I have to admit that if there was one player who went back into his shell during the season, I never thought it would be Paul Green. He was brilliant in 2007/8 and was pretty much the only defender who could actually defend, but that has quickly changed. Now he's become a player who can't stick with the player he's marking, often strolls out of position and goes into tackles double footed, and getting just sent off once was fortunate as there were numerous other occasions he could have gone off.

It's quite hard to put your finger on how he changed from being so good to barely average. Maybe it was just that he looked good when put next to a rubbish defence, but looked average when put next to defenders who actually knew what they were doing.

He is also one of those responsible for some of the long range efforts against us. For example, Accrington Stanley's goal saw John Miles waltz around the area that Green was supposed to be patrolling, then smashing it into the net.

If we had another defender capable of playing the right back position well enough, then I honestly don't think Paul Green would be still in the first team.

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