Team vs Wolves (H)

[ralphs bald spot]

The 3 centre halfs the other night were all terrible - Davinson though was absolute toilet and in the battle for who was the worst he edged it and probably deserves to be dropped - Hojberg also had a diabolical game looked like he was playing in diving boots.

When we don't have the ball we are to easy to play against the defence wants to be narrow so we allow to much space out wide and both full backs get beaten to easily though Royal is spectacularly easy to beat on the outside . For me the defence is to deep we defend on the edge of our area that gives teams room to play and we can't pressurise the ball. We end up pressing for parts of the game and we look a half way decent side but then against Brighton and Southampton there have been long parts of the game when we are being totally outplayed. We desperately need a leader on the pitch to calm things down tell Romero to sit and not get drawn in to show a show of strength he doesn''t have to win every ball sometimes he needs to see people away. To put it simply no matter who plays we need to make better decisions as a team which includes sometimes sitting and holding what you have defend as a team though I don't believe we have the players

 

[stevespurs]

The 3 centre halfs the other night were all terrible - Davinson though was absolute toilet and in the battle for who was the worst he edged it and probably deserves to be dropped - Hojberg also had a diabolical game looked like he was playing in diving boots.

When we don't have the ball we are to easy to play against the defence wants to be narrow so we allow to much space out wide and both full backs get beaten to easily though Royal is spectacularly easy to beat on the outside . For me the defence is to deep we defend on the edge of our area that gives teams room to play and we can't pressurise the ball. We end up pressing for parts of the game and we look a half way decent side but then against Brighton and Southampton there have been long parts of the game when we are being totally outplayed. We desperately need a leader on the pitch to calm things down tell Romero to sit and not get drawn in to show a show of strength he doesn''t have to win every ball sometimes he needs to see people away. To put it simply no matter who plays we need to make better decisions as a team which includes sometimes sitting and holding what you have defend as a team though I don't believe we have the players

I think Skippy is your man Ralph. Maybe not quite ready to be the leader yet, but not far off.