I have been one of his biggest fans over the last few years, but he didn't cover himself in glory yesterday. The problem is we still have nobody who has his range of passing or ability to deliver dead balls. Yes he is getting worse at it, but he's still able to put a quality delivery in from time-to-time that causes problems.
The issue is that we haven't replaced that ability. Yes Phillips takes some good set pieces, but he hasn't got Brunt's range of passing. Nobody apart from those two seem comfortable taking corners or free-kicks. Barry makes the sensible passes, but Brunt can still deliver one ball to make something happen, nobody else can. He's 34, we should have replaced him by now, but we haven't - we need to look for the next Chris Brunt, or Tom Cairney, etc. Until then, he'll still periodically get in the team.