Seriously? Cardiff and Leeds have scouted Thompson this season so he must have something there, he does make a fair few silly errors of judgement but you can't fault his commitment.
I was going to bite at the initial derogatory comment about Thompson, but thought better of it. This one has much more scope for proper deiscussion.
Thompson probably makes the same amount of mistakes as every other 3rd div defender, but the way we've played most of the time during the last couple of seasons (building from the back) has meant that everything has gone mainly through him first, with little cover as the other defenders are spread wide. So any mistakes he does make are far more noticeable and sometimes costly than most. Ask any other defender in this league to play the same way, shouldering so much responsibility, you'd probably get similar results.
To say that League One football is above him is totally ridiculous and indicative of the frustrations of following a team in the relegation battle. Everyone gets labelled as total dogshit. Don't get me wrong, some of our lot are, but not all of them. I'd put Branco down in a similar category (although he's much more limited than Nathan). He's a pretty bog standard League One defender, the last 4 matches where we've stopped fucking about at the back, kind of bears that out.
I should imagine NT will slot in nicely into a lot of team's back 4's next year, maybe even a league higher.