Given a chance to impress yesterday was he? For all of ten minutes at best, sure there's plenty of time to show what he can do while the game was stopped to change the referee. Seems like a fair chance, you're right.
He hasn't featured much because he's down the pecking order, but it doesn't mean he's just lost all of his ability; as I said, it's up to him to force his way back into the starting line up which I'm sure he's capable of doing. I'm not going to base my opinion of him on our last Championship campaign as that was 3 years ago, but equally I'm not going to jump to conclusions based off the back of a handful of minutes in the dying embers of a game.