Ball in particular must be looking at Hendrick's hugely negative impact and Johansen's truly woeful form and wondering what on Earth he has done wrong. Warburton should tell both him and us.
You can barely believe just what a spectacular nosedive that is. Something significant has got to have happened to trigger such a change, the team spirit was brilliant up to the Cup defeat, it's barely visible now...
Does anyone know if there is a remaining date when players who have reached a certain (high!) number of yellow cards will get suspended as I think Dickie was earlier this season? If there is I'd guess Field would be in danger, he seems to pick up a yellow every match, and then I reckon Ball would fill in for him. Field has been playing very well, a big improvement on Ball since he came back from injury imo, but Ball is shirley his natural back up. Can't see Ball playing central midfield myself, his passing isn't good enough.
