[Devongone]

He can't go to Scunny ..... Scunny and Wigan on your CV, next stop has to be Rotherham then he'll have a full hand on the tiller of social deprivation. Maybe he's writing a book, Down and Out in the EFL ...... Maybe Stoke scarred him for life. Abused in Vale Park, can you imagine anything worse?

Dennis can't afford to be a work in progress can he, at his age? He's either got to have made a Lee-Gregory leap by mid Septemberish, or he's just another non-league goalscorer around Buxton, Nantwich, Trafford Town and United of Manchester ...... and that's it IMO.

Simons has age on his side Pooch ....... Dennis has only his ability, everything else is against him. If we cotton-wool him as we did to Chapman, then we do ourselves and the player, no favours. Get him on the pitch, pushed up with Evans where he can show his goal potential. If that means he is in front of Simons or whoever in the pecking order, fine. If Ched got injured against Swindon, we'd have to pick Dennis the following week ......... so pick him against Swindon that's how he'll adjust to the pace of the EFL. It won't happen by a process of osmosis via bottom and bench. And training isn't a match situation.