It was so strange watching Travis for Ipswich tonight. He played midfield enforcer and the home crowd loved him for his all action display.
Football is a confidence game. Something the moaner brigade amongst the Rovers faithful almost comically don't understand, or willfully choose to ignore.
If you slag off players, they will play worse. Never has there been a more true fact in sport.
So it never surprises me when Rovers players do better elsewhere. Travis is one of numerous defensive midfielders (Elliott Bennett, Jason Lowe, Keith Andrews) that our fans seem to absurdly expect to be spraying it about like Patrick Vieira, and therefore massively under appreciate in terms of their defensive solidity, off-the-ball work, and leadership influence.
I'll also call it now, Sam Gallagher will be excellent where ever he goes to next. Not that he isn't here, the fact that we average 2 points per game with him in the team and 1 point per game without him just seems to be endlessly ignored.