Sometimes, a great player can end up looking average if he’s in the wrong environment. That appears to have happened to Greg Docherty at Rangers.
The 24-year-old, a boyhood Rangers fan, secured his dream move to Ibrox in 2018, only to struggle immensely in Glasgow.
Docherty simply couldn’t break into Steven Gerrard’s first-team plans following loan spells at Shrewsbury Town and Hibernian.
Eventually, he was sold to Hull City for just £400,000, where he seems to have found his feet – even that is arguably an understatement.
Docherty is flying for the Tigers. Grant McCann, his manager at the KCOM Stadium, lauded his No.33 back in February after he scored against Lincoln.
The Daily Record quote McCann as saying: “He’s a machine, the lad can just run and run. It’s phenomenal, the statistics that him and George Honeyman cover each week, 12 to 13km a game.”
In total, Docherty has scored five goals in 42 League One outings, while also recording four assists.
As Hull Live document, the Milngavie-born midfielder is among the frontrunners to win Hull’s Player of the Year award.
Docherty, Honeyman and Mallik Wilks are mentioned in Hull Live‘s headline as the leading candidates for the award.
Fair play to the ex-Rangers man. It would’ve been easy for him to sit around at Ibrox and be content with merely being at his boyhood club.
However, he wanted to play football and be part of a starting XI, which he is doing at Hull.
His efforts have helped the Tigers secure promotion to the Championship, as they sit top of League One by three points – the title should also be theirs.
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