some good points there. he wouldn't be in my first XI, ideally we'd have a better version of his type of player and by better i mean he would be stronger in each of the four points you mentioned. but we are so weak in this department that i would rather see either butler or ivan in midfield than a flurry of wee men. for me it's substance over style, especially at this stage of our world cup qualifying campaign (i believe that as soon as this one is over we need to re-invent ourselves like we failed to do after the last world cup)
i agree with what you said in point 1:, but believe that our deep back line was equally as culpable for this happening; the field was very stretched