Oh look I'm not thinking he'd have been our saviourI doubt I'd have mentioned him if others hadn't brought him up.
I also very much doubt that having him available would have helped matters, but then nothing does more for a player's reputation than not playing, and there's no way of proving that he wouldn't have made all the difference for some reason or other.
Would he have allowed us to not play Mason Holgate in midfield though in two key away games. Well, yes.
Whether that would have been the difference between winning and losing we don't know. It might have helped. Like that pen the other day.