Well said. The discussion about Lucas has been stretched to ludicrous extremes in both directions, but my guess is that a majority of us would be more or less in agreement with this.
Agreed, but sometimes that's just fandom. I think some of the skewing (one way or the other) with Lucas can be put down to him being one of the last remaining links in the first team to the pre-Rodgers era. We saw similar skewed views with Martin Skrtel, albeit Skrtel didn't have an equivalent super-fan fighting his corner.