C Gardner may be on a par with Hogg/ Herd/ Sidwell, but is not as good as Delph, Milner, Petrov, NRC so it was right to let him go imo. I'd prefer Bannan and Clark to him as well to be honest. Why did G Gardner get a longer contract than Barry Bannan who's already made an impression on the first team? I hope it it highly incentivised on doing well, there is a fine line to be drawn between losing good young players and making them feel like they have hit the big time time already and and losing their focus and desire.