So many of these fringe players and underperformers from last year are coming out of the woodwork, with their Damascene conversions to the Book of Gase, that I don't know whether to be wowed or cynical.
Phillips, Carroo, Hull, Grant, Drake, James...among others, all putting their flaws up on the overhead projector. A sign of greater maturity and responsibility in the team or just easy-to-say groupspeak?
Training camp should begin to tell the tale of which it is. It certainly sounds genuine and credible in most cases