Is Simms not injured until around Christmas time?
If so all this speculation is pointless...
People are so blinkered any way....both Gabriel and Simms did ok. Simms improved with more games.
Embleton was just about ok.
Why are people so stuck on these 3...?
Sunderland loaned Embleton to a team in the same division so that lets you know what they thought of him, in reality.
Simms is what, 23? Hardly been near Everyone's 1st team and Gabriel I'm not too sure about but was he or has he ever been a regular 1st team squad member at Forrest.....
Take yer blinkers off, there's a world of players out there without clubs, who are quality.