Canaries Vs The Gas MDT

Not sure we've seen enough of Friend to say he's one of our strongest defenders? Agreed though we miss Wilson but at least Grant managed a full game without a mistake this week.

Make that "without a costly mistake" then!!!

Dan Hargreaves going to town about Grant on Bristol Live, which is probably now setting him up to cost a game.

I think half the problem is that defenders these days see smashing it away up the pitch or out for a throw or corner as a sign of weakness so they try and bring it under control and play out.
Problem is the majority of lower league defenders simply aren’t capable of this consistently and that’s where mistakes happen.
For example Vales mistake v Charlton was actually a catalogue of the very kind of mistakes that I’m talking about, the passage of play leading up to it was us playing a hospital ball in to midfield to a player with his back to goal and an opponent breathing down his neck which we conceded possession from then they break down the right and Vale trying to be too clever fails to deal with it down his side.
On Saturday Crama shouldn’t have even let it bounce he should have just walloped it straight out for a throw or over the goal for a corner , wherever.
It was a one on one , last man , you don’t take chances there and if he’d done that then the only way they would have scored is if he’d smashed it in to his own net but that would have been unlikely even for Crama.