We’re in a position now where Jordan Sinnott has started all ten of our games this season; along with Shaun Densmore, Adam Griffin, James Lawrie and Jake Moult. While I’ll openly say that he’s not performed to the same high standard as some of his team mates, I’m not going to accept these now extremely tedious remarks that he’s not been ‘good enough’ or that he doesn’t ‘contribute enough.’
He has quite clearly been a factor in us being sat four points clear after a hellacious start to the season (after we face Braintree on Saturday, we've played nine of the league's current top ten teams.) We are where we are because as a collective team we have performed to a certain standard. Some fans have a naïve and quite frankly weird habit of always wanting to isolate players, criticising them separately from the progress that the team are making.
At the end of the day our current alternatives to Jordan Sinnott are Josh O'Keefe and Ryan Crowther. If you want these players to swap roles, and you want us to go into games with either of them starting, then you’re deluded. One has been toss, and I can't even call the other a luxury because he just comes on and does step overs before kicking it out of touch at the by-line. Sinnott has outperformed them both this season, hence why O’Keefe and Crowther are now quite rightly warming the bench. Neither have started in any games where we have gained points, albeit Crowther scored against Cheltenham.
It just does my head in when the same people come on here and berate Sinnott when we’ve got the likes of O’Keefe and, let’s face facts, Damian Reeves who’ve done absolutely f**k all with every opportunity they’ve been given this season.