Last Saturday at 3pm, a man with a captain's armband placed on his arm lined up in the tunnel at St. Andrews, standing along-side the team he represented 136 times and helped achieve promotion to the Championship for almost 4 years ago.

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A Charlton team now made-up mainly of inexperience and youth - a team he most likely would hardly recognise if his former skipper Johnnie Jackson wasn't stood next to him.

Saying that, the Charlton captain Johnnie Jackson may even be forgiven for squinting to recognise Morrison with his now full-head of hair.

The experienced, solid pairing of Andre Bikey and Tal Ben Haim during the 2014/15 Championship season meant that the vice-captain fell out of favour by the (then current) manager Bob Peeters.

For Charlton CEO Katrien Meire to try to arrange a deal to send Morrison to Romanian side Astra Giurgiu would be nothing short of delusional and disrespectful to the man himself.

For any Birmingham supporters it would come as a huge surprise that their current-leader was suddenly so unwanted by the backroom staff at Charlton.

That generally solid pairing of Bikey and Ben-Haim in the 2014/15 season has now disbanded, with former Cameroon international Andre Bikey out of contract and still looking for a club since the summer, and Tal Ben-Haim rejecting a contract extension at Charlton in the summer to join Israeli side Tel-Aviv.

Which makes it even more of a surprise that Michael Morrison never played more of a part in that season, and was then allowed to join fellow Championship rivals Birmingham on a free transfer.

Charlton incredibly only have three central defenders in their small and injury-hit squad, in Patrick Bauer, Naby Sarr and with Harry Lennon, although the French world-cup winning midfielder Alou Diarra has been playing in the defence for the majority of this season.

Unspectacular at times during his spell in SE7 perhaps; but to class Michael Morrison as an 'unsung hero' would still be very much an understatement to the man who would always win his fair share of headers, 1 v 1's and would rarely fail to knock the ball into Row Z when faced with trouble.

There's no doubt that Morrison will have recieved applause and the ovation he throughly deserved from the away end of 650 suffering Addicks supporters; a lot of whom which protested against chairman Roland Duchatelet's club running affairs before the unexpected 3-1 win against Sheffield Wednesday.

As a fellow disillusioned Charlton supporter, I would welcome Morrison back in a heart beat.