Townsend

[Hopalong]

Deserves his own thread after yesterday. The club have done very well to tie him down to a new contract. Doesn't look out of place in the PL. Got so much stick for his first season and a half, has now silenced all the doubters. 

That back heel to Pereira to set up Diagne was sublime.

Reminded me of Gibbs  . 

Now an important player, loved the way he held Mount off yesterday for a goal kick.  

We have a group of young players coming into their prime so regardless of what happens in the summer not all doom and gloom.

Townsend is 28, so hardly a youngster... he is without doubt now capable of playing at this level.

There are players in the lower leagues with the right combination of desire and talent to play at the top, we just need to find them... Tom James I think it was who turned us down to stay at Yeovil needs to be thanked as without him we wouldn’t have CT.

That surprises me SW4, thought he was a bit younger.