And he doesn't appear to have a history of making silly errors. Fantastic news.
While our midfield has been weak and ball retention up front poor, the fact we have had to go out and sign a new first choice centre-back is also very telling.
I think this could prove to be a very good upgrade. And I'm excited to see how much stronger Jones is going to look when he's defending on his natural side.
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Tbf on current form I’d play Hec alongside Gillesphrey.
He is settling in had a very good game .. yes he made an error but like Jones it’s they he responded to it and he was excellent .. think that was our best defensive display for a long time .. Dont think Derby had a shot in anger the whole game , the boys worked so hard today
Not impressed so far we need to give him a chance but at least twice today with a player running at him he kept backing off and backing off and just ran away from the player allowing a shot
i was reading when he joined he was meant to be really dominant in the air im yet to see it he isnt even that big/strong
He is settling in had a very good game .. yes he made an error but like Jones it’s they he responded to it and he was excellent .. think that was our best defensive display for a long time .. Dont think Derby had a shot in anger the whole game , the boys worked so hard today
I agree that we actually defended a lot better as a whole today. Really it should have been our first clean sheet in forever and a 0-0. BUT we shot ourselves in the foot again, which we simply must stop doing. It makes the rest of the performance meaningless.
Honestly, when was the last match where we didn’t have at least one absolute howler? Even if that howler didn’t actually result in a goal? It feels like months and we were prone to them even when results were better.
You’ll never cut our 100% of errors, but until we drastically reduce the amount of times we do things like Gillesphey did today (twice) and Jones did last week then it will continue to undermine anything good we do. We have to be harder to beat.
Cambridge winner was his fault as well when he headed back into danger rather than out for a throw in stoppage. Another one of the 'luxury' defenders who can't do their basic fucking job of not gifting away goals
Thought he was our best defender on the day personally. Ironically we looked a lot more fragile in general after he went off.
A lot of our best attacking moves started from a Gillesphey dribble and/or pass. And one moment of madness aside, his calmness on the ball was missing after he went off.
Cambridge winner was his fault as well when he headed back into danger rather than out for a throw in stoppage. Another one of the 'luxury' defenders who can't do their basic fucking job of not gifting away goals
Not impressed so far we need to give him a chance but at least twice today with a player running at him he kept backing off and backing off and just ran away from the player allowing a shot
i was reading when he joined he was meant to be really dominant in the air im yet to see it he isnt even that big/strong
Didn’t see it that way the mistake was horrific end of. But I thought his distribution was a marked improvement on previous players.
Cambridge winner was his fault as well when he headed back into danger rather than out for a throw in stoppage. Another one of the 'luxury' defenders who can't do their basic fucking job of not gifting away goals
Thought he was our best defender on the day personally. Ironically we looked a lot more fragile in general after he went off.
A lot of our best attacking moves started from a Gillesphey dribble and/or pass. And one moment of madness aside, his calmness on the ball was missing after he went off.
Ness and Thomas were both better than him. Looks very suspect so far.
The problem is like so many of our defenders this season, if you play brilliant for 89 minutes but then do something like that then the other 89 minutes are irrelevant.
The problem is like so many of our defenders this season, if you play brilliant for 89 minutes but then do something like that then the other 89 minutes are irrelevant.
It's happened so often that it almost seems normal. But it isn't, far from it.
Another player getting match fitness in the first team. He looks off the pace and is usually blowing out of his arse very early in the second half (if he makes it that far).
Won't write him off as at times he looks comfortable on the ball and reasonably composed, not sure he is the leader we were led to believe he is.
One thing I've been thinking about is how many other teams concede so consistently after making a mistake? How many other teams give the ball away and without fail see the ball go into the back of the net? We focus a lot on individual errors but those happen every single game to every single team and they can't possibly concede as often as we do off the back of it. I think in possession we just completely go to sleep and lose our shape, it means that the opposition have the clearest run imaginable on our goal. It's L1, we're not going to get hold of perfect players who never make mistakes but it would help if the other ones did a bit of defending when the mistakes happen
Looks pants, weak, slow. Can do as many long balls as he likes, we don't have the physicality up top to make it count. Was a huge part of why we conceded so another defender who is apparently really good but can't do what we actually need him to do. Not like we don't already have enough of those.
If he was as good as made out to be, he'd still be at Plymouth, at least as a bench option.
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Conor's awareness of the Derby player making the effort to intercept should have been better
Too many of our players wait for the pass to reach them
i was reading when he joined he was meant to be really dominant in the air
im yet to see it he isnt even that big/strong
Edit: Northampton
A lot of our best attacking moves started from a Gillesphey dribble and/or pass. And one moment of madness aside, his calmness on the ball was missing after he went off.
Won't write him off as at times he looks comfortable on the ball and reasonably composed, not sure he is the leader we were led to believe he is.
If he was as good as made out to be, he'd still be at Plymouth, at least as a bench option.