Jack Diamond has impressed on loan at Harrogate, leaving Lee Johnson with a decision to make in January...
ALWAYS FLUID
"It’s always on review, of course. It’s always fluid, always a changing landscape in terms of everyone’s position."
DEPTH
“I had seven wingers available, or who could at least have played out wide, for the Ipswich game."
DEVELOPING
“Jack is a young player who we are heavily invested in, in terms of development and his contract. We wanted to give him the chance to keep developing, keep playing games, and if I couldn’t commit to 12/15 starts before January, it was better off he went somewhere to play, and that could potentially aid us in the second half of the season. Or, continues to develop at Harrogate Town."
BEST FOR BOTH PARTIES
“We’ll make the best decision for the long-term for both parties.”
VALUED
He’s in a good team there and he’s really well valued there, which I think gives him that feeling of gravitas."
LEAGUE TWO FOOTBALL
“We’ve kept a close eye on him, we watch all his games. He’s bringing out all his top attributes which you would expect, a player playing probably slightly under his level in terms of the league. I think he could still play regularly in League One, but he wanted to go back to Harrogate."
LOCATION
“Location wise that worked for us as well, because we can keep an eye on him and get him back in, as we did last week."
INVOLVED
“On a human level as well, it shows he’s still really involved with us and within that, we’ll sit down, look at his clips, work out the angles where he can continue his development and his improvement.”
PATTERSON
"Like with Anthony Patterson (who was recently recalled from a loan spell at Notts County), Jack is a young player we are heavily invested in, in terms of development but also in terms of contract."
