If he was not fully fit he should not have been playing. Maybe playing a half fit player could have been a contributing factor to playing so badly over the last ten or so games.
I would imagine we had very few ‘fully’ fit players at the end of the season.
The BBC were looking at whether England players suffer burn out last week and citing that the 2010 WC squad had players in who had played 40 games that season. We played 62 and the likes of Boyce, Perch, McArthur and Barnett played the vast majority of them.