I'm confident about promotion, but it isn't in our hands right now. If we win all the remaining games we'd still need one of Reading or West Ham to slip up at least once to get automatic promotion.
One problem with that is that the enemies level up with you, so whilst your smithing is great your "fighting" stats will be a bit low for the level of enemy.
Whittingham would be a great option for CM, not sure Davies is better than Fonte or Hooiveld - but Phillips would be an outstanding option for RM.
As for fullback, I think both could do a job in the Prem - and there's certainly no-one better in the NPC.
People forget that James was actually a central midfielder though - it was just our lack of a recognised right-back that saw him stuck there under Poortvliet.
I remember Pardew being really excited about him, saying he was one of the best young passers of the ball he'd worked with. Wasted potential or poor judgement?