With Bruce,Mcshane and Dawson looking like our best defence where is Davies going to play. I have thought often this season that Davies has looked off his game and nervy and I just cant see him coming into the team again, should everybody stay fit. I think when Chester is fit he will come back into the fold but I'm struggling to even put chester in to the back 3 nevermind Davies. Has Davies played his last game for us?
He's been dropped for two games and now you think his career with us might be over? I'd drop any of our other centre backs to accommodate Chester.
If one of the three centre backs gets injured, he'll be back in, if they don't and keep performing, then he won't, but that certainly doesn't mean it's the end of his career at City. Chester's out for a couple of months, so is going to miss most of our remaining games regardless. I'm not sure what other point you were trying to make?
If dropping Davies has the desired effect on him,and he finds the form of last season, we'll all be happy. Chester is one of the best centre backs in the premier league,and he'll be straight back in the side when fit. Even if Bruce and Macca's excellent form continues,they will just have to accept that.
IF the 3 atm stay fit and with Chester due back in March it maybe so. If we get an offer of over £3m in the summer for CD then i would be happy for the club to sell him as we have Maguire now. Sorry Davies but your agent - greed and poor season have led to this.
I have to agree with this, he has been exactly like I thought he would be when we signed him. Having said that he had a poor run of form at Birmingham but came back fighting and Hull bought him. There are many players who simply haven't performed this season but I would say Davies has been consistently poor for us this season. I always think of that bicycle kick he did when we were 1-0 down to Burnley and I think that incident largely sums him up for us this season. I do like Davies but if a club offered us £3mill + I would take it.
I wouldn't be surprised if Davies' complacency stems from reading his own Press last season. The same is probably true of Huddlestone and both players need a spell in the reserve to "get their minds right."
It might be that Davies has pissed Bruce off enough this season or that Phelan has given an honest appraisal of Davies ( not in the side since Phelans arrival) so Tigerpants suggestion of Davies never playing again might not be far off, if only Dawson wasn't injured so much letting him back in again no doubt.
I think phelan is largely an inluence on why davies isn't playing, you could put robertson into that aswell. He most likely saw our weakness when he watched from the stands against newcastle and watched them in training. Robertson defensively is very poor/inexperienced and in a relegation fight, that is not what we need and davies is badly off form.
Couldn't agree more, hence why Brady has come in at left wing back and has not put a foot wrong at all, and has come up against 3 decent wingers in Nasri, Navas and Gil. Robertson needs to bulk up more and be converted into a left winger, as he could be the next Gareth Bale, he definitely has the potential.
I think you a right, brady is alot tougher and seems to read the game well and I also agree that Robertson should play on the left wing as his crosses are alot better than Brady, obviously this is no good if we are to play a 3-5-2 but he could defo fit in to a 4-4-2
I think people are exaggerating Phelans input, and in all honesty it's quite disrespectful to Bruce. He's the manager and people are making out Phelan is doing his job for him. Davies and Robertson were both absolutely turgid against Newcastle. In Davies case he has also been poor for ages, and Robertson has just returned from injury (slightly early I think as well). It was the right decision to drop em both and I think Bruce for all his faults was capable of seeing that and making the decision for himself. The way some people talk about Phelan this, Phelan that, what's the point in even having Bruce at the club? The way some people go on you'd have thought Bruce is just off on his jollies whilst Phelans running the whole show.
I guess you have no experience of working under a manager then? If he is like any other manager in any profession, he will delegate most of the work to Phelan. Phelan takes the training sessions, all the drills etc. Bruce does watch them in training obviously, but Phelan will advise Bruce on certain things, whether or not Bruce takes it on board or not is up to him. It seems to me that Bruce has stopped playing round pegs in square holes since Phelan has come in, a coincidence? I think not.
It's the same at almost every club, the assistant and coaches take the training while the manager oversees. Bruce isnt a coach, never has been never will be, so training has suffered since Agnew left. I have no doubts that Phelan is good but we would have improved by having any experienced assistant come in.
