SOD and the Goals....

Was that Fontaine who was beaten in the air for Bradfords second goal?

 

Fontaine looked largely insubstantial and out of it. Flint looks good, and looking forward to seeing him with Williams (or anyone except Fonts).

Our attacking players were pretty easy on the eye. Wagstaff has a look of Cleverley about him, and JET appeared to belong in a different league. Lets hope he can maintain it.

But star of the day for me was Fielding. Lets be honest, he had a bit of a mare.
Hopeful its now out of his system and he can settle down to becoming our Mr Dependable between sticks.
Otherwise, Parrish awaits in the wings and he does look the part

 

I hope Parish gets a chance, we only signed him because the dutch lad wanted too much. Could be bargain of the year

 

Strange that we all run Fontaine down, but he was within a gnats bollock with deflecting their first goal wide, when he had the sense to see the ****up that fielding made to get back on the line.

 

He would of been better off marking wells.....

 

Depends on your view point I was taught that in a similar situation I was to get tight on the player in front of the goal in the hope of either stopping the ball getting to him or making it hard for him to get a shot on target but that was my coach/manager others have different view points I've heard others say you should try and get between the player with the ball and the person in front of goal. It's all opinion after all I can't say who is/was right I suppose if it works you are right if they score you are wrong. Mind you one season I had a lot of practice our keeper thought he was a sweeper and charged out of his area 2 or 3 times a game though to be fair he was fast enough to get there first most of the time and at 6'10" and built like a bricks**thouse many an opponent bottled it when they saw him bearing down on them.

 

Yep but he had a split decision that none of them was correct if they scored but both are correct if they didn't.

 

Sorry Shiny, Fontaine did what any defender would do ie when the forward nicks it wide of the Keeper he goes back on the line in case the forward shoots from the the wide angle. Fielding screws up big time and is the reason they score.
If you want to look for scapegoat some might blame the midfielders for not tracking back, I see the moaning Aussie followed the ball in the net.

Not even I would blame Kilkenny (although Marv/Kelly might have got back) Fielding is massively at fault.
In fact Fielding might have Gerkin's biggest problem - judging the the long straight ball.
Time will tell.

 

Yes Fielding misjudged and from that point of view it was a complete howler by our new keeper.

But the reason he even thought of coming off his line so fast was that once again a long ball upfield found our two centre halves too far apart, no full backs in sight to provide any cover and it was a copycat goal of so many that we conceded last season.

I also noticed on the video that McArdle outwitted the same Bristol City left sided centre half for Bradford's second equaliser.

So what has SO'D done to eradicate this problem? Bought a new ball winning giant centre half, and that's what Flint is good at and did OK yesterday, but the other centre half is the one who was there all last season and who is so like a rabbit in car headlights.

While Fielding is seen as the main culprit, the source of the problem lies elsewhere and until SO'D sees where the cause of our defensive uselessness is, we'll continue to lose points like we did yesterday.

 

Funny how Johnson, Millen, Coppell, McInnes and O'Driscol all rate Fontaine as our number one centre back.
Heaven only knows why, but there must be a reason.

Maybe he tells good bath-time jokes, or maybe he is one.
It cant possibly be for the way he protects our goal or dominates the back line

The second Bradford goal was surely also a keeper mistake.
Its in the Bob Wilson book of goaly commandments, ie thou shalt never get beaten on thine near post.

 

I did notice from the very short video highlights that we are not putting a defender on each post at corners and free kicks wide. Why?
One on the line could well have stopped the second Bradford goal.

 

Yes, pretty basic stuff Cidered
Hansen would have been shaking with rage

 

From what I've heard he likes to brown nose the managers and tell them how good he is and he has done it with successive bosses.....