Penalties are goals. Scoring under pressure and keeping a cool head is a skill. Next you'll be docking Defoe's 5 penalties off him this season and declaring he's not scoring enough. Ridiculous. I don't buy all that **** sorry.
I agree with what you say there but it's a fair point that Borini's penalty skill is redundant when Defoe is in the team, which he always is.
Borini has been Sunderland's main penalty take while Defoe has been here, Defoe has been on a good penalty run while Borini was out so kept it on. Defoe is very hit and miss when it comes to penalties always has been, he's only scored 68% of his penalties in his career and rarely been his clubs main taker, not a patch on Borini's 100% that's for sure. Borini will be back taking them once Defoe misses a few, it's out of respect of the roll he's on he's still taking them, bit like you don't drop an in form keeper. If you're suggesting Borini is only worth of being on a pitch is in case we get a penalty and now Defoe is taking it makes him pointless, well, I like you mate but it would have to be about one of the most stupid things I've ever heard. Borini has been poor this season no doubt, and as I've said as much as I like him if we can bring in better at his expense we should do it. It just seems people have very very short memories.
No mate I think Borini's a good player in general and his pens are just another string to his bow, I was just nitpicking about the penalty thing as I can see Defoe taking them for the foreseeable future. He's not a player I'd want to see go, we need more like him if anything.
Borini for Snodgrass? Yeah I would, with some reluctance. Snodgrass is just a bit more effective in attack and I don't feel Borini supports Defoe as well as he should.
Bit more direct isn't he. If Moyes is given any room in the market, if he's to develop an effective style of play, direct football has to be the easiest to achieve you'd think. Sad we've got a squad who can't play any style at all. Been this way for years. At least Stoke had an identity when they used to lump it forward. We've got nowt.
Very true, I've been disappointed with that from Moyes I thought it'd be clear what we're trying to do but it isn't. It seems to revolve around playing it up to Anichebe and expecting him to perform heroics which to be fair he does more often than not. Another Anichebe on RM and a decent RB overlapping would help us create more chances. In fairness to Moyes too our injury list has taken the absolute piss this season and the ACON couldn't have come at a worse time. Without an entire first teams worth of injuries or missing players we would probably have seen more identity to our play.
No way I'll blame moyes for this. Every season the team looks devoid of ideas until the final quarter and suddenly kick into life. Manager on manager has had the same issues and this years squad is one of the worst a manager has had to work with. We've been camped on the edge of our box humping it up to nobody since O'Neil left, 6 months with Poyet in charge aside where we failed at trying something else. To be honest mate the Moyes bitch club is boring me to death. You've plenty of folk on your page to converse with over that, If you don't mind keeping away from me. I want Moyes here even if we go down. You're not going to win me over. but it would be nice to chat with you without getting into the Moyes hating. This club is no quick fix, in fact with the budgets the way they are we're unfixable to anybody as far as I'm concerned. A couple of next level midfielders, a strong foward who's handy on the deck and defender who don't flap and panic are needed before we can develop a viable brand of our own football.
I also want Moyes to stay even if we go down, I can't say I'm loving the guy but I've come to accept that we should be sticking with him and he's doing alright considering. The only time I wanted him gone was when we had two points from eleven games and I thought he was having a nightmare. I will try not to go on about him when I'm talking to you though. I'm hoping and praying that we've got some funds to get some quality in, just a couple of additions and players coming back from injury etc and we could be firing on all cylinders before long. If not and we go down then Moyes is a good man for a slow rebuild.
Just everything seems to revert to having a go a Dave and it's wearing me down mate. Some would find a way to blame him if they shat themselves. I think his personality is ****(and I think that's the main factor which swings people against him) but I think he's a good fit for us long term, if he's allowed to rebuild us that is.
