Team to lighten the mood. All these

5 defenders, Paul is that you?

No probably not, the quality compared to our lot is quite staggering.

Just bored in lockdown on a very snowy day and fed up with so many depressing threads all about the same subject.
Don't know why the Mods don't merge most of them.

Have to agree when you look at the quality of those players to what we have now.
Loads of us moaned about Tom Lockyer, but at least he knew when and where to boot the ball to, even if his passing was not the best. Oh hang on. not one of our present centre backs can do that!

I wasn't a huge fan of Lockyer but at least he knew how to defend. I guess that's why he's a Championship player.

The current batch of defenders can't defend, are painfully slow and all have a costly mistake in waiting. I'm not asking for Beckenbauer passes out of defence - just want basic no nonsense defending. Defenders like Craig who viewed it as an affront if the opposition scored. This lot cannot defend.

Garner's recruitment was, in rectrospect was lacking to say the least but the release of Craig may go down as the biggest mistake of the lot.

Did you see that JCH penalty mind,should have had his contract ripped up on the spot.

Indeed.
He’s getting better with pens. Just cleared the bar on Saturday, on that Tuesday at Pompey he nearly cleared the stadium. 😉
UTG!