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"Every time [being left out], it's been hard," he said. "I've probably never had a manager who's back me 100 per cent. The main thing I can say for my success is hard work. If you lie down and give up, you've lost the battle. You just have to keep going and eventually it'll pay off. That's what I'd say to any young footballers who've had a setback."
He admitted that the hardest to take was being left out after the 4-0 defeat to Reading at the Turf last October. "I was hung out to dry," he admitted. "Every other time I'd been dropped there's probably a reason or I've had an explanation, but this one was a really hard one to take because I was given no explanation at all.
"It wasn't because I made a mistake. If I had I'd hold my hand up and say 'I messed up', it's my fault, I'll take the blame'. But if anybody saw that game, there was nothing much I could do about the goals.
"He [Laws] more or less did it because he could, because he was the boss. It was so unreasonable, I was gobsmacked. I couldn't see any light at the end of the tunnel.
"It [the transfer request] was a personal matter with the old gaffer. It was more like a recognition for everybody else to say 'listen, there's something going on here that's not right'.
"As soon as the new gaffer came in I didn't have a problem with staying because I'm happy here. He always said I've got a future here but as long as Granty was doing well I had to wait and take my chance when it comes. I think I've done that."