The cup game at the weekend was the first game I've been at since the Nancy game as I've been out the country. The team didn't play particularly well, but the clear fact was that Fitzy was really poor. What gets me is, when he broke into the team, he picked up the ball and blitzed down the wing with it, he was confident and looked really promising.
Sadly, he did the exact same as Clarkson did after his first season and went massively backwards in my opinion. Clarkson came into life last season and the fans got off his back, probably for a combintion of reasons. Fitzy does some amount of running and puts in some effort. For that reason I wouldn't boo him or shout him down at a match.
But at the end of each run, lies a horrible touch, wrong pass, dragged badly out of position or woeful finishing. Folk on here always go on about this unseen job that he does for the team, yet no one really goes on to say what he adds to the team. We know he adds Hee Haw attacking wise and is as good as a player short when we're pushing forwards. And Lasley and Klimpl are there to break down play and help out the defence which they both do better than fitzpatrick. We only need one holding midfielder and Klimpl is that man, you seen the diffrence in the TEAM when D.Smith came on and added to the attack as well as tracking back.
This seems like a real attack on Fitzy, i will always support the team and the players at a match. I think he is a great squad player, a squad that is the better of having someone with his attitude. He needs to work on the basics of being able to control and pass a ball. For someone thats been getting a lot of first team football he was really, really poor at the weekend and still looks like a wee boy thats just been indroduced to the "Big" League. Unfortunately thats the impression I get more often than not after seeing Fitzy play. Hence I don't really get HOW he's a first team pick.
I look forward to being proven completely wrong with a MOTM performace against Hamilton (perhaps a goal).
