You are pinning all our hopes on him wrong footing Walker? Once? For all you know he might have not even meant that!

Were you at the Etihad. I was and Franca's introduction helped keep Citeh on the back foot after Mateta's goal. As well as losing the ball on a couple of occasions, he had several successful dribbles and his direct running had the Citeh defence worried.

Like any new player, he needs to start games and not simply be brought on when all seems lost. On the one occasion he did start (FA Cup v Everton) the rest of the team seemed to ignore him in the first 25 minutes even though he was in acres of space on several occasions.

Given our current situation with attacking options, we could do worse than give him a few starts.

Well if he starts Monday we'll see whether all this faith in him is well founded or just wishful thinking. I love nothing more than to see him have a decent game and show signs of why the club paid so much money for him. However, unlike some on here that laughably talk like they are so insightful and that they know more than the coaching staff I have my doubts whether he is yet ready. There is a reason why he hasn't been given more minutes up to now (even with the injuries). I'm starting to wonder if some people would really rather just accuse Roy (a veteran of 47 years in coaching) of not knowing what he is doing and refuse to accept there could actually be a reason we're not using him just so they have another stick to beat him with. I do wonder if a well loved manager was in charge that we all thought walked on water, if he was doing the same thing, if these same people would just accept his decision.
Mourinho many times benched players that the fans thought should be playing. Particularly at United and Spurs. After he left said players were used much more often and those same fans that were moaning started to acknowledge that he was right all along.

Well if he starts Monday we'll see whether all this faith in him is well founded or just wishful thinking. I love nothing more than to see him have a decent game and show signs of why the club paid so much money for him. However, unlike some on here that laughably talk like they are so insightful and that they know more than the coaching staff I have my doubts whether he is yet ready. There is a reason why he hasn't been given more minutes up to now (even with the injuries). I'm starting to wonder if some people would really rather just accuse Roy (a veteran of 47 years in coaching) of not knowing what he is doing and refuse to accept there could actually be a reason we're not using him just so they have another stick to beat him with. I do wonder if a well loved manager was in charge that we all thought walked on water, if he was doing the same thing, if these same people would just accept his decision.
Mourinho many times benched players that the fans thought should be playing. Particularly at United and Spurs. After he left said players were used much more often and those same fans that were moaning started to acknowledge that he was right all along.

I have not said that at all. I referred to the one start Franca made when for the first 25 minutes it was if his team mates were ignoring him. I made a point of watching him and his movement in that first half as I was interested to see how he did, as I did with Ozoh at the Etihad. When new players are given a serious outing, I like to focus on them to see how they perform. So my statement of perception (not necessarily fact) is neither ridiculous nor totally untrue.

I suggest you start showing a little respect for other posters on this site as your arrogance seems to know no bounds.

Unlike you, many of us don't have blind faith in Hodgson who, clearly in your book, can do no wrong.