I'm definitely biased towards VJ, but I do feel the "appearances" stat gets overly used to bash him. He did have a poor first season, but it's not like he started 27 games and scored one goal...Depends what way you choose to look at it. In 27 appearances he managed 1 open play goal which obviously is laughably bad but i actually dispute some of the other stuff you've said.
He links up well???? To be totally honest for a lot of the season it clearly looked like the other players were choosing not to pass him the ball. It was like the game was going on around him and he was just there.
Gets himself into positions? Again disagree. Ok he got into better goalscoring positions near the end of the season but for the most part he was a yard or so behind play and not where a striker should be.
He does work hard though i give you that.
I find his hold up and link up play to be good, but he is a bit too static for mine, and always seems to make the obvious run rather than arriving unexpectedly in the box. I'd be happy to have another season with him as our main backup, if he doesn't find his feet then we should definitely ship him off, but we've seen what a second season with Porch can do with other players...