I liked Paterson but he severely weakened an already piss weak midfield. A player who contributes one game in 6 or 7 is not good enough, especially when his dead ball delivery is failing. To me he summed us up over the past 2 to 3 years, inconsistent.
I don't know what game you were watching but we controlled midfield for most of the game, what was obvious was the high press for the first hour kept them totally at arms length, there were some meaty tackles from everyone of our midfielders and we were never bullied like we normally are and up until the last minute we never backed off of attackers in and around our box.
We desperately need a striker and although the crossing and free kicks were an improvement, the final lower ball in was poor.