Navarro/Crofts

[Giraffe]

Thought Navarro was excellent today, possibly his best game for us. Equally Crofts played well. Credit to Poyet for getting the best out of these two who previously under Slade seemed pretty average.

 

[CAPTAIN GREALISH]

agree

 

[mikes smalls]

I thought Alan had his best game so far and Crofts got through a lot of work in midfield.
While this midfield pairing should keep us in the division anyone who thinks this pairing could get us in to the promised land of 'The Championship' is sadly deluded.

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

Navarro lost the ball again too many times. He also BADLY f***ed up but thankfully Norwich had a goal disallowed.

Nope give me Crofts and Dicker ANYTIME.

 

[Giraffe]

Oh and add to that Calderon is great, Painter quality and finally Virgo and Elphick look like a pair we can depend on, mostly. Bennet continues to be good. Murray is awake and kean under Poyet which he never was under Slade and Holroyd continues to look a good purchase. Lua Lua showed some promise as well. All positives for Poyet.

The only negative I can say about Poyet is the Forster saga. And in that I don't mean not offering a contract, just not picking him when he still could.

But overall it's a 9 out of 10 for me.

 

[Giraffe]

I thought Alan had his best game so far and Crofts got through a lot of work in midfield.
While this midfield pairing should keep us in the division anyone who thinks this pairing could get us in to the promised land of 'The Championship' is sadly deluded.

I think that is spot on. Fully expect Poyet to sign a Championship quality midfielder in the summer.

 

[Mackenzie]

Oh and add to that Calderon is great, Painter quality and finally Virgo and Elphick look like a pair we can depend on, mostly. Bennet continues to be good. Murray is awake and kean under Poyet which he never was under Slade and Holroyd continues to look a good purchase. Lua Lua showed some promise as well. All positives for Poyet.

The only negative I can say about Poyet is the Forster saga. And in that I don't mean not offering a contract, just not picking him when he still could.

But overall it's a 9 out of 10 for me.

So why do we continue to lose at home then?

 

[Skaville]

Thought Navarro was excellent today, possibly his best game for us. Equally Crofts played well. Credit to Poyet for getting the best out of these two who previously under Slade seemed pretty average.

Do you not think it's a little unfair to fault Slade over these two players given that he signed them both?

 

[Rookie]

Navarro was really good but that is what he has been doing since Poyet got here shame its taken a few people so long to work out. Right now would say he is one of the first on the teamsheet

 

[trueblue]

So why do we continue to lose at home then?

Errrm. Possibly in this case because we played a team who've only lost away 4 times all season and who can score goals for fun. Aside from Millwall last week (a team who are currently 6th) , their last away defeat was at Leeds in October, and the other two way back towards the start of the season when Lambert was still getting to grips with the side.

So to run them so close is a bloody good effort. If you can't see that, you probably ought to be watching a different sport....

 

[mikes smalls]

I'm sure Gus knows the type of midfielder he needs to sign in the summer.
Although I was very disappointed by the final result I thought Painter had an excellent game today, Murray looked really up for it and Holroyd has the pace and sharpness to play on the last defender and get on the end of Murrays flick ons.

 

[BensGrandad]

Where are all the people who were moaning about Painter not getting forward.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Navarro has been good recently, but not especially today. Gave the ball away far too much. The same is true of Bennett.

 

[BensGrandad]

I thought that Navarro was good today apart from one horrific pass which nearly cost us a goal.

 

[shwoody1]

i know this thread is about midfielders but give us a big target man, something for crofts, navarro, dicker to play to something for bennett lua lua to feed off and more importantly someone to aim at. murray forster holdroyd dickinson cant do it, not saying im right just a thought.

 

[fleet]

Agree they are playing well. Back 4 generally much better too