Well I’ve got to disagree and I blame Mowbray making the lad captain and not wanting to drop the captain but I’d prefer players in there proper position and if there’s no place in the starting 11 then there’s always room on the bench for a good versatile player
Which is kind of what I was saying mate, I don't mind o'nien at CB if he is the only option, at the minute he's not so shouldn't be starting there imo. I'd never thought about it till @Scout73 mentioned it but I think o'nien could have been the answer to out CDM problem this season
The problem though, if we move O9 into cm then we are leaving ourselves short at cb. If it was up to me, I'd try to sign a good quality cm rather than moving O9 there. He is a better CD than he is a cm. He is much better when the play is in front of him.
O'Nien suffers from the lack of a defensive midfield player imo, especially when Ekwah and Neil hang their legs instead of tackling. O'Nien will always try to rescue a situation and sometimes makes himself look reckless, sometimes he actually is reckless. O'Nien isn't chosen because a previous manager made him captain imo.
It seems that so many people look at o9s negatives - lack of height, pace, being rash - but he brings a lot to the team at centre half. His ability to read game is excellent, as is his passing and bringing ball out of.defence. also his tenacity and willingness to put his body on line. We don't concede a lot of goals so I don't know why we are so obsessed with changing a defensive unit that is decent
I know things normally pick up in the last few days of the window but does anyone else feel this January has been very quiet so far for most teams? It’s usually a lot busier than it is currently…
Everton and Forest in financial bother, Man City and Chelsea being looked at, Reading being told to sort themselves out, etc etc etc. Charlton are in a mess and loads of other clubs are struggling. I agree, it's very quiet ... I think panic is setting in.
African nations n asian cup on at the minute as well so teams missing a lot of players Teams are def worried about fpf, if the PL is quiet for transfers then it often filters down through the league Same across Europe at the minute, the club i scout for are struggling to strengthen at the min as prices are pretty high. They are looking at the loan market but even thats tough
Because we currently aren’t good enough and he’s a weakness there. As is the DM role, as is the 9. We don’t concede many goals for the same reason we don’t score lots of goals IMO - too many bodies clumped in the middle of the pitch. Neil and Ekwah both play somewhere between where a 6 and 8 should, Jobe drifts further and further back then Hume is drifting infield. When teams attack we normally get numbers back pretty well.
No but it makes him almost impossible to drop as someone mentioned earlier the only way we will get a proper centre half in is if the lad gets injured or suspended
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I've seen that said, loads of times, but I just don't believe it tbh ... ... they used to say the same about Cattermole but Bruce dropped him out of the team altogether.
