And it has to be said that Steve Evans did not sound too impressed in the post-match press conference.
Faced with the suggestion that Bamba might not be happy with his role, Evans said: “That’s his problem isn’t it? His performances need to dictate that he should be in the team.”
It should be said that neither Cooper or Giuseppe Bellusci had bad games on Saturday and Bamba will probably need to be tearing up trees in training to start against Middlesbrough a week on Monday.