Time To Bench One Of Our Star Players

Son Heung-min was benched by Tottenham on Saturday after a barren spell in front of goal. Then he came off the subs bench with a point to prove and scored a hat-trick!   I think Town should do something similar with last season’s top goalscorer Wes Burns.

I have noticed a discernible decline in his performances ever since he was capped by Wales. He needs to be reminded that he is not the ONLY star player in the Ipswich team. It could be argued that so far this season they are all stars, but Burns is more of the shooting variety these days. One moment he looks brilliant, and the next very average, and there have been too many ‘very average’ performances so far this season from last term’s Play of the Year! Against The Owls, he was responsible for giving away a needless free-kick which led to their first goal and his lethargy when in Wednesday’s penalty box resulted in them clearing the ball upfield and scoring their second.

Burns needs to rekindle his form of old, but sadly, this season, he has been a pale shadow of his former self and needs an urgent wake-up call. If McKenna were to bench him, it would send out a message to the rest of the squad too, that you are in the team on merit. He won’t do a Son and come on and score a hat-trick, but he will be more eager to show his true worth. We all know he can do a lot better than this!

The question we need to ask is, why is Wes not the player he was in an Ipswich shirt? He does not appear to be carrying an injury – although he did suffer a recent groin strain. I believe that success has gone to his head, so if he was placed on bench-warming duties in the near future, then it would do him, and us, the world of good.