Didn't think we could rival the recent combo of Doherty-Llera but I'm starting to think that Johnson-Sarr could be in with a shout. You couldn't make it up...
Nah still Doherty or Llera... that was just so slow to watch.
Sarr is young so has loads of time to make more mistakes whilst Johnson is used to playing at a higher level in India so I guess he's used to the drop in talent
Anything with Sarr in it. The bloke looks dog shit. Hopefully he comes good but with him and Fox 2 out of the 4 defenders we are well and truly stuffed
Sarr is a horrible liability at centre half, but defending is largely a matter of organisation so the coaching has take a big fat chunk of the blame for our defenders being all over the place.
There are times I positively like the look of him. He has a reasonable physical presence, can hit a pass and I cannot recall seeing him exposed for pace although I've admittedly missed more games than usual this season.
The big weakness as far I can see is a lack of concentration or awareness as exempified by the air shots that seem to occur at least once a match.
How do you "coach" concentration? To a degree it comes with experience but he seems to repeat the same mistakes to me which is not a good sign.
Any combo that incudes Bobby Goldthorpe has to be up there, although curiously he was one of my favourites from that era. Trying to dribble out of your penalty box week after week when you clearly didn't have the talent takes some character.
Did anyone see, with about 10 mins to go on Saturday, the ball get played back to Sarr, he goes to trap it and it completely runs through him and he has to quickly run back and collect the ball that is now a couple of metres behind him. How is that possible for a professional footballer ?
digression .. Bauer and Johnson could (I am hoping here with all fingers & toes crossed) be a VERY good pairing .. bad ones .. now let me think back over 55 years, there must be lots of candidates ((:>)
When Pardew put Linvoy Primus (well past his best) out with Mark Hudson (needed someone pacey with him) it was pretty disastrous. The low point was the two home beatings from Barnsley and Sheffield Utd, who came good that day, which finished Pardew off with CAFC following shortly after......
From those highlights Sarr's starting position seemed to be somewhere around where you'd expect Ceballos to be. I would have thought adding Johnson to the defence would add organisation but all it seems to have done is increase the gap between the two defenders as Johnson's pace is in the minus numbers. Watching Sarr fall fully on his arse for Colchester's first gets increasingly upsetting the more you watch it.
Got pelters for ripping into Sarr after one or two games but it's not hard to spot someone without a footballing brain, nerves or not he was literally so far out of position (and physically inept to make up for that) that it wasn't just nerves.
He is our worst CB in years, not sure about partnerships, of course we've had some rotten pairings but if you had a pair of Sarr's you'd have the worst CB pairing in the FL and tier or two below let alone anything we've had.
Got pelters for ripping into Sarr after one or two games but it's not hard to spot someone without a footballing brain, nerves or not he was literally so far out of position (and physically inept to make up for that) that it wasn't just nerves.
He is our worst CB in years, not sure about partnerships, of course we've had some rotten pairings but if you had a pair of Sarr's you'd have the worst CB pairing in the FL and tier or two below let alone anything we've had.
Agreed. I've never seen Ismail Miller cause anyone else problems in all of the times he's played at the Valley
Got pelters for ripping into Sarr after one or two games but it's not hard to spot someone without a footballing brain, nerves or not he was literally so far out of position (and physically inept to make up for that) that it wasn't just nerves.
He is our worst CB in years, not sure about partnerships, of course we've had some rotten pairings but if you had a pair of Sarr's you'd have the worst CB pairing in the FL and tier or two below let alone anything we've had.
Agreed. I've never seen Ismail Miller cause anyone else problems in all of the times he's played at the Valley
17 year old Gomez had him in his pocket at The Valley last season
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Sarr is young so has loads of time to make more mistakes whilst Johnson is used to playing at a higher level in India so I guess he's used to the drop in talent
There are times I positively like the look of him. He has a reasonable physical presence, can hit a pass and I cannot recall seeing him exposed for pace although I've admittedly missed more games than usual this season.
The big weakness as far I can see is a lack of concentration or awareness as exempified by the air shots that seem to occur at least once a match.
How do you "coach" concentration? To a degree it comes with experience but he seems to repeat the same mistakes to me which is not a good sign.
He is our worst CB in years, not sure about partnerships, of course we've had some rotten pairings but if you had a pair of Sarr's you'd have the worst CB pairing in the FL and tier or two below let alone anything we've had.
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Paul Elliott and Les Berry didn't look too clever whenever I saw them together.
Nigel Gray with anyone!
Bobby Goldthorpe and anyone!
Tony Hazell and anyone!
We've had some right ones - Leighton Phillips, Steve Dowman, Ronnie Moore (he played a few games for us at CH), Tahar El Khaledj, etc etc