Or perhaps Briers is passing on some stardust?!

It could be, but the previous poster is right, GOB is head and shoulders the best goal kicker in the current squad. When I watched him back in 2010 for the U20's he looked like a carbon copy of Hodgson - it came as a surprise when he missed, even from the touchline. If he can cement his place in the squad we will get the added bonus of his goal kicking.

Smiffy27's point about him protecting himself is spot on, it should have been one of his earliest coaching lessons, there's still lots of time for him with his skills I feel he's now at the stage where he will be honing them as games permit.

He just needed a run of games, with the forwards working and settle And not feeling the axe hanging over him for any little mistake like it was at the start of the year

OR...did TS give the following talk "Ok, everybody knows that up until now its been merely warm up games. Now start to earn your place."

I can't believe that Gareth could treat any game as a warm up