Lundstram is a positive for me!
