I don't get the open criticism on Gladwin from the stands. He's a young, talented kid in his first proper season as a professional. He makes some mistakes, granted, but he is one of a handful who isn't scared (despite the miserable cuntish moans from the crowd) to try his luck with a trick or two.
Sometimes they work - and look sublime - and sometimes they don't. I don't think I've seen him cost us many goals when he's made a cock-up, but he's had a hand in quite a few goals already.
To his credit, he persists with the tricks and smart passes - despite the wankers getting on his back - and he'll probably go on to carve out a decent career for himself having learnt his trade with us.
Mass will be missed on today's performance, but no disrespect to him - he's a bloody good player - he doesn't often turn in an outstanding performance like he did today, so I'm guessing that Gladwin will be a more than adequate deputy, with Thomson coming back in to balance things up.
We're certainly giving the slave traders something to think about by both grinding out results when we have to, and raping the opposition when we're in our comfort zone.
As others have said, January is a big month for us. Power has done well on the pitch so far, but will really earn his corn by getting in good replacements for anyone he feels that he cant refuse a decent offer for in the transfer market.
Whilst he's no doubt loving the way things have gone so far this season, I suspect that we're probably a year ahead of where he thought we'd actually be at this stage of his ownership. If that's the case, I hope he doesn't need to rake in too much cash right now, as selling on more than 1 or 2 of the side could impact on everything - on and off the pitch, and in the short and long term future.
Interesting times indeed
