This post may not go down well here but here goes. its ok MB you should be allowed to call 'one of our own' shite as that's exactly what he has been of late, along with just about everyone else in the team. He needs to add something extra to his game as, at this moment in time, is easy to play against eg repeatedly running in to a defender and unsuccessfully trying to kick the ball past the full back and chase is becoming tiresome. Decent scouting in advance easily counters his main attributes. Maybe he's not been coached properly who knows? There's no doubt he tries, arguably more than others, but he's in with the big boys now we need quality along with effort. By way of comparison Richard tait has scored the same amount of goals as him and probably 3 times as many assists while cadden will have probably have similar goals and assists stats as ainsworth despite having significantly more game time. I'm happy to be corrected on these assumptions. And yes I'm fully aware cadden is better defensively than ainsworth.
I'm not having it that he's burned out - we've had a few extra league cup games this season offset by having no preseason friendlies beforehand, as well as a winter break, therefore it's more down to form, lack of confidence, or as mentioned above defenders now know how to play against him.