It wasn't that hard and to me someone who prefers Spearing to Lucas clearly has an agenda against Lucas.
Not really, at the time he came into the side and did well, the results were good and Lucas looked better because of the shared defensive responsibility. People might have been a bit blinkered by a homegrown lad, but having an agenda is well wide of the mark, people were desperate for something different, they still are, so it's not really an agenda - he hasn't improved, if anything, he's got progressively worse since his peak season a few years back. And his role is as under as much scrutiny as ever.