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Post by Gassy on Sept 24, 2018 9:17:55 GMT
Yeah agree with that, whilst Coventry played decent passing football - the amount of times the midfield gave us the ball and we would counter was outrageous That was because we pressed them properly, first time since the Portsmouth game. True, but they still gave it away a bit more than the norm. I think Sinclair proved to any of the doubters how much that man is worth to this football club
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Post by stevek192 on Sept 24, 2018 9:57:12 GMT
Broadbent despite his height advantage loses his man for more often than Craig. As regards Saturday on the goal Craig was marking a player and somebody else probably a midfielder should have been marking the scorer. It is very easy to blame him every time a ball goes in the air. I do agree that we should be looking for a tall dominating defender in January to push both our centre halves but Broadbent is not that man and if anything should be the footballing centre half if you want the ball brought out alongside the tall centre half.Tom Broadbent would have been brilliant alongside a player like Steve Elliot.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2018 10:22:59 GMT
Broadbent despite his height advantage loses his man for more often than Craig. As regards Saturday on the goal Craig was marking a player and somebody else probably a midfielder should have been marking the scorer. It is very easy to blame him every time a ball goes in the air. I do agree that we should be looking for a tall dominating defender in January to push both our centre halves but Broadbent is not that man and if anything should be the footballing centre half if you want the ball brought out alongside the tall centre half.Tom Broadbent would have been brilliant alongside a player like Steve Elliot. Spot on. I'd add that despite his height advantage, he wins less in the air than Craig too. Craig has the know how to marshall a player out of position so that the ball runs harmlessly through to the keeper time and time again. Watch him...he is brilliant at it.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2018 10:26:30 GMT
"Craig 7 Not far behind Tom. No pace and not the greatest passer of the ball but comes out on top of most battles based around having been there and done it in a no nonsence style that I really can't understand those who criticise him because in truth with him there we do not look like conceding a lot." We have only kept 3 clean sheets since he joined us and one of those was against a water poor Plymouth side who managed to be as poor up front as us. But you surely can't put that down to one player...? He will have been at fault for.some goals, of course, but then what about the goalkeeper, what about the failure to stop crosses coming in, what about a whole host of reasons teams score goals? It's too simplistic to say we've only kept three clean sheets since he came and use that as a reason why he shouldn't be in the team.
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Post by faggotygas on Sept 24, 2018 10:55:08 GMT
That was because we pressed them properly, first time since the Portsmouth game. True, but they still gave it away a bit more than the norm. I think Sinclair proved to any of the doubters how much that man is worth to this football club Oh yes, raises the tempo of the whole team
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Post by Hugo the Elder on Sept 24, 2018 11:31:51 GMT
"Craig 7 Not far behind Tom. No pace and not the greatest passer of the ball but comes out on top of most battles based around having been there and done it in a no nonsence style that I really can't understand those who criticise him because in truth with him there we do not look like conceding a lot." We have only kept 3 clean sheets since he joined us and one of those was against a water poor Plymouth side who managed to be as poor up front as us. But you surely can't put that down to one player...? He will have been at fault for.some goals, of course, but then what about the goalkeeper, what about the failure to stop crosses coming in, what about a whole host of reasons teams score goals? It's too simplistic to say we've only kept three clean sheets since he came and use that as a reason why he shouldn't be in the team. No, it would be silly to put it all down to one player but SteveK says he can't understand why Craig gets grief from some people. Personally I don't rate him at all and how people can say one of his best attributes is leadership of the back 4 when he's literally made no difference to us conceeding is beyond me.
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Post by lastminutewinner on Sept 24, 2018 11:44:44 GMT
As we cannot bring anyone else in until Jan, i'm hoping that the return of Sincs and an in-form Ollie Clarke our defensive record might start improving.
I haven't been to many games 'live' this season but from watching the highlights the main problem seems to be our players not pressuring the opposition, giving them all the time in the world to pick out a pass, through ball or cross.
In regards to Tony Craig I think he left his best days at Brentford, and I don't think Lockyer is top-end L1 quality. They are our best CB pairing by default though at the moment.
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Post by pirate on Sept 24, 2018 15:42:29 GMT
As we cannot bring anyone else in until Jan We can still bring in free agents if they were released before the last window deadline.
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Post by lastminutewinner on Sept 24, 2018 15:55:34 GMT
As we cannot bring anyone else in until Jan We can still bring in free agents if they were released before the last window deadline.
Yeah, the only issue with that is how fit they are if they haven't been playing with anyone.
They might be keeping themselves in shape physically but that doesn't compensate for playing competitive games.
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Post by pirate on Sept 24, 2018 15:59:32 GMT
We can still bring in free agents if they were released before the last window deadline.
Yeah, the only issue with that is how fit they are if they haven't been playing with anyone.
They might be keeping themselves in shape physically but that doesn't compensate for playing competitive games.
True, but they could play a few games for the U23's and we could arrange some friendlies to help them get up to speed. Edit: I doubt they could look much more unfit than Payne looks anyway.
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