Spring told Guardian Series Sport:
“The Charlton boss didn’t give me the chance to prove myself. I trained every day, I was not injured, so there was no problem there. I just did not play. The manager had his favourites and played them week in, week out, no matter what."http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/sport/leytonorient/leytonorient/8257587.ORIENT__New_O_s_signing_has_an_eye_on_Charlton_derby/ 
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Nice footballer, maybe not half as strong as Semedo but far better range of passing and shooting.
All managers have "favourites" - that's usually because they are reliable players who are the best players in the squad and therefore make the first XI.
Spring is a centre-midfielder and was competing with far better players in Semedo, Bailey, Shelvey and Racon for a place - that's why he didn't play.
In fairness was decent. And will proberly score against us and run over to the bench and nut parky.
Interesting to contrast the comments here with the ones when Deano criticised Curbs when he left.
curbs was obviously a b~@y~{@ but now Sping is a B@>{?_"£
Of course.
And having settled on that, will want to play his best team every game.
Settled teams tend to play together better and more consistantly.
Isn't that the reasoning behind the old adage of 'never change a winning side' ......?
Hard luck, Springy. You never let us down when you played, but what you're spouting is just sour grapes.
If you were good enough, you would have played.
And the manager wouldn't have wanted to release you.
Why shouldn't he have sour grapes about not playing regularly? At Elland Road (0-0) Spring was superb as he was against Swindon (2-2) and in another game too (can't remember which)!
With hindsight ....... and the way events unfolded, no doubt.
But it's easy to be wise afterwards.
So why was Spring signed in the first place? You have to look at the context at the time.
Bottom of the league and relegation bound, and without the proverbial pot to piss in ......... Ambrose expected to be sold, Toddy couldn't play more that 20 minutes; and we'd had Racon and Zheng Zhi out injured virtually all the season so far. Then Semedo gets crocked long term.
So we're desperate
It's the January window ...... who with Championship experience can we find who is prepared to sign for a doomed club and on the wages we no doubt offered?
So Spring, on loan at Sheff Utd and not playing regularly was happy to come. He plugged a hole for a while, then with the eventual return of Racon and ZZ, and the emergence of Jonjo he was benched.
He was hardly going to be picked ahead of those players. And so it proved.
He could shoot from long distance, his pass for Llerra's equaliser against Swindon was superb and he had a great game at Leeds.
When considered how little he played, I think he did well and can consider himself unlucky not to have featured more.
Anyone who has played any sport at any level at all can relate to being left out unjustly (in their own view). Seems a bit silly spout off about it once in pastures new, but all the same it must have been frustrating. Nothing to read into this, IMO.
correctomundo
a polite way of saying the above - basically a nothing player who one winner against Palace excepted contributed nothing here - not one of Parky's better freebie signings
not even one of Parky's freebie signings - we actually paid a fee for Spring.