The only way I feel sorry for him is because he's been asked to play in a 2 man centre midfield. I can just about accept him playing deep in a 3 man midfield but now he's woefully short of the standard required when playing 442.
He gets in to horrible positions on the football park, he's a mile late getting to his man as a consequence he gets turned for too easy and is a mile late in the tackle (someone's going to get a sore one shortly). His passing is also way short of the standard required.
He's been a great servant to us over the years but if we want to move forward as a team, and be in better control of possession in a game, he needs to be replaced with someone better. One of my major gripes with barraclough is that he had nearly a year to do this and failed miserably.