Reasons why I rate Schneiderlin.
1) He is the best passer of the ball in our team, his ability to spread the ball from a deep lying midfield position is unmatched by any other squad member. Some of the balls he produced to the wings or to Lambert's feet earlier in the season were utterly sublime.
2) His reading of the game, he has an ability to move into space (either with or without the ball) that Hamster and Chaplow simply do not have.
3) His mentality, If we are under the cosh he is the only central midfielder who will happily sit in front of the back 4 and provide a passing option to our back 4 or put his foot on the ball once in posession and buy us time to push upfield and ease the danger.
Chaplow works harder, Hammond... well until Saturday I wasn't sold on him at all, that was easily the best game i've seen of him for us, he lead the line well. Schneiderlin is easily our most cultured central midfielder and I would always favour a central paring of him and Chappy.